Vol.10 Issue 03 -’16
Embrace disruption
Why universities are under threat? What do they need to do if they are to survive? Mark Farrell and John A Davis argue that universities outside the elite must embrace disruption or succumb to it.
Read MoreDesigning digital learning strategies
Business education has been slow to respond to the disruption (and opportunities) caused by technological innovation. Tony Sheehan provides some guidance on how it should act.
Read MoreRefugees welcome
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger describes how Vienna University of Economics and Business and other Austrian universities offer a wide range of activities and initiatives for refugees.
Read MoreGender: Ms—ed opportunities for business schools?
Gender equity has been an issue in business schools (and many other places) for a long time. But Dianne Bevelander and Michael Page wonder why it has taken so long to address it and what the way forward might be.
Read MoreDoes academic research have to have impact?
Not necessarily say Udo Steffens and Michael Grote. What is more important for both researchers and students is that research and teaching is based on rigorous scientific thinking.
Read MoreMaking the SUN shine on tourism
“Impact Travel” was coined by Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder of the World Economic Forum, as a way to describe, simultaneously, the immense socio-economic benefits and serious consequences of human mobility.
Read MoreMyth-busting
Three myths are weakening the development of executive learning. Winfried Ruigrok and Georg Gutmann explain why it is many firms are struggling to make their executive learning and development work.
Read MoreHow will your company cope with the 100-year life?
Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics at London Business School, explains why future generations of people living to 100 will completely change how we work and live. By Rob Morris
Read MoreMaking a management education partnership
Daniel Scheu and Sabine Kuschel explain how two very different business schools in two countries created a winning EMBA partnership
Read MoreWhat keeps you awake at night?
The question of whether talent management is working would be high on the list for many CEOs and corporate leaders. Martin Moehrle analyses the present state of talent management.
Read MoreHow to survive and thrive in the 21st century
Why are business schools so often wasteful and self-defeating competitors when they could be cooperation, coordination, and collaboration models? There can be transformation, says Dr Ying Zhang.
Read MoreStart-up
Emerging economies need an effective entrepreneurial ecosystem that is government-enabled, youth-led, private sector-supported and future-oriented, says Sherif Kamel.
Read MoreIn conversation with the Dalai Lama
In this edited extract adapted from his new book, Business as an Instrument for Societal Change: In Conversation with the Dalai Lama, Sander Tideman discusses the idea of Bodhisattva leadership and looks at how ancient ideas can be translated to meet the needs of modern-day business.
Read MoreePortfolios: what employers think
Kim Watty and Jade McKay explain the benefits – for both employers and business graduates – of ePortfolios, and what employers think of them.
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