Designing For Impact: A Results-driven Perspective For Executive Education
By Christoph Burger, Edward W. Boon and Nora Grasselli
A typical story
Jane is a manager at a large telecom company. Three months ago, she was...
Championing Triple Ownership Programs (TOPs) in Executive Education: How Participant and Sponsor Ownership Leads...
By Christoph Burger, Bianca Schmitz and Bethan Williams
What do you associate with the word “campus”?
For most of us, besides the happy student memories, there...
Top Executive Education featuring Antwerp Management School: Opening Minds to Impact the World
Interview with Antwerp Management School's Prof. Dr. Goran Milenković, Academic Director of the EMBA and Prof. Dr. Steffi Weil, Associate Dean for International Outreach...
Making a Mid-Career Pivot with the Advanced Finance Program
Suzanne Ley spent more than 15 years in corporate and investment banking when she decided she needed a new challenge. “The dynamics of the...
Chief Value Officer: Training to navigate the future with the MBA & DBA Community...
Interview with Audencia Business School’s Audencia MBA & DBA Community Director Mickael Naulleau
The "bottom line" is a long-standing measure of a business’s success (or...
Unlocking Leadership Potential through ESSEC Executive Education’s Programmes
In a turbulent business landscape where the danger of becoming unsuitable to deal with sudden changes is ever-present, business leaders are confronted with an...
How Can Leaders Stay in the Know?
By Dr. Maja Korica, Warwick Business School (WBS)
As a senior leader, do you know what’s really going on in your organisation? Are you on...
Individualized Learning in Executive Education Accommodating the Modern Learner
By Mandy Hübener, Bianca Schmitz and Bethan Williams
ESMT Berlin is the highest-ranked business school in Germany and Top 10 in Europe. Founded by...
No Firm is an Island: Succeeding with Alliances
High levels of uncertainty often lead businesses into predictable directions, many of them negative. Extreme risk aversion, pre-emptive layoffs, and a laser focus on...
Thriving amidst disruption with a Warwick Executive Diploma
The world which we are living in today is changing dramatically, and at a rapid speed. None of us can stand still or rely...
Wharton LIVE: Best-in-Class Online Learning
When Wharton’s campus closed in March, more than 40 students from Shanghai were in California en route to Philadelphia for a finance program. The...
Cross-border and cross-cultural: the KEDGE Global Executive MBA programme has a worldwide reach
Interview with Professor Hervé Remaud, Director KEDGE Global Executive MBA KEDGE Business School
Time will tell whether history will record the Zeitgeist of our times...
Get Ready for Disruption: WBS Prepares Executives for a Volatile Future
Interview with Tim Wray Director of Executive Education Warwick Business School
We live in turbulent times, and business leaders need to draw on a range...
Developing Future Business Leadership with a Truly Global Mindset
Interview with Director Anke Middelmann, Global Executive MBA of SKEMA Business School
With seven campuses across five continents, Business School has already lived up to...
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...
Custom-built Programmes for the Future Workforce
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Managing Customer Satisfaction Better
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Leading Innovation through Executive Education
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...
Incorporate Innovation into your Business Model
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
New Models and the Changing Contexts of Business School
By Peter Lorange, Jagdish N. Sheth and Howard Thomas
The traditional models of many business schools are being questioned given their serious...
