Katrin Muff (Author's Website)
Dr. Katrin Muff was appointed Dean of Business School Lausanne in 2008. Katrin ensures real-life business direction at BSL by merging her entrepreneurial and corporate background with the academic world by focusing her activities on assuring that students and course participants get the best business education possible.
Being part of something larger
We need students and participants – whether they labor in a narrow, disciplinary area or in a broad leadership capacity – to understand that they are an integral part of something bigger than themselves. This realization encourages and empowers our students to embrace their responsibility towards the greater whole. It will also enable students to [...]
Issue-centered learning
One of the core pillars of management education for the future is to turn current functional-based, single discipline teaching into issue-centered, trans-disciplinary learning. The development of a question-based, creativity-focused approach that enables critical and divergent thinking is an integral part of this. Future learning environments will be established both inside a classroom and as collaborative [...]
Safe and powerful learning environments
The basic requirement for developing leaders is a framework that addresses the whole person and creates openness and support for them. As such, education must provide the fertile ground that allows for profound personal and professional development. Students and participants, irrespective of their age, will need a serious amount of personal courage to confront their [...]
Two Perspectives from the South
The President of Bolivia starts with a passionate speech criticizing the conference for abusing the environment and serving the goals of all players. He says that the resolution wants weak states with weak institutions. He makes a number of examples of how Bolivia is different in how it assures a harmonious life of all people [...]
Public-private partnership on green growth
A high-level session hosted by the Danish prime minister and the President of South Korea and the Mexican Minister of the Environment filling in for his president and Unilever CEO Paul Polman. The Danish and South Korean statesmen make an unlikely couple: a beautiful, young and tall blond lady and a small, restrained, nearly introverted [...]
Changing paradigms for creating sustainable and just cities
At Rio Centro, many thousands of delegates, media and major groups (women, labor, youth, business, labor, etc.) representatives are meeting to discuss the challenges we face. What a nice change from the 5-star experience at the Windsor Barra, the temporary home to 2,700 business executives. Finally we had some relevant and engaged discussion about important and urgent [...]
Rio dialogues: Focus on water
Rio Dialogues offers a public debate on the critical topic “Water”, currently on at Rio Centro. Dialogues is a public direct democratic initiative by the Brazilian government as their contribution to RIO+20. Within the main auditorium I found a highly diverse and young crowd of approximately 1,000 delegates and representatives of all walks of life, from around the [...]
How to get to the 2’000 Watt global community
In order to offer a concrete experience of our 50+20 vision (see www.50plus20.org) our team has organized a series of collaboratory events during the RIO+20 conference. Imagine the collaboratory as a circular space where stakeholders meet on an equal basis to address burning issues that concern society either locally, globally or both. The discussion is [...]
50+20 Launch Speech
“Today is not just another day and not just another conference. Today, we present to you the result of two years of voluntary work by many many passionate people who deeply care about ensuring that business schools and management education truly contribute to a better world. In this process, John Cimino’s song the CALL which [...]
Getting ready in Rio
Finally, the moment arrived. We met the members of the 50+20 team on the beach in front of the Windsor Barra. People flew in from all over and we even managed to bring a bench from South Africa which we assembled. 9 other benches are being assembled. The security measures are very impressive: the navy has [...]
