Vol.15 Issue 03 -’21
Synchronous or asynchronous online teaching
Previous discussions on synchronous or asynchronous teaching focused on technical and didactical aspects. But the decision on online teaching formats is also highly relevant to a school’s strategy. Thomas Bieger and Samuel Heer explore its impacts on long term value for students, resource planning, and in the end the positioning of the school in the academic value chain
Read MoreWhat does the future hold for Europe’s universities?
A lasting lesson from this pandemic is that collaboration can lead to a more sustainable future for higher education – through its worst crisis, a shared ecosystem inspired a global solution that minimised the impact of campus closures worldwide. Anthony Tattersall investigates
Read MoreHumanistic management for an entrepreneurial society
What might Peter Drucker, the management great, have made of our reactions to the COVID-19 crisis? By Richard Straub
Read MoreStandardising admissions: Building a club Groucho Marx would proudly join
Integrity, diversity and fairness are the key to building the right cohort in business schools, argues Sangeet Chowfla
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 MoreInspiring corporate learning
Martin Moehrle and Steven Smith introduce the new EFMD CLIP framework. How do you ensure that your learning function is fully aligned with your organisation’s strategy and business priorities?
Read More‘Sustainable Future’
Business school rankings have resulted in devotion and ridicule in equal measure since they were first developed, and yet they maintain huge popularity with prospective students and administrators alike. Simon Linacre looks at how the status quo could change by adopting a focus on UN Sustainable Development Goals
Read MoreBusiness school advisory boards: increasing engagement, adding value
Sarah Hardcastle investigates the inextricable link between advisory board member engagement and the value they add
Read MoreEnhancing business school education and business performance through intellectual property
Christian Archambeau looks on why intellectual property is important to businesses and accordingly to business schools
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 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 MorePivoting towards an innovative executive education ecosystem in business schools
Nowadays, when you can seemingly learn anything online for free, how can business schools best prepare the next generation of future-focused leaders? Jordi Diaz and Daphne Halkias investigate
Read MoreMothers doing doctorates part-time – why do we make it harder than it needs to be?
If universities really want mature students with families to succeed they’ll need to completely rethink the traditional image of the “doctoral student”. Widening access isn’t enough, say Sue Cronshaw, Peter Stokes, and Alistair McCulloch
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
Read MoreAn urgent call for innovation in business education
Whether students are making art for a famous museum or learning how to be a clown: there is no end to the possibilities for innovation in business education! But how can business professors become motors of this innovation, ask Kivanc Cubukcu and Svenia Busson
Read MoreThe paradoxical relationship of management teachers to uncertainty
Classrooms are unpredictable places at the best of times, but over the last year, teachers and learners have faced a whole new level of uncertainty. How can we live with this and learn from it, ask Michel Fiol, Kristine de Valck and Carolina Serrano-Archimi
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