EFMD Global Focus, Vol. 16 Issue 2 - Digitalising management education: Exploring the possible

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Are the world’s business schools walking the walk? | David Grayson, Chris Coulter and Mark Lee

of an ever more troubling present.” It highlights worsening food insecurity and malnutrition wrought by droughts and floods in Africa and Latin America. It warns that over three billion people worldwide already face rising climaterelated threats. It powerfully reinforced the message from our reviewers. We encourage business schools and their faculties worldwide to consider how The Sustainable Business Handbook might help you to speed up your institutions’ sustainability journeys and your efforts to help students and client businesses speed theirs up too. And hopefully, when Lars Moratis and Frans Melissen produce a second edition of their survey, there will be a far better story to tell, based on genuine and substantial progress in many more business schools – schools which see both the need and opportunity to “talk their walk” prominently too!

About the Authors David Grayson is Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, UK Chris Coulter is the CEO of GlobeScan, based in Toronto, Canada Mark Lee is the Director of the SustainAbility Institute by ERM, based in Berkeley, California The Sustainable Business Handbook is published by Kogan Page The All In: Sustainable Business Podcast is available on Spotify and podcast platforms www.AllInBook.net

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