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Hello, my name is Martin Parker and Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bristol.

And in 2018, I wrote an article for the Guardian called Bulldoze the Business School.

The article is based on a book I wrote in the same year called Shut Down the Business School,

which was a book that was a long time coming and kind of pulled together a whole series

of my complaints about the kinds of things that business schools teach and research

and the way in which those ideas are tangled up with the reproduction of all sorts of the problems

that we're currently facing. So the book that was published in 2018 was really an attempt to think

about how we could change business schools and make them into places that produce different

kinds of businesses, focusing on inclusion, sustainability, democracy and so on.

Unfortunately, in the five years in between the publication of the article then now,

I don't see very much change. Business schools and the universities that they're part of are

very keen to claim that they are interested in questions of sustainability and democracy and

inclusion, but aren't necessarily doing a great deal to achieve those goals.

I think what I'd like readers to take away from this article is a sense of the importance of

changing higher education and specifically business schools. Business schools in the UK now

teach something like one in seven of our students, so the kinds of things that they teach and

research are really crucial for our future. And I know that many Guardian readers are worried about

things like the climate crisis. Business schools are really crucial to reproducing and producing

the knowledgees which are both producing the climate crisis but also might provide us with ways out of it.

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