From boardrooms, business schools, Andalusia’s olive groves and international institutions, the 2026 EFMD Annual Conference in Seville returned repeatedly to a single question: what should management education stand for? Over three days, it became less a prompt than a sustained inquiry, tested across disciplines, sectors, and institutional perspectives. Hosted by San Telmo Business School from…

Sevilla asked something of all of us this year: not what management education does, but what it should stand for. That was the question at the heart of the EFMD Annual Conference 2026, hosted by San Telmo Business School in Sevilla, drawing several hundred members of our community to explore it together. It felt like…

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a fixture in executive education. But according to NEOMA Business School Associate Dean for Digital Alain Goudey, most programmes are still missing the central leadership challenge: judgment. In this conversation, he explains why executives need to spend less time learning tools and more time defining the boundaries of delegation. Here…

Artificial intelligence is no longer a niche technology story. It is a systemic force rewriting industrial models, national strategies, and the architecture of global governance — all at once. Against this backdrop, the 12th CEIBS Europe Forum convenes on 24 June 2026, simultaneously in Brussels and Shanghai, to ask a question that carries the weight…

Debates on AI in business schools often focus on faculty replacement. This article argues that the deeper disruption lies elsewhere. AI undermines the traditional course as the primary unit of learning. It is shifting academic authority from content delivery to sensemaking and judgment. For more than a year, conversations about artificial intelligence in business schools…

Professor Meelis Kitsing is the Rector of Estonian Business School. His research interests focus on the political economy of digital platform ecosystems. But how does he prepare students for AI-driven business transformation? What does the future of business education look like? Kitsing shares his thoughts on this and more. Here are his words: As rector…