Faculty members at business schools are increasingly telling their deans to stop chasing Financial Times rankings and journal-only publication targets, according to findings in the 2026 Positive Impact Rating (PIR). The student-led sustainability rating expanded beyond a pilot by collecting faculty responses and introducing a new framework dimension on the “implementation gap.” The report cites that PIR gathered 1,189 valid faculty responses in 2026—over four times the prior pilot—and found that the top faculty grievance in open-ended responses was rankings-chasing, including FT lists and publication metrics that distort institutional incentives. PIR also reports that faculty want stronger external partnerships (industry, NGOs, government, and community) and want sustainability and ethics embedded across programs and operations rather than treated as standalone add-ons. For higher education leaders, it signals rising faculty governance influence over program strategy in business schools.