The urgent need for curriculum and pedagogy innovation Curriculum and pedagogy innovation in management learning and education (MLE) is urgently needed (Christopher, Laasch and Roberts, 2017). For more than 30 years, the public value of business and management schools has been questioned (Butler, Delaney and Spoelstra, 2015; Patriotta and Starkey, 2008), with calls for business schools to be either reinvented (Grey, 2004) or shut down (Parker, 2018).