Business education at the crossroads: Transform or face irrelevance

Business education at the crossroads: Transform or face irrelevance The article, authored by Jean Garner Stead, calls for an urgent re-evaluation of business education to foster leaders capable of creating sustainable value in a rapidly changing world. While six planetary boundaries collapse and inequality reaches obscene levels, business schools continue training tomorrow’s leaders with yesterday’s deadly paradigms. Generation Z students arrive desperate to learn how to address the polycrisis – the interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, and social inequality. They graduate equipped only to optimize the system destroying the planet. We’re educating leaders for a world that no longer exists. Business education itself has become an externality we can no longer afford. This failure requires a complete ecosystem transformation to enable Sustainable Strategic Management (SSM) – the revolutionary approach that positions business within social and ecological systems to create integrated value while regenerating natural and social capital, see ‘Revolutionizing Business with Sustainable Strategic Management’.