From Short-Term Thinking to Business Sustainability

The recent financial crisis2019s and ethical breaches challenge business and business schools to rethink their role in society along with how leaders both develop and adapt.
Professor Ken Starkey, Head of the Management Division for the Management and Organisational Learning at Nottingham University Business School explores why we are stuck on short term thinking, and what role business schools and business leaders can play to return to restore 2018humanomics2019 and care in what we do and how we do it as a basic part of business sustainability.
Will business schools accept responsibility for their part in short term-ism? Will they step up to a role as agents of change?
Ken Starkey2019s current research, teaching and consulting interests
include: leadership, management education, sustainable strategic management, and organization and the art of design.
He has published articles in leading journals such as Academy of
Management Review, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization Studies, Human Relations and Journal of Management Studies.
His most recent book is The Business School and the Bottom Line (Cambridge University Press, with Nick Tiratsoo) and a contribution to the Harvard Business School Handbook of Leadership Teaching edited by Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana (Sage Publications).