Honorary doctorate for Tima Bansal

Tima Bansal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) awards an honorary doctorate to Professor Tima Bansal. Bansal is granted the honorary doctorate for her contribution to global progress in applying science to practice through her work in the field of sustainable business and her efforts to promote impactful science. The honorary doctorate is presented on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the School of Business and Economics and will be awarded during the Dies Natalis on November 23. Tima Bansal is a Professor of Strategy at the Ivey Business School. In the field of business administration, Bansal is known for her contributions to sustainability, qualitative methodology, and her commitment to making science more relevant to practice. Her work, using advanced and often new qualitative methods, has provided important insights into how the dimensions of time, space, and scale influence the way sustainability takes shape in business strategy. This helps companies integrate social and environmental goals with profitability.