Page 2 - Aascb News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
Stay updated with breaking news from Aascb. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Top News In Aascb Today - Breaking & Trending Today
News Stories February 2021 ‘Higher education is essential to taking on climate change, equality, poverty and building a sustainable world,’ says Jimmy Scavenius As he prepares to accept the AACSB Influential Leader’s 2021 award, EMBA 2013 alumnus Scavenius (top left) spoke to IMD about the importance of inoculating our societies against shocks via higher education. “When you are highly educated, you become more resilient to a pandemic or to economic shocks or any other disaster in society,” said Scavenius, the Founder and CEO of the nonprofit social enterprise Kwera. It is a firmly held belief of Scavenius that higher education effectively vaccinates a population against the threats of an uncertain future. The more educated a society is, he says, the less vulnerable its members are in terms of their physical and mental health and finances. To work towards this aim, he left his comfortable job as a corporate lawyer in Denmark and founded Kwera in 2015 to f ....