449: Creating Business School Education for Sustainability in One Year “for Free” (17739)

This workshop brings together colleagues who are using bold, innovative, inexpensive, and speedy approaches to transform business education to meet the sustainability challenges of the 21st Century. The PDW will create shared learning on current projects and partnerships for future initiatives by building on recent accomplishments and commitments of all participants. In small breakout groups, audience members and speakers will share their experiences changing research, curricula, and positive activism on campuses around the world. Those campuses are pivoting away from teaching and supporting business-as-usual mindsets and practices toward investing their resources into creating a sustainable/flourishing/regenerating world. Contributors to the workshop include colleagues working in many schools and particularly with Woxsen University in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Woxsen is collaborating with other business schools in transforming its entire business school to be fully aligned with the need for a sustainable, poverty-alleviating, world. It is doing so publicly and transparently in one year (from July 2023 to July 2024) with essentially no extra financial resources. It is demonstrating that any business school can do the same in just one year -- or faster --“for free.” Come to the session to be inspired by bold new transformations in business education.