This has challenged business schools first to be learning and adaptive organisations themselves, in order to be able to provide their students as future leaders with the skills and knowledge they need to operate in today’s business world.
EBS Rector, Professor Meelis Kitsing, knows that the pressure to address societal, environmental and changing economic challenges, in addition to making a profit, has become an integral part of business. “EBS is also committed to digitalisation and sustainable development in teaching, research, investment and other areas. Our focus is to help Estonian companies develop business models that work in the new world,” says Meelis Kitsing when describing the tasks facing Estonia’s oldest private university.
“A university must keep up with the times, but think ahead of them,” states Professor Arno Almann, who was the Rector of EBS from 2012–2020. According to him, a modern university is not a shrine where people spend a relatively short time compared to the length of their lives, but a lifelong learning laboratory and accelerator that must be a reliable and indispensable partner for every learner. “We feel more and more secure in the top league of business schools with each passing year, are eager to learn and capable of learning, are able to take critically valued experience on board and understand that the future will come faster than expected,” Almann confirms when characterising EBS.