Relevance of academy in pandemic times
Armando Dal Colletto, the EFMD EDAF Committee Member and Academic Dean of iPL – Institute of Performance and Leadership, invites the academia to integrate and correlate knowledge in order to create new discoveries to confront the VUCA world in its various forms. All the impacts that this pandemic has caused in society and specifically in academia…
Read MoreThe 2019 Case Writing Competition Winners
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 edition of the Case Writing Competition. Congratulations to all participants and winners! Eric Cornuel, President of EFMD, congratulated the 2019 EFMD Case Competition Winners by saying: “The Case Writing Competition is an annual celebration of excellence in case writing and teaching at schools of business…
Read MoreProfessor Gary Hamel: ‘Humanocracy: Creating Organisations as Amazing as the People Inside them’
We are excited to alert you about Professor Gary Hamel’s webinar next Tuesday, 2 June at 4pm UK time, titled ‘Professor Gary Hamel: ‘Humanocracy: Creating Organisations as Amazing as the People Inside them’. Gary is the author of one of the best-selling management books of all time, which is co-authored with the late great C.K.Prahalad, published in 1994, “Competing for…
Read MoreCOVID-19: updates & actions
Updated on 26 May 2020 The coronavirus is having a significant impact on individuals, which is equally affecting the operations of business education and corporate institutions across our network. Given the WHO announcement declaring the spread of COVID-19 a pandemic, we are taking appropriate actions to ensure a safe environment for our members, associates, volunteers…
Read MoreValue blueprint
The very last and concluding episode of the Quality Assurance Academy presents the HOW TO webinars, with Manuela Brusoni, Director of Quality, Accreditation and Benchmarking, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Christina Green, Head of Quality Management at TUM School of Management, and Claire Thouary, Founder of QACE UP brought three different perspectives on the value…
Read MoreCovid-19, Society, Innovation & Sustainable Business Review from Grenoble Ecole de Management
A WORD FROM OUR DIRECTOR ON THE TASK AT HAND Covid-19: “The task today is to set society back on track” In light of this unprecedented crisis, Grenoble Ecole de Management focuses on its primary leitmotif: to be a responsible, solidary institution that ensures the safety of its students and staff. As of December 2019,…
Read MoreOur shared future in the wake of a global pandemic: impact on economic, social and environmental divides
The COVID-19 pandemic will have a broad and long-lasting impact on our economies, health care systems, social systems, the environment and business operations. While the virus has demonstrated our global inter-connectedness, existing divides are becoming starker and isolationism is growing. The future is uncertain, which itself creates new levels of anxiety and mental health challenges.…
Read MoreDon’t let the dean escape!
The penultimate episode of the Quality Assurance Academy presents the HOW TO webinars, with Thomas Cleff, Dean of Pforzheim Business School at Pforzheim University, offered the unique opportunity to discuss and hear insights on accreditation from someone usually representing the very starting point of the quality assurance chain within the institution. Being a dean, you…
Read MoreA business school for society: a school at the heart of its ecosystem
By Agnes Plessis Brandi, Head of Sales and Company Relationships at Grenoble Ecole de Management and Mark Smith, Dean of Faculty and Professor in Human Resources at Grenoble Ecole de Management. It is essential for an organisation to be firmly anchored in its ecosystem – not least business schools, since supporting organisational performance is part of…
Read MoreOnline Class Transformations: Oneline Lessons for Business Schools
As educational institutions across the world make the transition to an online environment from diverse starting points, the challenge falls heavily on faculty. Business School faculty are faced with the task of adapting high-quality, interactive pedagogic experiences to a new landscape of online technologies, anxious stakeholders, and students with variable levels of connectivity — all…
Read MoreRaising business school brand awareness during the COVID-19 pandemic
What does the media want now and how can business schools provide this whilst raising their brand awareness? Account Director Stephanie Mullins, from specialist business education PR consultancy BlueSky Education, shares her thoughts. I recently co-hosted a live podcast that invited business school professionals to speak about communications and the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic was having.…
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