This article discusses the importance of designing and implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies rooted in sustainability principles to address new work environments significantly impacted by digital transformation. By studying several successful cases, key aspects that should be included in these strategies are identified, highlighting the relevance of conducting actions aimed at ensuring true inclusion of individuals, which are sustainable while leveraging the opportunities presented by digitization. Although the findings indicate substantial progress in this area, the business reality still provides opportunities for improvement to enhance the valuation and representation of all individuals within their work environments.

Coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the UOC, the following article aims to review the main transformations that the basic areas of business have undergone over the past two and a half decades. For this, we have enjoyed the participation of five female and five male professors in the studies of economy and business, who have given us some broad strokes on some of the main changes during this period and the challenges still to come. These topics are: leadership, decision-making, internationalization, digitalization, strategy, adaptation to change, ethics, corporate social responsibility, diversity, inclusion, business modal innovation, and finance.