Two students are finalists in AIM2Flourish competition

Two Strathclyde Business School students are finalists in the AIM2Flourish competition, which saw them conduct an in-person interview with a business leader and the resulting story be selected for the competition website.

A total of six students on the Business School's Management Development Programme (MDP1) entered the competition run by the Fowler Center for Business at the Weatherhead School of Management, with two making it to the final.

Student Edward Murphy interviewed Kirsty MacArthur, Legal Director and Co-Owner of MacArthur Green in a piece called By Land, Sea... or Peat while Eleni Kalli interviewed Al Shariat, Director and CEO of Coconut Merchant for an article entitled One coconut, countless sustainable products. Both students were supervised by Dudzile Rance, a teaching fellow in entrepreneurship at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship.

AIM2Flourish starts in the classroom, when students learn about the strengths-based Appreciative Inquiry approach developed at the Weatherhead School of Management, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), or Global Goals. 

Using the UN Global Goals as their lens, students research and identify a positive business innovation and interview a business leader about it. Students then write a story about this and publish it on AIM2Flourish.com as inspiration for others.

The 2023 Flourish Prize finalists include 78 stories from 32 universities in 25 countries under the guidance of 35 different professors. The businesses profiled come from 25 countries and more than 15 industries.

Published: 27 April 2023