Accelerate 2025
Our Strategic Plan for 2021-2025
Accelerate 2025 is Robinson’s five-year strategic plan; it provides a laser-focused purpose for everything we do. Accelerate 2025 isn’t just a document. Instead, it is a roadmap the college’s constituents tirelessly worked on for more than a year to get right.
The Strategic Planning Committee distributed surveys to internal and external stakeholders to collect perspectives, conducted research to identify the strategic issues the plan needed to address and hosted Visioning Day. In this half-day brainstorming session, college and university stakeholders came together to brainstorm what success will look like when we reach our most critical goals. Deciding the trajectory of Robinson’s future was a 360-degree process. We appreciate everyone who participated in this effort.
Now for the fun part: activating the plan! Check back often to monitor our progress.
Core Values
Impact. We pursue research and teaching with purpose and scientific rigor to advance knowledge and practice, make the world a better place for all and inspire lifelong learning and growth.
Community. We build close relationships with students, colleagues and the business community, so together, we can achieve otherwise unattainable goals.
Curiosity. Our thirst for knowledge motivates discovery and solution-oriented thinking that creates opportunities to invent the future. We challenge the status quo to lead technological and social change.
Openness. We eliminate institutional and societal barriers to achievement, freedom, and fulfillment, creating equal opportunities for all.
Inclusiveness. We respect, embrace and celebrate the rights, differences and identities of all members of our community. We provide a sense of belonging that allows us to engage the world with confidence, pride and fearlessness.
Mission
We prepare people from all backgrounds to lead, innovate, and achieve their potential to advance business and society.
Robinson recognizes the unrivaled potential of free enterprise to improve lives. We design and implement solutions that advance how businesses and markets function to make a world where all citizens prosper.
Vision: Innovation for all
Goal 1: Be a global leader in preparing students from all backgrounds to lead and innovate in business and society.
Strategy 1: Infuse experiential innovation programming broadly across each academic program.
Strategy 2: Develop our students’ leadership, learning and collaboration skills to unleash their creative drive.
Strategy 3: Expand the Robinson Anywhere platform to increase access beyond the campus, including high school students, alumni and life-long learners.
Goal 2: Develop, promote, and invest in interdisciplinary collaboration to build a better future.
Strategy 1: Launch interdisciplinary Innovation Initiatives that inspire scholars, students, and partners to collaborate and create breakthrough market solutions.
Strategy 2: Launch the Community of Business Innovation as a portal permitting corporate and strategic partners to efficiently collaborate with Robinson and GSU students and faculty in ways that advance the missions of all organizations.
Strategy 3: Increase our expertise in the application of new technologies through faculty hiring and professional development. Expand resources that accelerate impactful research and teaching outcomes in the digital age.
Goal 3: Conceive, design, and implement solutions that address systemic inequities in business and society.
Strategy 1: Launch the Social Impact Initiative that will facilitate Robinson faculty, doctoral candidates, students, and external partners to positively impact each other, our region and the world.
Strategy 2: Improve and embrace diversity, equity, and inclusiveness at Robinson to become the benchmark for students, partners and rival institutions.
Strategy 3: Implement solutions to improve faculty and Ph.D. student diversity in U.S. business schools.