The Guardian newspaper, one of the UK’s oldest and leading daily newspaper recently ran a roundtable discussion on the future of business education.

As part of its Sustainable Business Network, The Guardian asked Deans of leading business schools why most business schools had been slow to adapt their business and executive education curriculum in light of the tremendous challenges businesses face today. As The Guardian puts it…

“students and businesses want programmes that prepare managers to build and lead companies that are resilient and capable of creating long-term value”

While most MBAs and business education have historically treated the issue of sustainability and business resilience as an add-on, emphasising short term value to the expense of long term sustainability, the University of Exeter Business School made a bold decision in 2011 by redesigning entirely from the ground up its MBA. The result is a strong, vibrant One Planet MBA delivered in partnership with WWF International and a network of corporate partners, including many world leading organisations such as IBM, Coca Cola, Lloyds Banking Group. Our MBA integrates sustainability thinking into its business and executive education curriculum, attracts agents of change and train them to develop a “one planet mindset”. You can find out more about the debate that took place a few weeks ago by visiting The Guardian’s Expert View page.