Safe and powerful learning environments

The basic requirement for developing leaders is a framework that addresses the whole person and creates openness and support for them. As such, education must provide the fertile ground that allows for profound personal and professional development. Students…

Business profit versus business purpose

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If we want a sustainable economy we first need to take a closer look at the purpose…

Why are students our de facto public intellectuals?

In late 2011 seventy economics students walked out of their professor’s class in order to draw attention to the course’s neoliberal inclinations and perceive short-sighted approach. The walkout raises questions around the relative scarcity…

The inverted Adam Smith

What did Adam Smith really invent in 1776 — the “sweatshop” or the “brain trust?”

With typical human laziness, we tend only to read the first pages of the Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”, failing to understand his real thinking. Had we read to Book V, we would have…

Responsible leadership as an adaptive process

Drastic change will not materialize without leadership. Specifically, we will need globally responsible leadership in order to manage the transformation and build a new society. In this context, the concept of leadership not only concerns individual…

Issue-centered learning

One of the core pillars of management education for the future is to turn current functional-based, single discipline teaching into issue-centered, trans-disciplinary learning. The development of a question-based, creativity-focused approach that enables critical and divergent thinking…

Why are global mega cities so ugly?

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I woke up to a grey and rainy skyline of the outskirts of Sao Paulo. During my breathing exercises I reflected on the…

Being part of something larger

We need students and participants — whether they labor in a narrow, disciplinary area or in a broad leadership capacity — to understand that they are an integral part of something bigger than themselves. This realization encourages and empowers our students to embrace their…

What do stakeholders in Management Education want?

To ensure a comprehensive and inclusive perspective above and beyond our own horizon, 50+20 asked stakeholders around the world to tell us what they think of management education and business schools in particular and what their future…