Business graduates often move into leadership roles where they influence organizational power structures, making it essential for management education to engage students in critical discussions of power, hierarchy, and equity. This paper argues that aligning business pedagogy with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires preparing students to navigate these dynamics thoughtfully. Using feminist pedagogy, we explore how faculty can model power-aware management by decentralizing authority and fostering participatory learning. By experiencing explicit power-sharing firsthand, students are better equipped to implement equitable leadership practices, positioning them as change agents capable of building more just and sustainable organizations in alignment with the SDGs.
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