Posts Tagged ‘rankings’
‘Sustainable Future’
Business school rankings have resulted in devotion and ridicule in equal measure since they were first developed, and yet they maintain huge popularity with prospective students and administrators alike. Simon Linacre looks at how the status quo could change by adopting a focus on UN Sustainable Development Goals
Read MoreTop Rank Della Bradshaw Interview
The Financial Times’s Della Bradshaw tells George Bickerstaffe that people need to be more relaxed about business school rankings. She has been called the most important woman in management education – and occasionally other, much less flattering, things.
Read MoreThe Bologna Effect – The Emerging European Masters Market
Gordon Shenton and Patrice Houdayer describe how the Bologna process, along with European-specific accreditation and ranking systems, is revolutionising the European ‘market’ in Masters degrees and giving it global competitiveness.
Read MoreWhat is the European management school model?
Over the last ten to fifteen years the identity, importance and legitimacy of European management schools has been strongly established in the context of the ‘business of business schools’ writes Howard Thomas. Recent research undertaken with Fernando Fraguiero1 has demonstrated how schools such as INSEAD, IMD, LBS and Warwick have positioned themselves as international business…
Read MoreHigher Pass
Della Bradshaw, a key player on the management education stage for 20 years, has retired but tells George Bickerstaffe she still loves the business Unless you have been living on Mars for the past six months you will be aware that Della Bradshaw has retired from the Financial Times. The doyen of the FT rankings…
Read MoreFrom rankings to ratings
Over the past three decades business schools have undergone significant changes, due in part to the work of media ranking publications contend Robert S. Rubin, Eric C. Dierdorff, and Fredrick P. Morgeson report. Rankings such as BusinessWeek, US News & World Report, and Financial Times have pushed MBA programs toward increased accountability to constituent concerns.…
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