The study aims to examine whether management education can successfully cultivate the competency of empathy that is needed in future corporate leaders to promote sustainability initiatives catering to diverse stakeholders.,The research highlights the impact of management education on cognitive and affective empathy by analysing the interpersonal reflectivity scores of entering students enrolled in a two-year, full-time MBA programme and the scores of the same students at graduation.,The findings show that management education has a positive impact on cognitive empathy, while it reduces affective empathy and general empathy. Further, findings show that the management curriculum brings cognitive and affective empathy to an equilibrium level that is needed for a competitive business environment.,The research focussed only on the change in empathy of the participants (students) during management education and not during actual corporate work.,The research infers that current management education creates future executives with higher cognitive empathy. It argues that they would care more about the sustainability of the business in terms of profit or access to capital rather than care and concern for all the stakeholders, society and the environment. A new paradigm in management education also needs to be focussed around inculcating how to empathise affectively.,The study presents an empirical analysis suggesting that management education is opening the mind but not the heart. It raises a significant concern that higher management curriculum is not developing future executives who can lead the sustainability initiatives.

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管理教育是否正在为可持续业务的未来领导者做准备？

该研究旨在检验管理教育能否成功地培养未来的企业领导者所需要的同情能力，以促进可持续发展举措，以适应不同的利益相关者。该研究通过分析人际交往能力，强调了管理教育对认知和情感同理的影响。两年制全日制MBA入学学生的入学分数以及毕业时同一学生的分数。研究结果表明，管理教育对认知移情有积极影响，同时减少了情感移情和一般移情。此外，研究结果表明，管理课程将竞争意识和情感移情带入了竞争性商业环境所需的均衡水平。该研究仅关注于在管理教育期间参与者（学生）的同情心的变化，而不是在实际公司工作期间的变化。该研究推断，当前的管理教育会创造出具有更高认知同理心的未来高管。它认为，他们将更多地关注企业在利润或获得资本方面的可持续性，而不是关心和关心所有利益相关者，社会和环境。管理教育的新范式也需要围绕如何灌输情感移情进行研究。该研究提出了一项实证分析，表明管理教育是在开放思想，而不是开放心灵。这引起了人们的极大关注，即更高的管理课程没有培养出可以领导可持续发展计划的未来高管。