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Dear Colleagues:
The Global Knowledge Network for Jesuit Business Education continues to expand its activities. Click here. The knowledge center provides the infrastructure for our communication and knowledge resources that support our strategic activities.
We encourage you to attend the upcoming conferences:
July 8-11, 2010 Marquette University -
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The CJBE Call for Papers has been extended to March 19th.
July 18-20, 2010 Ateneo de Manila - Manila, Philippines
Gregory Ulferts
IAJBS
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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF SHORT
PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO MARCH 19, 2010!!!
Go to www.cjbe.org for electronic
submission of your proposal.
13th ANNUAL MEETING OF COLLEAGUES IN JESUIT BUSINESS EDUCATION MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
JULY 8 - 11, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
JESUIT BUSINESS SCHOOLS: LEADERS OR RUNNING WITH THE PACK?
The 13th Annual Meeting of Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education (CJBE) will address what we, as faculty members in Jesuit business schools, have been doing and can do to prepare students to be professionals of principled behavior who are aware of their social and ethical responsibilities. CJBE welcomes papers as well as panels, special sessions and other alternatives that demonstrate what has been and is being done in our Jesuit Business Schools to respond to the criticisms of business schools and challenges to be more proactive in addressing the issues. We seek reports of projects and research that demonstrate our successes in the lives and careers of our graduates, as well as alternative models of scholarship and pedagogy that help to answer the question: "Are our Jesuit business alums making a difference for justice in a global economy?" We invite papers and other proposals that address the following issues:
1. What could be new and robust conceptual foundations for alternative approaches to business education? For example, what can we learn from our traditional body of Judeo/Christian and Jesuit wisdom to understand the role of business and to serve as a foundation for purposeful and ethical business action by our graduates working in the modern world?
2. How does the recent papal encyclical, "Charity in Truth" speak to business curricula in a Jesuit context?
3. How can we encourage service to others in and through our approach to teaching the business disciplines?
4. What are some new approaches to classroom pedagogy in an Ignatian context?
5. What are the results of experiments with perspectives on business scholarship grounded in other than pure models of the rational economic person? (For example, what should the outcomes of business activity produce and how do we incorporate alternative measures - happiness, social welfare, sustainability, quality-of-life - into our discussions?)
6. Other papers and proposals that generally fit the overall theme of being leaders as we enable our students to be responsible business professionals are enthusiastically encouraged.
Important Dates
1. March 1, 2010 (extended to March 19, 2010) - Short (500 words) proposals for papers or outlines for panels or alternative sessions are due.
2. April 1, 2010 - Authors and others to be notified of acceptance, conditional acceptance, or rejection.
3. June 1, 2010 - Papers including abstracts are due.
4. June 15, 2010 - Papers to be posted on the Colleagues website.
Style and logistics
All proposals are to be submitted electronically
- via the paper submission link - click here
- or as an email attachment to:
Dr. Thomas A. Bausch
College of Business Administration
Marquette University 1881
Milwaukee WI 53201 1881
If your paper or proposal is accepted, further instructions will follow. Background
Most critics of business schools have been highly vocal about what B-schools fail to do, rather than of what they actually do. Claims have included neglecting education in ethics, leadership, communication ability, and people skills (e.g., Porter and McKibbin, 1988). Since the Enron-WorldCom scandals, the criticisms heightened. B-schools have been told that they need to stop doing some of what they are preaching and own up to their own role in creating Enrons. They must stop legitimizing those actions, behaviors and philosophies of management that shape the intellectual and normative order within which socially damaging decisions are made. Professor Sumantra Ghoshal of the London Business School went even further and suggested "that by propagating ideologically inspired amoral theories, business schools have actively freed their students from any sense of moral responsibility." The Economist (25-31 October, 2003) dramatically opined that what business schools teach has led to a delegitimazation of companies as institutions and management as a profession."
In 2009, the global and highly respected CAUX Round Table, in a statement reflecting on the collapse of the financial sector asserted, "The professionals responsible studied in our institutions of higher education, many of which emphasized technical competencies and practical skills, with little consideration for broader social responsibilities and expectations for principled behavior." CAUX calls for business and related professional fields of higher education to "address our own shortcomings".
