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COVID-19 hastened large-scale digital transformation in business schools now we need pandemic-independent innovations that respond to global trends.
To say that education is in a state of transformation is a pandemic-sized understatement. Overnight, entire educational systems have migrated from analog to digital classrooms; suddenly, more than one billion students worldwide are studying online. And yet, a year into the pandemic, one question lingers: Will the future bring more of the same? Now that COVID-19 vaccines have shown us some light at the end of the tunnel, this question looms even larger.
While the pandemic has forced many universities to look inward, we now must take the opposite approach. After interviewing dozens of industry executives on their predictions for the future workforce, we have come to two conclusions: First, our “old normal” is forever gone. The world’s adaptations to the pandemic, higher education’s innovation, and underlying soc