The Positive Impact Rating as a Platform for change

By Katrin Muff and Thomas Dyllick (2025)

Reference: Muff, K. and Dyllick, T. (2025): The Positive Impact Rating as a Platform for Change, in M. FritzJ. Weichert I. RimanoczyL. Irwin (eds) Breakthroughs in Sustainable Businsess Education. Routledge 2025. 15-28.

Abstract

This chapter outlines how business schools can accelerate change by collaborating with their own students. It uses the Positive Impact Rating for business schools (PIR) as an example und tells the story of how a group of PIR schools collaborated at an institutional level for a year to identify and implement change at each of their schools. The PIR Working Groups were launched at the PRME Global Forum in New York in June 2023 and the topics for the different working groups came from the 2023 PIR edition, where students from all over the world were asked to evaluate their own schools - to “STOP doing” and “START doing” to improve positive impact. The Collaboratory methodology, developed in the context of the 50+20 project, offered an ideal framework for the PIR Working Group sessions. The Collaboratory is used here on two levels: on the collective level for the PIR Working Groups and on the individual school level. For the latter we use a case study from a Master course at the University of St.Gallen and highlight experiences from several PIR schools.

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