An examination of the mission statements of our Jesuit institutions suggests that we are ideally situated to deal with the issues raised by the critics of business school education. As Jesuit institutions we are highly teleological, committed to the service of others and in so doing to ultimately serving the "Greater Honor and Glory of God". Our values also emphasize duties as well as rights, the dignity of the human person, the common good, justice, subsidiarity, solidarity, and the universality of goods. Most of our schools advertise and promote their strong service-learning programs. Our students are required to complete a rigorous core curriculum in the humanities and social sciences.
Our pedagogy is grounded in the "Ratio Studiorum" and our educational philosophy is one of "cura personalis". For the faculty scholar, it would appear that there is no reason for our scholarship to be constrained by the limits of enlightenment positivism or by what Ghoshal calls "Causal determinism and the denial of any role of human choices and intentions" and "negative assumptions about people and institutions."
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Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines hosts
16th IAJBS World Forum |
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BLOCK OFF YOUR CALENDARS: JULY 18 TO 20, 2010
16th IAJBS World Forum: Educating Champions of Sustainable Development
Best Practices of our Business Schools
July 18 to 20, 2010
Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines
Join us for the 16th World Forum of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools. Some highlights of the Forum:
(1) A plenary presentation on the UN Global Compact on the Principles for Responsible Management Education
(2) A plenary presentation on
(3) Two panels on University-based initiatives for Sustainable Development: one focusing on Socio-economic initiatives, and another focusing on the Environment
(4) A panel on developing a Values-Based business curriculum
Two side-events:
(1) An AACSB Accreditation Workshop, 1:00 pm, July 18, 2010: Listen to a panel of Deans and AACSB accreditors talk about the benefits of accreditation and the steps to take to prepare your school for accreditation
(2) A Jesuit Alumni Networking Cocktail, 6:00 pm, July 18, 2010: A networking event for Philippine-based alumni of Jesuit business schools outside the Philippines. Come and meet your alumni, and find out how you can reconnect with some of the most successful and influential members of the Philippine business community.
Conference Fee: US$450 (US$400 for permanent members of the IAJBS), inclusive of conference kit, all conference meals, all scheduled sightseeing programs, and both side-events
Registration and hotel booking information now available at the IAJBS Website. Please follow this link: <www.iajbs.org>
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Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin hosts 13th CJBE Conference |
13th Annual Meeting of Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education
Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
July 8 through 11, 2010
REGISTER ONLINE by Clicking here
Conference registration fees:
Conference Attendees: $375 for registration before April 16, 2010
$425 for registration from April 16 to July 7, 2010
Spouse/Guest of Attendee: $250 for registration through July 7, 2010
On-Campus Housing
On-campus housing is provided in Straz Tower (915 West Wisconsin Avenue) $46 per night single occupancy
$64 per night double occupancy ($32 per person)
Air conditioned rooms, with private bath
Bed and bath linens, soap, drinking cup and hangers are provided
Front desk staffed 24 hours per day
Recreational and fitness facilities available within building for a fee of $5.00 per day Parking available nearby for a fee of $6.00 per day
Within easy walking distance of conference proceedings (Raynor Memorial Library)
Note: If you plan to select "double occupancy" and will share the room with another attendee (not your spouse/guest), please contact debra....@marquette.edu for proper registration information and to ensure the roommate of your choice.
Commercial/Off-Campus Housing
For attendees desiring accommodation at a commercial hotel, arrangements have been made with the Doubletree Hotel Milwaukee City Center, located at 611 West Wisconsin Avenue. Limited rooms are available at the CJBE rate of $139.00 per night for reservations made prior to June 7, 2010. Please contact the Doubletree directly at (414) 273-2950.
Jesuit Housing
Jesuit attendees desiring to stay with the Marquette Jesuit Community are asked to contact Father Tom Caldwell, SJ, Guest Master, directly at (414) 288-5000.
Please see attached sheet or visit www.visitmilwaukee.org for information on things to do in Milwaukee.
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| IAJBS Forms Partnership with PRME |
Dr. Manuel Escudero
Special Adviser to the UN Global Compact
Head, PRME Secretariat
PRME and the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools:
building a strategic partnership
The United Nations Global Compact initiative on the Principles for Responsible Management Education has two implications. On the one hand, it is a recognition of the role that management education plays in developing responsible leadership and redefining the role of business in society. On the other hand, it is a call for a global approach with global cooperation.
