Posts Tagged ‘business education’
Una perspectiva cultural base cero para tratar la realidad híbrida de la tecnología en las escuelas de negocios
Susan Fournier y Howard Thomas exploran el futuro de una nueva escuela de negocios, cuestionan los enfoques existentes e identifican y examinan cinco cuestiones fundamentales.
Read MoreLa enseñanza contemporánea de la gestión: ocho cuestiones que marcarán su futuro en el siglo XXI
Piet Naudé presenta su nuevo libro, “La enseñanza contemporánea de la gestión: ocho cuestiones que marcarán su futuro en el siglo XXI”.
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.
Read MoreWomen courageous
Michael Page, Madeleine van der Steege and Diane Coetzer discuss the importance, and progress, of embedding gender equality into business education.
Read MoreA zero-based cultural perspective on dealing with the hybrid reality of teaching in business schools
Susan Fournier and Howard Thomas explore a new business school future, question existing approaches and identify and examine five core issues.
Read MoreDigitalising management education: Exploring the possible
Read three perspectives, from Arnoud De Meyer, Thomas Bieger and Robina Xavier, that describe the opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation for business schools. All argue that having a sound strategy is essential.
Read MoreContemporary Management Education: Eight questions that will shape its future in the 21st century
Piet Naudé introduces his new book, ‘Contemporary Management Education: Eight questions that will shape its future in the 21st century’.
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Standardising admissions: Building a club Groucho Marx would proudly join
Integrity, diversity and fairness are the key to building the right cohort in business schools, argues Sangeet Chowfla
Read MoreEnhancing 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 MoreAn urgent call for innovation in Business Education
Whether students are making art for a famous museum or learning how to be a clown: there is no end to the possibilities for innovation in business education! But how can business professors become motors of this innovation, ask Kivanc Cubukcu and Svenia Busson
Read MoreThe paradoxical relationship of Management Teachers to uncertainty
Classrooms are unpredictable places at the best of times, but over the last year, teachers and learners have faced a whole new level of uncertainty. How can we live with this and learn from it, ask Michel Fiol, Kristine de Valck and Carolina Serrano-Archimi
Read MoreManaging New Business School Ecosystems: Do’s and don’ts
Business schools should be at the forefront of supporting businesses in finding their way into the future. Therefore, when business realities change, so too do the realities for business schools and swift adaptation is required.
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. We are in a global economic mess and we know it is man-made. If we want to get out of the present chaos we will have to manage it ourselves; nature will not do it for us.
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. The cause and the goal of this resilient effort is to develop a more holistic and balanced model of management education.
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 MoreCan they fix it?
Jordi Canals looks at the main drivers of business schools’ success in the 20th century along with some of the major problems and challenges they will have to deal with in the future if they want to remain relevant. Business schools are young institutions.
Read MoreUniversity challenge
Eric Cornuel, Director General & CEO of EFMD, analyses the complex issues faced by Europe’s higher education sector, particularly business schools. The main goal of any higher education institution should be to deliver (and continually enhance) excellence in teaching and learning and to combine the values of a liberal education with the professional qualifications required in a global economy.
Read MoreThe Future of MBAs
Sotiris Karagiannis, Saša Žiković and Ivana Marinković discuss the demands and design of MBAs For almost two decades MBA programmes have offered up-to-date education on burning business topics while giving students access to prestigious networks with job opportunities. But as COVID-19 emerged, leading inevitably to paradigm shifts in numerous dimensions, businesses were forced not only…
Read MoreCollaborate locally for enhanced benefits
As the world grapples with the COVID-19 crisis, a debate is arising across the globe regarding university education and, more specifically, management education. By Samir Dani, Colin Rigby and Emma Bonfiglio The higher education sector has worked rapidly throughout the crisis to adopt a digital learning environment to enable continued learning. This emergent approach has…
Read MoreAn effectual approach to course design
While backward design has been widely accepted as the ‘right’ way to proceed when designing new courses or units, John Mullins and Arun Pereira argue that, in some business school settings, an alternative approach, which they call effectual design, may potentially be a superior approach to course design It has been widely accepted in recent…
Read MoreCrisis as opportunity
During a global pandemic when business school leaders are preoccupied with virtual learning, budgets, and student bubbles, where do doctoral programmes feature on the list of priorities? Ask Julie Davies, Nicola Palmer, Elena Braccia, Karen Clegg and Mark Smith Far from being the Cinderella of business schools, we believe that doctoral researchers are key to…
Read MoreAplicar liberalmente
Hacia un modelo liberal de educación gerencial Howard Thomas defiende la integración de las artes liberales en la educación gerencial, de modo que el énfasis de los planes de estudio existentes en la perspicacia tecnológica y analítica se equilibre con las aptitudes de pensamiento crítico e inteligencia ética necesarias para el juicio administrativo
Read MoreUn futuro flexible
Peter Lorange dice que la introducción de una mayor flexibilidad y agilidad en la educación ejecutiva y permitir a los expertos, instructores, colaboradores, profesores y estudiantes aprender de forma simultánea, unos de otros, son los ingredientes esenciales en la construcción de un futuro seguro para la educación en gestión
Read MoreSostener la educación
La Academia SDG: Una iniciativa global que ofrece educación para avanzar en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (SDG). Florencia Librizzi informa
Read MoreCOVID-19: crisis, lessons and opportunities
Business education worldwide has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Martin Lockett looks at the challenges faced by business schools and the opportunities that are now emerging No one imagined that 2020 would be a year of massive disruption in business schools. But as the year started, the first cases of COVID-19 were becoming public…
Read MoreHow to develop collaborative projects that drive innovation
June 2020 Boston University’s Questrom School of Business is creating an innovative approach to identifying co-operative ways to improve business education. By Paul Carlile, Steven Davidson and Howard Thomas The Business Education Jam Global Symposium was held at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in November 2019. This unique collaboration brought…
Read MoreIntellectuals of the world, unite!
Johan Roos says we must learn how to make best use of the input of academics and scholars to recover from an unprecedented pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic is testing every thread in the fabric of humanity – our personal lives, families, jobs, communities, companies, nations and the entire world as we know it. What is…
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