Is teaching “disseminating knowledge” or “creating the conditions for learning”? Is research “producing articles” or “enabling better decisions”? Inspired by the book Lessons in Chemistry, Dan LeClair considers how the language we choose can transform what we do in business education, and introduces new framing for GBSN’s core activities.
Revisiting Jeffrey Pfeffer’s “Leadership BS” a decade later, Dan LeClair discusses the common gaps in how we conceptualize leadership and the importance of considering not only individual leaders, but the systems they work in.
Dan LeClair takes us inside the planning of GBSN Beyond 2026. The event uses Romania’s still-unfolding story as a case study for the evolving role of management education, from the country’s post-communist success to its navigation of regional and global complexities like AI, energy transition, demographic change, and geopolitical uncertainty.
Dan LeClair highlights the increasing importance of learning agility as not only a learning objective, but a conceptual guide for curriculum development and educational design.
Dan LeClair reflects on transformation in the cities of Addis Ababa and Bucharest, and related questions about how business schools can support inclusive, sustainable, and resilient development.
Dan LeClair describes the tensions business schools face between local impact and global recognition, and how a collaborative network like GBSN helps members learn from each other while remaining grounded in their local context.
In a world where the most pressing problems are too big to be solved in isolation, Dan LeClair describes the unique opportunity that business schools have to engage diverse, cross-sector participants in purposeful shared work.
Five lessons from four years as a judge for the FT Responsible Business Education awards If asked to rate academic research on a scale of 1 to 5 for “positive societal impact,” what would you look for? That’s essentially what those us on the research judging panel had to decide leading up to the first… Read more >
I cringed the first time my son fell off the climbing wall. He landed hard and laid there just long enough to make me nervous. Then he stood up, brushed the chalk from his hands, and studied the wall again, thinking about what to do differently this time. It was my first exposure to his… Read more >
In The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Lale Sokolov has the morally excruciating job of tattooing numbers on the arms of fellow prisoners entering Auschwitz-Birkenau. The work grants him marginal privileges and protections. At the same time, it makes him part of a system designed to dehumanize and destroy. Why begin a holiday message with a reference… Read more >
