BGA | BUSINESS IMPACT
and equipping ourselves and our students with the tools and skills to implement that vision. Both parts are critical as we make a case for business education. We have an opportunity to redream things, but we also have a responsibility to pair that process with the tools to make things real; to make them work. Fundamentally, I think that, at Business Schools, we teach our students how to think about things in new ways, under new conditions. When I talk to our alumni, they don’t point to specific skills as the things that they continue to draw on from their MBAs. Instead, they point to the way they learnt how to see the world – particularly the way they learnt how to see new opportunities and spot new risks. That’s what I see as our role: giving our students new analytical tools and ways of thinking about things, then
economic or dynastic – however well-intentioned, is going to create a level future for all. So, if we can do these two things simultaneously (build the intellectual framework for what capitalism looks like out into the future, and use technology to democratise or spread the creation of the meritocracy) then that contribution can be huge, changing the value of business education as we see it today. Catherine Duggan, Dean, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business When I think about the role of Business Schools, I am always reminded of a quote from a Nigerian writer, Ben Okri. He writes: ‘We can redream this world and make the dream real’. I think those two elements are exactly what we do at a Business School: we are reimagining what the world could be
‘Schools have a responsibility to be truthful about who they are; if social justice is at the heart of your mission, you need to say that up front’
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