The overall response to this initiative has been excellent and rewarding. After one year and a half of activity, PRME has 250 signatories, mainly business schools. On the other hand, all the major associations are onboard. Just in the last few months the Association of MBAs, AMBA, and the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools have signed on for the principles. Before that, CEEMAN and CLADEA become signatories. At the very beginning of the initiative, AACSB, EFMD, GMAC, EABIS, and the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program became co-conveners of PRME. These commitments show that the global call we made two years ago was timely: global sustainability and corporate social responsibility have entered the class room as a new paradigm for the XXI century corporation. Now the challenge is to make those values the core of business education. We will do that by making PRME an effective learning community, where every signatory can be inspired by the progress made by others. In order to make this possible, PRME has just one obligation for its signatories, to report, every eighteen months on the progress made in the implementation of PRME through a public document called "Sharing Information on Progress."
The consequences of the current financial crisis are adding a note of urgency to the timely nature of the global call of PRME. In the aftermath of the crisis, Corporate Social Responsibility can no longer be merely an add-on to the strategy of companies, but rather, as we are seeing, a new definition of the corporation is emerging: the corporation as an economic unit that serves both the shareholders and the stakeholders of the company, including perhaps the most important and surely worst represented stakeholder - our future generations. This trend has far-reaching implications. PRME, because of its convening power and its partnership with the main associations in the sector, is very well positioned to contribute significantly to a new definition of business education in the XXI Century. Therefore, progress toward a new definition of business education on the basis of the experience gathered so far by all signatories, has become a central issue and goal of PRME's strategic agenda. ,.
The benefits of adopting the PRME for a business school are clear:
First of all, businesses which incorporate values of sustainability and corporate citizenship into their core strategy and daily operations are the forerunners of a necessary adaptation process of the corporate world. Likewise, leading schools that want to stay "ahead of the curve" are adopting the PRME as an internationally recognized framework for adaptation and change. As John Fernandes, President and CEO of AACSB International has stated: "The short-term mindset in business no longer delivers sustainable results. We need to prepare students to address tomorrow's global challenges, and it's time for business schools on the fence to join the PRME early adopters."
Second, business schools and management-related institutions are by definition closely connected to the community they serve: the corporate world. This is why they are as concerned about the excellence of their basic research as they are about the relevance of applied research to new needs and changing operating environments of business. Given the growing demand by business to develop new approaches for integrating environmental, social and governance issues, it is in the best interest of business schools striving for excellence to adapt and serve this new demand. Leading corporations will welcome the emergence of a new generation of professionals whose vision, knowledge, and skills are suited for the new opportunities of value creation in the 21st century. According to David A. Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Graduate Management Admission Council, GMAC, "In a knowledge era, competitive advantage is derived entirely from recruiting, developing and retaining the best human capital. As socially responsible business practices become an imperative in a competitive marketplace, companies will seek candidates from programs that embrace the principles for responsible management education."
Third, the PRME are a call to encourage and facilitate large-scale progress of business schools toward a new approach in education that meets the new needs and expectations of the business world with regard to sustainability and good corporate citizenship. Until this new value proposition becomes mainstream, schools that lead the change will have a competitive advantage. The PRME brand will help prospective students - looking for state-of-the-art education -, and business - looking for sound answers to new challenges - to distinguish the most advanced academic institutions. In sum, the PRME are an initiative that will increasingly enhance responsible performance, adaptation to changing demands, and competitiveness in the market. In the words of Prof. Dr. Eric Cornuel, Director General and CEO of EFMD "The emerging generation of responsible leaders needs guidance to maximize their potential in a global context. This necessitates a profound rethink within business schools to develop the relevant research agendas, curricula, and pedagogy. As a founding partner, together with the UNGC, of the "Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative", EFMD is happy to endorse the PRME."
When it comes to the implementation of the PRME initiative, the real owner and the real agent of change of management education are the business schools themselves. The rest of us, co-conveners, associations, and even the UN, are but facilitators of an initiative where business schools play the most important role. In the last analysis, the new approaches to management education will come from schools designing new curricula and from professors using new approaches incorporating social, environmental, and governance concerns and values in their teaching -- both in the content and the methods of teaching, and in their research. The rest of us can channel the progress made, disseminate it, create platforms, and gather all the experience to elevate it to more general categories - we can facilitate change - but we cannot make it happen...
