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Making connections between consumer choices, marketing approaches and environmental impacts matters for our shared future. Clothes in a bin in Costa Blanca, Spain. (Shutterstock)

Can marketing classes teach sustainability? 4 key insights

Resources from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization can help marketing programs embed sustainability concerns into marketing education.
When entrepreneurship programs do consider inclusion, most focus on gender without considering age, ethnicity, race or other identity factors. (Shutterstock)

How entrepreneurship education can be more inclusive

A toolkit for inclusive entrepreneurship education and training was developed with input from a 19-country panel of entrepreneurship educators.
Student-Managed Investment Funds provide students with experience managing real investment portfolios. But new research shows only. a small minority of funds include environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their mandates. (Shutterstock)

Business schools must step up on sustainable investing education

As we confront pressing social and environmental challenges, business schools must play a big role in building momentum for sustainable investing and ignore partisan, anti-ESG sniping.
As statues topple, business schools must begin seriously decolonizing. (Piqsels)

A call to decolonize business schools, including our own

Contemplating the future of the business school means we must decide what kind of society we want our students to create and what reforms are needed to enable them to do so.
In this April 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi rescue workers search for victims amid the rubble of a collapsed building in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new study shows a gender gap in how female and male business students viewed the role that business played in the disaster. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

How current and future business executives link sustainability and global strife

In a recent survey, Alberta business students believed that sustainability should be embedded in business education. That could signal a shift in views on the integration of profit, planet and people.
The Frank Gehry designed UTS business school, in Ultimo, Sydney. It is possible to teach ethics. Paul Miller/AAP

What are we teaching in business schools? The royal commission’s challenge to amoral theory

In trying to be values-free (like physics & chemistry), business schools have succeeded in justifying amoral behaviour. No more! We’ve seen the results in the Banking Royal Commission.

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