U of G’s Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics was highlighted in The Globe and Mail as a leader in incorporating sustainability education into its business curriculum.

The article in the Careers section of the newspaper looked at the growing trend of embedding sustainability concepts into courses and research in Canadian business schools.

The article highlighted as an example Lang’s Sustainable Commerce MBA program, which currently accounts for 73 percent of enrolment in U of G’s three MBA streams.

Prof. Rumina Dhalla, the MBA graduate co-ordinator at Lang, told the newspaper that business education is changing and students are demanding a focus on sustainability approaches.

Lang is one of more than 650 global business school signatories to the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), which is tied to the UN’s 2030 sustainable development goals, the article noted.

As well, all first-year Bachelor of Commerce students take part in the Great Ethical Dilemma Case Competition each year, in which students must solve a fictitious but plausible business ethics problem.

“[The project] changes your thinking to how you are doing business for good instead of how to make the most money in business,” said one student, who added that he is now considering enrolling in Lang’s new minor in sustainability rather than French as he had planned.