Both in our capacity as main supplier of economic and administrative education in Norway and as one of Europe’s largest higher business schools, BI Norwegian Business School, is shaping the labour market of the future through our teaching. 

The key factor has always been educational programmes that are up to date and relevant for the actual needs in business. This implies a responsibility to push agendas and spearhead important changes in society.

Our research shall bring both the private and the public sectors forward. This, our commitment, offers opportunities and challenges.

When facing our present times biggest challenge BI Norwegian Business School must, as an institution, continue being a role model and a part of the solution.

Some of our target areas towards 2025 are:

Teaching

• Integrate sustainability in all our courses
• Offer specialized lectures, courses and study programs within sustainability

Research

• Continue with research that will promote our common grasp of the role of corporations, business dynamics and our fellow understanding of sustainable economics and values
• BI shall toil to create better arenas for the interaction between faculties that have a professional interest for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and business ethics

In our own house

• Remove all unnecessary plastics and use-and-throw wrapping by 2022
• Target at obtaining a material re-cycling degree of 65% by 2022
• Have environmentally friendly and sustainable campuses
• By the end of 2019 all conferences and events at BI shall be organized in accordance with the requirements set by the Norwegian Environmental Agency Miljøfyrtårn (Environmental Green Beacon) for green conferences
• Contribute to the biological diversity at large by having beehives on our roofs
• Promote academic freedom and defend teachers’ and professors’ human rights throughout the world through our membership in the «Scholars at Risk (SAR)» network

• Read more about BI's strategy of sustainability here.