KTU researcher’s book is on the list of the world’s best
KTU School of Economics and Business prof. Max von Zedtwitz’s book “Responsible Product Innovation: Safety first” written with Andy Yunlong Zhu and Dimitris G. Assimakopoulos was identified as one of the best New Product Innovation eBooks To Read In 2019. The list is made annually by BookAuthority – the world’s leading site for nonfiction book recommendations, helping…
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 MoreApproved Principal Investigator of ERA Chair (IN4ACT) project
In October, Panagiotis (Takis) Damaskopoulos the head of the first in Lithuania ERA Chair project Industry 4.0 impact on management practices and economics (IN4ACT) starts his work in Lithuania. The results of the selection were validated by the European Commission. Takis Damaskopoulos is the Executive Director and Principal Investigator of the European Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (EIIR). Vice President of the ONCE-ONLY.ORG Association. Its research and…
Read MoreSmart platform joins MeetHR Group to boost recruitment of Chinese students
Highered & MeetHR Signs Strategic Partnership Greater China Chinese companies have struggled to reach out to nearly 1M students studying abroad but a new agreement signed today between Highered China and MeetHR Group will create the greatest ecosystem for companies and graduates anywhere in the country. Highered uses the smartest matching technology available to help…
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 MoreThinking Critically on School Leadership and a Shared Sense-Making Process
By Sherry Ganon-Shilon, winner of the 2018 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the category “Educational Leadership and Strategy” with her thesis titled Exploring School Principals’ Sense-Making of Their Leadership Role within the National Reform ‘Courage to Change’ Warren Bennis defined LEADERSHIP as the capacity to translate vision into reality. Is this definition relevant to…
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 MoreSaint-Gobain Group Learning & Development accredited by CLIP
We are proud to announce that the Saint-Gobain Group Learning & Development (SGLD) was accredited by the EFMD Corporate Learning Improvement Process (CLIP). CLIP is a unique accreditation run by EFMD that focuses on identifying the key factors that determine quality in the design and functioning of corporate universities and learning organisations. Martin Moehrle, Director of Corporate Services…
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