Challenging Stereotypes: The Women’s Executive Leadership Programme at Berkeley Executive Education
Interview with Laura Kray
Professor of Leadership, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
UC Berkeley’s Women’s Executive Leadership Programme is unique: it was designed by women...
Leading Innovation through Executive Education
Interview with Professor Saul Estrin, LSE
In today’s fast-changing global environment, business leaders need new tools to face new challenges like never before. Innovation is...
The EU Now Regulates Internet Services. But What Does that Mean, Exactly?
By Martin Schallbruch
Internet access has become crucial to the functioning of our most important systems. The Directive on security of network and information systems...
5 Myths about Employee Learning
Here are some common misperceptions about corporate education— and how to get beyond them.
Under what circumstances do organizations embrace a learning culture?
Often, it’s when...
From Products to Solutions – Mastering Sales Force Incentives
By Johannes Habel and Olaf Ploetner
As B2B companies strive to become providers of solutions rather than products, sales managers face significant challenges. Among them:...
We Need a Greater Focus on the Benefits Women in Top Executive Roles Bring...
By Sucheta Nadkarni
Recruiting women to corporate boards and top executive roles helps businesses find the best people and reach key consumers. There’s a risk...
Embedded Values and Induced Spirituality in Management Education
The Case of Two Successful Business Schools in Barcelona
By S. L. Dolan, Y. Altman, B. Capell and M. Raich
The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
Negotiating Advice for Women: The Problem-Solving Conversation
“You can’t improve on a skill that you’re avoiding,” says Wharton management professor Nancy Rothbard. “Many people shy away from negotiations because they associate...
Overcoming the Triple Hurdle of Diversity Management
By Winfried Ruigrok
Diversity management is a key instrument to position your company as a preferred employer. Fail to recite this mantra and you risk...
Knowledge Architects Wanted
By Tammi L. Coles
Organisations that embrace cross-domain knowledge can attain sustainable agility. In this article, the author highlights the significant yet often overlooked difference...
After After-Sales: New Business Models Tempt, Fail Industry
By Olaf Plötner
The after-sales-based business models of industrial enterprises are endangered. Simultaneously, modern data-based technologies enable the development of complex service solutions – so...
Leadership Development and The High Performing Team: The Wharton Leadership Program
By Jeff Klein
One thing that I’ve never needed to convince an incoming Wharton MBA student is that they should become a leader.
By now, our...
Developing Values in Business Education
By Nigel Duncan
This article considers how we might best prepare students for ethical business practice. It considers recent developments in evolutionary research and neuroscience...
Where do you Begin with your (Big) Data Initiative?
By Joe Peppard
While “Big data” has garnered a lot of attention over the last number of years, many managers struggle in deciding where to...
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
By Gerry Reffo and Valerie Wark
Leadership Alert! There are times when the classic development of leaders no longer fully equips them or their organisations...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 2: Understanding the Core of the Vision
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
This article continues from Part I (in the last issue of...
Through the Ceiling and Over the Cliff? Catch-22 for Women Executives
A new program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills...
Leadership: The Science Behind Practice Makes Perfect
By M. Reitz and L. Waller
Strong leadership is arguably the most important aspect of running a business, but today's leaders are required to operate...
The Search for Innovation Leadership
By Jeff Gaspersz
What do we need to do to build the leaders that are equipped for the new innovation challenges?
In all the years I...
50+20 Management Education for the World: PART 1: Designing a Radically New Vision of...
By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle
Extracts from chapter 5 of the forthcoming book “Management education for...
Needed: Executives (and Citizens) with a Global Mindset
By Nakiye A. Boyacigiller
We are facing challenges of a global nature that require global citizenship, global responsibility, and global solutions. These cannot be achieved...
A Conversation with Rory Simpson, Chief Learning Officer at Telefónica
By Steven MacGregor
We start a new series this month, interviewing global influencers in the area of executive health. Short conversations that we hope will deliver...
Collaborative Creativity: Leading High Performance through Theatre
By Quinn Bauriedel & Jeff Klein
Like the multitude of teams in any organization, theatre works under tight timeframes, combines many individuals with different talents,...
Women’s Leadership: Leaning in Without Falling Over
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A new program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills...
People and the Planet – CSR Initiatives Sweeten Ferrero’s Success
By Tammi L. Coles
For global businesses to thrive, “doing sustainability” is no longer an option. Tammi L. Coles spoke with recognised CSR researcher and...
