Business Schools Must Do More to Address the Climate Crisis

An open letter from Business Schools for Climate Leadership.

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Amelia Whitelaw

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Amelia Whitelaw

February 01, 2022

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Summary.

Business schools have much to contribute to the fight against climate change. They are experts in organizational transformation, performance measurement, operations, marketing, leadership, and governance. A group of eight business schools has come together to find ways in which business schools can collaborate to forge a community of responsible and educated business leaders.

Along with government leaders and NGOs, business and academia were well represented at COP26. There were plenty of scientists and CEOs in evidence. Yet one group was notably absent in the conversations around climate action: business schools.

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Concepción Galdón is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at IE Business School in Madrid and the Lead of Sustainable Impact Teaching & Research at IE’s Sustainability Office.
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Knut Haanaes is a former senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group and the global leader of BCG’s Strategy practice area. He is a professor of strategy and holds the Lundin Sustainability Chair at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.
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Daniel Halbheer is an Associate Professor of Marketing, holder of the FII Institute Chair on “Business Models for the Circular Economy,” and Academic Director of the Climate and Earth Center at the Society and Organizations Institute at HEC in Paris, France.
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Jennifer Howard-Grenville is the Diageo Professor of Organization Studies at the Cambridge Judge Business School, where she focuses her research and teaching on business sustainability and the future of work. For more information, see her website.
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Katell Le Goulven is Executive Director of the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society at INSEAD.
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Mike Rosenberg is Professor of the Practice of Management at IESE Business School in Spain.
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Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, Senior Advisor to Harvard’s Salata Institue for Climate and Sustainability, and formerly Dean of Said Business School at the University of Oxford..
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Amelia Whitelaw is Executive Director of the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development at London Business School in England.

Business Schools Must Do More to Address the Climate Crisis

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