2023 Esade Sustainability Week

An event where guest speakers will dialogue about impact investing. You will have the chance to talk to them and have the possibility to network. The sustainable finance debate series are organized by Ariadna Dumitrescu, Associate Professor from the department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at Esade and the Oikos student’s association.

Guest speakers:
Maria Oliva, Impact & ESG Manager at Oryx Impact.
Marc Miralles, Sustainability Manager at Suma Capital.
Lisa Hehenberger, Director of Esade Center for Social Impact.

For more information, please contact: ariadna.dumitrescu@esade.edu

The actual climate emergency requires a social transformation based on new approaches and behaviors. In this session, Xavier Mendoza and Cristina Giménez will talk with Piet Naudé about the responsibility of educational institutions such as ours in leading change in favor of a more sustainable development. Piet is past Director at University of Stellenbosch Business School and author of the book “Contemporary Management Education: Eight questions that will shape its future in the 21st century”. Piet will challenge us with tough questions of management and law educators: “Why are we so important? “What is “the value” we create and “the good” we produce? “Who is in the centre?” and “whom do we exclude?” “Can management and law education help stop climate change?” “What type of leadership do we promote?”

Guest speaker:

Piet Naudé, former Director of University of Stellenbosch Business School.
Xavier Mendoza, Director General of Esade.  
Cristina Giménez, Director of Identity and Mission of Esade.

To attend, please register via the following link before Monday Feb. 20.

The ESG Investing Challenge’s goal is to make participants aware of the possible sustainable investment strategies and help them learn how to implement them.

This session is aimed to all Esade students who are willing to participate in the ESG Investing challenge. It is leaded by Ariadna Dumitrescu, Associate Professor from the department of Economics, Finance and Accounting.

For more information, please contact: ariadna.dumitrescu@esade.edu

While leaders of nonprofits are never short of ideas on how to achieve greater impact, many discover that soliciting donations and grants doesn’t scale as well as their ambitions do—asking for money can be time consuming, unpredictable, and loaded with fine print. In response, leaders may consider a more “commercial” approach where solutions have prices and beneficiaries become customers. However, they often hesitate to pull the trigger out of fear that chasing earned income limits impact, and, over time, it can corrupt organizations into caring more about making money than they do about making a difference.

In the presentation, which draws on field research and a collaboration with Boston Consulting Group, I argue that this fear is exaggerated. Importantly, I trace its roots to a common misunderstanding among nonprofits about the meaning and measurement of “impact,” and use several examples to show that earned income can easily coexist with mission. One of these examples is Project Maji, and we will have the pleasure to hear from the founder via videoconference. In addition, attendees will receive a copy of the recent Harvard Business School case study discussing Project Maji’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Guest speaker:
Marco Bertini, Professor, Department of Marketing at Esade.
Sunil Lalvani, Founder of The project Maji. https://www.projectmaji.org/

To attend, please register via the following link before Feb. 21.

Event in Spanish.

Guest speaker:
D. Antoni Pelegrín, Environmental Chief Prosecutor of Barcelona (Fiscal Jefe de Medioambiente de Barcelona).

To attend, please register via the following link before Feb. 21.

Cinefórum sobre la película “Once You Know” (“Une fois que tu sais”) de Emmanuel Cappellin. Documental que aborda el agotamiento energético del planeta, el cambio climático y nuestra capacidad tanto personal como colectiva para la adaptación a un colapso que ya ha dado comienzo. Se tendrá oportunidad de contar con la presencia del director Emmanuel Cappellin.

Es necesario registrarte para poder obtener el enlace para visionar la película durante unos días previos al Cinefórum. Durante el cinefórum el Prof. Alfred Vernis y el director Emmanuel dialogarán y debatirán con los asistentes.

Guest speaker:
Emmanuel Cappellin, Film director of “Une fois que tu sais”.  
Alfred Vernis, Professor, Department of General Strategy at Esade.

To attend, please register via the following link before Feb. 21.

We will have the opportunity to listen about the current situation of the conflict in Afghanistan from Malalai Joya, Afghan refugee in Spain and activist.

Guest speaker:
Malalai Joya, Activist, Afghan refugee in Spain.
Rita Mota, Assistant Professor, Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at Esade.
Jorge Castiñeira, Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Esade’s Law School.

To attend, please register via the following link before Wednesday Feb. 22.

Come meet the Esade Center for Social Impact, an academic think tank that develops research about and for social impact, focusing on topics such as social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and impact measurement and management. The Center also engages with current and future leaders to influence practice and policy, organizing several events and activities for the Esade Community and beyond.

At the event, you will get to meet our team, learn more about our projects, and find out how to get involved in the Impact Community. A casual lunch will be served.

