12914: Transforming Business, Education, and Business Education for Human Flourishing

Sunday, July 27, 2025

14:45 - 17:45 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall D- D1-m3

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Practice,International,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/RxzayJ

Host(s)

MP

Michael Andreas Pirson

Fordham U., United States

Distinguished Speaker(s)

OS

Otto Scharmer

-, United States
JW

James P. Walsh

University of Michigan, United States
HM

Henry Mintzberg

McGill U. - Desautels Faculty of Management, Canada
SD

Sandrine Dixson-Decleve

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Facilitator(s)

OB

Oana Branzei

Ivey Business School, CANADA
AY

Ayse YEMISCIGIL

Fordham U., United States
ES

Erica Steckler

U. of Massachusetts, Lowell, United States
KL

Kristen Lucas

University of Louisville, United States
DC

David Capistran- Wah

ITESM, Campus Monterrey
ST

Sophia Town

Fordham U., United States
NN

Noemi Nagy

U. of South Florida, United States
WA

Wolfgang Amann

HEC Paris, Qatar
HS

Heiko Spitzeck

FDC - Fundacao Dom Cabral, Brazil
RF

Rafael Fernandez

-, Peru

In this PDW four leading public intellectuals and management scholars will share their perspective on how we can transform business, education and specifically business education to support flourishing of human beings and all life on the planet. As the polycrisis is intensifying, massive disruptions are already on its way in the form of AI, electrification, climate change, health and disease etc. Business and Education are mainly still operating under assumptions from the past. How can we as management scholars and teachers contribute to support the ongoing transitions to create a world that works for everyone as Buckminster Fuller called it. For many professors and students such ambitions sound wildly naive while others are drowning in cynicism. The speakers will provide perspectives that PDW participants will explore and workshop to identify workable approaches for research, pedagogy and public engagement.