Business-school deans and thought leaders outlined how 2026 will shift management education from AI experimentation to deliberate integration and sharper curricular choices. Contributors from HEC Paris, Cambridge Judge, Duke Fuqua and others warned of an imminent peak in AI hype and urged renewed emphasis on judgment, human skills and ethical decision-making in curricula. The predictions—compiled by a consortium of B‑school leaders—call for programs to balance machine capabilities with human judgment, and to re-center teaching on skills that resist automation: trust-building, complex judgment, and cross-disciplinary synthesis. Paul Tracey (Cambridge Judge) and Brad Harris (HEC Paris) are among those quoted urging a shift from “answers” toward framing the right decisions. For MBA programs, the takeaway is curricular realignment, faculty development in AI pedagogy, and new metrics to measure student competence beyond model-driven outputs.