Posts by Jean-Francois Fiorina
Eight challenges facing distance-learning
By Jean-François Fiorina, Vice-Dean / Program Director at Grenoble Ecole de Management The theme for this year’s GEM Geopolitics Festival was “Digital (R)evolution.” Little did we know that this topic was going to be 100% spot-on as the COVID-19 pandemic just showed us how central digital issues are for businesses and educational institutions’ crisis management (and…
Read MoreA new era for businesses!
By Jean-François Fiorina, Vice-Dean / Programme Director, Grenoble Ecole de Management With the end of the lockdown in France, I decided to look into “What Next?”. In this post, I will address, in terms of what I believe, the questions that provoked ongoing debate during the past weeks: the role of the State and that of…
Read MoreNew silk roads and higher-education: towards new models of internationalization?
Call it Silk road, OBOR (One Belt, One Road) or New silk roads, this project of a new world shaped by the Chinese is colossal, unbelievable, fascinating, beyond reality, almost fictional, megalomaniac…There are not enough words to describe these new “silk roads”. Whatever the opinions – positive or negative – about this project, it will have a…
Read MoreAll you’ve ever wanted to know about tuition fees in business education
A while ago I delivered a speech on financing of Higher Education, wherein I emphasized that education entails a cost. Once this fact is comprehended, it is wise enough to walk the roads of strategic thinking to timely secure the funding options for tuition fees. This would ensure that each element of the French higher education is strengthened…
Read MoreEducation – a strategic sector also interesting to emerging countries
Current events give me the opportunity to return to a subject that is dear to me, higher education in emerging countries. The GBSN- Global Business School Network conference in Manila from the 4th to the 6th November, at which I was present, my trip to Iran, all the regional AACSB or EFMD conferences, the EDAF…
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