Take action: Transform Business education & Leadership

The challenge of transforming business education is a complex institutional task, one that requires a coordinated shift in the entire ecosystem, from deans to faculty, students, accrediting bodies, recruiters, journal editors, donors, magazine rankings and more. The urgency for change falls on all who care about the future of business education, business leadership and its profound impact on the world around us.  

Become a discerning consumer of your education. Don't sit back and be spoon fed an incomplete educational diet!

Instead, take control of your learning; expand it and augment it. To have the most personally rewarding career you must shed the notion that you are a “customer” and that the school provides you with a “product.” Instead, think of yourself as being given an opportunity to be dropped into a resource-rich environment from which you can draw and build what you want and need. 

From that empowered position, look deeply at what you are being taught, to question, debate, and understand its deeper foundations as you relate to the world that you will live and work in.

Seize the opportunity in today’s chaotic educational and political environment to begin a reexamination of the kinds of education your schools provide, the graduates you produce, and the research you disseminate.

Develop new courses that addresses the evolving needs of society and the increasingly vocal demands of your students.

You rely on business-school training for you workforce and business-school research to gain insights on a rapidly changing world. But to change this status quo, you have many forms of leverage. As recruiters, you can demand the kinds of knowledge you want from newly minted graduates.

Use your individual and collective voice for new strategies to remain competitive. Inspire new initiatives that reflect your desired future for graduates and executive who lead business and society.

Steer the next generation of business leaders towards schools, programs and courses that accurately reflect the next generation of business and societal challenges.