Closing remarks from the 2020 EFMD Global Americas Annual Conference that took place online 7-9 December by Viviane Barreto, Associate Dean for Global Strategy, Fundação Dom Cabral, Conference Chair

Is Aalto University School of Business one of the world’s most stable business schools amid crisis? Its Dean, Professor Timo Korkeamäki, discusses the school and its future with Stephanie Mullins, Associate Director at specialist business education PR consultancy, BlueSky Education.  “When the pandemic hit in Finland, we pretty much closed our premises in mid-March and stayed closed…

Prof. Eric Cornuel, President of EFMD Global reflects on the leadership challenges in the increasingly complex global environment. This text was adapted from Eric’s opening salvos at the 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum on 29 October 2020. Looking to the past, from ancient Egypt to China, or from Aristotle to Saint Thomas Aquinas, it is clear…

The fact that education does not have an Airbnb, Netflix or Tesla case does not mean at all that disruption is not happening in this industry as well. The key to understanding disruption in the education sector lies more on the “How” than on the “Who”. The formula also needs to include the “When” factor…

How can business school admissions professionals prepare for an uncertain future? Philippe Taza, CEO of Higher Education Marketing, a digital marketing and technology agency dedicated exclusively to the education sector, looks at how to create a strategy that will weather any storm.  Future-proofing: the process of anticipating the future and developing methods of minimising the…

Congratulations to BRI Corporate University (BRI CU) for having successfully completed the EFMD Corporate Learning Improvement Process (CLIP) and thus having been awarded CLIP accreditation. CLIP is a unique accreditation scheme run by EFMD that focuses on identifying the key factors that determine quality in the design and functioning of corporate universities and corporate learning…