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We do not stop there however, but support business schools to engage with their wider community and share their best practices on both their data management and overall accreditation journeys, so that others can benefit as well.
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7th edition: Sustainability in Higher Education
Society is naturally looking at business schools as catalysts for sustainable development given their intersectional role linking management, technology and social sciences. The contributions in today’s Knowledge Bar touch on the need for business schools to revise their strategies and processes to become sustainable and inclusive organisations. Taking the lead and increasing business school impact on society requires schools to develop graduates who are not only able to work in organisations but also to lead the change.
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Building a responsible native school
In France and other parts of Europe, the teaching of Ecological Responsibility finds its letters of nobility in higher education in management as companies appropriate CSR issues, as states strengthen societal and environmental legislation and as the aspiration of...
Diversity and Inclusion
The topics of diversity and inclusion are continuously evolving and are becoming increasingly relevant to universities and organizations. We at the University of St.Gallen are happy to share some of our most recent initiatives undertaken to further progress in this...
Sustainability Transformation
In the last decade, sustainability remained a secondary topic for most organizations: it was seen as either a very technical topic, or a communication and lobbying topic. Organizations looking for sustainability answers hired specialized expert firms with engineering...
Rose-tinted or realist? Does the data say we should hope or despair about Africa?Â
After an appearance on a television show recently I was challenged to back up a claim I made about reasons to be positive about the future for African economies. I was grateful for the challenge as it made me realise that those of us who do see much to be hopeful...
Universities of the MENA: The Success Story
With the continuity of the Peri-COVID Era and as the post-COVID era starts to unravel, one cannot but recognize the agility and the nimbleness with which Higher education institutions (HEIs) of the MENA region responded to this disruption that wreaked havoc on HEIs...
Building a data-driven culture in Business Schools
Data is the lifeblood of every Higher Education Institution (HEI) in nowadays dynamic environments. There is much resistance from business schools to adopt a data-driven culture despite that much empirical research suggests that data-driven organizations outperform...
Business case writing at Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business
Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business, located in Montreal, Canada, recently signed a partnership with Ivey Publishing to write, publish and distribute business cases written by the John Molson community to schools around the world. Part of the...
Rethinking the student experience with a phygital approach
Phygital as a contraction of 'physical' and 'digital' is a combination of the use of digital elements in a physical environment to enhance the learner's experience. Even before the COVID-19, education was already facing the transformation of its practices due to the...
Social Media and learning
Students are using Social Media to choose a University, and most Universities are responding in a big way by communicating their values and successes on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. But is that the end of the matter? Once students have joined us, we can follow on...
Initial Accreditation: Starting with the Right Foot Forward
Given the recent move to providing online learning, or some might say, a race that has been accelerated by Covid19, student engagement has again been raised as a key objective to assist learners achieve their desired learning outcomes. By Adam Thomas Accreditation and...