However, the role of international associations in the advocacy and legitimacy of PRME is essential. The International Association of Jesuit Business Schools can be a powerful driver concerning the adoption of PRME by its members. IAJBS and other associations can, and should, set the tone and stimulate the progress of their members, include an explicit PRME agenda in their annual conferences, and recognize that they are welcome to partner with the PRME Secretariat in specific collective activities addressed to their members.
We are now in close contact with the leadership of the IAJBS, building a strategic partnership in this crucial area of sustainability and corporate citizenship in business education. In a world coming out of the crisis, business educators will act not only as teachers but also as thought leaders: in that context, I am sure we will find crucial activities, core to the mission of PRME, to be undertaken in partnership with the IAJBS.
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SJS Headlines
HEADLINES 2010/02 ... News from the Jesuit Social Apostolate ...
to exchange social justice and ecology news, stimulate contacts, share spirituality and promote networking ...
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* Narrative: John Dayal, All India Christian Council
* Flashnews: AJAN, Society of Jesus, Cambodia, United Nations, SJES, Mexico, Canada, SJES
* Econews: Philippines, Malta
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* Narrative: John Dayal, All India Christian Council
Kandhamal is deadly beautiful. A tropical forest, but with close mountains and deep valleys, and a climate that can get alpine in winter, without the snow. The topography of this plateau in the middle of the Indian province of Orissa may have saved the lives of tens of thousands of Christians who fled to the forests as mobs with murder, arson and rape on their minds, attacked 300 villages on 25 August 2008. At the peak of the violence, 54,000 men, women and children were hiding in these forests of tall Sal trees, where bear and big cats still abound, and wild elephants can be heard in the dark of the night. Among those 54,000 were the families of perhaps three dozen Catholic priests and twice as many nuns, and two dozen priests themselves, hiding and waiting for the moment the police would come to restore order. For some of them, it came too late. A hundred people may have died there, among them three protestant Pastors and a Catholic priest, Fr Bernard Digal, who was grievously wounded and succumbed to his injuries some time later. A nun, Sister M, as I will call her, was among at least three women raped.
The brutal tragedy however also shed light on how close are the bonds that the local priests have with their flocks. Unlike in many other parts of India where the parish priest may have come from as far as three thousand kilometres, be of a different ethnicity and with a different mother tongue, priests and nuns in Kandhamal are of the soil. The villages that were torched were where they were born, the churches destroyed were the priests too had been baptised, and where they celebrated their First Mass.
There is therefore something remarkable about the Priests and Nuns of Kandhamal, be they Dalits (the so-called 'untouchables') or Tribals (the indigenous peoples of India). Some of them, such as Fathers Vijay Naik and Vijay Pradhan, the first a Dalit and the second a Tribal, have doctorates from Roman universities. Many others chose to study social work, and were active at the grassroots. They helped galvanize a people who for centuries had suffered from a situation close to serfdom in which food was rare and education unknown, where women were vulnerable and children could barely hope to grow to adulthood. No wonder the work of the priests and nuns had angered vested interests, the local equivalent of big business, and the power brokers. When the violence broke out, the families of the priests were particular targets. The brother of Fr Mrityunjay, the secretary of the Archbishop of the region, was forcibly converted to Hinduism by a murderous gang shaving off the hair on his head and forcing cow dung and urine down his throat. The youth suffered in silence, but was back in the church in the refugee tent as soon as it was humanly possible.
As elsewhere in the world, the clergy and women religious in India too face occasional charges of financial wrongdoings, but those in Kandhamal can easily be said to be crystal clean. The family of father Bernard Digal, who was Treasurer of the Archdiocese and became its first martyr in the violence, lived in a mud and thatch hut when I visited them some years ago. After the violence, they were among thousands living in a government refigure camp. They still have to return to their village.
I salute the Priests and Nuns of Kandhamal.
