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Stewarding Your Future: Leadership at the Gateway of Ai and Human Consciousness

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“Ai doesn’t forgive your gaps, it scales 100% you. But whether you lead humans or Ai, you always have to lead yourself first.

A great thing about leading people is that they cover for our gaps. They fill them with their own morals, explain challenges and bounce back. Human resilience is fantastic. AI does none of that. It mirrors 100% of you and scales from wherever you actually stand, so your clarity grows exponentially, and so do your blind spots.

Drawing on international research from Teresa’s own research in collaboration with leading cognitive scientists from the US and Canada, this session translates the edge of global Ai and human consciousness research into entrepreneurship. We look at what AI demands of the human doing the steering. We also ask what stays yours.

And most of all: we figure out, how we can lead yourself through the complexity of a future that demands so much focus, precision and structure, while staying very alive in our bodies.

No-one knows what’s coming. It’s time to learn how to navigate a future worth living.”  (Teresa Zimmermann)

It is our pleasure to invite RSGB Students to the kick-off event of Core Course 1 on the 22nd of October.

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When? October 22nd, 2026 (Thursday) at 6 p.m.

Where? Campus WU, LC building, Festsaal 2

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We are preparing with snacks and drinks!

This special occasion is open to present and previous cohorts of SBWL RSGB students and aims at keeping an active network of like-minded and engaged people in and beyond the classroom. The highlight of the event will be an extra session from Teresa Zimmermann, who provides the evening’s food for thought.

Join us in Festsaal 2 on the evening of October 22nd for a 1.5-hour session starting at 6 p.m. and be part of a forming community of RSGB minds.

We are looking forward to connecting with many of you!

Your RSGB-I Team

Student presentations, research posters and good mood - the final event of this semester's SBWL

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Recently, we hosted our poster session for the Core Course 2 sustainability group projects - and what a way to wrap up the semester!

Students from both sections of the course - quantitative and qualitative - presented their research projects to peers, faculty, and guests. The poster session was the culmination of a semester's work and a chance to see just how far the students had come. This course is designed to equip students with the fundamental skills of conducting research, and it was great to see those skills on display. Well done to everyone who took part!
 
A special thank you to our partner ICEP - Association for Global Development for bringing a real-world case into the qualitative section and to Daniela Ortiz Avram joining us on the day and taking the time to discuss students' findings. Working with an external partner gives students the opportunity to engage with genuine complexity and to conduct research that goes beyond the classroom. 

Incorporating Social Responsibility and Sustainability into IHRM Teaching

04/12/2023

In this webinar participants will learn how to incorporate social responsibility and sustainability into the design and delivery of international HRM (IHRM) courses. We will start by clarifying the “what” and the “why” of infusing responsibility and sustainability principles into IHRM curricula: What are we talking about? And why does it matter?

About the Presentation

In this webinar participants will learn how to incorporate social responsibility and sustaina­bility into the design and delivery of international HRM (IHRM) courses. We will start by clarifying the “what” and the “why” of infusing responsibility and sustaina­bility principles into IHRM curricula: What are we talking about? And why does it matter? In this part of the webinar we will discuss how to best conceptualize social responsibility and sustaina­bility in the context of IHRM and look at existing frameworks that can be used to guide students’ learning around what is needed to tackle global sustainability challenges. We will further discuss why is it critical to design IHRM strategies and practices that promote sustainability and social responsibility – and why it is important to educate students, executives and HR leaders about how to best accomplish this. The remaining time will be devoted to the “how”-question: Which pedagogical approaches and learning activities work for different students? What are suitable readings, cases, and exercises? And how to make the learning stick?

Date & Time

  1. December 7 - 8:30am - 9:30am PST (Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco)

  2. December 7 - 11:30am - 12:30pm EST (Toronto, Boston, New York, Miami)

  3. December 7 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm GMT (London)

  4. December 7 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm CET (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)

  5. December 8 - 12:30pm - 1:30am CST (Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei)

  6. December 8 - 1:30am - 2:30am JST (Tokyo, Kyoto)

  7. December 8 - 3:30am - 4:30am AEDT (Melbourne, Sydney)

  8. December 7 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm (UTC).

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As an international partnership, the IHRM series welcomes speakers from all over the world and multiple time zones. This session will be recorded to share with registrants who are not able to attend the live session.

The event is free and open to anyone who is interested, but you must register to receive the zoom link to attend. This link will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

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The Speaker

  1. Günter K. Stahl is Professor of International Management and Director of the Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility at WU Vienna. Prior to joining WU, he served for nine years on the faculty of INSEAD and held visiting appointments at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Busi­ness, the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, the Wharton School of the Univer­sity of Pennsylvania, and Hitotsubashi and Waseda Universities, among others.

  2. Günter's current research interests include grand societal challenges and their implications for international business, the cultural and institutional drivers of corporate responsibility and sustainability, sustainable human resource management, and global mobility and migration. His research has been published in leading academic journals, profiled in a wide range of media outlets including Forbes, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, and been recognized by prestigious awards including the Carolyn Dexter Award of the Academy of Management and the JIBS/ Palgrave Macmillan Decade Award.

  3. Günter is also an accomplished teacher who has won numerous Best Teacher awards and has been involved in consulting and executive teaching for a variety of industrial and professional services companies, as well as for organizations in the non-profit sector. The fourth edition of his co-authored book (with V. Pucik, I. Björkman, and P. Evans), titled “The global challenge: Managing people across borders”, focuses on how to promote sustainability through the effective management of people and culture.

  4. This session will be moderated by Marion Festing, Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership, at ESCP Business School Berlin, Germany.

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About the Series

This event is part of an IHRM Webinar Series, organized by the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Center for International Human Resource Studies at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), Pennsylvania Western University (USA), ESCP Business School and RIT Croatia (Europe).

Previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series are available online on our YouTube Channel.

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