Driving impact through repsonsible investing conference- opportunities for business and business schools
Organised by ABIS – The Academy of Business in Society, you are warmly welcome to the 20th Annual Colloquium “Driving impact through responsible investing” conference. The conference will create a dialogue between practitioners and academics centering on the question: how to enhance positive business impact on society through responsible investing? The conference welcomes responsible investing professionals,…
Read MoreCan you see me? Where next with my on-screen presence?
Dr Keith Pond, Director of EFMD’s Online Course Certification System, discusses the need for better production quality and on-screen presence for digital learning. I’m an academic, not a TV star Is yours the tiny head and shoulders in a box at the bottom of your slides invisible to students using mobile phones? Are you the…
Read MoreMeet the top 50 bestselling case authors 2020/21
On 25 October 2021, The Case Centre announced their Top 50 Bestselling Case Authors 2020/21. A place in the top 50 is an extraordinary achievement, as over 8,800 faculty are registered as authors with The Case Centre. Staying top of the tree The late Debapratim Purkayastha of ICFAI Business School (IBS), who sadly passed away…
Read MoreInitial EQUIS accreditation to Bologna Business School, IIMK, NUCB Business School, SEBA and SGH Warsaw School of Economics and five more schools receive re-accreditation
We are pleased to announce that Bologna Business School, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), NUCB Business School, Nagoya University of Commerce & Business, School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University and SGH Warsaw School of Economics have received their initial EQUIS accreditation. Warm congratulations to these schools! Alfons Sauquet, Quality Services & EQUIS…
Read MoreInitial EFMD Programme Accreditation awarded to Bissett School of Business, Goodman School of Business and MacEwan University School of Business
EFMD is pleased to announce that programme accreditation was recently awarded to Bissett School of Business, Mount Royal University, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Goodman School of Business, Brock University, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Co-op International Double Degree and MacEwan University School of Business, Bachelor of Commerce. Barbara Sporn, Director of EFMD Programme Accreditation,…
Read MoreThe American University in Cairo – AUC top African university that produces startup founders, new research says
According to recently published research compiled by Antler, a Singapore-based venture capital (VC) firm, out of all African universities, the American University in Cairo (AUC) produced the highest proportion of individuals who went on to found highly successful startups. More specifically, the report referred to growth-stage startups (ones that raised more than $10 million), soonicorns…
Read MoreE-learning trends: traditional schools vs digital schools
One of the obvious consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns has been the acceleration of the inevitable digital transformation. The impact is not only on consumption patterns or the way of working but also in the way of learning. Since the first e-learning initiatives in the 1970s, the industry has grown rapidly and…
Read MoreOne year in higher education with a persistent virtual campus
This article sums up the keynote of Alain Goudey, Chief Digital Officer at NEOMA Business School, during the EOCCS Symposium 2021. What is a persistent virtual campus? The NEOMA Business School persistent virtual campus, which opened in September 2020, is represented by an island called Laval Virtual World. It is operated by our partner Laval…
Read MoreInvitation to Cambridge Judge Business School’s Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre research seminar, 14th October
You’re invited to the Cambridge Judge Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre for our Professor Sucheta Nadkarni Research Seminar, on 14 October 2021. This seminar series honours our friend and colleague, the former Director of the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre, the late Professor Sucheta Nadkarni, and her pioneering research into gender diversity. This year’s Professor Sucheta Nadkarni Research Seminar…
Read MoreNew normal – new balances: Is there a way back to offline MBA programmes?
Lomonosov Moscow State University from Russia was one of the virtual EOCCS certified co-hosts at the fifth EOCCS Learning Community Symposium, which took place on 23 and 24 of September 2021. During our block of presentations, we discussed our experience of the transition to online teaching forced by the pandemic restrictions at classical MBA programmes.…
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