Revisiting our peer-to-peer discussion with the Special Advisor to Duke Kunshan University, and previously Dean of Duke's Fuqua School of Business.

🎙️Blair Sheppard, formerly the Global Leader for Strategy and Leadership at PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) and previously Dean of Duke's Fuqua School of Business brings both a 30,000-foot and ground-level view of the major trends and challenges facing global business and business education today. Sheppard explains how our previous assumptions about business and industry no longer apply in today’s age and why that poses a serious need for recalibration of business curriculum. He articulates four major trends that are so significant we all cannot deny their global impact on the world—and how they connect to business, education, and teaching business education specifically.

“What we have to do is go back and say, ‘Well, what’s the new set of base assumptions we should be working from?’ … And then draw conclusions about how that applies to every industry that’s involved in the world and what it means for our particular practice of teaching business.”

From the issues to opportunities higher education and universities leaders are facing, Episode 79 revisits Episode 67 and provides a fascinating roadmap for what’s next.

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Photos courtesy of Blair Sheppard and Duke

Read more about Blaire Sheppard here.