This issue of Global Focus features an array of ideas and content covering many of the key issues facing business schools, companies and society at large. We start with – The great transformation from EFMD’s Richard Straub on why, with gigantic changes in society, managers will be of pivotal importance in shaping the future. Other highlights include WU’s new campus – building the future; Innovation in action: shaping management education for the world; Uncertainty and the ‘entrepreneurial mindset’; Rethinking Enterprise argues that economic actions based on ethics; Developing an international brand; Quality Street: the sweet side of accreditation; Where and how for exec ed? Error management: not just a wing and a prayer; Warm memories of the Winter School; How many business schools does it take to change the world? and finally, Innovation for growth.