Learning & networking
Demystifying transformation – 5 ways to transform your business school PR
In June, I had the pleasure of attending the EFMD Marcom, External Relations and Alumni Relations conference at Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands. After months of restrictions, it was great to catch up with friends and colleagues from the business school world. The overall theme was: “Demystifying transformation”. Various sessions dived into what that…
Read MoreChallenging the value proposition: do career services prepare students for today’s working models?
Amber Wigmore Alvarez, PhD, Chief Talent Officer, Highered EFMD Upon successful conclusion of the 2022 EFMD Annual Conference, I reflect upon an invigorating experience moderating the breakout session entitled “Challenging the value proposition: Do career services prepare students for today’s working models?”. Panellists Dasha Karzunina, Skills Transformation Consultant, EMEA (Coursera, UK) and Jaromír Staroba, Prague…
Read MoreReflections on the 2022 EFMD Annual Conference
Johan Roos, Chief Academic Officer and Professor, Hult International Business School, and 2022 EFMD Annual Conference Chair, shares his thoughts on the 2022 EFMD Annual Conference. ‘More than 13k schools, representing some 20% of all global higher education and transforming the lives of millions of people.’ With those facts, I kicked off the 50th year…
Read MoreInternationalisation and digitalisation for EFMD Programme Accreditation
We are pleased to invite you to the following event: Topic: Internationalisation and Digitalisation Date: 23 June 2022, 12:00-13:30 CEST Speakers: Bob Galliers, Senior Advisor, EFMD Quality Services Melanie Currie, Deputy Dean, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK Content: Introduction of internationalisation and digitalisation considerations as they relate to EFMD Programme Accreditation Standards and…
Read MoreToward healthy doctoral ecosystems: reflecting on the recent DCP22
During the recent DPC 2022 conference, we zoomed in on healthy doctoral ecosystems, focusing both on different possible compositions of such ecosystems and on boundary conditions that ensure doctoral programmes run smoothly (see our previous blog). Using the analogy of a microchip, we visualised the main learnings and messages of the conference on the whiteboard…
Read MoreWhat brought us here might not get us there
What brought most business schools to pre-pandemic success was relevant in-person education, sprinkled with online learning. Willingly or reluctantly, within weeks Covid-19 kicked all business schools into the online world. Most did very well. They tried things out, learned from mistakes, and improved all aspects of their value creation. By the end of 2021 and…
Read MoreConnecting with careers at the 2022 CPDI
By Maria Moragianis, Head of Career Development & Community Engagement, Highered. This year’s CPDI (Career Professionals Development Institute), graciously hosted by EADA Business School in Barcelona was the first in-person EFMD careers event since the Covid-19 outbreak and the energy was high among the 20 careers professionals participating. After two years of online connecting, it…
Read MoreThe long commute
Adam Mitchell, Marketing Manager for Lancaster University Management School, continues his series on attending the EFMD Marcom, External & Alumni Relations conference sustainably. Reprinted with his permission from The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business and Lancaster University website. On Saturday 25 June, I’ll be cycling from Lancaster University Management School, travelling east across England to the coastal city…
Read MoreTakeaways from our spring Sharing Best Practice workshop: Leveraging social learning to shape a pervasive learning culture
Leveraging social learning to shape a pervasive learning culture was the theme of the online Sharing Best Practice workshop that EFMD delivered on 1 April in partnership with CLIP accredited Mazars University. Martin Moehrle explained why, as we move from the industrial to the knowledge era, value gets more intangible, knowledge more implicit and learning…
Read MoreRewarding Responsible Research
The Wharton School and INSEAD are proud to co-host the fourth annual Responsible Research Summit. It will be held on Wharton’s Philadelphia campus from 6-7 June 2022. The Summit aims to provide insights into how to encourage more business school researchers to address issues that have an impact and improve social well-being—what are some of…
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