Abstract: Colonialism casts a long shadow over management thought. The development and diffusion of modern management practices and education have co-evolved with the expansion of colonial empires and bureaucracies. The legacies we inherited from colonial systems are not always easy to distinguish and are sometimes ambiguous in their effects. Recently, the narrative arc of the history of management has shifted from an exclusive emphasis on the positive contributions to a recognition of some negative aspects of management and management education. Business historians and management learning and education scholars are uncovering how organizations and business schools contribute to the development of unsustainable practices, foster inequality, and propagate discrimination. Those impacts are not new though. They reflect the development of management education through land appropriations, epistemological imperialism, exclusionary policies and routines, and discriminatory curricula. A closer look at how the historical forces of colonialism have shaped management learning and education can help reveal how our practices and structures continue to echo that legacy and offer different ways of thinking as well as alternative pathways for the future of management thought and practice.