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Extracted Content: What is the purpose of business school rankings? The question made it on to the agenda of January’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, with the publication of an in-depth report: “Business School Rankings for the 21st Century”.
It came from the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest global corporate sustainability initiative, and the report calls for a dramatic rethink of ranking methodologies. Significantly, the driving force for change in this report is not a school or student group but a multinational financial services group, Aviva Investors, which sponsored the research.