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The power of ecosystems
The Harvard Business Review launched a series of articles related to the 11thGlobal Peter Drucker Forum with the theme “The Power of Ecosystems.” Ecosystems are omnipresent, not confined to natural environments. Increasingly, we see businesses, public sector institutions, and third-sector organisations all moving beyond their traditional operational borders. They create and participate in new, flexible,…
Read MoreThe Future of Work: Remote Companies
I started to work on a remote team in 2011. My boss, the project manager, just moved back to the US. Great, I thought. The first project manager quit to follow his partner to the UK. The second one moves to the other side of the world, leaving me – a junior researcher – to…
Read MoreAuthentic political leadership: A contradiction in terms or in the eye of the beholder?
Surrendering to Brexit! Even whilst we are still in its midst, it is already a cliché to write about Brexit – particularly in connection with issues of political leadership. Nonetheless, the ubiquity of the subject on our TVs and radios, in newspapers and on social media, make it hard to avoid. In the UK, it has…
Read MoreTowards fair and adequate rankings
By Winfried Ruigrok, Dean, Executive School of Management, Technology & Law and Professor of International Management, University of St.Gallen (Switzerland) Over the past fifteen years, rankings have become a ubiquitous and often uncomfortable phenomenon of business school life. The surge of rankings has led to strong reactions. Some scholars even talk about ranking “fetishism”. University…
Read MoreCan we put zest and purpose back into academic life?
More and more papers in management studies are badly written, use dubious methods (such as p-hacking) to achieve spuriously positive results, and avoid the really big issues facing our discipline and our world. Why is this? My new book offers some explanations and identifies some tentative solutions. Above all, the ‘publish or perish’ mantra is…
Read MoreEdTech Investor Day by HEADway Advisory
HEADway Advisory, the leading consulting firm devoted entirely to higher education, research and life-long learning institutions, is proud to present the first European EdTech Investor Day®. This event, supported by EFMD, will take place on October 24, 2019 at ESCP Europe (Paris campus – France). Participants The event will bring together the three main stakeholders…
Read MoreManagement Educators: Running Late for the Lesson
Some articles just pop up and lead your mind into new pathways. This happened to me as a recent column came across my desk, published in Forbes by education specialist Tom Vander Ark. He was reflecting on the trends that are reshaping global learning. His focus is mainly on high school education, and he has…
Read MoreResponsible Business Education – Financial Times Showcase
The Financial Times is seeking examples of best practice for a report on Responsible Business Education. Business Schools around the world have until 27 September 2019 to submit details of their leading initiatives in teaching, research, student projects and operations with societal impact. The result will not be a ranking, but a selection of strong examples…
Read MoreA new generation of leaders?
Changing trends in business Masters The market for the Masters in Management and specialist pre-experience Masters is substantial. In the testing year of 2018, GMAC found that 34.3% of its GMAT test takers used their results to apply for a business Masters. In East and South East Asia and Western Europe it was up to…
Read MoreRSM hosts the first Global Responsible Research Summit
Contributing to a better world through better research A majority of scholars, academics and deans of business schools agree that it’s vital to create a new research ecosystem centred on credible and useful research. But so far, achievements have been scarce. That’s now changing. The discussion moved from the theoretical to the actual in July…
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