How We Teach: Innovation
Interview with Bangor Business School
In our quest to keep you up to date with the latest research in business education, we talk to John...
STUDY IN AUSTRIA IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems
Krems – a small but vibrant university town
Krems is the eastern gateway to the Wachau Valley and only a one hour drive from...
Wharton: Where Entrepreneurs Learn the Business of Business
Max Baumann’s company Just Chill started with an idea for a beverage that could help people stay cool and calm. “Stress is the number...
The Power of Corporate Culture — and How to Harness It
Culture change is hard to do. Just look at Ron Johnson’s attempted transformation of JCPenney in 2012. Or go back a few thousand years...
Challenging the “Tailor” How to Effectively Customize Executive Education for the Companies’ Benefit
By Andreas Löhmer
When it comes to executive education, companies very often accept second best solutions. Looking at the impact achieved, these investments do not...
Strategic Planning & Execution in an Uncertain World
Setting business strategy used to be as simple as defining what the organization wanted to achieve and then laying out the steps to get...
Designing Results-Oriented Leadership Development Programmes
By Camelia Ilie, Guillermo Cardoza and Schon Beechler
In business, one would typically not make a large investment without an idea of how to gauge...
When Work Meets Passion: FIU Center for Leadership on Co-creating a Better Future with...
Having hosted programmes with participants from 16 countries across 4 continents and from more than 200 organisations in the past 10 years, the Center...
Berkeley Executive Education: Creating A “New Thinking For The New Economy”
Interview with Laura Tyson, Interim Dean, Haas School of Business
Located in the heart of the world’s innovation center, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business...
Empowering Your Leadership at the Pulse of Business in New York City
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Interview with Professor Paul Ingram, Faculty Director of Advanced Management Programme from Columbia Business School Executive Education
Located in one of the...
Understanding the Potential of AI in a Technology Driven World
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Interview with Mr. Renaud Champion, Executive Director AIM Institute EMLYON Business School
As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly plays a big role in today’s...
Online or on Campus? Germany’s Top Business School ESMT Berlin Offers the Best of...
Modern business is global. The trend, increasingly turbocharged by the pandemic, of the world of business getting smaller due to the increases in digital...
Saïd Business School: Oxford Diploma in Global Business
Course: Oxford Diploma in Global Business
Intake Date: Wednesday 22 January 2020
A part-time postgraduate qualification designed to take experienced professionals to the next level.
As an...
Thought Leadership, Frameworks, Tools and Immersion: Interview with Dr Prem Shamdasani of NUS Business...
A tough future in which the only constant is change awaits those who aspire to leadership in the world of business. To prepare these...
How to Create a Successful Global, Online MBA: The Case of ESMT Berlin’s Online...
ESMT Berlin is the only top-10-ranked European business school offering a fully online, global MBA. So what makes their online MBA unique? A talk...
IE Business School: Dual Degree International MBA + Master in Business Analytics and Big...
Course: IE Dual Degree International MBA + Master in Business Analytics and Big Data
Intake Periods: January or September
Data is indispensable. Never before has there...
Deep Engagement: Where Thought Leadership and Subject Expertise Meet
Interview with Dr. Kishore Sengupta, Cambridge Judge Business School Director of Executive Education
Since its establishment in 1990, Cambridge Judge Business School has always been a...
Expanding Leadership Capabilities to Fuel the Evolution of Business
Director of MBA programmes at the University of Bath, Dr Donald Lancaster, explores the role of post-experience education in developing people strategies for sustainable...
Understanding People: Applying Behavioural Science to Business
Interview with Dr. Tim Mullett, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School
In business, understanding your clients, partners, and, perhaps most importantly, your...
How to Influence People: Negotiation vs. Persuasion
Spotlight on Leadership
The ability to influence stakeholders both internally and externally is a key skill in any top executive’s portfolio.
Did you know that negotiation...
Live, Learn, Leap: Doctorate in Business Administration at Vlerick Business School
Interview with Professor Brecht Cardoen, Academic Director of the DBA programme, Vlerick Business School
Founded in 1953 in one of Europe’s premier education spots, Vlerick...
Senior Leadership: Learning to Embrace Uncertainty
“The only constant you’ll have in your career is uncertainty.” – Ian MacMillan, The Dhirubhai Ambani Emeritus Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The Wharton...
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