Posts Tagged ‘research’
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 MoreHow applied strategic projects can help executive participants drive change
Business schools can add significant value to organisations by enabling participants in MBA and other executive programmes to undertake an Applied Strategic Project (ASP).
Read MoreBusiness school libraries, where next?
Daniel Gunnarsson describes the major changes that technology has made possible in business school libraries and speculates about other changes that are still to come.
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 MoreWhat topics should business school research focus on?
Without a substantial infusion of science-based new knowledge, business school curricula and business education will continue to fail in meeting the needs of the changed and changing world.
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 MoreOpen up the business school! From rigour and relevance to purpose, responsibility and quality
Purpose. Responsibility. Quality. Each of these raises further questions: about how they can be developed into business school-wide deliberations and conversations.
Read MoreThe competition fetish in business schools: Challenges and responses
Business schools appear to be trapped in a modern-day magical belief that competition will provide the solution to all problems. Competition is expected to enhance quality in research and teaching and lead to real-world impact.
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 More¿Están las escuelas de negocio predicando con el ejemplo?
¿En qué medida comunican las escuelas de negocios de todo el mundo su compromiso con la sostenibilidad? Lars Moratis y Frans Melissen investigan.
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 More“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so”
Questioning the choice of what we measure or how we measure it is at the centre of many discussions and debates both in society and within organisations.
Read MoreShifts in student interest before and after the pandemic
Cara Skikne outlines a new report from Studyportals that presents insights into lasting shifts brought on by the pandemic.
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 MoreStudent reviews as an applicant decision factor: What can business schools learn?
Jordi Robert-Ribes discusses the growth of student reviews, their impact on business school rankings and the importance of school alumni.
Read MoreWorking with influence: Nine (sometimes surprising) principles for persuading others at work
Amanda Nimon-Peters outlines her multi-disciplined approach to increasing personal influence in real and virtual workplace environments.
Read MoreAccepting refugees raises income per capita and wages in the long term, finds new research
A study by economists Antonio Ciccone and Jan Nimczik examines the long-term economic consequences of the inflow of refugees in Germany after World War II.
Read MoreHow has Covid-19 changed business school candidate preferences?
Matt Hazenbush shares insights from a survey of 6,500 global prospective students on how their preferences have changed since Covid-19.
Read MoreAre the world’s business schools walking the walk?
David Grayson, Chris Coulter and Mark Lee introduce The Sustainable Business Handbook.
Read MoreWhether (or wither) academic journal guides?
Angus Laing considers the place, the limits and the future development of academic journal guides.
Read MoreChampions changing the academic POP-culture
Are management scholarship and our universities in crisis? Morten Huse reports.
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 MoreThe future of lifelong and executive education
Andrew Crisp looks at how the learning landscape is evolving and its implications for business schools.
Read MoreThe benefits of collaborative front-line research
Jonathan T. Scott and Chenghai Yang explain a front-line research project bringing together an eclectic group of professionals to innovate and streamline key production segments in agriculture and other industries.
Read MoreAre business schools talking the walk?
How well are business schools around the world communicating their sustainability commitment? Lars Moratis and Frans Melissen investigate.
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 MoreEffective thought leadership in business schools
Vince-Wayne Mitchell, William S. Harvey and Eric Knight ask why, when we read newspapers, business magazines or social media stories, are so few business school academics featured?
Read MoreThe virtuous circle of specialisation and career evolution
Offering faculty better recognition and rewarding them for their actual contributions and for what they are passionate about, by Valérie Moatti
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