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🌿 During Responsible Management Education Week (RME) 2026 in Cairo, EFMD Global will conduct a workshop exploring how business schools are addressing ethics, responsibility and sustainability in business education.
🇪🇬 Early bird registration has been extended until 14 March.
╰┈➤ bit.ly/EFMD-RME

Creating Strong Innovation Ecosystems: How TUM Campus Heilbronn Is Driving Applied AI in Europe Abstract. This chapter examines how TUM Campus Heilbronn drives innovation in Europe by building a robust AI-focused ecosystem through interdisciplinary ed

📓✍🏻 In Ch. 8 of our series from Eric Cornuel’s "Management Education & the Rise of Uncertainty in Global Business," attention turns to driving #AI implementation @tum.de.

📚 The book is available from @oxunipress.bsky.social:

➤ bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OUP

or Download on OA:

➤ bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OA

MBA insights from Aalto University Exec Ed Director Business Unit Director of MBA Programmes at Aalto University Executive Education and Professional Development, Kerttu Kuokkanen, on the MBA.

🎓 @aalto.fi MBA Director Kerttu Kuokkanen, in conversation with Stephanie Mullins-Wiles @blueskyeducation.bsky.social, discusses what candidates should expect from an #MBA programme & why she anticipates a greater emphasis on tech fluency, sustainability, and human-centred leadership in the future.

👱🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍🦰👩🏻👧🏽👧🏾 On 8 March, EFMD & Global Focus celebrate International Women’s Day, an occasion to acknowledge women’s achievements and the pursuit of gender equality, with three features that reflect on gender equity in business education:
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💜 bit.ly/Joy-Jones
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🏢 Effective leadership requires more than technical competence. Executive development prepares senior professionals to exercise judgement, guide organisations, & uphold credibility.
🇮🇪 Join us at the EFMD Executive Development Conference, @ucddublin.bsky.social, 7–8 October 2026.
➤ bit.ly/7-8-October

Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted: Rethinking the Measurement of Research Impact Business school research is costly. Measuring true research impact means looking beyond journals to teaching, practice and society.

˗ˋˏ💰ˎˊ˗ Business school research is costly, with a single A-journal article sometimes exceeding €1 million in institutional investment. Yet rankings still prioritise citations. In Global Focus, the authors propose assessing impact across academic, teaching, managerial, and societal domains.

KEDGE Business school awarded EFMD BSIS label for impact The review team highlighted several key strengths at KEDGE, including its financial robustness, academic grounding, and regional embeddedness, with its

🇫🇷 We are pleased to announce that KEDGE Business School, France, has successfully completed the EFMD Business School Impact System (BSIS) assessment process and has been awarded the BSIS label for positive impact. Warm Congratulations! 🌟

Finding Strategic Balance: Protecting Global and Local Legitimacy within an Internationalization Agenda Abstract. This chapter explores how business schools maintain legitimacy by strategically balancing innovation and conformity in a volatile global environm

𓂃🪶☕️ In Ch. 7 of our series from Eric Cornuel’s "Management Education & the Rise of Uncertainty in Global Business," the focus turns to strategy in periods of uncertainty.

📖 The book is available from @oxunipress.bsky.social:

➤ bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OUP

or Download on OUP:

➤ bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OA

Smart data management and AI in business schools Smart data management and AI in business schools: Shifting from this reactive approach to a structured one to ensure that the data you have is usable.

📁⇄📁 Business schools generate extensive data across programmes, faculty, research, and accreditation, yet it is often fragmented, undefined, and underused. #AI can enhance efficiency, but only when data foundations are robust. EFMD’s upcoming workshop addresses these practical challenges directly.

🍀 We’re assembling a selection of global conferences, workshops, and professional development opportunities in the months ahead. Consult the list and QR codes below to expand your network this spring.
🗓️ All Events:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/EFMD-Events
📚Explore our Activities Portfolio:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/EFMD-Portfolio

Kozminski scholars' 'Management: A European Perspective' Kozminski University scholars release new book, 'Management: A European Perspective.'

📕 Written by scholars from Kozminski University, for English-taught business programmes, "Management: A European Perspective," published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social, presents modern management foundations within Central & Eastern Europe.
𓄲 Available Now: bit.ly/Kozminski-Mgmt

📚 In Ch. 6 of our series from Eric Cornuel’s "Management Education & the Rise of Uncertainty in Global Business," the focus turns to global connectedness post-pandemic.
📙 The book is available from @oxunipress.bsky.social:
➤ bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel...
or download:
➤ bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel....

The Attention Economy’s Challenge: How Business Schools Must Address the Cognitive Crisis Screens, social media, and AI are creating a cognitive crisis. Business schools must redesign learning, assessment and AI literacy.

🧠 Business education faces a cognitive challenge driven by digital distractions and the growing reliance on #AI. In the new issue of Global Focus, Audencia Business School Dean Sebastien Tran implores #businessschools to respond by redesigning curricula and integrating attention management.

🌟 Congratulations to the Bachelor of International Business and Economics at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics and the BSc in Management at EDC Paris Business School, for receiving new EFMD Programme Accreditation and to five other programmes for receiving re-accreditation!

EFMD launches the Centre for Human and Emotional Leadership EFMD Global officially launches the Centre for Human and Emotional Leadership, established in honour of the visionary management leader Gerard ‘Ray’ van Schaik.

🙌 We are pleased to announce the launch of the EFMD Global Centre for Human and Emotional Leadership (CHEL), which brings together complementary projects to strengthen the connection between academic insight, leadership practice, and societal impact.

Case Awards reflect a turbulent world facing future leaders Case Awards Winners announced: The Case Centre’s 36th global Awards and Competitions reflect the critical role of the case method in turbulent times.

