ARTS, HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES Transforming Business for Good Trinity Business School’s ambitious new strategy will place it at the leading edge of good, sustainable, ethical, and humane business practices The new Trinity Business School Strategy is aimed at harnessing its strengths and values to deliver business education and research that promotes ethical leadership, eco-sustainability, and humane business. According to Professor Andrew Burke, Dean of Trinity Business School, the strategy will leverage the school’s excellence in research, education and thought leadership to address some of the key challenges facing business and society now and in the future. He explains that business schools have a special role to play in addressing issues such as climate change and social inequality. We need to be conscious of the nature of the world we live in. The climate catastrophe and the heightened focus on ethical business practices present huge challenges for everyone involved, challenges that have never been at the forefront before. Businesses need to uphold the human rights not only of their own employees but workers right through their supply chains as well. They are also responsible for their own impacts on the environment as well as those of their suppliers and customers and other stakeholders.’ These challenges are not necessarily unwelcome. ‘Businesses want to do these things,’ Burke explains. ‘After all, who wants to run a business that is selling products that are degrading the environment and people’s human rights. If you were a consumer, would you want to buy a product that is damaging the environment, reducing biodiversity, makes use of forced labour and so on? Even if you don’t care about these things, governments, investors, regulators, consumers, and workers do. If you want a highly motivated and skilled workforce, you need to care.’
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