Sustainability and Social Impact
Businesses play a crucial role in addressing the pressing sustainability challenges of our time, including the climate emergency and social inclusion. To rise to these challenges, companies must go beyond ethical, innovative, and sustainable operations—they must embrace an active role as agents of change.
Facing Sustainability Challenges
Embracing sustainability internally and collaboratively with stakeholders is just the beginning. Long-term viability requires organizations to embed sustainability principles in partnership with other actors.
As a business school, we contribute to the development of the skills and mindset of future leaders to drive corporate sustainability. Our social impact and sustainability strategy is inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
PRME Champions
EGADE Business School is part of a select group of institutions deeply committed to radically transforming education and research.
As a PRME Champion, we are dedicated to thought leadership and action on responsible management education within the context of the UN sustainable development agenda.
Through PRME Champions, signatory members take a more active role in shaping and advancing PRME’s mission.
Learn more about this initiative here.
EGADE Action Week
Our social impact and community engagement are amplified through EGADE Action Week—a space designed to transform business for sustainable impact through the SDGs.
The week features workshops, exhibitions, open calls, events, and high-impact activities aimed at engaging our extended community.
EGADE Action Week expands our social impact and encourages community participation beyond the classroom, creating opportunities for learning and collaboration from diverse perspectives.
Impactful Research
Our research community generates actionable knowledge aligned with the SDGs and global challenges, with a focus on inclusion, diversity, and both social and environmental sustainability through cross-cutting, interdisciplinary approaches.
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We promote research aligned with the SDGs through strategies for intellectual production and knowledge dissemination in ethics, corporate sustainability, and responsible leadership. Our RGs include:
• Effective and Efficient Leadership and Organizations
• Development of Conscious Enterprises
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Impact
• Organizational Strategy and Industry Transformation
We develop projects focused on Latin America through various academic alliances:
- SWIT Research Group: A Think+Do Tank that creates frameworks, methodologies, tools, and training programs based on disruptive innovation, sustainability, circular economy, and systemic approaches, recognizing the importance of local context.
- Circular Economy Program:Sponsored by the Center for Conscious Enterprises at Tecnológico de Monterrey, this program offers courses on circular economy—a production and consumption model focused on sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling.
- VIVA Idea Schmidheiny Chair for Sustainable Futures: An academic space for research-action methodology innovation, fostering sustainable futures in Latin America, pedagogical development, and research agenda alignment.
- UNESCO Chair in Futures Literacy: A collaborative initiative with partners such as Tecnológico de Monterrey (School of Government, Futures Design Lab, and Constellation of Futurists), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico), EDHEC Business School (France), and the Stanford Foresight Initiative (USA). Led by Professor Alfonso Ávila, it develops anticipatory leadership competencies through teaching, research, and engagement, incorporating foresight, futures literacy, emerging technologies, and transformational thinking.
- Philanthropy & Investment for Impact Chair: In collaboration with FEMSA, this Chair seeks to generate and transfer applied knowledge by professionalizing corporate philanthropy and fostering interaction within the Mexican business ecosystem. Led by Professor Luciana Manfredi, it promotes best practices, cohesive strategy, and impact measurement to generate long-term sustainable development benefits.
Research achievements and faculty thought leadership are shared through our platforms:
- EGADE IDEAS: EGADE’s research and knowledge portal features summaries, opinion columns, reports, and videos under categories such as Ethics and Sustainability.
- EGADE News: The institutional developments at EGADE Business School are guided by a focus on sustainability and social impact.
- Territorio Negocios: As part of the TecSounds podcast network, this show features faculty and industry experts discussing topics that positively impact people and organizations.
Impact Engagement Framework
Our social impact and sustainability strategy follows a transversal, multi-level framework. It applies a four-quadrant model with innovation and foresight at the center. On the x-axis, the school’s capabilities generate or facilitate impact; on the y-axis, the scope and reach are defined, from the school’s core activities to those beyond them.
