2020 Excellence in Practice Gold Award Winners
EFMD is delighted to announce the 2020 EFMD Excellence in Practice Gold Award Winners. Since 2007, The EFMD Excellence in Practice (EiP) Awards recognise outstanding and impactful client-supplier partnerships in the domains of Leadership, Professional, Talent and Organisational Development. The 2020 Gold Award Winners in the following five categories are: Organisational Development Unilever Brasil Industrial & Fundaço Dom…
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EFMD is delighted to announce the 2020 EFMD Excellence in Practice Silver Award Winners. Since 2007, the EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards (EiP) have recognised outstanding and impactful Learning & Development partnerships in the domains of Leadership, Professional, Talent, Organisational and Ecosystem Development. The 2020 Silver Award Winners in the following four categories are: Organisational…
Read MoreCorporate learning in the time of a pandemic
In response to the current crisis, EFMD set up a series of Zoom calls for its corporate members to discuss the challenges and opportunities brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Save the date for our third call on the topic of “Corporate learning in times of a pandemic 3” on 28 May 11:00 – 12:00…
Read MoreThe importance of being… prepared
In the sixth episode of the Quality Assurance Academy presents the HOW TO webinars, Kirsteen Daly, Accreditations, Rankings and Communication Manager, University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School shed more light onto the backstage of an accreditation visit – from planning and preparations to managing your staff. When asked about the key things to always…
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 MoreOnline Learning: Using the RENT framework to develop Scalable Personalisation
A recent EOCCS webinar input by Brent Gregory of the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, described the RENT framework. The framework is an educational view of the roles of management (Adizes, 1988) and an enabling mechanism for Scalable Personalisation (SP). SP is where the student learning journey is tailored to align with student needs…
Read MoreForty days into lockdown: Adam Smith Business School resource gives forty insights into the realities of working during Covid-19
New ways of working have arrived without warning, and they have arrived with no preparation. There is no time to adapt, there is just time to start. Here is a chance for us all to pause, listen and connect with others who are similarly navigating work and non-work lives: a reminder that while we might…
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 MoreUniversities, Be Aware: Start-Ups Strip Away Your Glory
About EdTech’s potential take-over of the higher education sector In 2012, the New York Times proclaimed the year of the MOOC, stating that online courses delivered on platforms such as Coursera and Udacity would disrupt the higher education sector. Universities and business schools worldwide pointed to the fact that studying is far more than listening…
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