School Content
Creating a strong Business School research culture
A strong research culture fosters innovation, rewards creativity and promotes a School’s image, but requires time, patience and consistency
August 23, 2019
business school strategy
Should MBA degrees come with an expiry date?
Business Schools must adopt alternative business models and embrace technology, or risk becoming a casualty of the paradigmatic changes in business, argues Professor Bodo Schlegelmilch
August 20, 2019
corporate social responsibility
Business Schools for business and society
Business Schools must understand how they can contribute to the wellbeing of society, adopting an active stance, writes Loïck Roche, Director and Dean at Grenoble École de Management
August 15, 2019
diversity
Diversity and recruiting the optimal MBA cohort
Diverse cohorts broaden students’ minds and skill sets, equipping them for the global marketplace and future leadership roles, writes HEC Paris’ Andrea Masini
August 13, 2019
business school strategy
A spotlight on Business Schools in Asia Pacific
Three Deans and two employer speakers at AMBA’s 2018 Asia Pacific Conference explore key trends, challenges and strategies for Business Schools, MBAs and businesses in the region
August 9, 2019
collaboration
Solving complex problems with design thinking
Design thinking requires essential ‘front-end’ questioning skills to understand the end user’s experience fully writes David Steinberg
August 6, 2019
corporate social responsibility
Exploring the principles and value of strategic corporate social responsibility
Business Schools must play their role in developing business leaders who are responsible and ethical
August 1, 2019
School Content
The role of the Business School in reflecting diversity
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School’s Stephanie Villemagne discusses the importance of diversity in the global workplace and the challenges Business Schools face in recruiting diverse cohorts
July 30, 2019
professional development
Teaching MBAs to learn from failure
How Business Schools can break down taboos around failure and help MBAs cope with and learn from it within a psychologically safe environment
July 25, 2019
business school strategy
Exploring Business Schools’ challenges in Latin America
Insights from leading Business School professors who attended AMBA’s 2018 Latin America Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, about their Schools’ current strategies, challenges and opportunities.
July 23, 2019
geopolitics
Exploring the future of globalisation
Business Schools must collaborate within a global partnership to help create a sustainable future for all, argues Steef van de Velde, Dean and Professor of Operations Management and Technology at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
July 19, 2019
geopolitics
Waiting for Godot: treading the boards of the great Brexit drama
From the realities of life outside the EU and effects already in evidence, to potential dividends as seen by supporters, ESCP Europe’s Simon Mercado runs the rule over Brexit’s implications for UK Business Schools
July 16, 2019
online education
How to build an effective online MBA programme
Imperial College Business School’s Paolo Taticchi highlights seven core ingredients that underpin the delivery of a high-calibre online MBA programme
July 12, 2019
business school strategy
Applying original thinking to business
Business Schools must encourage independent thinking and bravery in their students to help prevent future financial crises, says Fiona Devine OBE, Head of Alliance Manchester Business School.
July 8, 2019
business school strategy
Why Business Schools must embrace project management
Project management will be a core skill for future leaders, and Business Schools must take immediate action to address this learning gap, write Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez and Marco Sampietro
July 2, 2019
business school strategy
Creating responsible citizens to lead organisations to sustainable success
Preparing MBAs to lead sustainable economic growth is the core task of Business Schools, argues Professor Percy Marquina, Director General, CENTRUM PUCP, the Graduate Business School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Interview by David Woods-Hale
July 1, 2019
School Content
Meeting and maintaining learning outcomes for students and employers
At an AMBA and Peregrine Academic Services roundtable, leading thinkers and practitioners in business education discussed the challenges around goal-centred learning outcomes
June 20, 2019
business school strategy
Defining and leading with purpose
Peter Tufano, Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, talks to Jack Villanueva about the importance of personal purpose in business today and the need for Business Schools to work with organisations to establish a common purpose
June 11, 2019
business school strategy
Creating a counterforce through education
Delivering world-class education in post-apartheid South Africa is about creating programmes that touch people and are rooted in lived realities, says Jon Foster Pedley, Dean and Director of Henley Business School Africa. Interview by David Woods-Hale
June 5, 2019
business school strategy
Transforming the people of today to make tomorrow’s world a better place
In 2018, ESIC Business and Marketing School in Madrid, Spain, became the first Spanish School in 10 years to be newly accredited by AMBA. David Woods-Hale speaks to its Director General Eduardo Gómez Martín
May 31, 2019
business school strategy
Building a responsible and inclusive future
Developing a mindset of continual learning for the future of work and inclusive leadership will underpin the MBA at Newcastle University Business School, explains its new Director and Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies, Sharon Mavin. Interview by David Woods-Hale
May 28, 2019
leadership
Why old business paradigms no longer work
Businesses which fail to acknowledge the cultural shift from win-lose to win-win will fail to survive, says Michelle Lowbridge
May 22, 2019
entrepreneurship
Creating a beacon of culture in the darkness of war
Syrian-born businesswoman, Shireen Atassi, stepped away from a career in banking to launch a non-profit foundation in Dubai, promoting Syrian artwork and artists. She talks to David Woods-Hale about her unconventional career path, post-MBA
May 20, 2019
innovation
Comfortably numb: the peril of a plateau
A plateau in business is really an invisible state of decline, unwittingly fuelled by those at the top. Leading out of it involves innovation, transparency, values-led decisions and sustainability, argue Khurshed Dehnugara and Claire Genkai Breeze
May 16, 2019
business school strategy
The ever-evolving MBA
Only those MBA programmes that adapt quickly to new challenges will succeed in the long term. ESMT Berlin’s Rick Doyle explains how his Business School
May 14, 2019
business school strategy
May 13, 2019
business school strategy
Perspectives on Asia Pacific business education
Business School leaders from across Asia Pacific talk exclusively about the challenges and opportunities facing them. Interviews by Jack Villanueva and Kevin Lee-Simion
May 9, 2019
business school strategy
Shaping the resilient leaders of the future
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May 7, 2019
business school strategy
Japan’s age of the MBA
To drive Japan’s business success in the 21st century, young people may need to embrace the MBA over traditional linear career progression within Japanese organisations.
May 2, 2019
business school strategy
Meeting India’s demand for business education with responsibility
How Mumbai’s Athena School of Management aims to change the parameters of traditional management education in India
April 29, 2019
