PRME Sharing Information on Progress Report July 2015

Principle 1 | Purpose:

We will develop the capabilities of students

to be future generators of sustainable value

for business and society at large and to work for an inclusive and sustainable global

economy.

Developing managers that contribute to the community

We incorporate into our academic activities and curricula the values of global citizenship and social responsibility. We kept this procedure as Nova SBE stands for global citizenship

and social responsibility.

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•Laws and rules, the democratic process, the media, human rights, diversity, money and the economy, sustainable development, democracy, justice, equality, freedom

Knowledge and understanding

•Critical thinking, analytical skills, negociation and conflict resolution skills, ability to express opinions, to take part in debates and to participate in community action

Skills and aptitudes

•Respect for justice, democracy and the rule of law, openness, tolerance, courage to defend a point of view, willingness to listen to, work with, and stand up for others

Values and dispositions

Principle 2 | Values:

We will incorporate into our academic activities and curricula the values of global

social responsibility as portrayed in international initiatives such as the United

Nations Global Compact.

Coursework Our commitment global citizenship and social responsibility permeates our curriculum in a multitude of courses and modules, many of which involve active and experiential learning.

We have added six new courses related to Social Responsibility to our Masters Programs

and we have improved the quality of our courses.

Undergraduate coursework

Communication Leadership &

Ethics

Nova SBE greatly values the personal and professional development of its

students. Nova SBE emphasizes the improvement in the student’s analytical capabilities, their communication, and teamwork.

The Communication Leadership & Ethics module among other objectives, focuses on:

Improve how to communicate projects and initiatives;

Enhance leadership and encourage teamwork;

Train skills that promote community involvement

Discuss ethical issues and dilemmas

Managing Impactful

Projects

The objective of this course is to:

Develop project management skills

Apply theoretical concepts by carrying out a social project

Develop interpersonal skills such as time management,

leadership, conflict management, resilience, etc.

Masters coursework

Development Economics

This course will give students an overview of current research on the

political economy of development. Both theory and empirics will be

tackled, with a strong applied focus. In the process it will introduce the main evaluation methods used in impact measurement of development

interventions. The course also aims to offer basic research skills, as it will give the student the perspective of a researcher in this field.

Management of

Non-Profit Organizations

This course aims to tackle a wide range of aspects related to Non-Profit

Management and explore in detail the different tools and ideas around this type of organizations.

Sustainable International

Business

This course is intended to provide future managers, expecting to work in or with developing countries, with an understanding of their current

economic reality and future prospects of these nations. The course will address several developmental challenges faced by poor nations,

focusing on the role of the private sector and business managers, and

stressing the implications for corporate performance. It will not cover in detail the internal operational challenges of corporations.

Social

Entrepreneurship

This course aims to tackle a wide range of aspects related to Social Entrepreneurship and explore in detail the different tools and ideas

around this new type of Entrepreneurship.

Corporate Social

Responsibility

This course will examine the major tenets of corporate social responsibility along with its antecedents and outcomes. It will also

discuss the role of business in society and ethical strategic leadership

The Economics of

Agriculture and the Environment

The course exposes the student to the use of the main policy tools applied to the specific issues of the agricultural sector. Special attention

is devoted to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU). The course addresses also the relationship between

agriculture and the environment and its economic implications.

Global Energy

Markets

This course covers a few topics related to energy demand and supply, environmental consequences of energy consumption and production,

and the impact of policy intervention on energy demand, supply, prices

and environmental effects. A special emphasis is given to the issues that are currently debated in the context of the international agenda of

climate change challenges. Therefore, the economics of depletable resources (fossil fuels) is examined in detail. The role played by

renewable sources of energy is investigated in that context, and, in particular, the consequences of stimulating the development of non-

carbon energy sources to replace fossil fuels are addressed.

Basic Problems of Ethics &

Economics

This module considers the relationship between Ethics and Economics by focusing on (a) the questionability of the utilitarianism behind such

notions as ‘Pareto optimality’ and ‘economic efficiency’ and (b) the moral

limits of markets. Main topics to be considered: -Kantian Ethics; -The Ethics (and Politics) of Recognition; -Freedom and Human Rights; -

Power, choice, and contracts; -Inequality and Social Justice; -the psychology of the homo economicus.

Individual and

Corporate Responsibility

This module aims to develop an in-depth understanding of the nature of

individual and corporate responsibility; to increase the understanding of the tensions between individual responsibility and corporate and societal

culture; to distinguish the differences between economic, legal and ethical responsibility; to understand the domestic and the global scope

of individual and corporate responsibility and to provide action-oriented

suggestions to deal with real business problems.

Professional

Citizenship

This module is focused on providing a diversified number of experiences

to consider when the student will be making decisions as a citizenship,

personally or in the context of a company. The module tries to clarify how professional citizenship implies the exercise of rights and

responsibilities in the workplace and within communities, and to reflect on what t is the relationship between volunteer work, and social

entrepreneurship.