★彡 The Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2026 highlight how case teaching mirrors a turbulent global environment. Winning cases addressed geopolitical instability, technological rivalry, #sustainability, resilience and artificial intelligence, with #AI Wars named the Overall winner. #CaseMethod

Miracles, Technology, and the Mind: Why Our Future Depends on Using AI Wisely AI and technology are reshaping work and education. The real challenge is human judgment. Used wisely they boost thinking, used blindly they magnify bias.

🧐Concerns about #AI displacing workers are intensifying, from banks declining to hire analysts to students questioning the value of university. In the new issue of Global Focus, IE University President Santiago Iniguez explains why our future largely depends on using AI wisely.

EMBA insights with Rabat Business School's programme manager We spoke to Rabat Business School's EMBA programme manager, Tarik Zouaid, to find out more about them and what people should really expect from an EMBA.

🇲🇦 UIR Rabat Business School EMBA Programme Manager Dr Tarik Zouadi outlines what to expect from an #EMBA and how the programme distinguishes itself. In conversation with Stephanie Mullins-Wiles @blueskyeducation.bsky.social, he describes the EMBA as a demanding yet energising turning point.

Latest issue - Global Focus Magazine

🌟 We are pleased to announce the publication of Global Focus, "Miracles, Technology, and the Mind: Why Our Future Depends on Using AI Wisely," which examines artificial intelligence as a tech development and a moral test for management education.
📚 Read or download:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/GlobalFocus-Vol20-1

Education Revolution: Professor Francesco Billari Rector at Bocconi University On Innovative… The future of education is not technological or analog: it is relational, it passes through people and their trajectories. People are…

🇮🇹 Bocconi University Rector Francesco Billari emphasises education focused on people, interdisciplinary learning, and wellbeing. In an interview with Kate Mowbray, he warns against superficial reforms or overreliance on tech, advocating evidence-based, transparent approaches to institutional change.

US MBA Programmes: Clearing the Runway for Global Business Leaders Abstract. The Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme in the United States is an important leadership credential, desired by US and non-US studen

📚 In Ch. 5 of our series from Eric Cornuel’s "Management Education & the Rise of Uncertainty in Global Business," @teppercmu.bsky.social Deans turn the focus to US #MBA programmes.
📙 The book is available from @oxunipress.bsky.social:
➤ bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel...
or download:
➤ bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel....

Employers: Universities Aren’t Producing Enough AI-Ready Graduates CarringtonCrisp report finds rising expectations for AI fluency, while sustainability awareness remains uneven across higher education.

🦾 77% of employers expect graduates to have AI experience, yet 58% believe universities are not doing enough. 70% alumni say they taught themselves AI, according to "See the Future," a global study by EFMD Global, CarringtonCrisp, Full Fabric & 4Uni Solutions. @poetsandquants.bsky.social

Employability and the business school certification crisis Employability and the business school certification crisis: skills in adaptability, critical thinking, ethical judgment, learning agility, and resilience.

📈In AI-driven, volatile labour markets, adaptability, critical thinking, ethics and resilience matter more than ever. Yet, as Andreas Kaplan observes, many business schools continue to emphasise fixed-degree structures, time served, and knowledge reproduction rather than assessing real-world skills.

Manchester Metropolitan University Business School-BSIS Manchester Metropolitan University Business School has been awarded the EFMD Business School Impact System (BSIS) label renewal for positive impact.

🇬🇧 We are pleased to announce that @manmetuni.bsky.social Business School has successfully completed the EFMD Business School Impact System (BSIS) assessment process and has been awarded a BSIS label renewal for positive impact.
#EFMDBSIS #Sustainability #BusinessSchools

🔔 The redesigned EFMD Global blog is live! It features a clearer structure, improved navigation, and research-driven insights on business and management education. Read and contribute to topics relevant to the EFMD Community.
👉Visit: blog.efmdglobal.org
📧 Submit content: blog@efmdglobal.org

📊EFMD's "See the Future" study, in partnership with CarringtonCrisp, Full Fabric, & 4Uni Solutions, draws on more than 1,800 global respondents to examine how students, faculty, staff, employers, & alumni assess progress in #AI & sustainability.
🔗 Download the report:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/See-the-Future-2026

📚 This week, in Chapter 4 of our series from Eric Cornuel’s "Management Education and the Rise of Uncertainty in Global Business," we turn to the question of what a ‘glocal’ approach means. The book is available from @academic.oup.com at bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OUP or download at bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OA.

Deans Conference reflections from Chair Julia Bennell Deans: Academic freedom, AI, and resilience -- Chair Julia Bennell shares reflections from the 2026 EFMD Deans Conference.

🇦🇹Last week, the EFMD Deans Conference convened in Vienna amid geopolitical strain, economic fragility, tech acceleration & rising stakeholder demands. In reflections from Conference Chair Julia Bennell, Exec Dean of @universityofleeds.bsky.social Business School, 5 priorities stood out. Learn more.⤵︎

Beyond The Bottom Line: Why The Future Of Business Education Must Be Transversal AI cannot replace what matters most: human judgment, interdisciplinary thinking & leadership across cultures & contexts.

🕴In Poets&Quants, Benjamin Stevenin, Washika Haak-Saheem and Lakshmi Goel argue that artificial intelligence will reshape business education, but cannot replace its core purpose: human connection and interdisciplinary learning.

Shaping Perspectives: The Impact of the Pandemic on the Evolution of Internationalization at Home in Higher Education Institutions Abstract. This chapter explores the shifts in higher education caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and particularly focuses on the concept of internationalizat

📚 This week, in chapter 3 of our series from Eric Cornuel’s "Management Education and the Rise of Uncertainty in Global Business," attention turns to internationalisation at home.
📕 The book is available from @academic.oup.com at bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OUP or download at bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OA.