The importance and impact of culture is not lost on business schools, but how does new research on collectivism impact teaching and research? Thomas Talhelm, Robert Cialdini Endowed Professor of Social Influence at Arizona State University, has just published new research on why people (and academia’s most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix…

EFMD and BITSoM invite business school leaders to take part in the Global Perspectives Survey. EFMD and the BITS School of Management (BITSoM) are bringing together business school leaders for the All India Deans Conference to be held in Mumbai on 8-9 October 2026. The conference will explore key questions shaping business education today, and…

NEWTON University is building a Centre of Excellence for Competitiveness Management to support leaders in identifying, creating, and sustaining their company’s strategic advantage. Competitiveness management includes analysing global and local trends and their impact on specific business models, turning ideas into profitable products, and building organisational resilience against external shocks. According to research by McKinsey &…

Business education is facing questions that extend well beyond the classroom. Geopolitical uncertainty, advances in artificial intelligence, changing expectations among students and employers, and the growing importance of international collaboration are prompting business schools to reconsider how they create value and demonstrate impact. Regional perspectives are essential to this conversation. The challenges facing a business…

If test-takers start with the maximum score and lose points for mistakes, they perform 8 percentage points better than when they traditionally start from zero and earn points for correct answers. A simple change in feedback can produce a sizable boost in university performance, finds new research from Corvinus University of Budapest. The psychological discomfort…

Prof. Himanshu Rai, Director of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, tells us about the benefits of taking our time in today’s fast-paced world. Here are his words:  We live in an age of high velocity, of total speed. It is defined by the relentless immediacy: instant communication, hyper-short news cycles, the endless scroll of…