John Dayal
Secretary General, All India Christian Council
Secunderabad
Andhra Pradesh, India
http://groups.google.com/group/JohnDayal
www.johndayal.com
http://www.christiancouncil.in/
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* Flashnews: AJAN, Society of Jesus, Cambodia, United Nations, SJES, Mexico, Canada, SJES
AJAN: Father Michael Czerny, a member of the English Canada Province, coordinator of the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN), has been named personal assistant to the newly appointed President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson of Ghana. The new AJAN coordinator is Father Paterne-Auxene Mombe, of the West African Province.
Society of Jesus: Father General has named Fr Jorge Serrano, of the Province of Colombia, Assistant to the General Treasurer for Development as of February 2010. Fr Serrano will support the continuing development of communication and collaboration among Mission Procurator, Development, and Treasurer's Offices to promote more effective ways of raising funds and donations for the works of the Society.
Cambodia: Jesuit Services Cambodia reports that the International Convention on Cluster Munitions has now been ratified by 30 countries, which means that it will become binding international law on 1 September 2010. The director of JS Cambodia, Sister Denise Coghlan, had been lobbying tirelessly governments as part of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC).
United Nations: In March 2010, the Commission on the Status of Women will undertake a fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. "Muévete por la Igualdad... es de Justicia" (Get moving for equality, it's about justice), a campaign co-organised by the Spanish Jesuit NGO Entreculturas, will have representatives in New York for this event to lobby with both the Spanish government and the UN on women's rights. Read the Entreculturas blog from New York here (in Spanish): http://entreculturas2010.wordpress.com/
Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat: The publication that explains the new Ignatian Advocacy Networks is now available online at http://www.ignatianadvocacy.org/ in English, French and Spanish. The booklet includes articles on the characteristics, roots and spirituality of Ignatian advocacy, and background information on the advocacy networks: Migration, Peace and Human Rights, Ecology, Governance of Natural and Mineral Resources and Education.
Mexico: In January 2009, Alberta Alcántara Juan and Teresa González Cornelio were unjustly sentenced to 21 years in prison. The Jesuit human rights centre Centro ProDH in Mexico City has taken on their case and Amnesty International (AI) has now recognized the two women as Prisoners of Conscience. Write a letter before 15 March - more information here: http://www.amnesty.org/library/info/AMR41/012/2010/en
Canada: The Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice in the CDA province (Jesuits in English Canada) has a brand new website which will be launched at the beginning of March: http://jesuitforum.ca/
Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat: Number 103 of Promotio Iustititae on the theme of Reconciliation will be placed online in the next few days at the following link: http://sjweb.info/sjs/pjnew/indexPreview.cfm?LangTop=1. Subscribe to the newsletter to receive every issue by email here: http://sjweb.info/sjs/pjnew/pjsubscribe.cfm?LangTop=1.
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* Econews: Philippines, Malta
Philippines: Environmental Science for Social Change, a Jesuit research institute that promotes environmental sustainability and social justice through the integration of scientific methodologies and social processes, has a new website where you can subscribe to their weekly newsletter, ESSC News (in English). http://esscnews.org.ph.
Malta: One of the suggestions in the Jesuit Seven Year Plan for the environment is this: "We will run our retreat centres in an ecologically sensitive way." The Maltese Jesuits at Mount Saint Joseph retreat centre have been fulfilling this commitment since 2006 through a tree nursery in its garden. 800 trees have been planted here and all retreatants are encouraged to leave a donation so that more may be planted. Read the Seven Year Plan here: http://www.sjweb.info/documents/sjs/docs/Jesuit_7yearplan.pdf
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Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat, Borgo S. Spirito 4, 00193 Rome, Italy
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| Global Jesuit Business Student Association |
The purposes of the honor society are to confer distinction for academic excellence upon students attending Jesuit business schools and to encourage their pursuit of lifelong education; to acknowledge and promote a spirit of community involvement among its members; to promote and encourage ethical and socially responsible business practices among its members and in the global business community; and to act as a catalyst for the advancement of business thought and theory.
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| Global Jesuit Business Alumni Association |
Please join us for the inaugural event
of the
Global Jesuit Business Alumni Association
A Jesuit Alumni Networking Cocktail, 6:00 pm, July 18, 2010: A networking event for Philippine-based alumni of Jesuit business schools outside the Philippines. Come and meet your alumni, and find out how you can reconnect with some of the most successful and influential members of the Philippine business community.
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