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Leadership Academy Completes Important Segment

Leadership Academy Completes Important Segment

  Before the Team Development Conference in Vancouver, the seventh cohort of the Leadership Academy attended an all-day session on "Creating a Value Proposition and a Business Model." The session was led by Mónica Sacristán

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Leadership Academy Participants Discuss Technology Trends in Executive Education

Leadership Academy Participants Discuss Technology Trends in Executive Education

Last week, the 24 participants in the UNICON Leadership Academy 2022-23 class spent time discussing the ever-changing landscape of the executive education ecosystem. Part of the discussion centered on global and marketplace trends that we

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AUC: The Corporate Learning and Development Landscape in Egypt

AUC: The Corporate Learning and Development Landscape in Egypt

AUC School of Business Executive Education October 18, 2022 By Nada Medhat "Insights from relevant UNICON reports are incorporated for comparison with global trends. AUC School of Business Dean Sherif Kamel explained how this report

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Anthony Corsino of Harvard Business School Executive Education

Anthony Corsino of Harvard Business School Executive Education

Anthony Corsino is the Assistant Director of Program Operations at Harvard Business School Executive Education. In this role, he oversees the logistics and onboarding for a department of 60 people and manages a limited portfolio,

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Welcome to the Future

Welcome to the Future

There are widely varying opinions on the changing landscape of higher education, but many point to opportunity for executive education providers who are ready. Forbes Glenn Llopis, Contributor September 14, 2022 Also available for listening

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How the Covid Pandemic Might Have Lasting Effects on Executive Education

How the Covid Pandemic Might Have Lasting Effects on Executive Education

The pandemic is known to have changed most organizations in some way, often in quite significant ways. Higher Education is no exception. But which of those changes are of the permanent variety, which are temporary,

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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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UNICON Releases Two Research Reports

UNICON Releases Two Research Reports

In June UNICON, AACSB and IEDP released a powerful study of the impact of lifelong learning on our industry entitled, “Lifelong Learning and University-based Business Schools.” You can access the executive summary here. This study was the first of

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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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Aileen Zhang of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

Aileen Zhang of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

1996 – 2003 Executive Assistant to GM Shanghai Novartis Animal Health Co., Ltd. 2003-2008 Program Coordinator Executive Education China Europe International Business School 2008-2012 Senior Program Coordinator Executive Education China Europe International Business School 2012-2016

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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