Archive for April 2020
Reimagine the Future
How To Rethink Tomorrow For You and Your Organization Are you wondering what the future may hold for your company, your team and yourself? This summit is for you. On 6 May, Thinkers50 is partnering with Outthinker on a webinar extravaganza: Reimagine the Future. The virtual summit involves 24 speakers over 24 hours with the…
Read MoreWho’d be a Digital Dean?
Professor Heather McLaughlin, PVC/Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, De Montfort University is positive about the new reality for universities and about their continuity to attract students if we can get things right. We are the midst of a global crisis and the world is suddenly a very different place. It’s a digital…
Read MoreCheck your privilege to keep your privilege in check
Smaranda Boroş, Professor of Cross-Cultural Management, at Vlerick Business School, Belgium, reflects on the current situation. I am an absolute loner. I admit that most of the time I am enjoying this reclusive period in my life. But as more and more time passes in solitary confinement, I understand better and better why prison is…
Read MoreHow ‘entrepreneurial universities’ are tackling the effects of COVID-19 in Egypt
Business Forward, the knowledge portal of the AUC School of Business, is a credible destination for business knowledge, insight and analysis on Egypt and the Arab region. The platform provides business and economy content, covering the latest trends and developments across industries. See Amal Mowafy’s original article here. The term ‘entrepreneurial universities’ was coined nearly…
Read MoreCEIBS’ Impact within the Regional Ecosystem
Established in Shanghai, CEIBS has been fully intertwined with the metropolis’ development of becoming an international center of economy, finance, trade, shipping, and scientific &technologic innovation. During the past 25 years, CEIBS ensures a steady supply of the city’s most-needed high-caliber talents in the modern service industry who are able to adapt to international competition…
Read MoreStudents and employers want learning that heads in more than one direction
In the third of the See the Future blogs, Claudia Monteiro, Senior Consultant at CarringtonCrisp, examines what students want in their degrees and what employers want from students. Getting new postgraduate programmes up and running is laborious stuff. Planning the curriculum is a tiny fraction of the work; on the other side of it lies…
Read MoreDo we get the leaders we deserve?
International Leadership Association (ILA) has created a blog series on “Leadership for the Greater Good: Reflections on the 2020 Pandemic”. ILA invited well-known and respected thought leaders from around the world to share their leadership knowledge, wisdom, and viewpoint to inform and inspire us as we continue our collective work. Read the reflection by Manfred F. R.…
Read MoreHow to Build New-age Learning Ecosystem?
IFIM – EFMD International Conclave on Learning Ecosystem held on 18-19 February 2020 engaged with the new challenges and ways to build the new-age learning ecosystems In this fast-evolving world, traditional approaches to the learning ecosystem are becoming outdated. With the changing digital environment in a complex VUCA world, the need of the hour is…
Read MoreThe Global Talent Recruiting Day at MIP Politecnico di Milano goes digital
More than 30 companies and 150 students and a tally of over 300 virtual interviews between students, recruiters and managers attended the event. The first digital Global Talent Recruiting Day wrapped up with 33 companies, 150 students and 320 interviews. The event, aimed at students, recruiters and managers, was organised by MIP Politecnico di Milano…
Read MoreWhy did Sasin School of Management create the position of Chief Impact Officer?
Ian Fenwick, Director of Sasin School of Management together with Dean Outerson, Ambassador, and Writer-in-Residence of Sasin School of Management, describe what led the institution to create the role of Chief Impact officer, now executed by Vasu Srivibha. Soon after I became Director of Sasin School of Management in June 2019, I realised that I…
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