Posts Tagged ‘partnerships’
EFMD’s Executive Development Conference for the first time fully online
“This was brilliantly organised. Certainly, one of the best and most user-friendly virtual conference environments.” We are happy for the very positive feedback from almost 100 participants at this year’s Executive Development Conference. And we learned a lot on our path to preparing an engaging online conference, with four particular lessons to share: Optimising user-friendliness…
Read MoreExcellence in Practice Award 2021 – Call for entries!
A guide to submitting your case study for the Excellence in Practice Awards 2021 Over the past 14 years, the EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards (EiP) have come to be widely recognised as a prestigious mark of outstanding and impactful Learning & Development partnerships. If you think that your organisation has forged a partnership which…
Read MoreTime for change says Dana Brown, Dean of Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
Stephanie Mullins, Associate Director at specialist business education PR consultancy, BlueSky Education, spoke with Dana Brown, Dean of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Canada, about the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the institution and the wider industry for an upcoming podcast. “We don’t want to go back to the way things were, we want…
Read MoreEFMD Annual Conference 2020 “Embracing the Future: A New Mandate for Business Schools”
By Marc Smelik, Associate Dean, IE Business School and 2020 EFMD Annual Conference Chair Engaging across borders The 2020 Online EFMD Annual Conference created a new way for our members and delegates to engage across borders, much like the methodologies we have put in place for our learning communities in a year dominated by the…
Read MoreCome together, share and (re)-connect!
Many of us cannot wait for the moment when we come together again and interact with those many friends and colleagues that we have met over the years at different EFMD activities. The warmth and joy of connecting with people is what many of our conference participants see as the number one reason why they come…
Read MoreEFMD presents the new EFMD Fellows
Over the last 20 years, the EFMD network has grown and become a truly global community. We are also very aware of the need to foster, enhance and build on local relationships and support the development of management education in certain key areas. That is why we decided to appoint eighteen regional EFMD Fellows, who…
Read MoreThe Launch of a Blueprint for SDG Integration in Business Schools
By Giselle Weybrecht, Special Advisor to the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education; read the original article published at the PRiME time blog 2020 marks both five years into the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the beginning of the United Nations Decade of Action to ensure the achievement of these Global Goals. It…
Read MoreWar vs. economic peace in times of crisis
“We are at war.” It’s a phrase the French President, Emmanuel Macron, repeated 8 times during a primetime speech at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. Along the same lines, the French Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, explained that the country would face a terrible economic war in the aftermath of this crisis.…
Read MoreEFMD partners with Emerald Publishing to demonstrate real impact of research from business schools through the Business School Impact System (BSIS)
The EFMD’s Business School Impact System (BSIS) has partnered with Emerald Publishing to help bridge the connection between research and practice, and to showcase the true impact of business schools’ research in the real world. The BSIS scheme is designed to determine the extent of a school’s impact upon its impact zone. The BSIS process…
Read MoreOn a mission towards internationalisation
The fourth episode of the Quality Assurance Academy presents the HOW TO webinars with Lena Candries, Director International Relations & Development, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics, zeroed in on how to build, assess and maintain a strong portfolio of partnerships in the context of internationalisation linked to accreditation. Internationalisation for Lena and…
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