oikos Newsletter - Feb '12

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Dear Reader,

With an amazing oikos Asia meeting very fresh in memory, the greater oikos community is already turning its eyes towards the next big happening: the oikos Spring Meeting 2012 in Barcelona! Moreover, we offer an outstanding opportunity for 10 selected students at the University of Pennsylvania to participate in a Student Reporter coaching Session at the World Water Forum 2012 in Marseille, France. 
On the Academic front, the first of our Young Scholars Academies has kicked off today and four more are to follow over the course of the year, gathering world-class faculty and young scholars. Finally, we are very pleased to introduce our latest fellow in "30 seconds with..." Jordi Vives Gabriel! 


oikos Students

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EB Strategy Weekend Zurich
Executive Board members of oikos International gathered in Zurich on 14th-15th of January for a Strategy Weekend. The program of student projects for 2012 was revised, EB members divided their tasks and duties and came up with great initiatives towards more new impact driven initiatives. 

Student Reporter
In partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Master of Environmental Studies programme, oikos invites 10 students from the University of Pennsylvania to take part in the Student Reporter coaching programme and live blogging at the World Water Forum 2012 in France-Marseille, 11-17 of March. The team is lead by Reporter-in-Residence and editor Caroline D’Angelo from the University of Pennsylvania and the management editor Tim Lehmann from oikos.


Paris Conference
Our student president, Dawid Wroblewski, represented oikos on 19th-20th January in a Symposium organized by
 the french Conference of University Presidents and 
the Conference of Grandes Ecoles at UNESCO, Paris, on ‘Training and Social Responsibility: What Strategies of Transition of the European Higher Education Institutions?’. During Round Table discussions Dawid called for a stronger emphasis of impact-driven bottom-up student initiatives to change higher education systems. His view was well received and triggered lots of excitement.


Asia Meeting
On 28th and 29th of January oikos members gathered in Ahmedabad, India for the Asia Meet – the first Regional Meeting of oikos in India. Recognizing the economic challenges, increasing population and industrialization of many Asian countries, oikos met with academics, practitioners and entrepreneurs to address and revive the philosophy of Sustainable Lifestyles. With two days of content sessions and hands-on activities the oikos Asia Meet proved to be a great platform for interaction, networking and institution building for oikos in Asia. Check out pictures and more on the meeting in our Facebook gallery.

 

oikos Academic

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We are starting into February with the 4th oikos PRI Young Scholars Finance Academy on the topic of  “Risk Management and/or Maximum Impact?" (Feb. 5-10). This is the first of the oikos academy series 2012 and we are very happy to already announce three more exciting events:

From August 12-17 the 4th oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy will be hosted at Strathmore Business School (Nairobi, Kenya) on the topic of “Matching Culture and Markets for Inclusive Development” and featuring great faculty including Klaus Weber (Northwestern), Chris Yenkey (Chicago Booth) and Monica Kerretts-Macau (Strathmore Business School). Apply by March 15.

 

A premiere will be celebrated in August: We will run two Young Scholars Academies in one week!
From August 26-31 we welcome Wesley Sine (Cornell), Jill Kickul (NYU Stern) and Holger Patzelt (TUM Munich) at the oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy in the picturesque Swiss Alps in Filzbach / Lake Walensee (Apply by March 15). 

 
And in the same week we will run the third oikos Young Scholars Organisation Academy including our guest faculty Tina Dacin (Queen’s), Ignasi Marti (EM Lyon) and Jorge Rivera (George Washington University) in Gais/Appenzell.  The topic will be “Social Innovation and Organizational Impact” (apply by April 20).  On the final day of the event we will welcome all participants at the HUB Zurich, a  swiss centre for social innovation. 


Finally, we are currently busy preparing another call for papers for the upcoming oikos Young Scholars  Economics Academy – the call will be online by end of February.   
 
Want to meet oikos this summer in the South of France? Then you should consider submitting your proposal for the oikos Faculty Symposium  2012, held during the GRONEN Conference 2012 at EUROMED Management School in Marseille. The focus should be on innovative approaches to curricular change and the submission deadline is February 15. The symposium features  workshops with Andrew J. Hoffman (U. Michigan), Renato Orsato (FGV Sao Paulo) and Magali Delmas (UC Los Angeles).
 
 

 

30 seconds with...

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Jordi Vives Gabriel, oikos PhD Fellow 2012-2015
 
Dear all
I am happy to introduce myself as the new oikos PhD fellow. My research is in the field of justice and human rights and I am pursuing a PhD in International Management at the University of St. Gallen’s Institute for Business Ethics. I am interested to understand, how multinational corporations are gaining leadership in front of the languishing role of States in the world order and what implications this has on their responsibilities with regards to justice and human rights.
Being from Barcelona, I have received a Bachelor and a Master in Business Administration by ESADE Business School and a Master of Research in Political and Social Science at Pompeu Fabra University. Since 2009 I’ve also collaborated with the Institute for Social Innovation at ESADE as researcher and lecturer on CSR and sustainability topics. Before engaging into academia I worked as analyst with Deloitte at their Transaction Advisory Services Department and subsequently at Hewlett Packard at the Marketing and Supply Chain divisions.
I am also thrilled by inclusive businesses and development topics, working as staff writer for the Spanish language NextBillion blog.
Apart from my studies, I do have two passions: Music and Mountaineering. I very much look forward to meet you and the oikos crowd at the next spring meeting in Barcelona and to start working together to change the world through oikos!
Jordi

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Outlook:

5-10 February 2012: oikos PRI Finance Academy
The fourth of its kind! This year's topic: Responsible Investment: Risk Management and/or Maximum Impact?

29 March - 1 April 2012: oikos Spring Meeting
The traditional gathering of oikees next spring will take place at ESADE Business School in Barcelona. Registrations will open in mid February.

28 June 2012: oikos Faculty Symposium
Our professional development workshops led by leading researchers in their fields will be held during this year's GRONEN Conference at Euromed Management School in Marseille, Southern France.

12-17 August 2012: oikos UNDP Development Academy

"Matching Culture and Markets for Inclusive Development"

26-31 August 2012: oikos Entrepreneurship Academy
On "Collaborative Entrepreneurship and Innovation"

26-31 August 2012: oikos Organisation Academy 
On "Social Innovation and Organizational Impact"


20-21 November 2012: Save the Date for the oikos FutureLab

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