Taking the lead on leadership: reimagining the responsible business school of the future

Abstract

Considering that the world’s oldest university in continuous operation – the University of Bologna – was established in 1088, business schools, historically, are a relatively new institution, as exemplified by the establishment of ESCP Europe (1819), the Wharton School and HEC Paris (1881), Birmingham Business School (1902), HEC Montreal (1907), Harvard Business School (1908), Stockholm School of Economics (1909), and NHH – Norwegian School of Economics (1936). The Oxford Centre for Management Studies was not established until 1965 and was rebranded as Saïd Business School in 1996. The Australian Graduate School of Management was founded in 1977 at the University of New South Wales as the nation’s first business school. Cambridge’s Judge Institute for Management Studies was established as late as 1990, renamed as Judge Business School in 2005, before being first rebranded as Cambridge Judge Business School and then eventually as University of Cambridge Judge Business School in 2010.