Climate Change Education Preparing Future and Current Business Leaders: A Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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5 Needs and Opportunities: Toward a Way Forward
5 Needs and Opportunities: Toward a Way Forward
Pages 33-38
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Business leaders discussed the need for systems thinking, integration of the scientific and social dimensions of global issues, breaking out of silos, development of a growing interest and ability to anticipate and internalize cost, focus on operational risks and costs, and the importance of basic science literacy. University leaders discussed avenues to address climate change in busi 33
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She urged a focus on opportunities and solutions that might begin by cultivating excitement from high school to MBA students about how addressing climate change might present career opportunities. She also supported the perspective that climate change could provide a frame for talking about fundamental aspects of business operations like entrepreneurship and innovation, with climate change as the context within which to prepare tomorrow's organizational and business leaders.
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In the context of climate change, they entail longer-term thinking, recognizing and internalizing externalities, appreciating the materiality of business ventures, embracing nontraditional partnerships, developing "soft skills" to work across industries and sectors, and systems thinking and modeling. Sundaram described his take-away messages from the "deans' panel": Climate change might best be embedded into the curriculum, electives can complement a busy core curriculum, the quality of research needs to be improved, and business schools should be vigilant about institutional bias, even as individual faculty express strong personal views.
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She said business schools should teach critical thinking skills within the context of addressing climate change as a business issue. Storksdieck reiterated the need for business schools to support the development of a person who is a "jack of all trades and master of some" and something in between.
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The same patient and systemic perspective might be needed to improve climate change education at U.S. business schools.
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