Just a few years ago, when ideas about the beginnings of the European Academy for Business in Society were being muttered around universities, the European Commission and in companies, the plan to put business ethics and corporate responsibility teaching into management training seemed much further away.
Your correspondent at EABIS’s recent fourth annual conference in Warsaw remembers meeting Gilbert Lenssen, its first dean and now non-executive president, in London some months before the funding, and the academy’s future, was secure.
It feels like decades since Lenssen and EABIS executive director Peter Lacy were frantically, and ultimately successfully, dashing around the EU securing support, cash and commitment from business schools, companies and governments for the initiative.
This is a sign of how far corporate responsibility teaching has come in the last few years. But that does not mean we should be anything like complacent, Lenssen said recently. Speaking at the Warsaw conference in early December, he was keen to stress that there remains a long way to go.
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