How MBA courses can promote sustainability

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Equipping future business leaders to effectively promote sustainability on a par to their pursuit of profits should be a key concern for all business schools, writes UCL MBA Professor Paolo Taticchi

In 1970, Milton Friedman would notoriously argue that the most important responsibility of a corporate executive is "to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of society, both...

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