Ethics in Business Strategy

This module intends to put the student in the role of the general manager of a business and allows an integration of all the specialized

subject areas of business in the frame of business ethics issues. These will intersect all business subjects, such as marketing, operations,

finance and organizational behavior. The module will give students an opportunity to pull together in the perspective of business ethics what

they have learned in the separate business fields (marketing, organizational theory, finance).

Ethical and Professional

Standards

This module aims to analyze the standards of professional conduct, professionalism, integrity of capital markets, duties to clients, duties to

employers, investment analysis, recommendations and actions and conflicts of interes.t

Happiness with

Applied Psychology

This module is designed for students interested in learning about how to

“win the success game” and maximize their resilience skills, in face of an increasingly “VUCA” (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world.

Great learning and victories can be found in every situation, depending

on the constructive attitude we foster. Success redefined, often implies maximizing mind focus and effectiveness in problem solving.

beNova Scholarships

The beNOVA Scholarships Program was created to ensure that Nova SBE students facing financial

difficulties can still pursue their studies.

The project was inspired by three alumni of one of the

first undergraduate class in Economics (1980) at the

Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Through this initiative, any person, institution or

company can help by contributing to the education of an undergraduate student of Nova SBE. Contributions

that equal or exceed the undergraduate program fee –

either annual or for the full program (3 years) – will result in Scholarships that can be named after the

donor or someone the donor wishes to honor.

Student-led projects Nova SBE recognizes the importance of pro-activity and leadership as drivers of citizenship

and social responsibility and strongly encourages its students to develop initiatives that

foster the school´s mission support and develop their skills. We kept the initiatives of our students and we encouraged the development of new projects led by students in the social

area.

Nova Social Consulting Club projects

Nova Social Consulting (NSC) is a professional club founded

in 2009 and composed exclusively of Nova SBE Masters’

Students.

It aims at providing guidance to social projects in order to

assist them in meeting and exceeding their full potential, helping them building the tools they do not have. The Club’s

objectives are:

Work projects with social entrepreneurs/ institutions

Partner with existing social initiatives

Raise awareness of social impact

For more information:

http://www.novasocialconsulting.com/about-us/

32 members (60% Female; 40% Male) | Average Age: 23 | 6 Nationalities | 8 Fluently Spoken

Languages | Lived in 34 Countries | Worked in 18 Industries/Sectors

Lisbon CEMS Club projects

Lisbon CEMS Club has been awarded

with the prize of Best CEMS Social

Awareness Event in the fall semester 2014/15, with the CEMS

Volunteering Day The Club also participated in the

CEMS International Blood race

Dedicated students stepped up and

volunteered at Comunidade Vida e Paz

by sorting clothes for the homeless.

Other student projects

The GreenNova Project was created by students with the

purpose of protecting the environment, through recycling used paper at Nova SBE, while providing food to the less fortunate

families of our country.

It's a partnership between Banco Alimentar's Institution & Quima, a company that collects and recovers waste, turning

every tone of used paper into the equivalent of 100€ of food provided to poverty-stricken families, appointed by Federação

Portuguesa dos Bancos Alimentares, according to the degree of

urgency.

PUMAP (http://pumap.blogspot.pt/) is a project entirely composed of students who volunteer to teach in Maputo’s

universities (Mozambique) during their summer break. The School has formalized this initiative by providing office space

and pedagogical guidance to volunteers.

The Program was created in 2005 in Maputo by 9 Nova SBE students. It consists of 3 strands of instruction: Executive

Training (specialized instruction in various areas at the University Eduardo Mondlane), Alpha (support Primary School

Maxaquene-Khovo students with more difficulties) and UniAid (in support of the Day Center Good hope from the Red Cross to

disadvantaged children).

WACT (http://www.wact.pt/) is a non-political, non-religious and non-profit institution that “creates change makers”

WACT’s objectives are to (i) train people to become socially active, recognizing change as a determining part of life in

society and (ii) spread change, empowering future

entrepreneurs.

Based in the Education for Development area, the training

provides future change makers with the necessary skills in entrepreneurship and social intervention. Built by both

theoretical and practical courses, the training lasts 4 months in

Portugal and 6 weeks in Sao Tome and Principe. Nova SBE undergraduate students can carry out an internship at WACT

and earn the respective ECTS.

Principle 3 | Method

We will create educational frameworks,

materials, processes and environments that enable effective learning experiences for

responsible leadership.

How does Nova SBE incorporate the values of

global citizenship and social responsibility?

