Are business schools helping to solve the climate crisis or perpetuating business models that accelerate it?
Management scholarship generally rewards theoretical contributions over real-world impact. With clear evidence that the climate crisis has exceeded planetary boundaries and with many businesses retreating from their net zero carbon commitments, Dr Bansal proposes that business schools need to play a central role in not just theorizing change, but catalysing climate action. Drawing on three decades of research in business sustainability, Dr Bansal will argue that management scholars are uniquely positioned to foster dialogues between corporations, scientists, and policy makers and describes how they can do so.
Join us for an urgent conversation about reinventing management scholarship for the climate era. This talk will engage researchers across disciplines, academic leaders, and anyone concerned with how universities can better address our most pressing global challenges.

Dr Tima Bansal
Pratima (Tima) Bansal is a Professor and Canada Research Chair of Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School, Western University (London, Canada). She has been investigating sustainability-related issues for almost 30 years by viewing business strategy through the lenses of time, space, scale. Her research has been published in many top tier management journals and she has completed two terms on the editorial team as an Associate and Deputy Editor of the Academy of Management Journal. Beyond academia, Bansal has built bridges between research and practice by founding two influential organizations: the Network for Business Sustainability, which connects thousands of researchers and business leaders worldwide, and Innovation North, which helps companies reimagine innovation through systems thinking. Her work reveals how business can move beyond short-term thinking to create lasting positive impact.

Adrian Fernando
The annual Fernando Lecture is held in memory of Adrian Fernando, COO of EcoSecurities Group, a company conceived to tackle climate change by using market mechanisms to properly price the environment. The series fosters discussion of the role of business & economics in solving the world’s environmental challenges.