emlyon business school is launching a new series of webinars entitled "Business Education in the Anthropocene". This initiative is proposed by Thomas Gauthier, Professor and Associate Dean for Pedagogy in the Anthropocene. In light of the major challenges facing humanity, these webinars aim to explore ways to rethink business education and prepare future leaders to "act consciously" in the Anthropocene. They are offered in English.

Each episode features a leading scholar in the field. The discussions revolve around three main questions:

  1. Business schools: what are the levers and barriers to their transformation in the context of the Anthropocene?
  2. Management scholars and business educators: how can they deal with multiple paradoxical imperatives and gain recognition for their contributions to raising their pedagogical practices to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene?
  3. Students: how can a business school's community (peers, faculty, staff members, etc) support them and enable them to navigate and build plural career paths?

First episode with Amanda Shantz, Professor of Management and MBA Director at the University of St. Gallen:

« Humanity is facing multiple grand challenges, compelling a myriad of diverse actors to interact, coordinate, and collaborate like never before. Business schools have a role to play in equipping future leaders to tackle them and we posit that to do so, leaders must be able to take multiple perspectives into consideration and look to the future while being morally aware. We carry out an in-depth audit of how MBA programs currently fare in this regard. We find that despite the urgency and salience of these transnational and intractable issues, little attention is paid to preparing MBA students to address grand challenges. We identify three barriers that may prevent educators from facilitating student acquisition of these competencies and conclude by proposing potential models of MBA programs for grand challenges. »