Looking ahead, we also asked a selection of executives, journalists and scholars to forecast the future in Predictions for Business & Society in 2023.

“Every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to a net zero world. The question is, will you lead, or will you be led?”

What does it mean to educate managers who are also leaders?

“We’re not actually advancing ideas that will make an impact. And if we’re not publishing work that managers care about—and that addresses big issues in society—then what are we doing?”

“This is a class that invites people to think about themselves. You go to business school and you think about strategy and the digital economy but what about thinking about what you want to do with your life?”

How can rethinking approaches to business education help build better societies, and organizations?

“Classes will shrink, year after year, for most of the next two decades. People in the higher education industry call it ‘the enrollment cliff.’” How will these demographic trends ripple through higher education, and society?

Business needs to secure and maintain society’s support for enterprise. What is it missing?

If business schools don’t do more to bring the real world into the classroom, do they risk becoming “museums of management history”?

Maybe don’t do this: What possessed this company to adopt one of the worst sales promos in history?

So, that happened. What would you do?

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