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Save the Date! Qatar CSR Summit 2024, May 1, 2024, College of Business & Economics at Qatar University

The Changing Landscape of Labour Rights and Responsibilities in Business: Implications for Business Schools in the Middle East Facilitated by MEBAS in collaboration with ILO & GBSN Moderators: Prof. Dan LeClair, Chief Executive Officer, Global Business School Network (GBSN) Alix Nasri, Technical Specialist, International Labour Organization (ILO) Panelists: Charles Autheman, Lecturer on Business and Human Rights, HEC Paris Maria Gallotti, Migration Policy Specialist, International Labour Organization (ILO)From 13:30 to 15:30 (Doha Local Time)The Zoom link for this live-streamed session will be shared with you three days before the event (i.e., on April 27, 2024)

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Qatar CSR Summit

Hosted by Qatar University as part of the Qatar CSR National Program, the 2nd edition of Qatar CSR Summit will take placefrom the 30 April to 2 May 2024 at Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) – Hall 1. CSR Summit is a significant event that focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Qatar. It addresses how organizations can align their economic, social, and environmental objectives with their operational strategies.

The Summit serves as a prime platform, bringing together professionals, industry leaders, academics, and stakeholders from around the globe to discuss, deliberate, and foster the growth of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices. They will collaborate to identify and address the major challenges in integrating CSR into core business operations, foster partnerships with key stakeholders in the private and public sectors and enhance the visibility and impact of their brands and initiatives.

Main Topics

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) trends are reshaping the way businesses operate and interact with society, impacting a range of areas from environmental sustainability to ethical supply chains. As companies increasingly prioritize minimizing their environmental footprint, they are also focusing on transparency and responsibility across their entire supply chain, upholding human rights and environmental standards.

  • Circular economy
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Ethical supply chains
  • Workplace Diversity Management and inclusion:
  • Digital Inclusion
  • Cloud Computing
  • Renewable Energy
  • Employee engagement and well-being
  • Ethical marketing and consumer awareness
  • Impact Investing
  • Climate change action
  • Human rights and fair labor practices
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4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Processing – AIKP’24 | August 22 – 24, 2024

About AIKP – 2024

Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Processing is playing a vital role in changing most of the sectors’ processes and landscape. AI has an enormous impact on various automation industries and their functioning converting traditional industries to AI-based factories. New algorithms are changing the way business processes and results are analyzed and predicted. Knowledge processing is the act of comprehending and then representing human knowledge in data structures; semantic models, which are conceptual diagrams of data as they relate to the real world; and heuristics, which are principles that lead to answers to every AI challenge. The way how a human think, knowledge processing transforms the data into knowledge and makes the machine think like a human and makes better decisions. This makes the humans work simple, but it has some ethical concerns that need to be sorted out. This AI and knowledge processing conference addresses the drawbacks and challenges in current practices in various sectors. The research area includes Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Decision Support Systems, Knowledge representation, semantics, Big data analytics, Intelligent systems, fuzzy-based neural networks and other fields.

Call for papers

Publication

Minimum of three independent reviewers will be reviewing the paper and they will provide scientific comments on those papers. Based on their review chair will approve the paper. After a careful reviewing process, accepted papers will be submitted to publish in the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.

Call for Papers

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Theme – I: Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Processing

Theme – II: Machine Learning

Theme – III: Deep Learning

Theme – IV: Intelligent Control

Theme – V: Artificial Vision

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Successful Case Teaching Workshop – The Case Centre & Porto Business School

Are you interested in teaching with cases? Are you looking for new and exciting ways to reinvigorate your teaching? This two-day in-person workshop will give you fresh inspiration in the classroom, ensuring you offer students at all levels, from undergraduate to executive, an exciting and motivational learning experience.

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Overview

Learn how to engage students and get the most from case discussions in the classroom in this intensive and interactive hands-on workshop. This workshop includes the opportunity to practise case teaching in a safe and supportive environment.

