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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...
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The rapid growth of hybrid learning fueled by the pandemic
The Rapid Growth of Hybrid Learning Fueled by the Pandemic
The effectiveness and potential of hybrid learning is still being explored, as it differs from both blended and online learning....
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Four dimensions of an interdisciplinary doctoral ecosystem
Four dimensions of an interdisciplinary doctoral ecosystem
How do we create doctoral ecosystems that foster an interdisciplinary identity in researchers? While the case for interdisciplinarity is well-rehearsed...
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How applied strategic projects can help executive participants drive change
How applied strategic projects can help executive participants drive change
Business schools can add significant value to organisations by enabling participants in MBA and other executive programmes to undertake an...
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Teaching sustainability management
Teaching sustainability management
Sustainability and sustainability management are inherently complex topics, and even if we generally know what we need to do as...
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Teaching rendanheyi in business schools
Teaching RenDanHeYi in business schools
Bill Fischer shares his experience in teaching RenDanHeYi, especially in executive education, and how managers are longing for opportunities to...
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Transforming education in australian business schools: our past, present, and future
Transforming education in Australian business schools: Our past, present, and future
Using climate action as an example, we examine recent curriculum innovations by Australian schools to produce graduates who are prepared...
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A zero-based cultural perspective on dealing with the hybrid reality of teaching in business schools
A zero-based cultural perspective on dealing with the hybrid reality of teaching in business schools
Susan Fournier and Howard Thomas explore a new business school future, question existing approaches and identify and examine five core...
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Purpose, innovation and resilience
Purpose, innovation and resilience
IPADE Business School’s guiding principles during COVID-19 and towards the “next normal” by Gabriela Alvarado and Juan Romero.
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An urgent call for innovation in business education
An urgent call for innovation in business education
Whether students are making art for a famous museum or learning how to be a clown: there is no end...
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The paradoxical relationship of management teachers to uncertainty
The paradoxical relationship of management teachers to uncertainty
Classrooms are unpredictable places at the best of times, but over the last year, teachers and learners have faced a...
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Sulitest – fostering sustainability literacy for all
Sulitest – Fostering sustainability literacy for all
Sulitest’s vision is to develop Sustainability Literacy worldwide while also empowering engaged and committed global citizens to make informed and...
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What is ‘new’ about disruption?
What is ‘new’ about disruption?
With the Corona crisis hitting higher education institutions, there is a good deal of buzz and discussion about how this...
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An effectual approach to course design
An effectual approach to course design
While backward design has been widely accepted as the ‘right’ way when designing new courses, John Mullins and Arun Pereira...
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Hybrid classes transform learning
Hybrid classes transform learning
When you gather top professors from three international business schools to discuss the challenges and successes of teaching in a...
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The case for teaching integrated strategy
The case for teaching integrated strategy
Strategy education is under siege. It is heavily criticised both from outside and from within. As a way forward, Jeroen...
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Curriculum 4. 0 for industry 4. 0
Curriculum 4.0 for Industry 4.0
Educational institutions globally are facing major challenges, a function of tectonic shifts in the techno-socio-economic landscape and the digital revolution...
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The trouble with learning…how fear holds us back, and what we can do about it
The trouble with learning…how fear holds us back, and what we can do about it
Perhaps the true test of the mantra “always be learning” should be the extent to which the way is smoothed...
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What digitalisation means for universities
What digitalisation means for universities
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger explains how one of Europe’s leading universities is surfing the rising tide of digitalisation.
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Apply liberally: towards a model of liberal management education
Apply liberally: Towards a model of liberal management education
Howard Thomas argues the case for integrating the liberal arts into management education so that the existing curricula emphasis on...
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Flexible future
Flexible future
Peter Lorange says that introducing greater flexibility and agility into executive education and allowing experts, instructors, contributors, professors and students...
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Through the labyrinth
Through the labyrinth
Just as firms continue to grapple with how to embrace digital transformation, so now business schools puzzle how to teach...
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Digital augmented education: are you ready to experiment?
Digital augmented education: Are you ready to experiment?
Chengyi Lin looks back on the so far somewhat chequered history of technology in management education but is sanguine about...
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Will learning get you there?
Will learning get you there?
While learning as a subject is well developed, “learning transfer”, defined as the degree to which learners effectively apply the...
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On the right track: developing an innovative and evolving mba curriculum
On the right track: Developing an innovative and evolving MBA curriculum
Ajoy Kumar Dey explains how the MBA curriculum is kept fresh and relevant at a leading Indian institution.
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Business education: international learning ‘4. 0’
Business education: International Learning ‘4.0’
Internationalisation is a high-priority issue for business schools, but Anna Blombäck, Yvonne Carlisle, Andrew Gaudes and Ulrich Hommel ask if...
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Eoccs symposium 2017
EOCCS Symposium 2017
Ginny Gibson analyses the first EOCCS Symposium, where over 50 delegates from business schools and other corporate organisations that have...
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Seven drivers of learning
Seven drivers of learning
While educators are facing an onslaught of new technologies and ways of teaching, Arun Pereira and John Mullins argue that...
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Curriculum, certification and community
Curriculum, certification and community
The Engagement Managers transformation programme has united Capgemini’s main delivery roles with a common global curriculum, certification framework and community...
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Making learning closer to reality
Making learning closer to reality
Caroline D Ditlev-Simonsen describes how to develop a ‘reality-case’ and bring learning a step closer to reality.
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