Integrating Sustainability Across Entire Business Programs: Evaluating the Implementation of Integrating Sustainability & Responsibility Across the BSL Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) Curriculum

Management educators carry an important responsibility in educating the kinds of leaders who are equipped to embrace current and emerging social, environmental and economic challenges both regionally and globally. The education and development of such globally responsible leaders represents a significant challenge for business schools that have traditionally focused on providing education in a somewhat segmented discipline-based manner. Sustainability, however, cannot be bolt on, but needs to be built in across the curriculum. At BSL, we have restructured our entire Bachelor in Business Administration degree program and have embedded sustainability and responsibility across the entire curriculum with each syllabus integrating sustainability into the expected learning outcomes. We are currently in the process of implementing this fundamental change and will evaluate the challenges and opportunities of this process by reviewing reports of the faculty who has already re-designed their course modules as well as feedback of students who have already experienced the new modules during their 1st year of studies. We will compare observations from the BBA program with lessons learned from a similar implementation we have conducted at our MBA program in 2009-10. As a result, we will draw initial conclusions of this intermediary review and draft potential recommendations for other management institutions interested in adopting such a strategy.