The case method is widely recognised as an enormously powerful approach to teaching and learning, especially in management education. This workshop will provide teachers with the opportunity to explore the case method and assess its benefits for use in their own classes. The highly experienced tutor will share practical tips and skills for teaching with cases and offer guidance on case selection and instructor preparation for class. Participants will gain confidence and share experiences in a friendly and supportive environment.

Workshop Participants

This workshop will be of benefit to a wide audience who are interested in:

  • using cases for teaching, in-class or online
  • reflecting on their own teaching
  • improving their case teaching and facilitation skills.

Participants may include:

  • faculty and trainers from all sectors or disciplines within business education, teaching at any level from undergraduate to executive
  • faculty and trainers from a wide range of other disciplines with some connection to or interest in management education.

Workshop Objectives

Participants will:

  • reflect on their own classroom teaching
  • understand the prerequisites for case teaching
  • practise case teaching in a safe environment
  • learn how to optimise for an online (asynchronous and synchronous) teaching setting
  • learn how to evaluate success factors for any given audience.

Takeaways – participants will develop:

  • the ability to choose appropriate cases for their students
  • the confidence to lead case teaching sessions in-class and online (asynchronous and synchronous)
  • a structure and pace for their case teaching sessions
  • the skill to deal with any student response – including silence
  • the ability to achieve their learning objectives in the classroom.

Fees

MEMBER ORGANISATIONSNON-MEMBER ORGANISATIONS
£665/€770/$845£730/€850/$930

Fees include course materials, refreshments and lunches.

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See our terms and conditions for more information about fees, cancellations and transfers.

A minimum of one subsidised place for participants in developing countries is available on each event. If your organisation qualifies for our membership scheme for developing countries you may be eligible. Contact the events team for further details.

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Rearchitecting the Financial System | Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship

The “Rearchitecting the Financial System” online course created by CFTE and Elevandi Education on the occasion of the Singapore Fintech Festival 2023, offers an insider view into the global transformations in the financial system.

Taught by the world-class speakers of Singapore Fintech Festival 2023, the course explores the key drivers behind the transformation of finance by addressing the topics such as digital infrastructure, payments, digital money and platforms for SMEs. Led by Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer of MAS and Chairman of Elevandi, the programme combines expert industry insights, breakdown of real-world case studies, structured knowledge and curated panels of the Singapore Fintech Festival 2023.

The course is designed to upskill thousands of finance professionals, policy-makers and entrepreneurs on how finance is being transformed and  aims to impact more than 5000 participants by2024.

Register for the course now for USD 40. Students. policymakers, and educators may enjoy a concessionary rate of USD 20. For a more detailed course description and additional information, visit the programs’s dedicated page below. Please feel free to use the unique coupon code, RFS20Partners for a 20% discount. For the special GBSN member discount of 50% off, please email Julianna LaBelle, at jlabelle@gbsn.org.

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Call for Papers – Targeting Therapies: Exploring the Cultural & Normative Dimensions of ‘Targeted’ Approaches to Biomedicine and Public Health

It is increasingly common for governments to commit, symbolically and economically, to dreams of therapeutic innovation in healthcare. This often relates to ‘targeted’ approaches, such as pharmaceuticals aimed at very specific kinds of disease (e.g. certain cancers), which might respond only to people with particular genetic variants – imagined and innovated through the idiom of ‘precision’ and ‘personalised’ medicine. At the same time, we can see other ‘targeted’ approaches to healthcare in action; for instance, psychological therapy services tailored to specific populations and interventions that stratify and construct publics in response to existing and emerging forms of illness (e.g. restrictions on the movements of groups regarded as highly vulnerable to COVID-19;
increasingly narrow stratification of mental health diagnoses etc).

