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Sustainability Centres Community Workshop 2021: Registration Open

Are you the Director of a Centre feeling the challenges of moving forward on the sustainability agenda? And is COVID-19 only adding to your challenges? If so, please join the Network for Business Sustainability Sustainability Centres Community Workshop on July 12-14, 2021, in Vienna, Austria.

This event brings together a powerful community of more than 170+ business school centres from across the world. The Workshop has been held every two years over the last decade — and just ask those who have previously attended to learn how much more progress they have made in their centre through their participation!

The 2021 Workshop will focus on increasing impact and building collective wisdom. In addition to a day of multi-sectoral engagement, two days will examine how to improve sustainability centre research, teaching, outreach, and strategy.

The event will be either hybrid, with both in-person and virtual participation, or entirely virtual. (We’ll make the final decision on format after the New Year, as COVID restrictions evolve.) Registering now, though, holds your spot for a limited enrollment event. Workshop info here; registration here.

The Workshop is hosted by the Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility (STaR) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy (IBES) at the FH Wien University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication.

If you don’t know about our Sustainability Centres Community, do join. It’s free, and we can do so much more by working together than alone. Keep safe and well — and hope to see you in July.

Will New Education Policy (NEP) make India a global destination for Higher Education

Date & Time:

Friday, August 21st| 10:30am EDT , 8pm IST

Description

The ‘New Education Policy’ of India, which was unveiled recently, has proposed some sweeping reforms in the higher education space, including allowing global universities of repute to set up their campuses in India.

Some of the recommendations in the policy include multiple entry and exit points for students, a multidisciplinary approach, a curriculum which is a combination of liberal and professional courses which has the potential to change the higher education landscape of India in the years ahead.

In this discussion on “Will NEP make India a Global Destination for Higher Education?”, Our esteemed panellists include Prof. Ulrich Hommel, Professor of Finance, EBS Business School, Germany and Prof. Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Goizueta Business School, Emory University.

Registration:

Please click here to register: https://ifim-edu-in.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpc-qgpz0tH9Qf_9XIzQA0dZDnP3zupqTU

Speakers

Prof. Jagdish Sheth

Charles H. Kellstadt Chair in Marketing, Goizueta Business School

Prior to coming to Emory University, Dr. Jagdish Sheth was the Robert E. Brooker Professor of Marketing at the University of Southern California and the Walter H. Stellner Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois. He was also on the faculty of Columbia University and MIT.

Also known as “Jag,” Dr. Sheth has published more than 350 research papers and books in various areas of marketing, including consumer behavior, multivariate methods, competitive strategy, relationship marketing and more recently, marketing for

emerging markets.

Dr. Sheth is an American Psychological Association Fellow and past President of the Association for Consumer Research (ACR). He is also a Fellow of the American Marketing Association and the Academy of Marketing Science. Among his past and present accolades, Dr. Sheth was the recipient of the Viktor Mataja Medal from the Austrian Research Society in Vienna (1977) and the 1989 Outstanding Marketing Educator Award from the Academy of Marketing Science. In 1991 and again in 1999, Dr. Sheth was also recognized as the “Marketing Educator of the Year” by Sales and Marketing Executives International (SMEI).

Dr. Sheth is the recipient of all top four academic awards bestowed by the American Marketing Association (AMA). These include the PD Converse Award for Marketing Theory (1998), Charles Coolidge Parlin Award for Marketing Research (2004), the Richard D. Irwin/McGraw Hill Marketing Educator Award (2004) and the William L. Wilkie “Marketing for a Better World” Award (2014). In 1996, he was elected to be the Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science. Subsequent honors include the Outstanding Leadership Award by the AMA Foundation in 2002 and the Global Innovation Award and Marion Creekmore Award, both from Emory University. Over the last 3 decades, Dr. Sheth has received more than 30 awards as a thought leader in marketing, consumer behavior and emerging markets.

Prof. Ulrich Hommel

Professor of Finance, EBS University

Prof. Ulrich Hommel is an associate director of quality services at the European Foundation for Management Development(EFMD) and, as one of the EPAS directors, is responsible for the EFMD Programme Accreditation System (EPAS). He is also a professor of finance and the director of the Strategic Finance Institute at the EBS Business School (EBS) based in Wiesbaden, Germany.

He earned a Ph.D. in economics from The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1994 and successfully completed his habilitation in business administration at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in 2002.

