Opinion Sustainability

Have business schools helped or hindered social and environmental progress?

Reflections on the history of business and the role business schools should play to help rescue our planet.

13th June 2025

Southampton Business School

Southampton Business School is transforming business and society for the better. We encourage responsible interdisciplinary research, education and knowledge exchange that make a sustainable impact on business and society.

Our research is carried out across six departments and ten research centres, with strengths in:

  • Data analytics and artificial intelligence

  • Entrepreneurship and strategy

  • Leadership and management

  • Marketing

  • Governance and accounting

  • Digital and financial technology

We collaborate with many of the world's leading companies for research and knowledge exchange, such as Microsoft, PwC, JP Morgan, Lloyds Banking Group, Deloitte and UBS. We also with with local small and medium sized enterprises with a strong commitment to sustainability and social inclusion.

We foster an inclusive work environment. Our academics hold PhDs from prestigious universities across the world and are supported to carry out cutting edge research to advance scholarship and make our world more sustainable and inclusive for everyone.