Business schools exist to educate and shape the leaders of the future. As such, business school programmes have adapted over the years to better respond to the pressing needs and challenges of the world around us.
Today’s business school students do not solely benefit from learning management strategy, marketing, accounting and finance, economics and other such stapes. Today’s most progressive programmes imbue students with a sense of business ethics, a solid grounding in new technologies and their application. And, increasingly, they teach sustainability too – impressing the need for future leaders to understand the impact their professional endeavours may leave on the planet, and teaching them how to be more considerate, more responsible and better minded to look after the world around us.
As a result, today’s graduates are leading the charge when it comes to building better businesses.
In recognition of Earth Day, we’ve been speaking to entrepreneurs who have used the lessons they’ve learned from their time at business school, the inspirations they’ve gained and networks they’ve built along the way to build businesses that tackle our world’s most urgent challenges.
These individuals have created start-ups that solve a business problem in a sustainable way, ensuring their work and their legacy can not only bring personal profit but can also benefit the planet, its people and the societies they live in.
In this series they share how their own experiences have helped to shape their futures, their journey to entrepreneurship, the hurdles they’ve overcome along the way and share the advice they have for others hoping to follow a similar path.
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