Global B-School Leaders Face Increased Tension and Anticipation

With the world today facing seemingly constant disruption, including the rapid spread of artificial intelligence, fractured geopolitics and volatile economies, leading a graduate business school can be a tough proposition. As we approached September and the publication of our 2025-26 Best B-School Rankings, Bloomberg Businessweek convened a group of deans from around the globe to talk about some of the hardest issues they now confront and ponder where graduate business education is heading. Our panel—David Bach, president of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland; Susan Christoffersen, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management; Stephen Shih, associate ...