After completing his doctoral studies, Prof. Hommel joined the faculty of the WHU as an assistant professor of finance in 1994. He joined the faculty of the EBS Business School (formerly called European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen) in 2000 and was appointed full professor of finance in 2002.

Prof. Hommel served as academic dean of the EBS from 2000 to 2002 and was subsequently the rector of the EBS as well as the managing director of the EBS GmbH between 2003 and 2006. He was appointed associate director of quality services at EFMD in 2007 and, as one of the EPAS Directors, has assumed joint responsibility for EPAS, the EFMD Programme Accreditation System. Prof. Hommel has published widely in the areas of real options analysis, corporate risk management, corporate restructuring, family business financing as well as venture capital financing. In the past, he has held visiting appointments at Bordeaux École de Management, Krannert School of Management of Purdue University and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business of The University of Michigan.

Dr. Atish Chattopadhyay, Professor & Director, IFIM Business School

Vice Chancellor, Vijaybhoomi University

An entrepreneur and educator, Dr. Atish is a keen proponent of the globalization of Indian Business Education.

He has previously held leadership positions at the top Business Schools in India, like SPJIMR, Mumbai; MICA, Ahmedabad; and IMT, Ghaziabad. Under his leadership, these schools initiated path breaking pedagogical innovations, winning global accolades, including finding a place on AACSB’s ‘Innovations that Inspire’ List.

As a Professor of Marketing, Dr. Atish has published in leading journals and consulted with top MNCs covering the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions.

At IFIM, he has pioneered a study in association with the industry to curate a graduate management curriculum that caters to the needs of Industry 4.0 to groom Leaders 4.0.

14th International Research Workshop – Methods for PhD

Programme

PARALLEL MORNING SESSION 1 (7 – 9 September 2020)

  • Data Analysis with Stata
    Tobias Gramlich, Hesse State Statistical Office
  • Qualitative Research Methods
    Dr. Fabian Hattke, University of Hamburg
  • Grounded Theory
    Dr. Gilberto Rescher, University of Hamburg
  • Writing your Literature Review
    Paul Vickers, University of Regensburg

PARALLEL AFTERNOON SESSION 2 (7 – 9 September 2020)

  • Data Analysis with R
    Dr. Marco Lehmann, UKE Hamburg
  • Case Study Research
    Dr. Kamil Marcinkiewicz, University of Oldenbourg
  • Introduction to Data Mining and Quantitative Text Analysis with R
    Dr. Pascal Jürgens, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
    Dr. Jonas Buche, Leibniz University Hannover

PARALLEL SESSION 3 (10 September 2020)

  • Questionnaire Design
    Prof. Dr. Daniel Schnitzlein Leibniz University Hannover & DIW Berlin 
  • Multi-level Modelling with R
    Dr. Daniel Lüdecke, UKE Hamburg
  • Academic English Writing
    Dr. Jonathan Mole, Europa-Universität Flensburg
  • Spatial Data Analysis with Stata
    Prof. Dr. Timo Friedel Mitze, University of Southern Denmark

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:

  • Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University
  • Simon Fietze, University of Southern Denmark
  • Heiko Stüber, Institute for Employment Research

Fees & Credit Points

499 Euro (with accommodation and meals)

It is possible to get a certificate on 5 credit points (according to the European Credit Transfer System).

Workshop Venue

The workshop will take place at the Akademie Sankelmark, Akademieweg 6 in Oeversee (near Flensburg), Germany. The health, safety, and well-being of our lectures, the staff at the Akademie and the participants are our top priorities. All necessary measures are taken to ensure everyone stays healthy. Further, we will continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation and switch to an online workshop when necessary.

Contact & Registration

For any questions don’t hesitate to contact the workshop committee (irwsnetwork@gmail.com).

Please register for the workshop on the workshop website.

Organizers

  • Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the FAF Hamburg, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
  • Institute for Employment Research (IAB), The Research Institute of the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg
  • Akademie Sankelmark im Deutschen Grenzverein e.V.

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“What goes into deciding whether to welcome back students?”

Date & Time:

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 | 9:00am EDT

Description:

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, MIT, like all universities and colleges around the world, was tasked with determining if and how students would begin the fall semester. MIT sloan ultimately decided that the educational experience will be a “hybrid” curriculum consisting of the three main instructional models: fully remote, in person, and hyflex (a session in which some students are participating in person and some are participating remotely.

