EFMD Events
Connecting 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 MoreTowards healthy doctoral ecosystems
During the 2021 EFMD Doctoral Programmes Conference (DPC), we focused on responsible doctoral programmes for a responsible future (blog). A learning point throughout the conference was the importance of networks and networking for doctoral graduates and programmes. Successful doctoral education clearly does not take place in a vacuum. Next, the specific institutional, regional and national…
Read MoreAdam’s grand adventure to the EFMD Marcom, External & Alumni Relations Conference
Adam Mitchell, the Marketing Manager for Lancaster University Management School, explains how he will attend the conference sustainably. Reprinted with permission from The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business and Lancaster University website. Greenhouse gas emissions from travel constitute 27% of emissions in the United Kingdom (UK Government, 2019) and also makes up a large…
Read MoreRedefining the (im)possible at the 2022 Deans & Directors Conference
Marion Debruyne, Dean of Vlerick Business School and 2022 EFMD Deans & Directors Conference Chair, shares her thoughts on the conference and redefining the (im)possible. The theme of this year’s EFMD Dean & Directors conference was “redefine the (im)possible”. A theme that surely resonated with a lot of deans attending the conference. Because redefining the…
Read MoreDeveloping or rethinking a sustainable strategy for online education
Business school leadership has gained a lot of experience with different kinds of emergency measures to keep their students’ learning journey on the right track. So now is the right time for institutions to develop or rethink their strategy for online education. There are different tools available to tackle that rethinking in a structured way.…
Read MoreLooking back on the 2021 EFMD Annual Conference
Nicola Kleyn, Dean, Executive Education, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and 2021 EFMD Annual Conference Chair, shares her thoughts on the 2021 EFMD Annual Conference. At the beginning of the EFMD Annual Conference, I challenged the audience to take a step back from our normal busyness and customary behaviour, to reflect on what is…
Read MoreEFMD Sharing Best Practice workshop explored the post-pandemic era of corporate learning
Re-imagining the post-pandemic world of L&D was the theme of the highly interactive Sharing Best Practice online workshop that EFMD conducted on 28 September in partnership with the CLIP accredited AIA Group. Almost 50 participants joined. Gyan Nagpal, head of the AIA Leadership Centre (ALC), provided an overview of how leadership development will be a…
Read More2021 Executive Development Conference insights
EFMD’s 2021 Executive Development Conference ‘Reboot, Revitalise and Reimagine’ was again a great success with, at peaks, over 100 professionals from business schools, alternative providers and corporates participating. The conference provided intriguing insights to further develop the most effective methods in developing our human capital. With insights from three exciting and energising keynote sessions in…
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