Posts Tagged ‘management’
Upskilling and Empowering HR Professionals: the Need of the Hour
Globalisation, technical advances, and new-age employees – a lot has changed over the past few decades. And with these changes, the roles of HR professionals have also changed. HRs are now looked upon as business partners that understand the organisational goals and drive growth. But to expect HRs to drive growth and upskill other employees,…
Read MoreCan we put zest and purpose back into academic life?
More and more papers in management studies are badly written, use dubious methods (such as p-hacking) to achieve spuriously positive results, and avoid the really big issues facing our discipline and our world. Why is this? My new book offers some explanations and identifies some tentative solutions. Above all, the ‘publish or perish’ mantra is…
Read MoreManagement Educators: Running Late for the Lesson
Some articles just pop up and lead your mind into new pathways. This happened to me as a recent column came across my desk, published in Forbes by education specialist Tom Vander Ark. He was reflecting on the trends that are reshaping global learning. His focus is mainly on high school education, and he has…
Read MoreIACMR-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Management
The Second IACMR-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Management “With Executive Input in Selecting the Winners” Co-sponsored by The International Association for Chinese Management Research and The Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management Announcement of Winners and Finalists March 10, 2019 The IACMR-RRMB award recognizes excellent scholarship that focuses on important issues for…
Read MoreDo you See Doomsday or Evolution?
What picture of the world are educators sharing with their students, doomsday or evolution? I am an educator focused on developing a mindset for sustainability with faculty and students, and I like to point metaphorical flashlights into the unseen corners of our society. My goal is to illuminate the connections of well-known facts (climate change,…
Read MoreLearning by Doing: The Power of Experiential Learning in Management Education
Experiential learning opportunities are an effective way to give students the leadership and team skills they need in order to successfully operate across borders and cultures. GBSN invites you to a highly interactive, international summit on Experiential Learning that provides an in-depth examination of how schools use real-world projects to give their students impactful learning…
Read MoreSmart Data Management: Transforming Data into Strategic Value for Business Schools
It is by now a broadly shared consensus in our community: The future of business school management is digital and, in this context, working effectively with data will be crucial for navigating business schools into the future. EFMD GN offers in partnership with Academ by RimaOne the workshop Smart Data Management Transforming Data into Strategic Value for…
Read MoreSecond Annual “Responsible Research in Management” Award
Call for nominations for the 2018 Responsible Research in Management Award The RRBM community is pleased to announce the second annual Responsible Research in Management Award. RRBM would like to invite their community members to nominate recent empirical research papers or books that exemplify rigorous, credible and useful research into society and business’ greatest challenges. The purpose of responsible research is to…
Read MoreHonorary President of EFMD and Former Heineken CEO Offers Lessons in Managing a Family Business
February 7, 2018. Shanghai – Outside talent tapped to manage family-owned businesses should never forget that the company belongs to the family, which they are there to serve. The trick is to find the balance between keeping owners happy and taking a stand, when needed, to protect the company’s long-term future. That was among the nuggets…
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