COVID-19
From Adaptation to Innovation: How the Corona Pandemic Changed Business Education
Written by Andreas Rasche, Associate Dean of Copenhagen Business School and EFMD Executive Academy Alumni and Jordi Diaz, Dean of EADA Business School and Director of EFMD Executive Academy How did the Corona pandemic affect business schools around the world? How do schools prepare for an uncertain Fall Term? Seeking answers to these questions, EFMD…
Read MoreCorporate Recruiters Survey Shows Optimism for the Hiring of B-School Graduates
The global economic outlook reversed its course to pessimism and uncertainty in a matter of months due to COVID-19. This shift has also reset the demand and supply of talent at many levels. How has COVID-19 impacted the skill demand and hiring projections for MBA and Business Master’s graduates? The Graduate Management Admission Council™ (GMAC™)…
Read MoreGrenoble Ecole de Management focused on the key principles of agility and security to organize the 2020/2021 school year.
Grenoble Ecole de Management focused on the key principles of agility and security to organize the 2020/2021 school year. Up until December 2020, classes will be taught online using a two-month cycle that will be re-evaluated according to the evolution of the epidemic. Interview with Jean-François Fiorina, Deputy Director and Program Director at GEM. Why did…
Read MoreTime for change says Dana Brown, Dean of Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
Stephanie Mullins, Associate Director at specialist business education PR consultancy, BlueSky Education, spoke with Dana Brown, Dean of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Canada, about the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the institution and the wider industry for an upcoming podcast. “We don’t want to go back to the way things were, we want…
Read MoreLatest corporate recruiters trends. Join GMAC webinar on 1 October 2020
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is a global, mission-driven association of leading graduate business schools. Founded in 1953, GMAC is actively committed to advancing the art and science of admissions by convening and representing the industry and offering best-in-class products and services for schools and students. See the original post here. GMAC conducts the…
Read MoreCOVID, The Teacher: We, The Clever
In my last blog I mentioned how every day I was discovering new things that COVID was teaching me, and ended with a thought-provoking question: What insights and discoveries are you making? So let’s take it a few steps further. Ninety-three year old Chilean philosopher Gaston Soublette observes that our civilization is increasingly being externalized,…
Read MoreWhat’s happening to the workplace post Covid-19?
Here are two short articles written by two FutureWork Forum Partners, both highly respected and renowned in the field of efficient workplaces – Andrew Chadwick, the Principal of Chadwick International and Chris Hood, Director of Consulting, EMEA, Advanced Workplace Associates. See original article on Future Work Forum here. One of the main areas of discussion on the…
Read MoreWhat does the ‘new normal’ for business school teaching need?
Change Until there is a vaccine for Covid-19, and perhaps even after that, health guidelines will make in-person teaching impossible for large groups. Universities are impelled to implement a flexible approach that assumes students will need to switch between online and campus-based teaching throughout the coming academic year. Accordingly, all university staff now need to…
Read MoreGrenoble Ecole de Management: Bringing diversity and inclusion to the surface – unlocking full potential of teams
By Michelle Mielly and Naida CULSHAW, Professors and Researchers in Intercultural Management and Organizational Behaviour at Grenoble Ecole de Management Are multicultural teams different from other teams? Are team members not all professionals with the same objectives and goals? Such are some of the questions that come up as we uncover the hidden dimensions of…
Read MoreImpact of COVID-19 on Prospective Students Considering European Business Schools
In the last two decades, the Bologna Process coupled with the increasing pace of globalisation propelled the growth of master’s level enrolment in the business and management programmes in Europe. Many European business schools benefited from the mobility of learners from within Europe and overseas. According to Eurostat, every one out of four students enrolled…
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