Archive for November 2020
EFMD’s Executive Development Conference for the first time fully online
“This was brilliantly organised. Certainly, one of the best and most user-friendly virtual conference environments.” We are happy for the very positive feedback from almost 100 participants at this year’s Executive Development Conference. And we learned a lot on our path to preparing an engaging online conference, with four particular lessons to share: Optimising user-friendliness…
Read MoreInternational Business School Suzhou becomes BSIS labelled
We are proud to announce that the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University International Business School Suzhou (IBSS) has successfully gone through the process of completing the Business School Impact System (BSIS). IBSS, founded in 2013, is the business school of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, in Suzhou, China. In September 2020, given the restrictions of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis,…
Read MoreLet’s face it
What comes to your mind when you read this title? Without trying to guess what I plan to write about here, when you hear a friend or someone telling you those words, what do they refer to? Or when you listen to the little voice inside you, perhaps….? Yes, I will go into my focus…
Read MoreInvitation: Accelerating Education for the SDGs in the Universities
At the SDG Academy, the educational initiative of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, we are pleased to circulate this invitation by the SDSN Networks to the event “Accelerating Education for the SDGs in the Universities“. Please join us and feel free to share it with other colleagues. Universities and other higher education institutions have a…
Read MoreAnti-Poverty Working Group Update October 2020
7th Responsible Management Education Research Conference, Chur, Switzerland, 19-21 October The 7th RME Research Conference on The Promise of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Responsible Management Education and Moving forward with the SDGs, the event gathered more than 210 participants from all over the world. The event was co-organized and hosted by the University…
Read MoreReconfiguration of the Enrollment Funnel for B-schools: New GMAC Survey Research
Applications for graduate management education (GME) increased by 2.4 per cent based on the weighted absolute change analysis of 731 programs that responded to the 2019 and 2020 Application Trends Survey. This is a reversal from a decline of 3.1 per cent in the applications last year. This reversal of trends is in line with…
Read MoreExcellence in Practice Award 2021 – Call for entries!
A guide to submitting your case study for the Excellence in Practice Awards 2021 Over the past 14 years, the EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards (EiP) have come to be widely recognised as a prestigious mark of outstanding and impactful Learning & Development partnerships. If you think that your organisation has forged a partnership which…
Read MoreIEEM Business School, Porto Business School & CIFFOP have their programmes re-accredited
We are happy to announce that the following programmes have recently been re-accredited with EFMD Programme Accreditation: IEEM Business School – University of Montevideo Executive MBA Porto Business School – University of Porto The Magellan MBA Executive MBA CIFFOP – Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas Master’s Degree in International Human Resources Management ‘Congratulations to the four EFMD…
Read MoreTop 3 Ways COVID-19 Has Changed the Workplace Forever
The coronavirus outbreak at the beginning of the year 2020 has taken the world by storm. With an unexpected turn of events, people have come to the realisation that many things that we considered mandatory previously, can be done rather conveniently. We have been complicating our lives for years and carrying out our works without…
Read MoreGlobal Leaders Gather Two Days After U.S. Election to Discuss Leading at the Edge
The 22nd ILA annual virtual conference 5-9 November is a crossroads of global leadership professionals from different disciplines and sectors – all working to advance leadership knowledge and practice for a better world. Leadership experts from around the world will gather live and online 5 – 9 November for the International Leadership Association’s (ILA’s) virtual…
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