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From adoption to architecture: the abc framework for ai-ready universities
From Adoption to Architecture: The ABC Framework for AI-Ready Universities
Artificial intelligence is pushing higher education beyond experimentation into systemic transformation. The challenge is no longer adoption, but how to...
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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 amid financial pressure and...
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Rewired for the world: why internationalisation demands a new operating model
Rewired for the World: Why Internationalisation Demands a New Operating Model
Most universities treat internationalisation as an add-on function rather than embedding it in their institutional architectures, creating a dangerous gap...
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Managerial pathologies: barriers to academic culture, collegiality and leadership
Managerial Pathologies: Barriers to Academic Culture, Collegiality and Leadership
This article explores the role of administrative bloat as a counterweight to positive culture and collegiality in business schools. The...
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Closing the credibility gap: leadership, governance and the realities of edi and wellbeing in uk business schools
Closing the Credibility Gap: Leadership, Governance and the Realities of EDI and Wellbeing in UK Business Schools
UK business schools present equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and staff wellbeing as strategic priorities, yet academics often face escalating...
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Business schools and the internal environment: what should schools do now?
Business Schools and the Internal Environment: What Should Schools Do Now?
In our previous article, we set out to explore external factors (Brexit, the pandemic, technological change and nationalism) which have...
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Authoritarianism and business education: the coming threat from generative ai
Authoritarianism and Business Education: The Coming Threat from Generative AI
Jerry Davis warns that higher education is under attack from authoritarian forces, particularly in the US, where academic freedom is...
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Business schools and the external environment: where are they now?
Business Schools and the External Environment: Where are they now?
The article, the first of a two-part series, takes a look at the external environment facing business schools today. Major...
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Geostrategic threats to sustainability
Geostrategic Threats to Sustainability
Governments, societies, and businesses today face multiple, complex geostrategic threats, such as wars, dis- and misinformation, and populism. These further...
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Business school 5. 0: continuously rewired, boundary-spanning
Business school 5.0: Continuously rewired, boundary-spanning
Charting a business school trajectory is about developing and cultivating new organisational capabilities. Two such capabilities are the need to...
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Global responsibility and globally responsible leadership
Global responsibility and globally responsible leadership
The purpose of the globally responsible business is to create economic and societal progress in a globally responsible and sustainable...
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The mba and the value of practitioner engagement
The MBA and the value of practitioner engagement
Sarah Hardcastle discusses the vast advisory ecosystem that enables programme teams to better understand the fast-changing business environment and improve...
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Business schools and the public good
Business schools and the public good
Martin Kitchener, Tom Levitt, and Peter McKiernan investigate how ‘public good’ is reflected in the work of the UK’s business...
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Business school advisory boards: increasing engagement, adding value
Business school advisory boards: increasing engagement, adding value
Sarah Hardcastle investigates the inextricable link between advisory board member engagement and the value they add
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A sustainable model for business schools?
A sustainable model for business schools?
Kai Peters and Howard Thomas argue that the current business model of business schools is financially unstable and probably unsustainable.
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Business school advisory boards
Business school advisory boards
In-depth interviews show advisory boards are invariably shaped by the personalities of their dean and their chair, and they act...
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When the world is not enough
When the world is not enough
Most business schools want to play in the global arena but are often poorly equipped to do so. International governance...
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Robots and the law
Robots and the law
An online international knowledge sharing case study – exchanging UK-South African legal cultures. By Beth Richards-Bray, Alan East, Stephen Hardy...
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Seven things to learn about succession in organisations
Seven things to learn about succession in organisations
Emerson de Almeida and co-authors report on a four-year research study on planning and executing a successful successions policy.
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‘brexit means…’
‘Brexit means…’
UK business schools are facing a perfect storm with transformational policy reforms in the Higher Education and Research Bill and...
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What does business want from business schools?
What does business want from business schools?
Sir Richard Lambert suggests four key issues. What does business want from business schools? The answer is: “exactly what it...
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Defining the role of business schools
Defining the role of business schools
Baback Yazdani, Dean of Nottingham Business School, looks at how business schools across the globe might define their role.
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Skema: the story of a merger
SKEMA: The story of a merger
Alice Guilhon describes how two leading French business schools realised their ambitions by merging with each other.
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Innovation for growth
Innovation for growth
Stefan Schepers explains how the High-Level Group on Innovation Policy Management is designing a new approach for European innovation.
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Globalisation: unfinished business for business schools
Globalisation: Unfinished business for business schools
Business schools have reacted loudly to the challenges of globalisation. But has their reaction been effective or appropriate? Hellmut Schütte...
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