15055: Creating B-Schools for a Flourishing World – Now!

Sunday, July 27, 2025

10:30 - 12:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall A- A1-m6

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,International,Research
Highlight: DIG Highlight
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/D8EQWZ

Coordinator(s)

JW

James Weichert

-, United States

Presenter(s)

KS

Kenneth Sagendorf

Regis U., United States
AB

Anindo Bhattacharjee

Woxsen U., Hyderabad, India
PC

Pavana Kiranmai Chepuri

Woxsen University, India
JL

John Lindholm

-, United States
JN

John North

-
DM

Darija Miletic

-, Serbia
DS

Dayle M. Smith

Loyola Marymount University, United States
MW

Michael Winter

-
JS

James A F Stoner

MSR, United States
RG

Roberto Martin Nolan Galang

Ateneo de Manila University - Quezon City, Philippines

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 presenters are members of a four-organization global initiative called “BE the tipping point” (BEtp). The BEtp business school teams are pioneering processes for changing every one of a business school’s courses, some of its research, and its positive activism to be fully aligned with the opportunity and need to create a sustainable world, to do so in six months with no extra funding, and without “curriculum revision” projects. The presenters will share progress made from January to July, 2025, and will listen for participant ideas about how to keep moving forward in changing all courses, some research and in increasing their positive activism. Presenters will share what they learned about the process of change they call “radically transparent co-creation” and will (1) first of all, “listen generatively” (in Otto Scharmer’s words) to what others are doing, then (2) report what their schools have accomplished in six or even fewer months, (3) seek ideas about how they can learn faster and execute better, and (4) invite audience members to join the initiative which seeks to enroll 700 business schools to make similar changes within three years. Better yet, they will invite audience members to create their own even faster and bolder approaches to changing what their own schools teach, research, and pursue with their positive activism.