Posts by Toby Roe
Business Schools as Pillars of Trust
Trust is one of the key themes at the EFMD Annual Conference and it is extremely timely for the business education community to look at this. We are at a point in many parts of the world where it seems there is an increasing lack of trust, as part of rising populism and nationalism. Where…
Read MoreSharing your research with the media
Business schools spend a lot of time talking about combining academic quality with practical application. Ideally, all research from business schools would be both academically rigorous and appealing to practitioners. The reality, of course, is that much research is not that accessible to non-academic audiences. Debra L. Shapiro and Bradley Kirkman in Harvard Business Review…
Read MoreDeveloping leaders in the Norwegian wilderness – University of Exeter Business School
This summer the University of Exeter Business School launched its first ever Leadership Skills Expedition module for its MBA, taking 17 students to the rugged landscape of Norway where they could develop and understand their leadership abilities. MBA Director, Stuart Robinson explains: In MBA education we all talk a lot about leadership. A key consideration…
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