To attend, please register via the following: link before Feb. 22

For more information: centersocialimpact@esade.edu

Rental and housing prices are skyrocketing. Renting is expensive and getting a mortgage with good conditions is currently an impossible mission. For these reasons, there are many vulnerable people who are left without the option of exercising their right to housing. This is where social housing comes in. A sector that is erroneously linked to certain political spheres and known as the destruction of a business opportunity. In this round table with Toni Bosch, director of the Social Housing project within Solventis, we will learn more about this world and the great opportunities that lie behind it.

Guest speaker:
Toni Bosch, director of the Social Housing in Solventis.
Organizing Student’s Association: Esade Real Estate Association.

To attend, please register via the following link before Wednesday Feb. 22.

Event in Spanish.

Session co-organized by the Law School and the Institute of Intercultural Studies of the Javeriana University of Cali. In this session we will have the opportunity to meet and listen to a visiting delegation from that institution.

To attend, please register via the following link before Feb. 23. 

At this event, you will gain insights into how leading companies are incorporating sustainability into their operations, both in the short and long term, and how it impacts their customers. Our esteemed round table of speakers consists of executives from major corporations who are trailblazers in sustainable practices.

Organized by: ESTalent.

For more information, please contact: lucia.nadal@esade.edu

What is Impact Investing? When is it profitable to invest for social good? What are the strategies? If you have a million questions and no answers to what Impact Investing is, make sure you sign up for this crashcourse with Esade Prof. Lisa Hehenberger.

Guest speaker:
Lisa Hehenberger, Director of the Esade Center for Social Impact, Professor at Esade’s department of Strategy and General Management.

*Event aimed at undergraduate and Master of Sciences students at the Sant Cugat campus.

To attend, please register via the following link before Wednesday Feb. 23.

The retreat wants to offer us - from the Christian tradition - a space to stop, pray and deepen our source of life. It would be a good conclusion to the Sustainability Week where we have been invited to connect with a more balanced vision of life and relationships with the planet and among ourselves.

There are 20 places available, and it will take part in Rubí, (20km from Barcelona).

Co-financed by Esade, the cost for the entire weekend would be 50 euros.

If you are interested in participating, please write to: alberto.nunez3@esade.edu

Walking allows us to meet nature, creating a bond of care and respect towards it. This walk will give us the opportunity to walk from the Barcelona Campus to the Sant Cugat Campus, through the Collserola Natural Park. It will take approximately three hours. The return to Barcelona will be by train from the Sant Cugat station.

Activity open to the entire community.

To attend, please register via the following: link before Feb. 23

For more information, please contact: identityandmission@esade.edu

Art can also offer us a beautiful way of looking at the world and provides us with tools for innovation and creativity to respond to the challenges of the planet. Sustainable development is not possible without culture.

On the sustainability week, we invite our community to a visit to the MNAC on Saturday 25.

Places are limited, register here.

You are more than welcome to join us on the 25th of February from 10.00-12.00h at Playa de San Sebastián (close to the W hotel and Barceloneta beach). Activity organized by CIEE, Human Resources Association and oikos Barcelona, during the 2023 sustainability week.

Contact email: info@barcelona.oikos-international.org

Register here.

An amazing show cooking with a professional chef and an activity where you will have to show to the jury how good you are with sustainable cooking challenges.

This is the fourth edition of the workshop organised by Oikos in collaboration with CEMS Club. The best team will win amazing prizes. All with sustainable sourced products.

Organized by: Oikos and CEMS Club.

For more information, please contact: giorgio.donatti@alumni.esade.edu

This competition consists in sustainable actions in your student’s day-to-day life on campus, such as bringing your food from home in a reusable non-plastic Tupperware, bike to school, bring your own water bottle, recycle, or any other act for sustainability that you can think of.

Take a selfie with your actions of sustainability, post it as stories or posts to the mbasa.esade Instagram page, with the #esade #theEsadeMBA #esadesustainability hashtags. At the end of the week will be announced the winner and will receive a prize.  

Organized by: Energy & Environment Club and Net Impact Club, MBAs student associations.

For more information, please contact: domenico.potorti@alumni.esade.edu

Want to leave a sustainable legacy of your MBA Section at Esade? Build a Bed Garden together on campus and plant your favorite plants inside. Watch them grow and take care of them for the year, then pass on the tradition to the future sections of the MBA.

We invite you to join this initiative!

Organized by: Energy & Environment Club, MBA student association.

For more information, please contact: domenico.potorti@alumni.esade.edu

Esade Alumni invites you to participate in a transformative experience that will help you act responsibly and contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Participate and become a part of sustainable change!

Download the App and complete daily sustainable challenges to reduce your social and environmental impact. The three top-ranked participants will win a pack of environmentally friendly Esade Alumni merchandise!  Sign up here today and you can take part from February 20-24.  

Any questions, please contact: dayhana.pardo@esade.edu