Archive for July 2021
Recognising the work of doctoral students whose research can create positive impact in the area of responsible management
For over 25 years Emerald Publishing has celebrated the research community’s commitment to research with impact. With a comprehensive awards programme recognising and rewarding interdisciplinary research, outstanding contributions of authors and reviewers, case writing, and outstanding doctoral research, we feel a closeness to the communities we serve and have a sense of pride championing this…
Read More2020 EFMD Case Writing Competition Winners Interview Series: Responsible Leadership
EFMD encourages and rewards innovative and impactful cases in management development each year. This year brought an exceptional variety of winning cases across various industries. EFMD decided to interview the winners to find out more about their motivation, inspiration and significant challenges. The tenth interview is with the winning team of authors from the China…
Read MorePlaying games with other peoples’ money
As Europe, and the world, entered the first weeks of pandemic lockdown in Spring 2020, a carefully planned inter-University finance simulation project was coming to fruition. Did the emergency impact its delivery? Did the 55 students engaged suffer delay and confusion? Did the academic staff using the simulation as the core of their own assessed…
Read MoreFinancial Times responsible research assessment: “slow hackathon” invitation
Under the leadership of Andrew Jack, the Financial Times’s Global Education Editor, the FT is seeking to better integrate the societal impact of business schools, including research, into its evaluations. Updating the FT’s standards creates an opportunity to align what is best for society, for science, and for the careers of individual scholars. If done well,…
Read MoreNine schools receive EQUIS re-accreditation
Warm congratulations to the following business schools for successfully completing the EQUIS re-accreditation process and proving their continued commitment to global excellence in business education. 3-year re-accreditation: International Business School Suzhou (IBSS), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China INCAE Business School, Costa Rica Management School, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom The Open University Business School, United Kingdom 5-year re-accreditation: Smith…
Read MoreInsights on the CLIP framework series so far
How do you ensure that your Corporate Learning Function (CLF) is actively contributing to the strategy and business priorities of your organisation? How does its governance ensure the mandate, support and involvement of the business to successfully deliver? How does the CLF understand and segment its market? How does it meaningfully involve the business and…
Read More2020 EFMD Case Writing Competition Winners Interview Series: Responsible Business
EFMD encourages and rewards innovative and impactful cases in management development each year. This year brought an exceptional variety of winning cases across various industries. EFMD decided to interview the winners to find out more about their motivation, inspiration and significant challenges. The following interview is with Rachida Justo (IE University), Caroline Tilden (IE University…
Read MoreNot business as usual
After nearly 1.5 years of facing unprecedented challenges, the EFMD network has gotten used to doing things differently. The pandemic has accelerated digitalisation and obliged business schools and companies to embrace new ways of learning, teaching and working. Born out of necessity, some of these innovations have changed our lives for the better and are…
Read MoreInitial EOCCS Certification for Rome Business School, EA Business School and University of the Bank of Russia courses
We are pleased to announce that the following institutions were recently granted the EOCCS certification for their courses: Rome Business School (IT) 4 courses part of the Master programme in HR and Organization: Business Strategy Marketing Managerial Economics Entrepreneurship and Business Planning EAE Business School (SP) 4 courses part of the Global Executive MBA programme: Financial Management Sales…
Read MoreInsights from the Corporate Advisory Seminar on Agile Learning
EFMD’s Special Interest Groups (SIG) are highly focused problem-driven learning groups that allow members of corporate learning organisations to mobilise the collective intelligence of the Learning & Development community to build solutions to common challenges. Over the past 18 months, EFMD, in partnership with London Business School, has led an Agile Learning SIG to explore…
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