Posts Tagged ‘faculty’
Academics working across the boundaries – conflict of interest or mutual enrichment?
In contrast to their counterparts in the corporate sector, business school academics are often given the opportunity to work beyond the boundaries of their schools.
Read MoreThe power of teams and communities
Providing opportunities for professional development of business school staff and faculty, and supporting connections to the broader community, contributes to the overall health of the institution and creates knowledgeable, skilled and proactive professionals.
Read MoreHow management academics have locked themselves in an iron cage
The most serious aspect of the current research and publication system is that it has become mostly self-serving and self-sustaining rather than responding adequately to the needs of external stakeholders – management, government and society.
Read MoreDean SK 2.0: Can part II ever be better than part I or does the Godfather movie series remain unchallenged?
Sherif Kamel on his journey from undergraduate to Dean, twice, and the challenges of an interconnected global environment.
Read MoreWinter is…going? A gradual thaw in gender equality
Anna Ginès and Victoria Cochrane report on progress developing and implementing gender equality plans in business schools.
Read MoreThe engaged scholar
Andrew Hoffman seeks to inspire academic scholars to bring their work to the publics that need it, and to inspire administrators to make public engagement more acceptable and legitimate within their institutions; to enlarge the tent to be inclusive of multiple ways that one enacts the role of academic scholar in service to today’s world
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 MoreLas clases híbridas transforman el aprendizaje
Ted Ladd y Johan Roos conversan sobre la enseñanza en un mundo Covid. Una conversación con profesores de Hult, IE e IMD.
Read MoreUniversity challenge
Eric Cornuel, Director General and CEO of EFMD, analyses the complex issues faced by Europe’s higher education sector, particularly business schools.
Read MoreWhat business schools can learn from team sports
Ahmed Abdel-Meguid, Ulrich Hommel and Benjamin Stévenin reason that, like successful sports teams, faculty should be based on synergic skills.
Read MoreAn effectual approach to course design
While backward design has been widely accepted as the ‘right’ way when designing new courses, John Mullins and Arun Pereira argue that an alternative approach, which they call effectual design, may potentially be a superior approach to course design.
Read MoreHybrid classes transform learning
When you gather top professors from three international business schools to discuss the challenges and successes of teaching in a Covid world, you are faced with the stark realisation that things may never be the same again. A conversation with professors at Hult, IE and IMD.
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 MoreFaculty and professional staff views
Business schools already seem to have glimpsed at least part of what the future might hold, although making the change may be more difficult.
Read MoreFlexible future
Peter Lorange says that introducing greater flexibility and agility into executive education and allowing experts, instructors, contributors, professors and students to simultaneously and easily learn from each other are essential ingredients in building a secure future for management education.
Read MoreMucho ruido sobre…la investigación científica
Definir una estrategia de investigación y desarrollo sostenible produce un dolor de cabeza para muchas escuelas de negocios. Michael Haenlein sugiere algunas curas.
Read MoreTomar el cargo del decano: No andar solo
Rolf D. Cremer describe el innovador Programe de Liderazgo Estratégico para Deanes de EFMD
Read MoreMuch ado about …scientific research
Defining a sustainable research and development strategy gives many business schools a headache. Michael Haenlein suggests some cures.
Read MoreOpen positions: Leaders for unsettled times
As business schools transition into this still-fuzzy future, professional development of executives and staff will become an even bigger strategic priority and will demand different approaches.
Read MoreThe trigger for institutional change
Zita Zoltay Paprika, Dean of the Corvinus Business School & Metka Tekavčič, Dean of the Faculty of Economics (FELU), University of Ljubljana discuss the professional development of business school faculty.
Read MoreAchieving change in HE professional support
Professor Edward Byrne argues that professional services resources must be aligned and focused on meeting future strategic needs and describes how he has approached this issue at three world-class higher education institutes.
Read MoreStepping into the role of the dean
The EFMD Strategic Leadership Programme for Deans (SLP) brings together deans new to the role with experienced and successful counterparts in an intensive three-day workshop in Brussels.
Read MoreEOCCS Symposium 2017
Ginny Gibson analyses the first EOCCS Symposium, where over 50 delegates from business schools and other corporate organisations that have achieved or are working towards EOCCS accreditation shared their views.
Read MoreDean déjà vu
What is it like to become a business school dean for a second time after a break of 25 years? Herman Berliner reflects on the changes he has had to adapt to.
Read MoreAssessing academics’ performance
Is it time for a change in faculty recruitment and promotion practices? Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger describes how, and why, business schools need to take into account multiple aspects of performance.
Read MoreProgressive teaching ensures business school competitiveness
Teaching all too often receives a lower priority than research and funding. This is a strategic mistake, argues Torben Jensen, since better teaching is essential in order to future-proof business schools in the competition for accreditation, funds and talented students.
Read MoreInciting exciting insights
Julie Davies looks back on five years of the International Deans’ Programme, a joint initiative between the Association of Business Schools and EFMD.
Read MoreCox steers a new course for business schools
Sue Cox, Dean of Lancaster University Management School, discusses her new role as an EFMD vice president with George Bickerstaffe.
Read MoreNeeded: academic triathletes
Santiago Iñiguez argues that what business schools need today is multi-faceted and well-rounded faculty. When the Olympic Games were founded in Ancient Greece sometime during the eighth century BC, the king of sports was the Pentathlon.
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