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ENABLING BUSINESS SCHOOLS
FROM BEING THE BEST IN THE WORLD TO BEING THE BEST FOR THE WORLD
Your path to Societal Impact
PIR is a student and faculty driven assessment that helps business schools worldwide evaluate their commitment to sustainability and ethical practices.
Developed in collaboration with global NGOs like WWF, Oxfam, UN Global Compact, and international student associations, PIR is designed to transform business education by cultivating responsible leaders.
NEWS
2025 Edition
PRME Signatory Discount
PRME signatory schools committing to the Positive Impact Rating (PIR) for three years can benefit from a 10% discount. This helps integrate the PIR framework into the PRME SIP reporting.
Faculty Survey
Enable faculty participation in the Positive Impact Rating alongside the students. This add-on provides valuable insights from a second key stakeholder group.
EQUIS additional Report
Receive a tailored report aligning your PIR results with the EQUIS accreditation standards. Enhance your impact reporting and accreditation alignment.
Multiple Language Addition
Conduct the PIR survey in your preferred language. Available in English, French, and Spanish, ensuring accessibility for all stakeholders.
Business Schools and the Positive Impact Rating (PIR) Webinar
Over twenty members of GBSN have enrolled in the 2024 iteration of the Positive Impact Rating (PIR), a measure rooted in student feedback regarding the social influence of their business schools. This webinar delves into the journeys of four institutions across four different continents. It addresses their motivations for engaging in the PIR, the potential risks and obstacles encountered, the insights gained through the process, the benefits derived from participation, and the role of GBSN membership in furthering their mission to foster a positive impact.
The Positive Impact Rating seeks to contribute as a lever of change to the transformation of the business school landscape
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What are the leading business schools saying?
Sunil Varughese
Chief Brand & Sustainability Officer
XLRI Xavier School of Management
"Business management students across the world have joined hands to assess their business schools on how they perceive their positive impact in the community and society at large.
This marks a paradigm shift to foster a collaborative ecosystem and make the process of management education more meaningful and purpose-oriented."
Grzegorz Mazurek
Rector
Kozminski University
"Positive Impact Rating is of utmost importance in determining the true meaning and sense of purpose of the functioning business schools. Our role is to change the world and develop personalities who will responsibly manage our economies and our societies.
PIR is a tool, a platform, and a community that supports us – business schools leaders in leading this real transformation of business education - transformation related to the desire to have a real, positive impact on the world"
Steven de Haes
Dean
Antwerp Management School
"Our student’s voice is important to us for continuing on a sustainable path. We are very grateful to the student council for conducting this Positive Impact Rating survey amongst our full time master’s students.
By mapping the AMS impact and achievements, and by drawing on existing frameworks such as the 17 SDGs, the PRME initiative, and the PIR, AMS is committed to its Sustainability Framework as a foundation for the long-term strategy."
André Sobczak
Dean Research
Audencia Business School
"The Positive Impact Rating encourages business schools to make responsible management education a key priority, replying thus to the expectations of students, business and society.
Business schools have a key role to play in preparing responsible leaders who will invent and deploy new business models and strategies that contribute to the United Nations’ sustainable development goals."
Ajit Parulekar
Director
Goa Institute of Management
"I am thrilled to see Goa Institute of Management rated on top level as 'Pioneering' School by Positive Impact Rating in the 2021 Report.
PIR is the voice of students around the globe and what is most satisfying for us is that our main stakeholders – our students – have acknowledged GIM's commitment towards sustainability, responsibility and impact. It encourages us to design and execute more initiatives for positive long-term impact in future."
Dana Brown
Dean
Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
"We are encouraged that students from Sprott School of Business view us favourably in most aspects of the Positive Impact Rating with a Level 4: Transforming rating.
Yet the real value for us has been using the PIR as a starting point in engaging our students - at all levels - to collectively work with us to have a tangible positive impact on our community of learners, the organizations they will work in, and the global societies to which we all belong."