Vol.09 Issue 03 – ’15
EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2015
The 2015 Excellence in Practice applications showcased the growing diversity in the Learning & Development landscape.
Read MoreWhy tomorrow’s HR professionals must reinvent their role
It is time for human development specialists to re-examine their function and take a global and historical perspective in thinking about how to deal with human development challenges.
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean To Be An “African” Business School?
Piet Naudé describes how a rethink of African business schools could impact global business education. A business school that happens to be located in Africa has to ask a few tough questions to unpack its “adjective” status. To call a business school “African” can mean quitea number of things. The sometimes hidden assumption underlying discussions…
Read MoreThe past is not the future
Business schools – and the businesses they serve – need to discover a “second curve” if they are to survive and prosper. When I last spoke to the EFMD conference in 1974 my talk reflected my own personal dilemma.
Read MoreCrowdsourced
October 2015 Kenneth W Freeman and Howard Thomas outline some of the crowdsourced ideas about the future of business schools and other institutions that emerged from the first Business Education Jam For four days last autumn, researchers, scholars, students, executives and thought leaders engaged in an unprecedented online brainstorming session about the future of management…
Read MoreIs Business Education A Good Preparation For A Business Career?
Tanya Bondarouk and Ivar Dorst detail their study for the University of Twente in the Netherlands of how business leaderssee the role of business education. Improving the link between business education and the requirements of business practice has received a lot of research attention recently. We believe it is probably now time to discover business…
Read MoreBusiness and management education for the future: An emergent model for China
The need for renewed approaches to business and management research and teaching has been intensively discussed. Dajian Zhu and Anders Aspling analyse the implications of this for management education in China.
Read MoreFrom rational strategies to emotionally rich business journeys: The Gas Natural Fenosa case
Andrew Rutsch sheds light on Gas Natural Fenosa, the Spanish energy firm’s evolution to an international sector leader.
Read MoreTime to say: “Je suis diversity”
Global migration has introduced us to new communities, and new religious practices. Edwina Pio asks how we can best reconcile them.
Read MoreVirtual Internships: What Is In It For Business Schools?
Mariet Vriens describes current research into virtual internships and their advantages and pitfalls. In 2009 the Media and Learning Department of the KU Leuven in Belgium began exploring the possibilities of virtual internships. After a decade of building experience in virtual mobility (or ICT-supported international learning experiences), this seemed a logical next step. The topic…
Read MoreBuilding trust is the toughest leadership challenge
Confucius said that rulers need three resources: weapons, food and trust. The ruler who cannot have all three should give up weapons first, then food, but should hold on to trust at all costs. David Watkins explains.
Read MoreBuilding Leaders Through International Development
Matthew Farmer sheds new insights on how skills-based volunteering overseas can help build tomorrow’s global leaders. “Tell me and I will forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I will learn” Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin’s words have never resonated more truthfully. The growth of experiential learning and frameworks such as 70:20:10 are…
Read MoreSKEMA: The story of a merger
Alice Guilhon describes how two leading French business schools realised their ambitions by merging with each other.
Read MoreGetting “Behaviourally Fit”
In a world full of smart business professionals, says Lee Newman, the quality of behaviour is what distinguishes the most successful. Take two equally intelligent, well-educated professionals with similar years of experience and put them in similar organisations with the same budgets and staff. One consistently moves ideas forward and shepherds projects to success while…
Read MoreBringing Business Schools Into The STEM Era
Johan Roos argues that today’s business students must be given a grounding in science disciplines if they are to prosper in a world increasingly driven by science and technology. Science, technology, engineering and maths (the so-called STEM subjects) are the driving force behind the most promising and lucrative businesses of the future. But turning such…
Read MoreRedefining the organisation
‘Robber Baron’ or ‘Robin Hood’? Dan Pontefract argues that some, if not many, organisations have forgotten what they once stood for. It is time, he says, to review, refocus, recreate and thus redefine their true purpose.
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