This issue of Global Focus examines how AI, demographics, climate pressure, and global uncertainty are reshaping business education. The articles look beyond tools and trends to ask how schools should adapt their programmes, research, and governance. Contributors explore AI‑ready institutional models, refreshed accreditation for corporate learning, and new approaches to ROI in an algorithm-driven world. Others highlight the realities of ageing societies, climate risk, and social impact as strategic priorities for schools. Throughout, the issue returns to a central theme: leadership development remains a human, social process, grounded in judgment, self‑knowledge, and resilience – and AI should support, not replace, those capabilities.