The global education system has produced technically sophisticated graduates who are collectively destroying the conditions for human flourishing. This is not a marginal failure. It is a systemic one. And if business education specifically is the most influential lever of economic behaviour, it is also the most consequential failure.
What would it mean to take this verdict seriously, not as a critique to be managed, but as a design brief?
The patterns are already visible in the field. A generation of recent graduates struggling to find meaningful entry into work. A privatised career-coaching industry growing in the gap that the institutional formation system has stopped filling. Artificial intelligence reshaping what knowledge transmission is even for. The question is not whether the system is under pressure. It is whether the current institutional form can hold the work that is now being asked of it.
