Archive for April 2019
Special Issue of the Triple Helix Journal – Call for papers
Special Issue of the Triple Helix Journal (ISSN: 2197-1927) “Triple Helix Futures” – Call for papers Special Issue Co-Editors: Ekaterina Albats, LUT-University, Finland Rabii Outamha, University of Hassan II, Morocco Henry Etzkowitz, International Triple Helix Institute (ITHI), Silicon Valley, USA Deadline for extended abstracts: May 31st 2019 New perspectives towards Triple Helix innovation and…
Read MoreA Night at the e-Assessment Awards
EOCCS was invited to join the e-Assessment Association on 10 April 2019 for their annual “e-Assessment Awards” in London, UK. The association is an international not-for-profit membership organisation for those involved in, working with, using or developing technology to enhance assessment delivery. The finalists attending this year’s award demonstrated the innovation, in-depth research, transformational deployments…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2018 EFMD Case Writing Competition Winners
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2018 edition of Case Writing Competition. This year was marked by outstanding teaching cases in all seventeen management-related categories. Among the winners is a bestselling case author in the academic year 2017/2018 or a winner of the Outstanding Case Teacher award – both recognised by The…
Read MoreEDF Corporate University for Management re-accredited by CLIP
The strength of the corporate learning function at EDF was recognised by its CLIP re-accreditation. Hearty congratulations! The Corporate Learning Improvement Process (CLIP) is a unique accreditation run by EFMD that focuses on identifying the key factors that determine quality in the design and functioning of corporate universities and learning organisations. Martin Moehrle, Director of Corporate Services at EFMD, who leads the…
Read MoreLjubljana e-learning
It was a pleasure and honour to address the annual pedagogy conference of the newly named and EQUIS accredited School of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana (SEB UL, formerly School of Economics). My topic focused on the many lessons learned through the operation of EOCCS in its first three years. There is…
Read MoreMeasuring the Impact of Business Schools: Joining EQUIS and BSIS processes
Asist. Prof. Dr Darija Aleksić, Marjan Smonig and Dr Nuša Petek School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana (SEB LU); former Faculty of Economics (FELU) Business schools have a huge impact on the society as a whole, not only in shaping the business sphere, but they are also responsible for instilling values for a…
Read MoreIs Authentic Leadership the answer? Maybe we need to reframe the question…
Dr Marian Iszatt-White, Lancaster University Management School In the broadest possible context, ‘authenticity’ has been subject to two very different symbolic interpretations. We all recognise the idea of ‘type authenticity’ in relation to specific products, and which we see validated via such approaches as hallmarks on silver, patents on product designs, and historical listings on…
Read MoreThe Case Centre launches new case journal for the MEA region
#CaseFocusJournal New from The Case Centre, Case Focus offers a journal publication outlet for high-quality, peer-reviewed teaching cases, with a focus on management and business situations in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Richard McCracken, Director of The Case Centre and Editor-in-Chief of the journal, said: “We are excited to announce the first journal…
Read MoreEAE Business School launches its first Summer School to delve into the Design Thinking methodology
EAE Business School launches its first Summer School, in its Barcelona Campus, that will focus on into the Design Thinking methodology. The program is aimed at undergraduate and recent graduate students from any area of studies who are interested in Innovation & Creativity and are keen to explore a practical method to find new solutions…
Read MoreThe Pied Piper of Hamelin or When our Children Woke us Up
In my last blog, I reflected on the shift in what has become unacceptable in our society, or in the human community at large. When we contemplate social injustice, we no longer accept it as “just the way things are”; instead we feel angry or motivated to do something. When we hear about abuses of…
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