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Barcelona hosts the first meeting of the European Commission project
EFMD participates in the kick-off meeting for the EQUAL4EUROPE project to promote gender equality at research centres and academic institutions. Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, EQUAL4EUROPE aims to develop gender-equality plans for European research and higher education institutions to apply in their management strategies and diversity plans To do so, Esade will…
Read MoreAUC School of Business Forum 2020
In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the school’s rebranding as the “AUC School of Business,” and in line with AUC’s celebration of its centennial, the School of Business is organising a high-level three-day forum that will be taking place on 9-11 February 2020. The forum will encompass several roundtable discussions where renowned and distinguished…
Read MoreOnline Course Survey
Students, who undertook an entirely online course, are invited to take part in the DBA thesis survey questionnaire. Researchers from the Graduate School of Management – IAE Nice of the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, a member of the ComUE of the University of Cote d’Azur, would like to obtain your ideas on the factors affecting…
Read MoreEdtech in business schools and how to promote it
The business education sector is a hub for innovation, but how can schools best share their progress? Account Director Stephanie Mullins, from specialist business education PR consultancy BlueSky Education, shares her thoughts. Across the globe, business schools have been introducing technology into their programmes in order to meet the educational needs of students, destined for an…
Read MoreUrs Mueller, SDA Bocconi, announced as Outstanding Case Teacher 2020
On #WorldCaseTeachingDay, The Case Centre names Urs Mueller, Associate Professor of Practice at SDA Bocconi School of Management and visiting lecturer at ESMT Berlin, as the winner of the 2020 Outstanding Case Teacher competition. Presented annually since 2013, the international Outstanding Case Teacher competition recognises exceptional teachers who are achieving excellence through innovative and creative…
Read MoreRecognise your peers! PMI Academic Awards Nominations are open
The PMI Academic and Research Awards recognise and honor individuals, groups and published works that significantly advanced the concepts, knowledge, and practices of project, programme and portfolio management. The call for nominations is open now through 1 March 2020. You can nominate your colleagues for the following awards: PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature…
Read MoreThird Global Conference on Creating Value
Ecole des Ponts Business School and the Creating Value Alliance are proud to invite you to the Third Global Conference on Creating Value that will take place in Paris on June 2 and 3, 2020. A wide consensus has grown that the purpose of a company is to create value. Building on the foundations of…
Read MoreScientists: circular economy is not only about recycling
Lithuania, like other small open economies in Eastern Europe, is often characterized by linear production and consumption. Despite the European Union (EU) initiatives to prompt practical implementation of the principles of the circular economy, the problems of insufficient production from natural resources, relatively short product consumption term and small product reuse, limited waste recycling and…
Read MoreWhen students rate the impact of their business schools…
The Positive Impact Rating (PIR) concept was developed in a multi-step prototyping process by a large group of committed and engaged academics, students and business school stakeholders from many different countries. Katrin Muff is a thought leader and Director at The Institute for Business Sustainability, Lucerne, Switzerland, and Professor of Practice at Luiss Business School…
Read MoreReducing the weight of salary criteria in rankings – impact assessment
What would rankings look like if the main organisations eliminated or reduced the weight of the salary measure? Laurent Ortmans, Quality Assurance and Ranking Manager at ESMT Berlin and a former statistician behind the FT rankings, shared his views at the recent 2019 EFMD Master Programmes Conference. When someone criticizes the weight given to salary…
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