MBA & Executive Education

“The only constant you’ll have in your career is uncertainty.” – Ian MacMillan, The Dhirubhai Ambani Emeritus Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The Wharton...

Interview with Professor Ann Bartel, A Faculty Director of Custom Programmes at Columbia Business School Executive Education   Being one of the Top Executive Education Programmes...

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...

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...

BUY DIGITAL COPY Interview with Professor Paul Ingram, Faculty Director of Advanced Management Programme from Columbia Business School Executive Education   Located in one of the...

BUY DIGITAL COPY Interview with Mr. Renaud Champion, Executive Director AIM Institute EMLYON Business School As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly plays a big role in today’s...

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...

Having hosted programmes with participants from 16 countries across 4 continents and from more than 200 organisations in the past 10 years, the Center...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Johannes Habel Many companies draw the wrong conclusions from their customer surveys. There is a simple method that can provide a remedy, leading to...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

Setting business strategy used to be as simple as defining what the organization wanted to achieve and then laying out the steps to get...

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...

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...

Interview with Saul Estrin In today’s fast-changing global environment, business leaders need new tools to face new challenges like never before. Innovation is one such...

Interview with Jeff Rosenthal Innovation is a surefire way to achieve growth and success for your company. Below Jeff Rosenthal, CEO of the UC Berkeley...

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...

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...

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...

The Case of Two Successful Business Schools in Barcelona By S. L. Dolan, Y. Altman, B. Capell and M. Raich

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...

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...

Setting business strategy used to be as simple as defining what the organization wanted to achieve and then laying out the steps to get...

Feature 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...

By Peter Lorange, Jagdish N. Sheth and Howard Thomas The traditional models of many business schools are being questioned given their serious...

By Quinn Bauriedel & Jeff Klein Like the multitude of teams in any organization, theatre works under tight timeframes, combines many individuals with different talents,...

By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava & Jonas Haertle This article continues from Part I (in the last issue 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...

By Manfred Kets de Vries You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. — Galileo Galilee The organizations we...

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...

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...

Krems – a small but vibrant university town Krems is the eastern gateway to the Wachau Valley and only a one hour drive from...

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...

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...

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...

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...