Climate Change Education Preparing Future and Current Business Leaders: A Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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3 How Should Business Schools Respond to Climate Change-Related Challenges?
3 How Should Business Schools Respond to Climate Change-Related Challenges?
Pages 15-20
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The panelists included Valerie Suslow, associate dean of the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; Robert Hansen, senior associate dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College; and Anjani Jain, senior associate dean of the School of Management, Yale University. CURRENT PRACTICES AND LIMITATIONS Vietor opened the session by asking about the current practice of leading business schools in addressing climate change and about limitations for doing more.
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Business students might normally think more narrowly about the business perspective on climate change, she said, but her school tries to use multidisciplinary action learning to provide students with a broader perspective. Hansen pointed to the fundamental conceptual frameworks that business students should understand before discussing complex issues like climate change.
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But she reiterated that the real challenge is including climate change perspectives for all students, that is, addressing it in the core curriculum. Suslow said students have considerable power over the course offerings and that donors have some influence as well, but reiterated that student grassroots action and persistent demand can create the momentum that establishes new ideas in the core.
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Hansen brought up the issue of stand-alone courses on the topic of climate change versus integrating the concept throughout the curriculum. He said he saw higher risks of failure in stand-alone courses and cited a technology course eliminated from the core after it did not perform as expected.
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The abilities to be a leader include envisioning the future and creating it in a responsible way. He said a topic like climate change has to be part of this conversation.
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