The Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards 2022 included a showcase of the best recent teaching cases on climate change and sustainability. The shortlist and winners were selected by a group of senior representatives of the private, public and non-profit sectors alongside FT journalists.
The best business school teaching cases
For this award category the FT invited business school teachers and researchers around the world to enter cases that they had published in the past three years, with sustainability and tackling climate change as key learning objectives.
The winners in 2022
Find out more about each winning case, and view an educator preview copy, by clicking the links below.
Daniel M. Kammen, Paul Hendricks, Seren Pendleton-Knoll, Vincent Stanley and Robert Strand
BerkeleyHaas Case Series
Highly commended
Rotterdam School of Management's Sustainable Development Goals case series
The Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University's Sustainable Development Goals case series derives from their initiative to embed SDGs in their curriculum. The cases explore the complexity of sustainable development and compel students to rise above the content of their own specialisation, and to view sustainable development as an integrated concept linking environmental, social and economic dimensions.
Other shortlisted cases
- Bold and Responsible Leadership in Uncharted Waters: The Future of BW Tankers Annie Koh, Flocy Joseph and Cheah Sin Mei, Singapore Management University
- BMW’s Electric Vehicle Supply Chain: Risks and Human Rights, Glen W.S. Dowell and David Boyle, Cornell University
- Connecticut Green Bank, Vero Bourg-Meyer, Stuart DeCew, Yale School of Management
- Daddy Lab: A Chinese Social Enterprise's Dilemma, Daniel Han Ming Chng, Zhao Liman, Byron Lee, Peter Moran and Sun Heming, China Europe International Business School
- Diamond Developers: Replicating the Sustainable City, Tim Rogmans, Zayed University
- PG&E and the First Climate Change Bankruptcy, Stuart C Gilson and Sarah L Abbott, Harvard Business School
- Preserve: Growing a Sustainable Consumer Goods Company, Sinan Erzurumlu, Babson College
- Sistema Biobolsa: Addressing Challenges of Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Waste Management in Mexico, Indu Perepu, ICFAI Business School (IBS)
- Stella McCartney’s Sustainable Luxury, Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas and Rosemary Varley, British School of Fashion
- Switch On: Water Entrepreneurship Initiatives, Ramendra Singh, Saravana Jaikumar and Menaka Rao, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
- The Fast Fashion and the Furious Marketing: Reforming an Industry and a Discipline Toward Sustainability, Myriam Ertz, University of Québec at Chicoutimi and Emine Sarigollu, McGill University
- The Premamrutha Dhaara Project: A Sustainable Drinking Water Solution with Social Impact, Vijaya Sunder M and Shashank Shah, Indian School of Business
- Treeapp: Plant a tree for free, every day, Ioannis Ioannou, London Business School
- WWF and Greenpeace: Two Strategies to Save the Arctic Ocean, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell, Harvard Business School; Govert Vroom and Isaac Sastre Boquet, IESE Business School
The judging panel
The cases were assessed by a group of senior representatives of the private, public and non-profit sectors, alongside FT journalists:
- Brian Bruce, Hillcrest Asset Management
- Caryn Beck-Dudley, AACSB
- Devin Rapson and Megan Kashner, Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium
- Diane-Laure Arjalies, Ivey Business School
- Eric Cornuel, EFMD
- Hazel Walker and Richard McCracken, The Case Centre
- Jaime Bettcher, Aspen Institute
- Lynn Schenk, Harvard Business School
- Mette Morsing, UN PRME
- Patrick Jenkins, Financial Times.
More about the winners
Find out more about the winners in this video and on the FT's website.