EFMD launches new programme accreditation
EFMD has announced plans to enhance and further develop its programme accreditation for leading business schools across the world At the EFMD Annual Conference on June 6th hosted by NOVA Business School in Lisbon and following the unanimous approval of the EFMD Board of Directors, EFMD announced significant changes to the accreditation process for business school…
Read MoreBusiness Schools as Pillars of Trust
Trust is one of the key themes at the EFMD Annual Conference and it is extremely timely for the business education community to look at this. We are at a point in many parts of the world where it seems there is an increasing lack of trust, as part of rising populism and nationalism. Where…
Read MoreNew Programme for Quality Assurance Professionals
EFMD Global Network (GN) is adding a new flagship offering to its growing portfolio of professional development programmes, the QUALITY ASSURANCE ACADEMY. The inaugural edition will take place between November 2019 and January 2020 with the face-to-face workshop segment hosted by Corvinus Business School on December 11-13 in Budapest, Hungary. The QUALITY ASSURANCE ACADEMY is…
Read MoreImportance Of Synchronous Elements In Fully Online Courses
By Divyaanshu Makkar, Co-Founder Connect2Teach Most institutions today are moving towards developing online courses that are 100% asynchronous (pre-recorded, self-paced) given its scalability. While the debate of asynchronous vs synchronous courses has been going for a while, we believe that even the best asynchronous courses have synchronous elements. If chosen strategically, synchronous elements can help…
Read MoreThree in four companies plan to hire MBAs in 2019
The results of the Corporate Recruiters Survey 2019 reflect the trends in the broader economy, including the plans of companies to grow and expand and reveal the optimistic hiring projections for specialised master’s graduates. More than 1,200 employers worldwide responded to the 2019 Corporate Recruiters Survey, ran by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) together…
Read MoreLearn to love uncertainty to grow the MBA of the future
Andrew Crisp draws out key findings from the 2019 Tomorrow’s MBA report For those in the MBA marketplace, learning to love uncertainty has become something of a requirement and is a focus of the newly released Tomorrow’s MBA report from CarringtonCrisp and EFMD. Stories of the MBAs demise abound, but are wide of the mark,…
Read MoreWhy diversity management requires an anti-categorical approach…
…and how this relates to performance assessment in an academic context Diversity management and inclusion are intended to avoid discrimination and to promote historically disadvantaged groups. This results in pre-defined social groups, and individuals belonging to these groups are perceived to be in need of special treatment and support. In diversity studies, this is referred…
Read MoreMETRO Corporate Learning Organization accredited by CLIP
We are proud to announce that METRO Corporate Learning Organization (METRO CLO) recently received the EFMD Corporate Learning Improvement Process (CLIP) accreditation. CLIP is a one-of-a-kind accreditation run by EFMD. It focuses on identifying the key factors that determine quality in the design and functioning of corporate learning organisations. The process aims at triggering continuous…
Read More2019 Executive Development Conference
You are warmly invited to register online for the 2019 EFMD Executive Development Conference hosted by IESE Business School, University of Navarra in partnership with Grupo Santander on 11-13 November 2019 in Barcelona (Spain). The 2019 conference theme is: Transforming the Practice of Learning: Leveraging Partnerships The need for learning is evolving. What was once a need at a moment in time is…
Read MoreMeasuring impact of TalTech School of Business and Governance
The considerable contribution to its country, Estonia, was proved by the TalTech School of Business and Governance, who recently completed the Business School Impact System (BSIS). The Business School Impact System (BSIS) scheme is designed to determine the extent of a school’s impact upon its local environment – the city, region and country in which…
Read MoreSprott School of Business completed BSIS
The Sprott School of Business completed a process of identification of its tangible and intangible benefits that the Schools brings to its impact zone and we extend our congratulations! The unique Business School Impact System (BSIS) scheme is designed to determine the extent of a school’s impact upon its local environment – the city or…
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