Through this conference, we will critically examine the design, delivery, and implications of ‘targeted’ biomedicine and public health to help us to better understand the dynamics between science, healthcare, and society. While research from the humanities and social sciences on biomedicine and public health often keeps these domains apart, our event will seek to consider the commonalities between them. We welcome approaches from bioethics, gender studies, history, law, medical humanities, political philosophy, and science studies (among others) to explore the cultural and normative dimensions of ‘targeted’ approaches and interventions in biomedicine and public health. Through comparative analysis across these disciplines, we hope the event will help us to explore how different cultural, historical, legal, scientific, and healthcare contexts interact in the shaping and deployment of ‘targeted’ approaches.

We invite papers that consider how societal histories, traditions, and legal processes affect how medical research is funded and conducted and how healthcare is prioritised and delivered. We also look forward to presentations that will examine how law, ethics, and cultures are impacted and contoured through targeted approaches to health.

The conference will be held at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland from May 2-3 2024; it is funded by Prof Susi Geiger’s MISFIRES ERC project (grant no. 771217) and a joint Arts and Humanities Research Council UK research fund held by Prof Martyn Pickersgill – University of Edinburgh, Dr Ilaria Galasso – Technical University of Munich, Dr Sone Erikainen – University of Aberdeen, and Prof Susi Geiger – UCD.

Submission Process:

To apply to present at this conference, please submit an abstract of around 500 words of your research to gemma.watts@ucd.ie by 19 February 2024. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of February 2024. Should you have any questions prior to submission regarding the suitability of your research proposal to the conference, please contact either Prof Martyn Pickersgill (martyn.pickersgill@ed.ac.uk) or Prof Susi Geiger (susi.geiger@ucd.ie) directly.

Travel Bursaries:

For early career researchers there are a limited number of travel bursaries available to present at this conference. Early career applicants who are interested in applying for a travel bursary can specify this in their email when submitting the abstract, and please
provide a breakdown of the anticipated cost for travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses. The travel bursary will cover a maximum of 2 nights in a hotel.

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Human Resources and Talent Management of Korean Companies – Loyola Marymount University

The Faculty Development in International Business (FDIB) South Korea program is a joint collaboration between Loyola Marymount University and Florida International University. The program is designed for educators interested in developing a greater understanding of doing business in Korea and exploring how Korean companies such as Samsung, Hyundai, LG, SK and Lotte have emerged as global competitors. 

This program focuses on learning the key factors driving talent management of Korean companies to enhance local as well as global competitiveness. Participants will gain firsthand experience about how South Korea has grown into a trillion-dollar-club economy that ranks the 10th largest in the world and has become a global innovation leader known as the “Miracle of the Han River.” Participants will visit top multinational companies, providing them with an opportunity to interact with executives and senior managers to discuss the intricacies of Korean management. In addition, participants will tour and visit historical sites for cultural experiences. Attendees will also listen to special lectures delivered by local scholars and network with other faculty to explore collaborative curriculum development and research interests.

A $4,000 program fee will cover hotel accommodations (based on single occupancy) with daily breakfast, ground transportation for activities, entry to cultural sites, business visits, and some meals. International airfare is not included.

Program Fee: $4000

Covers hotel accommodations (based on single occupancy) with daily breakfast, ground transportation for activities, entry to cultural sites, business visits, and some meals. International airfare is not included.
Scholarships available, apply below.

Deadline to Apply: March 31, 2024

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ITP Programme | Essentials of Teaching and Learning

The International Schools of Business Management (ISBM) was created more than 50 years ago to improve the teaching and learning that goes on in business schools everywhere. Through its flagship programme, the “International Teachers Programme” (ITP), it has transformed the lives and careers of thousands of business school faculty and those who learn from them. 

The ITP, a multi-week, in-person programme delivered annually at ISBM member schools, trains participating faculty in “active learning” pedagogies and transforms their mindsets from focussing on teaching to creating environments in which learning comes alive. The essence of the ITP experience has now been extracted and distilled into ISBM’s newest and most scalable and accessible programme, “The Essentials of Teaching and Learning,” delivered in a remote learning format.

