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The missing question in the ai agenda
The Missing Question in the AI Agenda
In early 2026, six major consulting firms published reports on agentic AI that converge on a single message: competitive advantage now depends on redesigning organisations around AI. These reports map structure and governance, but treat human capability as a workforce-planning afterthought. The shift from AI-as-tool to AI-as-colleague changes the nature of professional work itself. AI adoption can follow two trajectories, erosion or amplification, and the path is set by design decisions, not by the technology. Five human capabilities are at stake, integrated by a sixth: practical wisdom.
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Unlocking the full potential of international advisory boards in business schools
Unlocking the Full Potential of International Advisory Boards in Business Schools
In this article, Ines Blal, Martin Boehm, Björn Kjellander, Benjamin Stevenin and Koen Vandenbempt argue that...
Rethinking mobility: how a peruvian business school is turning international exchange into social impact
Rethinking Mobility: How a Peruvian Business School is Turning International Exchange into Social Impact
International mobility is under pressure to justify its value in a context shaped by climate concerns,...
Business schools in an age of extremes
Business Schools in an Age of Extremes
Extreme climate events such as floods, wildfires and heatwaves are becoming more frequent, threatening lives, infrastructure...
Educating for hope, resilience and agency in a time of uncertainty
Educating for Hope, Resilience and Agency in a Time of Uncertainty
Today’s students are stuck between fake social media success stories and tough realities like high living...
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Clarity and contradiction in care: cultivating wellness in business schools
Clarity and Contradiction in Care: Cultivating Wellness in Business Schools
Business schools and their deans have been widely critiqued as embodying neoliberal logics of efficiency, performativity, and marketisation, raising questions about whether workplace wellness is even possible in such contexts. This article examines the tensions,...
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The attention economy’s challenge: how business schools must address the cognitive crisis
The Attention Economy’s Challenge: How Business Schools Must Address the Cognitive Crisis
The rise of screens, social media, and AI tools is reshaping how students engage with learning, often replacing sustained intellectual effort with convenience and shortcuts. Business schools are facing a growing cognitive crisis that threatens...
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Toxicity at work
Toxicity at Work
Inaction around toxic leadership is taking a terrible toll in terms of damage to employer brand, talent attraction and talent retention – but most of all it damages human beings. What you want for your...
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Revisiting a business school’s impact agenda in an ecosystems environment
Revisiting a business school’s impact agenda in an ecosystems environment
The impact of business schools is a much-debated topic both within the academy and more broadly. As academic institutions, business schools have a vital role to play in advancing the academic discipline of management education...
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FROM THE VAULT

Academic research

Published in Vol. 15 Issue 02 ’21

Scholarly impact and the co-production hypothesis

Andrew Pettigrew explores how closer collaboration between researchers and practitioners can bridge the gap between theory and practice, showing how co-production leads to research with greater scholarly, managerial, and societal impact.

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Academic research

Published in Vol. 15 Issue 02 ’21

Scholarly impact and the co-production hypothesis​

Andrew Pettigrew explores how closer collaboration between researchers and practitioners can bridge the gap between theory and practice, showing how co-production leads to research with greater scholarly, managerial, and societal impact.

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2026 efmd annual research issue

Latest Research Issue

Vol. 4 – Annual Research Issue 2026

Addressing Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Contemporary Business School: The Role of Culture, Collegiality and Leadership

The 2026 Research Issue examines the growing mental health and wellbeing crisis in business schools, highlighting how pressures such as publish or perish cultures, poor management and declining collegiality drive stress and burnout. Drawing on global insights, it calls for meaningful cultural change and urges leaders to build environments grounded in care, purpose and collegiality.

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Topics

Wellbeing

2026 annual research issue: foreword
2026 Annual Research Issue: Foreword
2026 annual research issue introduction: an editorial overview
2026 Annual Research Issue Introduction: An Editorial Overview
The science and practice of mindfulness at work: reclaiming wellbeing in business education
The Science and Practice of Mindfulness at Work: Reclaiming Wellbeing in Business Education

Ecosystems

2026 annual research issue introduction: an editorial overview
2026 Annual Research Issue Introduction: An Editorial Overview
Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in business education: insper’s example
Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Business Education: Insper’s Example
In the middle of it all: deans as cultivators of community resilience
In the Middle of it All: Deans as Cultivators of Community Resilience

Disruption

The missing question in the ai agenda
The Missing Question in the AI Agenda
The demographic reality business schools are ignoring
The Demographic Reality Business Schools are Ignoring
When research becomes junk: the enshittification of academic publishing
When Research Becomes Junk: The Enshittification of Academic Publishing

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No matter how good a communicator you are, if you ask the wrong questions and pose them in the wrong areas then no amount of accessible or skilful communication will produce any sort of impact.
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