Dean Ezra Zuckerman Sivan will discuss the different considerations and factors that played a role in the curriculum design and the school’s decision to provide students with a safe and flexible learning environment.

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VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: 18th International Conference on Private Higher Education in Africa

Theme: Invigorating African Higher Education Institutions’ Response to COVID-19 Pandemic.

Higher education is affected by coronavirus whose consequences are expected to continue for unforeseeable future. African higher education community needs to find innovative and creative ways to invigorate the response to the pandemic to mitigate the risks associated with it. St. Mary’s University will hold its 18th international conference which will bring scholars, researchers, practitioners and decision-makers together virtually to debate on the common agendum – responding to COVID-19 – on September 08, 2020.

Sub-themes

Sub-theme 1. Higher Education Institutions’ response to COVID-19 pandemic

  • Higher Education Institutions’ response to COVID-19
  • Teaching, learning, assessment and research practices during and post-COVID-19
  • The role of indigenous knowledge in solving the COVID-19 challenges
  • The role of technology in higher education during and post-COVID-19
  • Sustaining post-COVID-19 academic quality
  • Online education and challenges in technology
  • Capacity development of teaching faculty in a post-COVID-19 transformed system

Sub-theme 2. Higher education institutions’ role toward inclusive and sustainable youth
development and employability

  • Lessons and strategies toward youth development: inclusiveness, entrepreneurship and employability during and post-COVID-19
  • African higher education towards meeting Agenda 2030 and 2063 for sustainable livelihoods, disability, gender and health
  • Importance of national strategies for regional Higher Education
  • Internationalization of Higher Education in Africa

Sub-theme 3. The profile of Private Higher Education in Africa

  • Access, relevance, quality, challenges and opportunities
  • Accreditation practices of Higher Education institutions in Africa
  • Research and technology in private Higher Education in Africa
  • Strategies to minimize PHEIs’ dependence from tuition fees
  • Public-Private partnership in the African HE space
  • The profile of PHEIs in a specific regional or national context

Sub-theme 4. Lessons and strategies towards effective networking and global engagement

  • policies, strategies and practices for effective linkage between higher education, business/industry, and other key stakeholders
  • collaborations, joint research and innovation in Africa
  • Knowledge management in Africa
  • Effective use of media in Higher Education

Sub-theme 5. The role of higher education institutions in ensuring serene Africa

  • Issues of identity, diversity and gender
  • Multiculturalism and green environment for prosperous and peaceful Africa
  • Democracy and rights in multicultural societies
  • Higher Education Institutions’ social climate
  • Climate change and its effects on education

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E-Confluence 2020

Date:

25th July 2020

Description:

This is the 7th Edition of Confluence 2020 organized by IFIM Business School, Bengaluru, India.

Theme: How Higher Education Institutions can reboot the Economy?

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the social, economic, geopolitical, business and learning environments. It has thrown new challenges to the well-established norms of earning a livelihood, interacting with friends and family, interacting at the workplace, and learning at schools and colleges. Countries, States, Business establishments and institutions of learning have been forced to adopt new ways of working, learning and delivering their respective obligations. This has dramatically impacted the normal. Supply chains across commodities, products and human resources are decimated and need to be re-invented. The Coronavirus has thrown a challenge to humankind and we must once prove our resilience. 

The future of every economy is determined by the quality of the new generation that it produces. This new generation has been conventionally trained and educated by a learning ecosystem consisting of pre-schools, schools, and higher education institutes. The new generation is further mentored, coached, and developed by the industry and society to don the role of business and social leaders who eventually then drive the future of the economy. 

The conventional education system has been hit hard by this pandemic. Academia has been rattled and is desperately seeking quick and easy solutions. 

It is time for the Organizations, Academic body, Social Influencers, and Industry leaders to pause and apply their minds to answer the following emerging questions. 

  • Is this the end of classroom teaching and online learning pave way for resurrecting the economy and then sustain it thereon? 
  • The traditional and established experiential learning pedagogies such as internships and immersions are being threatened. Do we need to reinvent them? 
  • Placement cycles which were the feeders of trained human resources are losing steam as the credibility of offers is at stake and the traditional campus interviews are becoming inconvenient. Do we need to find a new model? 
  • Will the legacy formulae of ROI cost of education/Placement Packages continue to be the normal? 
  • Are such lockdowns & social distancing here to stay, if yes do we need to train and educate our students differently? 

