Posts Tagged ‘impact’
From research for publication to research for impact
It is our duty to encourage research that has meaning for people outside closed academic circles, to create value for our society, offer meaningful and healthy career paths to academics and show the right signal of academic excellence to students and public.
Read MoreHigh wire act: The reinvention of African business schools to amplify their impact
Should African business schools be turning their focus inwards to tackle the continent’s most significant problems or outwards, to compete against the best-ranked schools in the world?
Read MorePerspectives on the impact, mission and purpose of the business school
The business school has been an important success story in the evolution of the modern university. Yet it is increasingly valued in that context “much more for its managerial expertise, cash generation ability and financial strength than its intellectual vigour and scholarship. Indeed … its legitimacy as a serious academic discipline is critically questioned by scholars in science, arts and the humanities”
Read MorePositive impact: An important role for business school leadership in a changing, precarious world
Business schools should have a purposeful mission to create value and positive, meaningful societal impacts for their ecosystem partners.
Read MoreThe search for meaning: BSIS and its role in promoting business schools’ societal impact
BSIS is not only a tool for measuring impact but also a way to generate value based on the research carried out by faculty for business school stakeholders, that is to say, companies, governments, and society.
Read MoreBuilding back better: Purpose-driven business schools
As business schools display inertia while corporations change to pursue purpose, a rift is emerging between the interests of participants in the business school industry.
Read MoreCuéntanos: ¿qué estás haciendo? Cómo mejorar la forma de comunicar tu investigación académica, relevancia y experiencia
El Australian Business Deans Council ha lanzado un libro en el que se describen los conocimientos necesarios para explicar la investigación académica a un público más amplio. Leslie Falkiner-Rose explica su importancia y resume su contenido.
Read MoreUn nuevo papel en la vanguardia del cambio para las escuelas de negocio
La crisis Covid-19 hace más importante que nunca un acercamiento global a la recuperación, dice Eric Cornuel.
Read MoreInclusivity matters!
Inclusivity is having an impact on how successful higher education is at preparing students for the society and work environment of today and tomorrow.
Read MoreTell us: What are you doing? Improving how you communicate your academic research, relevance and expertise
The Australian Business Deans Council has launched a book to boost skills in translating academic research for wide audiences. Leslie Falkiner-Rose explains its importance and summarises its content.
Read MoreFirst understand the problem: Using real-world insight to create real-world impact
There exists a debate on what “impact” actually means and how it can be measured. Three simple rules can guide impact, says Paul Hughes.
Read MoreThe building of a tropical impact school
Thomaz Wood Jr shows how a Brazilian business school has become an impactful institution.
Read MoreCelebrating small wins and calling bold actions
Anne S Tsui asks, is business research finally reconnecting with the business world?
Read MoreA new role for business schools at the forefront of change
The COVID-19 crisis makes it more important than ever to take a more global approach to recovery, says Eric Cornuel.
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 MorePractising what we preach: Online learning for EFMD Programme Accreditation
Turning multiple in-person, international seminars into one online event. Robert Galliers, Jens Petter Tøndel, and Barbara Sporn reflect on their experience of this year’s EFMD Programme Accreditation workshops
Read MoreRevisiting a business school’s impact agenda in an ecosystems environment
The impact of business schools is a much-debated topic both within the academy and more broadly. As academic institutions, business schools have a vital role to play in advancing the academic discipline of management education and its various subsidiaries and representing these areas in inter-disciplinary research tackling significant global challenges.
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 MoreBSIS: un viaje de auto-descubrimiento
Michel Kalika y Gordon Shenton evalúan el papel del BSIS después de siete años
Read MoreAprendizaje real, impacto real
Jean-François Manzoni explora la experiencia de una escuela de negocios internacional con el EFMD Business School Impact System
Read MoreReal learning, real impact
Jean-François Manzoni explores an international business school’s experience with the EFMD Business School Impact System.
Read MoreBSIS: A journey of self-discovery
When BSIS (Business School Impact System) was created in 2012, the main aim was to develop a system that would allow business schools to convince their stakeholders of their impact and the extent of their usefulness to their impact zone.
Read MoreIntentional impact from business schools
Paul Beaulieu explains how, in response to a new wave of social demands, business schools should adopt a more comprehensive and responsible social engagement. This may pave the way for the emergence of a new generation of business schools.
Read MoreEl impacto: ¿hablar de ello es suficiente?
Michel Kalika y Gordon Shenton explican por qué las escuelas de negocios no sólo hablan de impacto, sino que están aprendiendo evaluarlo mejor
Read MoreImpact: Is it enough just to talk about it?
Michel Kalika and Gordon Shenton explain why business schools not only talk about impact but are learning how to do a better job of assessing it.
Read MoreThe impact of BSIS
Ramon O’Callaghan and José Varejão outline the positive effects of a BSIS study.
Read MoreVol.11 – Issue 02. Creating impact with purpose
This issue of Global Focus covers an array of topics centred around management education and development.
Read MoreCreating impact with purpose
Patricia Bradshaw and Erin Elaine Casey describe how the BSIS process has helped herald the impact of the Sobey School in Canada, the first business school in North America to utilise the system.
Read MoreWhy care about impact?
The impact, or otherwise, of academic research in management and business is a current hot topic, but Peter McKiernan and William Glick suggest a cooler, more measured approach.
Read MoreThe impact of BSIS
BSIS was designed to measure the impact of business schools on their environment. But what is the ‘impact’ of the Business School Impact System, and what effect does undergoing the BSIS process have on business schools?
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