A new team of researchers selected by ERA Chair (IN4ACT) is starting to work 1st of October
Kaunas University of Technology School of Economics and Business (KTU SEB) finished the selection of the ERA Chair project “Industry 4.0 impact on management practices and economics” (IN4ACT) research team. The selected candidates will start to work from 1st of October, 2020 (duration of the contract: 3 years). The ERA Chair research team is comprised…
Read More2020 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards winners
EFMD and Emerald Publishing announce with great pleasure the winners of the 2020 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards (ODRA) – an awards scheme designed to celebrate excellence in doctoral research. This year, 191 entries were received from authors based all around the world. Ten winning papers have each won €1,000 across the following ten subject areas: operations and production…
Read MoreThe future of business education? Investing in digital and a new breed of academic, says Lancaster University Management School Dean Angus Laing
Stephanie Mullins, Associate Director at specialist business education PR consultancy, BlueSky Education, spoke with Angus Laing, Dean of Lancaster University Management School, about the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the institution and the wider industry for an upcoming podcast. “We know how conservative academic colleagues can be,” says Laing – who has led the school since…
Read MoreFrom Adaptation to Innovation: How the Corona Pandemic Changed Business Education
Written by Andreas Rasche, Associate Dean of Copenhagen Business School and EFMD Executive Academy Alumni and Jordi Diaz, Dean of EADA Business School and Director of EFMD Executive Academy How did the Corona pandemic affect business schools around the world? How do schools prepare for an uncertain Fall Term? Seeking answers to these questions, EFMD…
Read MoreCorporate Recruiters Survey Shows Optimism for the Hiring of B-School Graduates
The global economic outlook reversed its course to pessimism and uncertainty in a matter of months due to COVID-19. This shift has also reset the demand and supply of talent at many levels. How has COVID-19 impacted the skill demand and hiring projections for MBA and Business Master’s graduates? The Graduate Management Admission Council™ (GMAC™)…
Read MoreGrenoble Ecole de Management focused on the key principles of agility and security to organize the 2020/2021 school year.
Grenoble Ecole de Management focused on the key principles of agility and security to organize the 2020/2021 school year. Up until December 2020, classes will be taught online using a two-month cycle that will be re-evaluated according to the evolution of the epidemic. Interview with Jean-François Fiorina, Deputy Director and Program Director at GEM. Why did…
Read MoreTime for change says Dana Brown, Dean of Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
Stephanie Mullins, Associate Director at specialist business education PR consultancy, BlueSky Education, spoke with Dana Brown, Dean of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Canada, about the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the institution and the wider industry for an upcoming podcast. “We don’t want to go back to the way things were, we want…
Read MoreA Path Forward: Leveraging Change to Transform Business Education
On Friday, September 25th from 7 – 8:30pm Beijing time, Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management and other members of EFMD’s global network from Asia, Europe, North America, and South America will host a virtual forum entitled “A Path Forward: Leveraging Change to Transform Business Education”. You can register at http://futureleaders.mikecrm.com/PqNJSej. Last semester, we were all forced to find coping…
Read MoreInaugural issue of Case Focus journal published
The Case Centre announces publication of the inaugural edition of Case Focus, its peer reviewed journal for teaching cases set across the Middle East and Africa. At a time when all of us in business and academia are being challenged to increase diversity in our leadership and structures, we cannot ignore barriers that restrict the…
Read MoreAdapting to the new normality: don’t forget the 3rd mission!
The project IMPALA addresses the challenges faced by the universities and the business schools in evaluating their contribution to local, regional, and national development. It promotes an impact-driven culture for all the components of the institution; from teaching activities to programme management, with the purpose to improve the quality and relevance of the services the…
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