These questions need to be thought through, debated intensely, and answered thoughtfully to rebuild a learning ecosystem which will help address the new normal and reboot the economy which is now at a standstill.

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Audience:

  • Chief Executive Officers /Chief Human Resource  
  • Leader Campus Recruitment & Campus Recruiters 
  • University Relations Team 
  • Talent Acquisition & HR Professionals 
  • Career Services Professional 
  • Founders, Co-founder, and Entrepreneurs 
  • Director, Head & Manager- Placement Officers/Chief Managers
  • Chancellors & Vice Chancellors 
  • Directors & Principals 
  • Deans & Senior Faculty Members 
  • Researchers 

Agenda:

TimeAgenda
09:50 AM – 10:00 AM (10 Minutes)Inauguration Ceremony
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM (10 Minutes)Welcome Address
Dr. Ashwini Kumar Sharma
Pro Chancellor at Vijaybhoomi University
Ex-Director General – National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT)
10:10 AM – 10:40 AM (30 Minute)Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest
Dr Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman AICTE
10:40 AM – 10:55 AM (15 Minutes)Setting the Context
Sanjay Padode
Chairman, IFIM Business School (CDE Society)
President- Vijaybhoomi University
10:55 AM – 11:05 AM (10 Minutes)Inauguration Vote of Thanks
Jayant Shah
Confluence Chair
Executive Director – Academy of Indian Marketing, CEO – AIM Parasuraman Centre for Service Excellence
11:05 AM – 12:05 Noon (60 Minutes)Panel 1 – Changing teaching and learning norms

Speakers
Dr. Avantika Tomar, Global Solution Lead, Mercer, UK
Alok Mishra, Director, Niti Aayog, Govt of India
Prof. Manoj K Tiwari, Director, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
Vikas Gupta, Managing Director, Wiley India
Vikram Chaudhary, Asst. Editor, The Financial Express
Dr. Navneet Sharma – Dean, Vijaybhoomi University (Moderator)
12:05 Noon – 12:35 PM (30 Minutes)Networking Breakout |Q&A
12:35 PM – 1:35 PM (60 Minutes)Panel Discussion II – Impact on Early Talent and Campus Opportunities

Speakers
Kisha Gupta, Head of Global Academic Relations at Infosys
Amit Sachdev, CHRO, Tata Insights and Quants
Shruthi Alva, HR Director, Automation Anywhere
Priyanka Srivastava, Editor, Education Times – Times of India
Prof. Rakesh Mediratta, Dean, IFIM Business School (Moderator)
1:35 PM – 2:05 PM (30 Minutes)Networking Breakout |Q&A
2:05 PM – 3:05 PM (60 Minutes)Panel Discussion III: The ROI Factor: Graduate Fresh Talent & Employer

Speakers
Sushil Joshi, CHRO Adani Group
Ramendra Verma, Partner & Head, KPMG INDIA-EGYPT JV
Somasekhar Mulugu, Associate Editor & Chief of Bureau, The Hindu Business Line
Mithun Appaiah, CEO & Executive Director Innovative Foods (Sumeru)
Dr. Asit Barma, Professor & Chairperson – Marketing, IFIM B School (Moderator)
3:05 PM – 3:35 PM (30 Minutes)Networking Breakout |Q&A
3:35 PM – 4:00 PM (25 Minutes)Way forward
Dr. Atish Chattopadhyay
Director
IFIM Business School
Vice Chancellor – Vijaybhoomi University
4:00 PM – 4:25 PM (25 Minutes)Valedictory
Dr. M.P. Poonia ,
Vice Chairman – AICTE
4:25 PM – 4:30 PM (05 Minutes)Vote of Thanks
Ms. Surekha Shetty
Director – Student Services
IFIM Business School
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Global Trade During COVID 19: WTO Response

Date & Time:

Monday, July 27, 2020
12:30-1:30 p.m. EDT

Description:

Join Kislaya Prasad, academic director of the Center for Global Business as he hosts Emmanuelle Ganne of the World Trade Organization to discuss the “Global Trade During COVID 19: WTO Response.” Topics to be discussed include how global trade has been impacted by the pandemic, WTO’s responses worldwide, tools it has to support the economic recovery, and how countries are thinking about the future of trade, through the lens of an expert from the WTO.

