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Covid-19, Society, Innovation & Sustainable Business Review from Grenoble Ecole de Management
A WORD FROM OUR DIRECTOR ON THE TASK AT HAND Covid-19: “The task today is to set society back on track” In light of this unprecedented crisis, Grenoble Ecole de Management focuses on its primary leitmotif: to be a responsible, solidary institution that ensures the safety of its students and staff. As of December 2019,…
Read MoreAre you dreaming of a liquid business school?
By Claudia Monteiro, Senior Consultant at CarringtonCrisp & Andrew Crisp, Owner, CarringtonCrisp Call it what you want – hybrid, cooperative, blended, or even liquid as I heard it described recently by Santiago Iniguez, President of IE University in Spain; much future study in business education seems likely to have components of both online and on-campus…
Read MoreWhy Business Schools should develop a large modelling & simulation community before the next pandemic
By Kathy Kotiadis, Kent Business School, University of Kent; Antuela A. Tako, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University; Christine S.M. Currie and Bhakti Stephan Onggo, CORMSIS, University of Southampton Business schools could play a crucial role in helping governments prepare for the next pandemic by developing the next generation of the modelling and simulation community. Simulation…
Read MoreWhen is a business school more than a business school?
Business schools are sometimes Schools of Management, Schools of Business and Economics, Faculties of Business and Law, and, now, in a number of cases a School of Business and Society. Increasingly, schools recognise that business cannot be studied in isolation and the same is true of prospective Masters students. The 2020 Tomorrow’s Masters report, published…
Read MoreI wander lonely as a cloud security architect – Wordsworth and the future of business education
In the fourth of the See the Future blogs, Ian Hawkings, Senior Consultant at CarringtonCrisp, explores the expectations of employers regarding business school graduates. “When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long”, so says the social critic and philosopher Mokokoma Mokhonoana. And although seven-day weekends may seem appealing on some level, virtually every study…
Read MoreCOVID-19 crisis: A call for responsible leadership research
This article was originally published on the RRBM blog as part of the COVID-19 Insights from Business Sustainability Scholars Series which brings together business researchers from multiple professional societies: Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management (ONE), Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN), Network…
Read MoreStudents and employers want learning that heads in more than one direction
In the third of the See the Future blogs, Claudia Monteiro, Senior Consultant at CarringtonCrisp, examines what students want in their degrees and what employers want from students. Getting new postgraduate programmes up and running is laborious stuff. Planning the curriculum is a tiny fraction of the work; on the other side of it lies…
Read MoreA new world of work means a new world for business schools
In the second of our See the Future blogs, Ian Hawkings, Senior Consultant at CarringtonCrisp, tackles trends in the world of work. A 2015 article in The Guardian listed five ways in which working life would change in the future. It mentioned the rise of AI, the flattening of workplace structures and how more companies…
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 MoreSee the Future Series
A few years ago, CarringtonCrisp did some work for ALBA Graduate Business School in Athens and at the time they gave me a luggage tag, which has been on my rucksack ever since, with the words ‘Business unusual’. At the time, this was a bold claim, but today nothing could be more true. In mid-November…
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