Posts Tagged ‘business education’
Introducing business school research and positive impact
The first inaugural EFMD annual research volume, ‘Perspectives on the impact, mission and purpose of the business school’, was launched as a special issue of Global Focus magazine in November 2022 and was subsequently published in book form in 2023 by Routledge (Cornuel et al., 2023).
Read MoreImpact-driven research: The case of Hult
Pioneering a Different Approach: Business and management research receives only a small fraction of total academic research funding globally, with most resources going to areas like sciences, engineering, and health (Starkey et al., 2010). Within universities, funding for business and management research often comes from the business school’s own budget rather than university-wide research funds.
Read MoreThe female leader: Experiences from the Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa
Complex Societal Impact Projects Requiring Tri-Sector Collaboration and Cooperation: Visible and measurable progress in advancing the status and standing of females in business school leadership is crucial to role-modelling effective gender representation. As the higher education eco-system from which leaders in society, business and politics are shaped and informed, walking the talk on the advancement of female leaders must be evident not only in our classrooms but in our organisational practices – anything less is gender-washing.
Read MoreFavela Business School
Brazilian favelas and their peripheries are powerful territories economically, financially, and geographically. Many organisations have seen the potential of these areas but often face the challenge of accessing and building content that is both solid and relevant to the reality, language, and characteristics of favela entrepreneurship. From this scenario and from the partnership of Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) and Central Única das Favelas (CUFA), the Favela Business School was born.
Read MoreE4Impact MBA, the training programme dedicated to the new generation of African entrepreneurs
With the highest entrepreneurship rate in the world (22%) and a rapidly growing demographic population (1.2 billion), Africa is a continent rich in business opportunities. The challenge is to turn its potential into a source of concrete and inclusive development in a reality where the business mortality rate continues to be very high (80%). Among the reasons for this negative statistic is the large skills gap in management and financial planning.
Read MoreThe future of global business education in a new landscape
Wang Hong offers her insights into the new missions and new requirements for business education around the world, and shares her views about how CEIBS can set a new benchmark in the business education community.
Read MoreGlobally Responsible Leadership – sharing insights and experiences
This special issue of Global Focus provides a glimpse into the ongoing learning and experimentation held with and driven by the GRLI Partner and Associate network.
Read MoreBuilding the world’s most relevant business school: The Hult Ashridge story
Dina Dommett and Roger Delves discuss the history of Hult Ashridge, from its origins in a 13th-century monastery to a modern educational charity.
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Enhancing business school education and business performance through intellectual property
Christian Archambeau looks on why intellectual property is important to businesses and accordingly to business schools
Read MoreCan business schools rescue business?
Did business schools cause the economic crisis? No, says Gerard van Schaik, but they have a key role in determining what comes next.
Read MoreWhere do we go from here?
We should approach the future, respond to crises of the pandemic, and technological change, in a thoughtful, well-considered and purposeful manner, not an impulsive one. This requires a more strategic and purposeful, resilient approach.
Read MoreLooking back, thinking forward
Without a doubt, business schools have been a success story in higher education over the last 50 years (the period of EFMD’s existence). Even so, they have come under scrutiny, and attack, over their academic legitimacy and value proposition for business and society.
Read MoreAfrica: The management education challenge
How will the competitive environment in African management education evolve over the next ten years?
Read MoreMore EQUAL than others?
The European Quality Link (EQUAL) is one of the less well-known bodies in which EFMD is involved but is also one of the most innovative and long-standing. Irina Sennikova explains its role.
Read MoreGiving students the best international education
John Oldale explains how Canada’s University of Victoria’s business school turned the search for a more international MBA into a new type of graduate programme.
Read MoreBusiness school evolution: Media insights and the future outlook
Gillian Goh, Michelle Lee and Howard Thomas examine the way the media has reported the business school ‘industry’ over the past 20 years and what the future might hold.
Read MoreRise of the dragons
Jean-Paul Larçon and Geneviève Barré chronicle the development of Chinese management education and economic transformation since 1984.
Read MoreThe business of change
Business schools must change if they are to serve their students and society well, says Garth Saloner, Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Read MoreDoes Africa need an “African” management education model?
Howard Thomas, Michelle Lee, Lynne Thomas and Alexander Wilson ask if Africa can (and should) develop its own style of management education.
Read MoreIs business education a good preparation for a business career?
Tanya Bondarouk and Ivar Dorst detail their study for the University of Twente in the Netherlands of how business leaders see the role of business education.
Read MoreDynamic capabilities and the business school of the future
Business schools need to focus more clearly on their dynamic capabilities in order to re-invigorate and re-develop themselves and their students.
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