Ahmed Abdel-Meguid is the associate dean for undergraduate studies and administration, and an associate professor of accounting at the American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business. He discusses five main effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on business schools, companies and accreditation and ranking bodies in his article published in the Business Forward, the AUC School…

How can business schools effectively use the media to share reassuring stories during the corona virus pandemic? Account Director Stephanie Mullins, from specialist business education PR consultancy BlueSky Education, shares her thoughts.  The business school community is facing one of its greatest challenges in this generation, COVID-19, which has led to many schools switching to different ways…

Over the past weeks, I have been reflecting on my next theme for this blog. The last one, months ago, suddenly became obsolete since it was written in the pre-COVID era, and the world is no longer the same! Like so many, I have been dedicating a great deal of time to taking in the…

Business school faculty all over the globe are, as we speak, preparing to move their teaching online. The Covid-19 crisis has forced schools to close down campuses and take action to support student learning using new aids. Transferring lectures online? In this new situation, the first stage for many schools seems to be the transfer…

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, we would like to remind the business school community that SDG Academy content is available for free as a resource for online teaching and learning. The SDG Academy is the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a global initiative for the United Nations. SDSN…

Alex Connock, Fellow in Management Practice at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University, specialising in digital media, arts and entertainment, who has worked in the media since the 1990s, now offers a peek behind the scenes of his online teaching. Last week I taught Digital and Social Media Strategy to a class of over 50…