Posts Tagged ‘impact’
BSIS from a project manager’s perspective
Thanks to Eric Neutuch, Accreditation and Institutional Projects Partner, and Anne-France Borgeaud Pierazzi, Head of Public Affairs, at IMD for sharing their perspectives. Your institution may be considering adopting the Business School Impact System (BSIS). If so, you probably are thinking about how to conduct the project effectively and efficiently. At IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland), we…
Read MoreNew scholarship to increase diversity in business education launched by GMAC
As business schools identify and support the true value of diversity, GMAC demonstrates how to walk the talk with the launch of a new scholarship. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) has launched a brand new scholarship, the GMATTM Talent and Opportunity Scholarship for 10 European business school applicants, aimed at improving inclusion in graduate management…
Read MoreKozminski University: Solidarity with Ukraine
In the terrible context of war that the world is facing now, our community looks for opportunities to provide support. Kozminski University, a Business School Impact System (BSIS) labelled school, deployed several relief actions. Below you can find excerpts from a document published by the University, available for download further down, with ideas of how business schools can…
Read MoreHigh impact research is the norm at Nottingham Business School
Our first EFMD Member Spotlight highlights Nottingham Business School (NBS) and its commitment to responsible research. Thank you to Alistair Bruce, Associate Dean for Research, and Baback Yazdani, Executive Dean, for their contribution. There are different models operating at business schools across the world. Sometimes research and teaching are considered as separate domains. In some business schools, research is distant from the…
Read MoreCEIBS – China Europe International Business School renews BSIS label
We are pleased to announce that CEIBS – China Europe International Business School has renewed the Business School Impact System (BSIS) assessment process and received the BSIS label again. Warm congratulations to the school! “CEIBS has decided for this BSIS renewal not to cover all the 7 impact fields, but to focus the report and…
Read MoreSix business schools supporting refugees and asylum-seekers
PR consultants Stephanie Mullins and Kyle Grizzell from specialist business education PR consultancy BlueSky Education explore how business schools can support refugees and asylum-seekers. Worldwide, there are 84 million forcibly displaced people. Of these, 26.6 million are defined as refugees and 4.4 million as asylum-seekers, an individual forced to leave their own country to escape war, persecution, or other reason.…
Read MoreHEC Lausanne’s impact reconfirmed by BSIS
Warm congratulations to HEC Lausanne, Universite de Lausanne, for completing the Business School Impact System (BSIS) renewal assessment process and receiving the BSIS label. Michel Kalika, Founder and Director of BSIS, commented, ‘We are pleased to continue the impact journey with HEC Lausanne. The school impressed us with its attractiveness to students, dedication to sustainability…
Read MoreAdded value: six ways that continuing your BSIS journey adds value
How are you planning to continue to demonstrate the impact of your business school once your Business School Impact System (BSIS) label expires? What would be the added value of renewing the label? How could the renewal process support your strategic and operational activities? And how could BSIS continue to work for you into the…
Read MoreAssessing the impact of research in business schools: seven good reasons to work with BSIS to build the full picture
How does your School demonstrate the impact of its research? Is it all about the metrics? Or do you look at the bigger impact picture? And what role could Business School Impact System (BSIS) play in assessing the impact of your research? There are many reasons why BSIS could feature in your research impact measurement…
Read MoreRethinking faculty models for impactful schools and resilient careers
Wilfred Mijnhardt is the Policy Director for Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Chair of the new EFMD Faculty Management Programme. Follow him on Twitter. Impact has landed in the missions and strategies of business schools and in the standards of accreditation agencies. Impact is core business, together with the creation of new…
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