Launched as part of our 60th anniversary celebrations, the book honours the School's proud legacy and ambitious future.
To mark its 60th anniversary, Alliance Manchester Business School has published a landmark collection of thought-provoking essays, Reimagining Business Schools for the 21st Century, edited by Professor Ken McPhail, Head of School, and co-authored by eminent AMBS academics and business leaders.
Bold ideas
For six decades, AMBS has been at the forefront of business education and research, shaping leaders and driving innovation in Manchester and around the world.
The book examines how Alliance Manchester Business School can equip the next generation of business leaders with the skills and mindset needed to embrace complexity, drive innovation, and shape a more inclusive and sustainable future. It also outlines bold ideas for policy development and the transformation of business education.
Deliberately reaching out to the wider public, this blueprint informs public and political debate on the role of business in both the causes and solutions to the world’s biggest challenges and reimagines the role of business in society.
Grand challenges
Said Professor McPhail: “Just as the purpose of business needs to be reimagined, so business schools will need to change to be a major catalyst in this process. It is essential that universities and business schools think differently about how they teach business and management students so that they are equipped with the necessary skills to embrace the new world and have a positive impact on it.”
The essays demonstrate how business and management research and teaching can not only help address grand challenges such as climate change and regional inequalities, but also generate economic growth, inform policy development, and define business thinking for the decades ahead.
Read a free introductory chapter by Duncan Ivison and Ken McPhail > >