Transforming Business Education for a Sustainable Future Stories from Pioneers The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series

As the impact of climate change becomes more evident and dire, business leaders, educators, students, and academic leaders are deciding what they need to change and do to survive and thrive in a new and dramatically different environment. This book sets out how to transform business education and integrate sustainability practices into curriculum and a wider academic culture.

While some universities around the globe are still teaching business practices that have contributed to human and environmental crises, pioneering educators and higher education institutions are researching, developing, and implementing programs to transform business education and practices. With stories from 26 administrators, researchers, and faculty across the globe, this book inspires business educators with innovative tools and creative solutions to address challenges in the business world and society. These pioneers are helping students and business ventures change the way they conduct business to survive and thrive in a fast-changing global environment. Their unique and personal journeys offer tools, models, lessons-learned, and inspiration for change.

The book will both inspire and guide faculty members, administrators, students, and alumni to transform business education for a sustainable future.

1. Seeing Shadows: Unveiling Assumptions Underlying Management Education 2. A Transformational Attempt to Embed PRME College-Wide 3. Pluralism and “Conscientização” in the Business Classroom and Beyond 4. Regenerative Finance and Economics from Start to Finished (For Now) 5. Teaching Sustainability Management and the Creation of the MSc Sustainable Supply Chain Management at Excelia 6. Transforming Finance Education in Business Schools: A Finance Course Aligned With Sustainability 7. Students Initiate Change: Design Thinking Challenges at the University of Graz 8. Educating Students as Future Transition Intermediaries for Circular Ecosystems 9. Teaching Sustainability from Beneath the Surface: The Permeable Membrane Between Business and Nature 10. Teaching Sustainability across Borders: Looking Back to Look Ahead 11. How an Innovative Entrepreneurial Education Device Fosters Sustainable Entrepreneurship among Students 12. Back to School for the Planet Alumni Initiative: Lifelong Learning in Sustainability 13. Creativity for Managing Life in Common 14. Knowing and Acting Towards Sustainable Consumption 15. Marketing Principles for Sustainable Business Survival 16. 21st Century Leadership Practice: Building Reflection into Sustainable Purpose

Linda Irwin taught Strategy and Marketing and is passionate about transforming business education for sustainability. She is the CEO of SeeComm Group and a member of Global Movement Initiative.

Isabel Rimanoczy is the convener of PRME Working Group on Sustainability Mindset and co-developer of the Sustainability Mindset Indicator. She authored/edited 28 books about sustainability, learning, poetry, and children’s books.

Morgane Fritz is Associate Professor in Sustainable Supply Chain Management. She researches/teaches about sustainable and ethical supply chain management and acts as an author/editor/reviewer for various peer-reviewed journals and books.

James Weichert is a serial entrepreneur in all aspects of real estate development, the founder of www.livingconservancy.org, and a doctoral candidate in sustainable economics.