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CENTER FOR BUSINESS
AS AN AGENT OF WORLD BENEFIT
 
 

Teaching Resources

 

BAWB aims to develop unique educational materials and resources on that can be used in classrooms throughout the world. At the core of our work is the effort to discover and share best practices – real life examples of successful integration of business profit and societal benefit. Currently, our most demanded teaching resources and opportunities are:

 

BAWB Innovation Bank

BAWB Innovation Bank is an expanding collection of business innovations that create societal good. Each record of the Bank is a profile highlighting an innovation, its context, roots and impacts - and can be used as an example in a lecture, a conversation piece for small discussion groups, and serves as a source of material for student research projects.

The Innovation Bank aims to provide real life answers to two guiding questions:

- What does it look like when business serves as an agent of community and world benefit?

- How can companies advance their business success and the environment in which they operate through the means and tools of sustainability?

The Innovation Bank features stories from many sources - from the B.A.W.B. World Inquiry, Aspen Institute's "Case Place," the UN Global Compact's cases and "Communications on Progress," as well as important stories from the media. Each nominated story is carefully screened by an editorial team to select the best innovations that extend beyond philanthropy towards a societal agenda integrated into core business practices, products, and policies.
   

BAWB Media Library

BAWB Media Library offers a collection of unique video and audio resources to be used in classroom and beyond. Our home-produced video and digital stories offer examples of business innovation for social good, while speeches and presentations give access to the idea of the prominent thinkers and business leaders of sustainability social entrepreneurship.

   

World Inquiry

The World Inquiry into B·A·W·B is a worldwide action-research initiative that uses Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to inspire face-to-face dialogue about the role of business in society and to discover the important business-in-society innovations taking place all over the world. The best of the uncovered innovations are profiled in the B·A·W·B Innovation Bank and other publications of the Center.

Professors worldwide have used the World Inquiry as a hand-on experience for the students. Since the World Inquiry is a world-wide effort to discover and share the new ways for business to live in mutual benefit with the rest of the world, doing an interview with a business or thought leader is the most hands-on way to participate in World Inquiry. It is an opportunity to meet a real-life change maker, to uncover a unique and less known story of business innovation that brings benefit to society, and to share this story with the world.