Coursework

Modules

Speeches to students

(Guests, Deans, etc)

Students' clubs and activities

Dedicated Students

Development Office

Research

Partnerships

Comunidade Nova

Comunidade Nova is a Volunteering Program available for all Nova SBE students. The program

has currently established partnership with around 90 institutions in which students can develop

volunteering work. The volunteers must complete 50 hours of volunteering work during their

academic program. During the last academic year (2014-2015), 383 volunteers participated in

the Comunidade Nova Program, by doing volunteering work on a weekly basis. There were also

several punctual volunteering actions going on, such as the recovering of a garden on a

retirements’ home and food gatherings benefiting different institutions. When students

graduate, a Merit Certificate is awarded for their participation in Comunidade Nova.

Principle 4 | Research

We will engage in conceptual and empirical

research that advances our understanding about the role, dynamics, and impact of

corporations in the creation of sustainable social, environmental and economic value.

NOVAFRICA is a knowledge center created by Nova SBE in partnership with Angola Business School. Its mission is to produce distinctive expertise on business and economic development in

Africa, especially in Portuguese-speaking countries. This research is meant to reach all

interested stakeholders through policy recommendations, operational and strategic advice to companies and organizations, consultancy, and capacity building in Africa.

Organization of 20+ seminars per

year with top international

academics and practitioners such as:

Paul Collier, Oxford University

Dan Biller, World Bank

Horacio Larreguy, Harvard University

Luis Catão, International Monetary Fund

Organization of launching international conference

100+ submissions following an international call for

papers

50+ speakers from academia, private sector and policy making, including a Nobel Prize winner

100+ participants from Europe, US, Africa and other international origins

Organization of other conferences,

seminars and workshops in Angola, Mozambique and Portugal

With international speakers from academia, private

sector and governmental officials

14 research projects, typically randomized impact evaluations

measuring changes in the life and

businesses of thousands of Mozambicans and Angolans

Funded by USAID, World Bank, International Growth

Center, Institute for the Study of Labor, Islamic Development Bank, MIT

Employing a few dozens of recent graduates from Mozambican universities and Nova SBE graduate

students

Various partnerships in Mozambique and Angola

With Universities, Government and private sector

For more information about NOVAFRICA: http://novafrica.org/index.php

Our faculty is involved in research and corporate engagement in environmental, social and

governance issues.

Key publications since 2013:

Story, Joana, and Pedro Neves. "When corporate social responsibility (CSR) increases

performance: exploring the role of intrinsic and extrinsic CSR attribution." Business Ethics: A

European Review 24, no. 2 (2015): 111-124.

Amaral, Luciano; L.d.Sousa and P. Magalhães. (2014). “Sovereign Debt and Governance

Failures – the Impact of the Financial Crisis in Portuguese Democracy.” American Behavioural Scientist, 58(12), 1517-1541.

Delavande, Adeline; Mafalda Sampaio and Neereaj Sood. 2014. "Hiv-Related Social Intolerance and Risky Sexual Behavior in a High Hiv Prevalence Environment." Social Science & Medicine,

111, 84-93.

Simões, I. and Agante, L. (2014), The impact of event sponsorship on Portuguese children’s brand image and purchase intention: the moderator effect of product involvement and brand

familiarity, International Journal of Advertising 33(3), 533-556

Sobral, F.; Maria João Chambel and Filipa Castanheira. 2014. "Formação Para a

Empregabilidade: Relação Com O Compromisso Afetivo E O Bem-Estar - Dos Trabalhadores

Temporários E Permanentes," A. Caetano, Silva, S., Tavares, S., Santos, S. C. (Orgs.),

Formação E Desenvolvimento Organizacional: Abordagens E Casos Práticos Em Portugal.

Lisboa: Mundos Sociais, 13-26.

Ribeiro, N.; Arménio Rego and Miguel Pina e Cunha. 2013. A Virtude Nas Organizações: Fonte

De Progresso E Sustentabilidade. Lisboa: Sinais de Fogo.

Peralta, Susana; Joana Alves and Julian Perelman. 2013. "Efficiency and Equity Consequences

of Decentralization in Health: An Economic Perspective." Revista Portuguesa de Saude Publica,

31(1), 74-83.

Cunha-e-Sá, Maria A.; Renato Rosa and Clara Costa-Duarte.2013. "Natural Carbon Capture and

Storage (Nccs): Forests, Land Use, and Carbon Accounting." Resource and Energy Economics,

35(2), 148-70.

Campos, I.S.; L.S. Almeida; A.I. Ferreira and Luis F. Martinez.2013. "Working Memory as

Separable Subsystems: A Study with Portuguese Primary School Children."The Spanish Journal

of Psychology, 16(E14).

Barros, Pedro Pita. 2013. Pela Sua Saúde. Lisboa: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Sustainability and Change Management, by João Amaro de Matos and Stewart Clegg: Journal of Change Management, vol 13, issue 4.c

Principle 5 | Partnership

We will interact with managers of business

corporations to extend our knowledge of their challenges in meeting social and

environmental responsibilities and to explore jointly effective approaches to

meeting these challenges.