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Speakers:

Emmanuelle Ganne is a senior analyst in the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO) where she leads WTO work on micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and blockchain and conducts research on MSMEs, global value chains, services, and digital technologies. She is the author of a recently published WTO book entitled “Can Blockchain Revolutionize International Trade?”. Prior to this, she held various positions at the WTO, including as counselor to Director-General Pascal Lamy, and in the Accessions Division where she assessed trade policies of governments wishing to join the WTO and advised them on how to improve their business environment. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as vice-president and managing director for Europe at the Allam Advisory Group (AAG), a team of former C-level executives and senior diplomats that specializes in helping businesses expand their operations globally. Ganne is a 2009 Yale World Fellow.  

Talent for Africa: The Business of Sustainable Development

Africa accounts for 17% of the world’s population yet emits less than 5% of the world’s carbon emissions. Africa boasts a massive talent population, but also demonstrates the highest rate of education exclusion. It is a continent rich in resources, talent potential, and innovation, but lacks the necessary tools to expand its portfolio in sustainable ways. 

Session four investigated the various components of sustainable development, from female participation in the workforce to healthcare resources to relevant education, and what the continent is doing to address some of these broader goals. 

Africa is leading the way in the business of UN Sustainable Development Goal relevancy, but what is holding its people back from success?  This session explored relevant struggles in the integration of the SDG initiatives, as well as provide an engaging discussion of what can be done going forward to achieve these broader goals.

Date

Wednesday, 3 March 2021

  • 5:00am MST
  • 7:00am EST
  • 1:00pm WAT
  • 2:00pm SAST
  • 3:00pm EAT

Speakers

  • Carl Manlan

    Vice President of Social Impact
    Visa Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa
    United Arab Emirates

  • Mamokgethi Phakeng

    Vice-Chancellor
    University of Cape Town
    South Africa

  • Tavneet Suri

    Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics
    MIT Sloan School of Management
    USA

Talent for Africa: Powering Digital Transformation

Digital transformation plays a central role in the sustainable development of Africa. Yet the continent does not yet have the tech talent to enable this transformation. How do we develop the skills to support the needed investment? How can business, academia, government, and civil society work together to create an environment that unlocks the full potential of Africa’s aspiring entrepreneurs? Can business schools and universities take the lead in connecting diverse talent needed to accelerate innovation? Join this session to consider these and other important questions in this fifth session of the Talent for Africa Forum.

Africa is rising as a global player and is a true beneficiary in the global arena and we are here to celebrate that, as well as help the rest of the world to benefit from it.

Date

Wednesday, 17 March 2021

  • 5:00am MST
  • 7:00am EST
  • 12:00pm WAT
  • 1:00pm SAST
  • 2:00pm EAT

Speakers

  • Philip Thigo

    Director for Africa
    Thunderbird School for Global Management, Arizona State University
    USA

  • Kizito Okechukwu

    Board Vice President and Interim President
    Digital Africa
    South Africa

  • Meriem Zairi

    Senior Managing Director MENA
    SEAF
    Morocco

Talent for Africa: The Future Workforce – Learning and Development in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Africa’s most powerful resource is its people. In a world of shrinking working-age populations, favorable demographics point to substantial opportunity within Africa. But there is no guarantee that the demographics will translate into greater prosperity.

Join us in this session, as we tackle some of the more pressing questions related to Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 

  • Does Africa have the capacity to educate the young while delivering on the growing needs for upskilling and reskilling the workforce?
  • How is technology changing the mix of knowledge and skills that African organizations need? 
  • What are the specific sector needs, such as health care, government, and finance?
  • How are new technologies, and increasing experiences in using them, creating new opportunities that make education both more effective and more accessible? 

Date

Wednesday, 17 February 2021

  • 7:00am EST
  • 1:00pm WAT/CET
  • 2:00pm SAST
  • 3:00pm EAT

Speakers

  • Rebecca Harrison

    CEO and Co-Founder
    African Management Institute
    Kenya

  • Enase Okonedo

    Deputy Vice-Chancellor
    Pan-Atlantic University
    Nigeria
    Board Treasurer

  • Nick van Dam

    Director, IE Center for Corporate Learning & Talent Management
    IE University
    Spain
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