Vol.08 Issue 03 – ’14
The challenges facing business school accreditation
Business schools have been among the most successful higher education institutions of the last 50 years. Yet now, they face many serious challenges that, as Michael Osbaldeston explains, have deep implications for accreditation bodies.
Read MoreEmbedding values
Mark Moody-Stuart examines the difficulties of ensuring that the right values are agreed upon, understood and truly embedded in a large multicultural business organisation.
Read MoreSocial intrapreneurs and The Jazz Age
Social intrapreneurs are rarely individual heroes but more like jazz musicians jamming in a group. But sometimes, say David Grayson, Melody McLaren and Heika Spitzeck, they need even bigger groups – a fully orchestrated ‘big band’.
Read MoreEnhancing talent development and talent acquisition
Amber Wigmore Alvarez and Boris Nowalski, describe current changes to the way companies and business schools manage talent.
Read MoreHow being embedded in your region helps growth
Thomas Bieger explains how the University of St.Gallen used the new Business School Impact System to consolidate and build on its local roots. Imagine you are the chief executive of an airport whose customers are rather dispersed.
Read MoreGoing from EPAS to EQUIS and AACSB … and from AACSB to EPAS
Anne-Joëlle Philippart explains how the mix of EFMD and AACSB accreditation models helped achieve a rapid improvement of the quality assurance system at HEC-Liège.
Read MoreThe case for inspiration
Novartis has provided, through its Novartis Malaria Initiative, more than 600 million Coartem treatments without profit to people who could not otherwise afford them.
Read MoreMaking the most of the hiring process
The latest Corporate Recruiters Survey offers a positive MBA hiring landscape and highlights what is most important for employers in the process. Findings suggest both new approaches for students in the job search and what schools can do to increase placement rates.
Read MoreSolving the global talent equation
Mike Johnson offers some thoughts on the challenges facing business leaders tasked with managing our organisations today and tomorrow.
Read MoreReinvigorating the PhD
PhDs are increasingly under scrutiny for being ‘irrelevant’ and ‘lacking impact’. But given the right tools, Simon Linacre at Emerald Group Publishing believes they still have much to offer.
Read MoreFrom great to gone: The new approach to growth and profitability that business schools need
Peter Lorange and Jimmi Rembiszewski argue that business schools must react more urgently to a new type of student.
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 MoreStrategic leadership and new ways of working to drive growth: The UniCredit approach
Andrew Rutsch explains how Italian banking group UniCredit turned to strategic leadership and new ways of working in a bid to drive organisational growth.
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