Dear collegas, interested and working on the transformation of business education.
We are inviting you to roll up your sleeves collectively to transform the beast of business education.
Transforming Business, Education and Business Education -
Building Capacity for Systems Transformation
40 million students graduate EACH YEAR from a business school program. Business along with engineering remains the top choice of the future elite. Yet, there are few coordinated efforts to transform business education (indeed all education) to ensure the flourishing of life on this planet. While many efforts focus on transforming economics, which is important, most business school curricula do not or only marginally teach economics. The disciplines they do teach: finance, marketing, accounting and management are not yet rooted in a paradigm other than economism/ neoliberalism. Students in business programs often become less socially concerned as a result of their business education, yet business is the primary driver of the threats to planetary integrity-a challenge for any effort to transform the system. Now at the center of the storm, businesses must play a vital role in mitigating crisis impacts and moving the global economy towards wellbeing for all. Business education needs to prepare managers for a climate-altered world and other challenges of the Anthropocene.
Is the failure to enable current and future leaders to tackle the big challenges of humanity-the polycrisis-a lack of knowledge or a lack of ability? Young people, and all of us, profess a desire to do the needed action. Yet, it is not happening. The traditional route to change has been to create more knowledge, books, reports, data (knowing). We have done far less to enable people to be the change agents (being), and thus inadequate implementation (doing).
What can we do to enhance capacities to lead system and societal transformation to create shared prosperity on a healthy planet: a world that works for everyone within the planetary boundaries, i.e. Creating Earth for All.
Our goal is to equip everyone and specifically the next generation to be a positive changemaker.
Join us : Sunday, Jul 27 2025 2:45PM - 5:45PM CEST (GMT+2/UTC+2)
at Bella Center in Hall D- D1-m3
Take care,
Michael
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Michael Pirson, Ph.D.
James Stoner Professor of Global Sustainability and Humanistic Management, Fordham University, New York, NY
President, International Humanistic Management Association
Full Member, Club of Rome
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