Business schools must help build sustainable economies

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Business schools must help build sustainable economies

Business schools are uniquely placed to grow the people and the ideas that can drive a resilient, low-carbon future, writes University of Sussex's Dr Sarada R Krishnan

Business schools need to switch their efforts from producing papers for publication in prestigious journals to instead focus on incubating the ideas which will help us to solve the great challenges of...

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