Business School Impact System

The first comprehensive impact assessment tool for business schools

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Impact communication tool

At a time when all organisations are increasingly being held accountable for their activities, you often need to demonstrate with well-documented evidence the impact that you have on your immediate environment.

Data-driven system

This data-driven system allows you to identify the tangible and intangible benefits that you bring to the local environment.

Thorough assessment process

At the heart of BSIS is a framework of 120 indicators covering 7 dimensions including financial, economic, societal and image dimensions of impact.

Global reach

Since its launch in 2012, BSIS, run as a joint venture between EFMD Global and FNEGE, has successfully assessed over 60 business schools all over the world.

NEW BOOK

BSIS A DECADE OF IMPACT

NEW BOOK

BSIS A DECADE OF IMPACT

Discover schools’ testimonials

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'BSIS results demonstrate that we make a significant contribution to the economy of Nova Scotia and to the social and intellectual fabric of the region. We hope to inspire others to join us in creating shared value and in tracking impact.'

Patricia Bradshaw
Dean, Sobey School of Business, Canada

BSIS LABELLED SCHOOLS INCLUDE

BSIS BENEFITS

Demonstrate your impact to the internal and external stakeholders with this innovative impact assessment tool!

  • IMPACT ASSESSMENT

    BSIS provides a tailor-made information and data collection system for monitoring your impact.

  • NEGOTIATION TOOL

    BSIS constitutes a compelling negotiation tool that can be used externally to demonstrate to the regional authorities and other stakeholders how your school's activities benefit them.

  • POWERFUL INFLUENCER

    BSIS offers a powerful communication tool to influence your students, strategic partners and the media.

  • IMPACT CULTURE

    BSIS increases the awareness inside your business school regarding the significance of impact.

  • INTERNAL RECOGNITION

    BSIS gives your teams a better image of their job, of what they are doing and why they are doing it.

  • CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

    BSIS encourages an ongoing improvement of your impact thanks to the BSIS experts’ recommendations and the impact assessment process.

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BSIS DIMENSIONS

FINANCIAL IMPACT

  • Both direct (the budget) and indirect (cost of living expenditures by students and participants).
  • Quantifiable statistical data regarding money spent in the region by the school, by its employees, by its students, by visiting professors and by all those people who come to the campus in relation with the School’s activities.

EDUCATIONAL IMPACT

  • Student admissions flow into the School’s degree programmes from the region, from the country at large and from abroad.
  • Student flows into the job market within the region, within the country at large and into companies abroad.
  • Managerial impact in the region of the school’s executive education programmes.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IMPACT

  • Impact on the economic development of the region: new business creation, services to established companies.
  • Students as valuable resources for the local economy during their studies (internships, special missions in the home country and abroad, apprenticeships).

INTELLECTUAL IMPACT

  • Impact upon the managerial community within the region through the intellectual output of the school’s faculty: publications, chairs, dissemination of new ideas and new managerial methods.
  • Contribution to the cultural life of the community at large through conferences, public lectures, etc.

IMPACT WITHIN REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM

  • Involvement of the faculty and students in public life within the community.
  • Integration of the school into the regional ecosystem of higher educational institutions, professional associations, public bodies and local authorities.

SOCIETAL IMPACT

  • Existence of explicit policies in the area of CSR, sustainable development etc.
  • Integration of these concerns in teaching, research and management of the school.
  • Concern for diversity and equal access within all the school’s activities.

IMAGE IMPACT

  • Nature of the school’s local, national and international image.
  • Contribution of the school to the image of the impact zone.

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