FROM BEING THE BEST IN THE WORLD TO BEING THE BEST FOR THE WORLD
Our purpose is to measure how business schools contribute to solving societal challenges by energising the school and its culture, by educating current and future leaders, by providing relevant research results and offers for continuing education, by participating in the public debate and by being a role model institution. The Positive Impact Rating seeks to contribute as a lever of change to the transformation of the business school landscape.
OUR VALUE PROPOSITION
Students seeking an education that prepares them as change makers in the 21st century get a global measurement of schools equipping them with the required competences.
Enabling Civil society to find leading business school as like-minded partners in their endeavors and offers advice to business and other organizations on their impact.
Allowing participating schools to use the survey results as a tool for their internal change processes which serves for bench marking, business school development
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
NORMATIVE STARTING BASE
The starting base of the rating is a normative vision of management education as a custodian of society based on the 50+20 vision.
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FULL ASSESSMENT
6 different stakeholder groups in all 4 areas and 9 dimensions will be launched in a 2nd phase, with the aim of obtaining more comprehensive results
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RATING NOT RANKING
Business schools are not positioned by specific ranks, but they are rated to belong to a certain level of achievement, preventing the danger of misplaced concreteness. The rating is an effort in social transparency.
FLEXIBLE SOLUTIONS
The rating does not prescribe specific ways to live up to the mission, but it leaves room for the schools to define their own ways to fulfill it.
INTERNAL & EXTERNAL USE
The rating can be used for internal purposes (school development) or it can be used for external benchmarking and communication.
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STUDENT ASSESSMENT
We will start with a rating “by students and for students”. Bachelor and Master students will assess their own schools in 3 areas (Energizing, Educating and Engaging) and 7 dimensions.
PERCEPTION BASED
The rating is based on subjective perceptions, because perceptions define “reality” and hence influence action. This makes the rating different from existing rankings, who rely on “objective” data.
HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE
Rather than looking only at a specific program, the Positive Impact Rating looks at the whole school in all of its key areas and dimensions.
ELEMENTS OF STUDENT RATING
3 Areas, 7 Dimensions, 20 Questions
Energizing
Areas Assessed:
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Governance
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Culture
Educating
Areas Assessed:
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Programs
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Learning Methods
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Student Engagement
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Engaging
Areas Assessed:
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Institution as role model
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Public Engagement
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