
The role of Business Schools in driving equality
Educators must reach out beyond the walls of their institutions and address the most important issues facing society
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Creating cultures of change: To challenge traditional structures and content, leaders must first enable their institutions to embrace change, says London Business School’s Andy Craggs
Student voice: Student feedback has been critical to the process of meeting learners’ evolving needs and remaining relevant, says Sherif Kamel, Dean of the School of Business at The American University in Cairo
Partnering to support those in need: POLIMI Graduate School of Management’s Tommaso Agasisti outlines how partnerships with three Business Schools in Ukraine aim to provide continuity to students at a time of unimaginable unsettlement
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Educators must reach out beyond the walls of their institutions and address the most important issues facing society
How is the shift to the Pacific region reflected in the development and success of current Business School models? We explored this and related questions at a webinar bringing together experts from China, Europe and the US
How should Business Schools harness learnings from the Covid-19 pandemic and position themselves in a digital landscape?
How should future leaders and their organisations respond to the climate crisis?
Business Schools can no longer afford to ignore the intimate interrelationship between business and politics – and they must go beyond layering ESG perspectives onto standard business thinking – says Joe Zammit-Lucia
Business Schools can no longer afford to ignore the intimate interrelationship between business and politics. To address this, we need a better understanding of the roles of ‘politics’ and ‘business’ in our societies, says Joe Zammit-Lucia
What skills are organisations looking for in the talent they employ, and how can Business Schools instil these?
Business professionals must form a mutual understanding of each other’s conceptions of the world if they are to work together effectively, says the Berlin School of Business and Innovation’s Farshad Badie
Business Schools must prioritise inclusivity or face being left behind
Assistive technology can enhance the student experience and help those working with new languages as well as levelling the playing field for those with disability or lack of access, says doctor and entrepreneur, Richard Purcell
Undergraduate expectations are evolving under the conditions imposed by Covid-19. Business Schools should see this as an opportunity to change their offerings for the better, says Jordi Robert-Ribes, CEO at EDUopinions
Exploring the benefits of networks and collaboration in the business education sector
Business Schools’ impact on society: With dispatches from Antwerp, Vancouver, Cairo, Nagoya, Geneva and Paris, we look at how Business Schools from across BGA’s growing global network are striving to make positive contributions to society.
Business education in Hungary: How the Faculty of Economics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest is meeting growing demand with an emphasis on preparing students to adapt.
How can Business Schools help combat inequality? Highlights from a recent AMBA & BGA roundtable on how business education can help curb a growing problem faced by global society.
How Business Schools can bridge the political divide?
Schools can no longer afford to ignore the intimate interrelationship between business and politics – and they must go beyond layering ESG perspectives onto standard business thinking.
How can Business Schools develop leaders that embody the change needed in the business world?
What makes the difference between those of us that simply complain and those of us that actively endeavour to make things better, for people and the planet?
What is the future of bachelor’s degrees in business?
Undergraduate expectations are evolving under the conditions imposed by Covid-19. Business Schools should see this as an opportunity to change their offerings for the better.
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Protecting the digital wellbeing of Business School students: what could Schools do to look after the digital wellbeing of the new generation of remote and/or blended learners? Arden University’s Anthony Thompson considers potential solutions and explores how to engage students in an increasingly online environment.
Reaping the dividends of an increase in MBM programmes: amid the transition to blended and online learning, exclusive BGA research shows Business Schools received more applications across an increased number of MBM programmes in 2020, although regional experiences for the format did vary.
Mentorpreneurship – lifecycle support for students and innovators: lifecycle mentorship that begins pre-university and continues far beyond graduation offers a golden opportunity to nurture ongoing communities of support for socially conscious entrepreneurs, says LJ Silverman, Head of LSE Generate.
Encouraging acceptance over assimilation: the unique perspectives brought to organisations by international students and workers may be tolerated in the first instance, but there are often expectations that newcomers assimilate to presiding norms over time. UCL School of Management’s Felix Danbold outlines why Business Schools should be ready to anticipate and address tensions.
Reaffirming the value of a global outlook: IBS-Moscow was quick to return to offering an in-person international module as part of its EMBA programme earlier this year. Programme Director and Associate Dean, Ashot Seferyan, explains why.
Leading with trust: business isn’t capitalising on the benefits trust can bring. But students must be made aware of how trust relates to power and how leaders must govern themselves to retain it.
The world of management education is getting bigger, not smaller, under the ongoing restrictions of Covid-19.
The February edition of Business Impact leads with full features of four Business Schools from four different continents:
Also featured: exclusive research into MBM admissions, levels of diversity and delivery around the world.
Could a subscription model be the radical game changer traditional Business Schools need? AMBA & BGA Chair, Bodo Schlegelmilch builds on the notion of ‘degrees for rent’ in Business Impact’s sixth edition.
In addition, there’s guest commentary and interviews on the following subjects:
How has the management education landscape been affected by Covid-19, and how are Business Schools working to move past the pandemic? Business Impact’s fifth edition canvasses Business School experts’ insights from Europe, Asia and the Americas.
The magazine also features:
In addition, there’s guest commentary and interviews on the following subjects:
Business Impact’s fourth edition explores the concept of integrating sustainability into business education from the perspective of senior Business School professionals, and features comments from St.Gallen, MIP, Imperial College Business School, and more.
There are also interviews with leading minds in business education, on topics that include:
This edition leads with new and original AMBA & BGA research into application and enrolment data for business master’s (MBM) programmes across the world.
It also features interviews with BGA validated and BGA member institutions in France, Spain and the Netherlands, as well as a look at what every business leader should know about geopolitics, and how one company is working to combat the adverse effects of fast fashion.
In this issue we explore the the navigation of change and negotiating nuances.
We hear about the merits of nurturing entrepreneurial ecosystems that go beyond university campuses and support regions as a whole, in an interview with Gerard George, Dean of Singapore Management University’s Lee Kong Chian School of Business.
In this issue we explore Business School internationalisation; developing a strong faculty and research culture; strategic corporate social responsibility; the first part of BGA’s ground-breaking research into Business Schools working to close the global poverty gap; and interviews with a selection of multi-national employers on the skills and qualities they’re looking for from business graduates.
Plus an exclusive interview with Indra Nooyi, Chairman of PepsiCo.