ISSUE 5 • 2026 • VOLUME 89
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12 | COVER STORY IN CONVERSATION WITH... DAVID BACH IMD Business School president David Bach reveals the benefits of cutting back on bureaucracy and describes how competition forges resilience
28 | TECH TOOLS FOR TALENT Trinity College Dublin’s Amanda Shantz details five roles, with increasing levels of responsibility, that can be assigned to AI on an MBA programme
34 | THE PERILS OF PLAYING IT SAFE Head of Kingston Business
18 | CLASSROOMS THAT CHANGE COMMUNITIES To drive transformation, schools should partner with organisations on the design of executive education programmes, says Nottingham Business School’s Mel Bull
School Sankar Sivarajah explains why institutions need to embrace a culture of experimentation
38 | THE ARCHITECTURE OF ALIGNMENT Joseph Sekhampu and Geraldine Meyers from NWU Business School in South Africa consider how locational context and complexity impact institutions’ experience of accreditation
26 FROM FRAGILITY TO FUTUREPROOFING
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School’s Katharina De Vita elaborates on how today’s management education sector needs an overhaul to navigate changing resources and trends in student mobility
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