There are plenty of options when it comes to education, specifically for high-level executives. Consultancies, in-house academies and online platforms all promise to develop leaders, and many do it well. Yet business schools continue to win the work that organisations care about most: the bespoke programmes designed to answer a company’s defining challenges. What sets…

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…

Following the latest EFMD Membership Review Committee meetings, we are proud to welcome 44 new members into the EFMD membership community, spanning 35 business schools, four corporate organisations, one reciprocal member, and four honorary members. Their ratification took place during the 2026 EFMD & EFMD Global Network Annual General Assemblies, held on 8 June in…

Estonian Business School (EBS) has been ranked first in Europe among business schools for start-up creation efficiency in the Redstone University Startup Index 2026, a study evaluating how effectively higher education institutions generate start-ups relative to their institutional budgets. The report assessed 1,050 higher education institutions across the European Union, European Economic Area, the United…

The transition into a dean’s role is one of the most significant leadership shifts in higher education. New deans are expected to provide strategic direction, manage complex stakeholder relationships, oversee resources, and respond to external pressures, often within their first months in office. Yet, the role extends well beyond academic leadership. Deans must balance institutional…