NOVAFRICA’S partnerships The range of NOVAFRICA’s activities is made possible by working together with a number of

institutions that collaborate with the center in a variety of ways. We have developed a new

partnership with Nestlé focused on the improvement of children’s lives.

Carteira Móvel

Financial institution which in partnership with Mcel (the

largest mobile communications operator of Mozambique) developed and implemented mKesh, the first mobile money

service in Mozambique The service aims to enable the safe and easy access to the entire population of financial services

such as storing and moving money even without owning a

traditional bank account.

IGC (International Growth Centre)

IGC aims to promote sustainable growth in developing

countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on

frontier research.

USAID (United States Agency for International Development)

USAID seeks to extend a helping hand to those people

overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country.

USAID's stated goals include providing economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world

in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States. It

operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

World Bank

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical

assistance to developing countries around the world. It’s a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support

development.

Institute for the Study of Labor

IZA is a private independent economic research institute

focused on the analysis of global labor markets. It operates an international network of about 1,500 economists and

researchers spanning across more than 50 countries.

Islamic Development Bank

The purpose of the Bank is to foster the economic development and social progress of member countries and

Muslim communities individually as well as jointly in

accordance with the principles of Islamic Law.

Other Nova SBE partnerships:

Nestlé

Nestlé/Nova Best Paper Award is a partnership created by

Nova SBE and Nestlé to promote the development of

research on Children Consumer Behaviour, according to the most recent guidelines from UNICEF and the EU Pledge on

research, communication and advertising targeting children and youngsters. The whole research is focused on the

betterment of children’s lives, through research on the effects of media on children and evaluating their ethicality,

and also by using marketing tools to promote healthy

lifestyles in children.

IES (Social Entrepreneurship Institute)

Since 2009, Nova SBE and IES work in partnership to bring

together the academic expertise with the field knowledge in

social entrepreneurship through masters thesis, courses and

seminars.

Principle 6 | Dialogue

We will facilitate and support dialog and

debate among educators, students, business, government, consumers, media,

civil society organizations and other

interested groups and stakeholders on critical issues related to global social

responsibility and sustainability.

The meetings, conferences and partnerships developed at Nova SBE facilitate the dialogue

inside the school between companies and society. Since 2013, we have developed additional

volunteering programs. We have motivated our students to engage in our volunteering programs as we believe that this is a strong contribution to our community.

Nova SBE is a member of GBSN (Global Business School Network) since 2011. Local Talent, Global Impact. Since 2003, GBSN has been a leader in promoting management education as a

critical component in successful international development strategies.

GBSN is fostering a network of emerging business leaders who are committed to using the power of business to create a better world. The vision is that next generation of skilled

managers will have a positive impact on society throughout their professional careers and beyond.

“Re-food” is a micro-local organization, created to take advantage of food leftovers from restaurants, getting them to people in need. This project is an eco-humanitarian effort, 100%

volunteer driven, that fights hunger in urban neighborhoods while avoiding food waste. Partner of Comunidade Nova since 2014 it has more than 50 Nova SBE students collaborating with their

volunteering activities; gathering, packing and distributing food surpluses to the ones in need.

Happiness in the Organizations

This conference took place at Nova SBE on June 3rd 2015. The aim of this conference was to promote reflections and debate about the importance of the well-being inside corporations as a

way to foster the development of the talents and skils of the employees. All the funds raised in this initiative reverted to Pais em Rede Association, partner of the Volunteer Program at Nova

SBE.

AIESEC is one of the first partners of Comunidade Nova. It was founded in 1948, and it is the world’s largest student organization. It is present in more than 124 countries and has over

100.000 members across the globe. AIESEC’s vision is to achieve peace and develop human

potential through youth leadership programs. The programs are suited for college students or new graduates (less than 2 years).

The volunteering activities at Nova SBE include:

•Team member program - develop project management skills in a global network through the participation in different activities related to the structure of the organization (Sales,

Communication, HR, Finance, etc.) •Connection - International volunteering experiences regarding education, health and

management of NGOs in 124 countries, (6 to 12 weeks). •Global Mind - International internships in Marketing, Languages and IT (6 to 18 months).

Mentoring Program: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and EPIS

Our mentoring program assists students with learning difficulties enrolled in the schools of the

neighborhood. It is inserted in the activities of Comunidade Nova Program for the academic

year 2015/2016. The program is sponsored by Gulbenkian Foundation in association with Epis

Foundation.

Established in 1956 as a Portuguese foundation for the whole of humanity, the Foundation’s

original purpose focused on fostering knowledge and raising the quality of life of persons

throughout the fields of the arts, charity, science and education.

Established in 2006, the EPIS Foundation was created by a group of 100 Portuguese

entrepreneurs with the objective of fostering social inclusion.