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RSM’s Kilimanjaro project to be presented at Rio +20 Earth Summit in Brazil

RSM’s Kilimanjaro project to be presented at Rio +20 Earth Summit in Brazil

The story of a unique women-only MBA elective, and the research behind its existence pioneered by Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) is to be part of a presentation to the UN and a global audience at the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012, a conference about worldwide sustainable development.

The RSM MBA Kilimanjaro project is a women-only special elective designed to enhance leadership and networking capabilities for female MBA participants. A case story of the RSM MBA Kilimanjaro project, and of the 13 MBA students who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in 2011 is included in a booklet issued by the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) in its chapter about building powerful learning environments that foster responsible management.

The Inspirational Guide for the Implementation of PRME: Placing sustainability at the heart of management education will be presented to the Rio +20 Earth Summit in June. The guide can be found here.

Ms Trust: Gender, Networks and Trust - Implications for Management and Education which has been published in the journal Academy of Management, Learning and Education.The Mount Kilimanjaro Women Empowering Women Leadership Elective ran for the first time in 2011 and aimed to address the specific challenges that women face when climbing the corporate ladder. This is a subject of great interest to the project’s initiator Dr Dianne Bevelander, RSM’s Associate Dean of MBA Programmes, who has actively researched the subject in her paper 

New York Times, the Financial Times and The Independent among others. Dr Bevelander recently captured the imagination of the audience when she presented the Kilimanjaro project as part of a plenary talk addressing how Business Schools can facilitate women reaching the C suite during the annual conference of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).  EFMD is an international organisation of over 750 members from academia, business and public sector organisations in 80 countries.The Kilimanjaro elective has been written about in news and management publications all around the world, including the 

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University is consistently ranked amongst the top 10 business schools in Europe. It is located in the international port city of Rotterdam where core Dutch values of openness, flexibility and acceptance of diversity have attracted businesses on a global scale. Our emphasis is on groundbreaking research and practices relevant to business; our primary focus is on developing business leaders who carry their innovative ideas into a sustainable future. Our portfolio includes a broad array of bachelor, master, doctoral, MBA and executive education programmes. www.rsm.nl

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