In the business school I work at, at Cape Breton University, MBA students are required to take Introduction to Community and Businesses part 1 and 2 and economic geography. In these courses they learn about ecological/donut economics, degrowth, the importance of social enterprises/NGO's/b-corps, Indigenous history and Indigenous economics, how to do community organizing, the limits of GDP and importance of alternative indicators, inequities, poverty, and more. Then they do a final project that has to incorporate original research within these areas of studies. The core faculty members have training in these areas, rather than having MBAs themselves (though at least one does). They learn the usual MBA stuff (accounting etc) but these courses are required to use community and Indigenous case studies from the region.
When I was in business school, there was a period each week where we had to listen to “thought leaders” for a whole hour. Rarely was anything said that was different or insightful, but there were a couple hints of something worth listening to in only a couple of the numerous speeches we had to listen to of practically the same things over and over. We don’t need “Thought Leaders” when we’re all our own selves and have our own thoughts about the world and how we live in it. Personal experiences resonate just like two sounds resonate to create a new frequency.
In the business school I work at, at Cape Breton University, MBA students are required to take Introduction to Community and Businesses part 1 and 2 and economic geography. In these courses they learn about ecological/donut economics, degrowth, the importance of social enterprises/NGO's/b-corps, Indigenous history and Indigenous economics, how to do community organizing, the limits of GDP and importance of alternative indicators, inequities, poverty, and more. Then they do a final project that has to incorporate original research within these areas of studies. The core faculty members have training in these areas, rather than having MBAs themselves (though at least one does). They learn the usual MBA stuff (accounting etc) but these courses are required to use community and Indigenous case studies from the region.
When I was in business school, there was a period each week where we had to listen to “thought leaders” for a whole hour. Rarely was anything said that was different or insightful, but there were a couple hints of something worth listening to in only a couple of the numerous speeches we had to listen to of practically the same things over and over. We don’t need “Thought Leaders” when we’re all our own selves and have our own thoughts about the world and how we live in it. Personal experiences resonate just like two sounds resonate to create a new frequency.