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Financial Times Relaunches “Business School Insider” Newsletter

Financial Times Relaunches “Business School Insider” Newsletter

Touting "Campus news, management research and business education trends," the British daily newspaper Financial Times relaunched the newsletter "Business School Insider" in September. "Designed for and about those involved in business education," the weekly communication

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Rankings Still Captivate

Rankings Still Captivate

Colleges and universities tend to have a love-hate relationship with rankings of all kinds. And yet they also tend to want to a) do well and b) stay abreast of how they and others are

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University World News: Micro-credentials: A new category of education is rising

University World News: Micro-credentials: A new category of education is rising

Alejandro Caballero, Sean Gallagher, Hanne Shapiro and Holly Zanville 05 July 2022 universityworldnews.com Despite the lack of globally accepted standards or even agreement on language, micro-credentials have proven to be a promising way to fulfil

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Higher Ed Dive Interviews Mike Malefakis

Higher Ed Dive Interviews Mike Malefakis

The new president of university partnerships at online education company Emeritus talks about growth plans and the direction of the sector Published September 2, 2022 Rick Seltzer, Senior Editor HigherEdDive.com Emeritus, a company focused on

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Harvard Business School: University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

Harvard Business School: University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

Harvard Business School Working Knowledge Business Research for Business Leaders "Which universities will step into the void as American colleges decline? In the book Empires of Ideas, William Kirby explores how the history of higher

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Financial Times: What companies really want from executive courses

Financial Times: What companies really want from executive courses

"Corporate chief learning officers were surveyed about subjects, spending and the shift online" "Employers around the world plan to step up their spending on executive development programmes this year with a focus on leadership, diversity

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Algorithmic Business Thinking: A Suitcase for Digital Destinations

Algorithmic Business Thinking: A Suitcase for Digital Destinations

Author: Paul McDonagh-Smith“Today, when creating the teams, organizations, and societies of tomorrow we invariably look in the direction of technology to lend us a hand. Our visions, strategies and operations are being reshaped by the

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A Letter to Business School Deans: The Real Impact Of University-Based Executive Education

A Letter to Business School Deans: The Real Impact Of University-Based Executive Education

By Lise HammergrenWhat 2020 has taught us – a summary from the university-based executive education industry, as experienced by the top 115 universities in the world.The executive education benchmarking survey with data from 99 top

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How Will We Work?

How Will We Work?

By Dr. Peter HirstMIT is among the thousands of universities in the U.S. and worldwide that shifted their teaching and learning to online. While tech savvy and level of comfort with distance learning vary widely

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AUC School of Business Executive Education Shifts to Live On-Line Learning

AUC School of Business Executive Education Shifts to Live On-Line Learning

By Greg Marchi Welcome to the birth of the Transformational Leader 2.0. The COVID-19 pandemic is setting the stage for the emergence of a new breed of leader who combines tried-and-true leadership models in new

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AUC School of Business Executive Education Shifts to Live On-Line Learning

AUC School of Business Executive Education Shifts to Live On-Line Learning

By Reem AbouemeraWith the unprecedented coronavirus outbreak and campus closures worldwide, education institutions are confronted with a new normal to which they have to adapt. The AUC School of Business Executive Education introduced live online