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Join the new Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs!
Join the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs for monthly live conversations with renowned authors about groundbreaking work that examines the most important topics for humanity, including sustainable development, social justice, and more. January’s book is Martin J. Sherwin’s Gambling with Armageddon, which looks at the Cuban Missile Crisis and the origins, scope, and consequences of…
Read MoreReconfiguration of the Enrollment Funnel for B-schools: New GMAC Survey Research
Applications for graduate management education (GME) increased by 2.4 per cent based on the weighted absolute change analysis of 731 programs that responded to the 2019 and 2020 Application Trends Survey. This is a reversal from a decline of 3.1 per cent in the applications last year. This reversal of trends is in line with…
Read MoreGrenoble Ecole de Management: Bringing diversity and inclusion to the surface – unlocking full potential of teams
By Michelle Mielly and Naida CULSHAW, Professors and Researchers in Intercultural Management and Organizational Behaviour at Grenoble Ecole de Management Are multicultural teams different from other teams? Are team members not all professionals with the same objectives and goals? Such are some of the questions that come up as we uncover the hidden dimensions of…
Read MoreImplications of COVID-19 for Public Health and the SDGs
The COVID-19 global health pandemic is rapidly changing the ways we live and work. In the age of sustainable development and at a time when the world is working towards achieving the SDGs, this disease is complicating SDG implementation efforts as well as posing a real risk to achieving targets on communicable disease, education, life…
Read MoreWhat future for the MBA?
The 2020 Tomorrow’s MBA report from CarringtonCrisp and EFMD suggests that the MBA market will be different from the previous decade. Stories still persist about the decline of the MBA, but the demand for postgraduate and lifelong learning will only grow in coming years as people have to reskill and upskill to build their careers. The…
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 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…
Read MoreKTU ERA Chair project is looking for team members
Kaunas University of Technology School of Economics and Business (KTU SEB), Lithuania invites candidates to apply for Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow positions in the IN4ACT ERA Chair project “Industry 4.0 impact on management practices and economics”. For the full job description and application form, please visit the IN4ACT website. KTU has become the first university in Lithuania to…
Read MoreKTU Scientists’ Predictions: AI and humans in the Industry 5.0
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most relevant issues in the course of the current 4th Industrial Revolution. According to the scientists of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), the forthcoming 5th Industrial Revolution will focus on the synergy between humans and AI. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most debated topics today. What professions…
Read MoreAuthenticity lacking on business school websites and doubts about social media
Latest GenerationWeb study analyses student use of social and digital media in deciding where to study Most prospective students use social media to consider where to study, but there is some scepticism on using sites due to recent social media scandals, reveals the latest edition of the GenerationWeb study by CarringtonCrisp in association with EFMD.…
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