We are kicking-off August in style with the launch of our new and improved website, registration for the upcoming oikos FutureLab & oikos Winter School and Call for Cases for our Case Writing Competition (together with Ashoka). oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy is just around the corner together with a panel discussion for our alumni. If this is not enough intellectual stimulation, then join our Student Reporters or simply follow our coverage on topics ranging from philosophy in the board room to Robin Hood of modern investment banking. And finally, spend 30 seconds with Thomas Dyllick, who wears multiple "sustainability" hats as at the University of St. Gallen.
oikos Students
oikos Website à la mode We are delighted to present the new oikos website. Easily navigable and coherent, the new website was worth the wait. We are in the process of migrating the content and making final improvements. The chapters will be rolling out their new websites in the coming months. Visit us and let us know what you think.
FutureLab 2013 “Transforming Education”: Register Now
Join us in St. Gallen for two days (11 - 12 November, 2013) of extraordinary conversation and insight as the oikos community convenes to develop a reference model for sustainability education in economics and management. Bring your ideas and projects, get inspired and develop your own actions to transform education. Register now! To learn more about our latest agenda, session and speaker information, follow us @oikosworld #FL13 on Twitter or read more.
oikos WinterSchool: Early Bird Registration Open
Green economy or post-growth economy? How should we shape energy, entrepreneurship, and finance? The oikos Winter School team wants to bring information and knowledge to participants so they can decide for themselves how they want to act. Join us from 21 February - 2 March, 2014. Do not miss the first application round - early-bird application closes on 15 September.
See you in Spring in Copenhagen! Copenhagen has just been awarded Green European Capital 2014 with the ambitious goal of being carbon neutral by 2025. The city development strategy includes various initiatives concerning transportation, energy supply, waste reduction and adjustments to climate change. No surprise then that oikos Copenhagen chose as the topic of the next Spring Meeting "Sustainable Cities: Challenges and Strategies". Stay tuned and get ready to learn about sustainable city management.
Student Reporter Follow our current coverage on the transformation of management education. Topics include philosophy in the board room, the game of rankings, and the American culture of business schools.
Follow our current coverage on social entrepreneurship, with topics including the failure of social enterprise models in the US that fight obesity, everyone’s favorite example of ineffectual global philanthropy in the sustainable apparel industry, and the Robin Hood of modern investment banking.
Join one of our upcoming projects (subscribe to it on our website) and follow our September coverage at the World Economic Forum Summer Meeting in China.
oikos Alumni
Panel Discussion on Growth – Register now!
19 September 2013 – 6pm
LGT Venture Philanthropy - Zurich, Switzerland Don’t miss the opportunity to reconnect with oikos and join the three alumni Christian Busch, Irmi Seidl, and Jan Amrit Poser as they discuss their views on economic growth and sustainability. Expect a lively debate on growth and sustainability.
If you have any questions, please email adriana.troxler@oikos-international.org.
LinkedIn for Alumni Our alumni can now keep in touch with us through LinkedIn.
oikos Academic
Call for Cases oikos Case Writing Competition 2014
With the Call for Cases 2014, oikos and Ashoka aim to promote the creation of high quality teaching cases on Corporate Sustainability (supported by oikos foundation) and Social Entrepreneurship (supported by Ashoka). The competition welcomes entries from all parts of the world. Submitted case studies should be suitable for use in management education and should be related to managerial issues faced by organisations and individuals. Deadline is 11 November, 2013.
oikos Warsaw Case Study Competition 2013 Concluded Thanks to the first local edition of the Case Competition run by oikos Warsaw, we now have a collection of cases of sustainable businesses in Poland ranging from responsible investment to local beer production to biofuels. You can read the abstracts here. And a hearty congratulations to the winners of bikes!
30 seconds with...
Thomas Dyllick I have been a Professor of Sustainability Management and the Managing Director of the Institute for Economy and the Environment since 1994. Since 2011 I have also been serving as the University Delegate for Responsibility & Sustainability, after having stepped down as Vice President of the University of St. Gallen (2003-2011). I have been on the board of oikos St. Gallen since the early 1990s and a long-time member of the oikos Foundation board.
As a University Vice-President and a professor I have been actively engaged in founding and managing the 50+20 initiative, a multi-Business School and –stakeholder initiative which has developed a daring new vision for management education for the world. This vision has been presented at the PRME Global Forum at Rio+20 and is available as a video, as an short agenda and as a book.
I was also actively involved in integrating responsibility and sustainability into the recently published new EQUIS standards for Business School accreditation. And I am a member of the managing board of the Sustainable Development at Swiss Universities Program, which finances new initiatives in the sustainability field at Swiss universities.
At University of St. Gallen I am responsible for a new core area in Sustainability Management as part of the Master in Management program and for an Executive Diploma in Managing Sustainable Business, jointly offered with Business School Lausanne and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
As the University delegate for Responsibility & Sustainability, I coordinate all relevant activities in this diverse field, which has been developing from many roots and in many places in St. Gallen. A good overview of all St.Gallen activities can be found here.
By the way, already in 1977, I was a president of the Student Committee for Environmental Economics which later turned into oikos St. Gallen and I stayed closely associated with oikos activities ever since. Without the active political lobbying and support of oikos, there neither would be a professorship in sustainability management nor would an Institute for Economy and the Environment. So oikos can and did move things quite a bit in St. Gallen.
Join us in St. Gallen for two days (11 - 12 November, 2013) of extraordinary conversation and insight as the oikos community convenes to develop a reference model for sustainability education in economics and management. Bring your ideas and projects, get inspired and develop your own actions to transform education. Register now! To learn more about our latest agenda, session and speaker information, follow us @oikosworld #FL13 on Twitter or read more.
Green economy or post-growth economy? How should we shape energy, entrepreneurship, and finance? The oikos Winter School team wants to bring information and knowledge to participants so they can decide for themselves how they want to act. J
Follow our current coverage on the transformation of management education. Topics include philosophy in the board room, the game of rankings, and the American culture of business schools.
Follow our current coverage on social entrepreneurship, with topics including the failure of social enterprise models in the US that fight obesity, everyone’s favorite example of ineffectual global philanthropy in the sustainable apparel industry, and the Robin Hood of modern investment banking.
Don’t miss the opportunity to reconnect with oikos and join the three alumni Christian Busch, Irmi Seidl, and Jan Amrit Poser as they discuss their views on economic growth and sustainability. Expect a lively debate on growth and sustainability. 
Our alumni can now keep in touch with us through LinkedIn. 
Thanks to the first local edition of the Case Competition run by oikos Warsaw, we now have a collection of cases of sustainable businesses in Poland ranging from responsible investment to local beer production to biofuels. You can read the 
