Posts Tagged ‘trends’
Continuous learning is crucial to staying competitive in the job market
Career path steps are getting shorter, and employees should take care to look after their market value through life-wide learning, advises Jouko Pitkänen at Aalto University Executive Education. In addition to his position as a Senior Partner at JFP Executive Search, Pitkänen is a Visiting Lecturer at Aalto EE. He offers the following tips to…
Read MoreWhat are business schools doing to meet the challenges of 2023 and beyond?
Another year has gone by, and as we turn the page on 2022 and shift our focus to the year ahead, Jonny Stone and Stephanie Mullins from specialist business education PR consultancy BlueSky Education take a look at the one question that sits at the forefront of everyone’s minds: what will 2023 have in store?…
Read MoreStudy law… at business school
When deciding where you want to study certain subjects, it’s usually indicative of the name of the institution. Want to study medicine? Go to medical school. For law, it would be law school. And business schools educate individuals on all things – you guessed it – business. But sometimes, worlds collide, and interdisciplinary expertise is…
Read MoreIdentifying innovative learning experiences at business schools
Today, the business school classroom goes far beyond the lecture hall and face-to-face interaction between student and teacher. Accelerated since the global health crisis, there is no doubt that business school classrooms have become increasingly innovative in recent years. Business school PR experts Stephanie Mullins and Olivia Nieberg from BlueSky Education take a look at…
Read MoreBusiness school expansions boom
At a glance, business schools might seem like stationary entities. From a distance, it might seem that these institutions rarely change, let alone grow. Upon closer inspection, however, business schools are, quite frankly, some of the fastest-evolving organisations out there. Business education PR experts Stephanie Mullins and Jonny Stone from specialist communications consultancy BlueSky Education take a…
Read MoreHow business schools bolster the healthcare sector
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the difficulties and challenges global healthcare systems face have become more evident. Some business schools are addressing these challenges by offering business and management education aimed specifically at those working within the healthcare sector. Specialist PR consultants Stephanie Mullins and Kyle Grizzell from specialist public relations consultancy BlueSky…
Read MoreWhy business schools are ideally positioned to address the convergence of business and technology
Vittorio Chiesa, Chairman at POLIMI Graduate School of Management, tells Stephanie Mullins and EFMD Global why business schools are so well placed at the intersection of business and technology. Here’s what he said: Technology is a major engine of change, and digitalisation infiltrates across all sectors – sustainability, healthcare, finance, the list goes on. In…
Read MoreNew GMAC report sheds light on emerging themes in changing graduate management education
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) have released an industry report on “The Future of Graduate Management Education” from the perspective of European business school deans. The one-of-a-kind report aims to make sense of the shifting graduate management education (GME) landscape and forecasts what the future holds for GME through interviewing 20 deans from a select group of European business school thought leaders. The resulting conversations contain rich insights for business school professionals as they cultivate the next generation of impactful business leaders. ‘In a volatile world…
Read MoreAre virtual campuses the future of business education?
As advances in technology continue to impact our lives, Associate Director Stephanie Mullins and colleague Luke Kerin at specialist business education PR consultancy BlueSky Education explore three examples of how business schools have embraced technology when it comes to their campuses. The way people live their lives has changed drastically. Even without the impact of COVID-19, people were shifting towards technology…
Read MoreWhat do specialised MBA programmes look like today?
MBAs remain the flagship programme at most business schools; now, Associate Director Stephanie Mullins and colleague Kyle Grizzell at specialist business education PR consultancy BlueSky Education explore what can happen when you specialise the MBA using industry examples. The Master’s in Business Administration – the recognisable MBA – has been the postgraduate degree most heavily associated with business schools…
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