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’.
Jean Garner Stead (Mon,) studied this question.