The Essentials

Given the wide array of teaching and learning opportunities that exists for business school faculty these days, your first question is likely to be, “What’s in it for me?” and, perhaps, what’s in it for your institution, as well.

What’s in it for me?

  • Proven content: The ‘essentials’ distilled from the ITP.
  • Your best self: There’s no single best way to teach. We’ll help you develop your own unique identity as a teacher. 
  • An international network: You’ll get hands-on, highly interactive learning in the company of dozens of highly motivated and like-minded international faculty peers, all of whom care about excellence in teaching.
  • An enhanced reputation: Learn from and get to know star faculty from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds from some of the world’s top business schools.
  • Fun, passion, and purpose: You’ll learn how to shape your classroom culture to deliver amazing experiences for every student. 
  • Impact: Most of us don’t teach just to make a living. We’re teachers who want to make a difference in the lives and careers of those we teach. The “Essentials of Teaching and Learning” programme will boost your impact. 

Who should join?

  • Inspiration: The transformation of your institution’s culture from one of teaching to one of creating learning environments is inspiring to behold and to be a part of.
  • Credibility: Show your faculty, students, and other stakeholders that your institution values and supports excellence in teaching. 
  • Enhanced student experience: Your students’ learning experience matters!
  • Faculty recruitment and retention: Attracting and retaining top faculty gets more difficult every year. Faculty appreciate working for institutions that invest in developing their skills.
  • Relevance: Organisations of all kinds – pretty much everywhere – need to be better managed. Your institution, drawing on the more than 50 years of learning from the ISBM consortium schools, can lead the way. 

Programme structure

  • Interactively designed and delivered
  • Four half-day sessions via Zoom
  • On four consecutive Fridays
  • With small-group breakouts and other engaging activities
  • Conducted in English
  • Time zone friendly from 12:00 noon to 4 PM Central European Time
  • All in all, taken together and apart from its content, a demonstration of highly effective teaching that can serve as a role model for any kind of teaching and learning setting.

What the programme is not

  • Not a webinar you can watch with one eye, while checking your email with your other one!
  • Not a course about online teaching
  • Not about teaching with new-fangled digital tools
  • Not top-down, one-way content delivery
  • Time zone friendly from 12:00 noon to 4 PM Central European Time
  • All in all, taken together and apart from its content, a demonstration of highly effective teaching that can serve as a role model for any kind of teaching and learning setting.

Practical Information

2024 Programme Dates

Fridays April 5, 12, 19, and 26

Time: 12 noon to 4 PM Central European Time

Fee

Full fee: €800

Early bird discounted price: €600

Registration

Opens at 12:00 noon CET January 15, 2024

EARLY BIRD discount (limited places available) 

ends at 12:00 noon CET January  31, 2024.

Payment

In full at time of registration by credit or debit card

on the “Essentials of Teaching and Learning” Eventbrite page.

Non-refundable, non-transferable.

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ISM International Week | December 6-8

Groupe ISM (Institut Supérieur de Management) organizes the International Week, a flagship event aimed at promoting intercultural exchange and strengthening links between the academic partners of the ISM Group. This week will include a series of activities, including conferences, roundtables, seminars, workshops, and institutional presentations.

The aim is to provide a platform for discussion and collaboration on relevant academic topics. Among these activities, we will highlight the Study Abroad Fair in honor of the partner schools and universities of the GGE network and beyond, and the cultural stands, intended for embassies and other diplomatic representations, to promote foreign cultures.

This year’s theme, “Connecting Cultures, Creating the Future”, emphasizes the importance of connectivity between the world’s different cultures as a catalyst for innovation and progress. It encourages cross-cultural understanding, global collaboration and collective creativity to shape a better future.

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Webinar: GBSN for BHR Gender and Agriculture Cluster Workshop

Business school research on access to remedy for marginalised workers

22nd November 2023 at 3pm CET / 2pm GMT / 9am EST via Zoom. Joint event co-hosted by the research clusters on agriculture and on gender of the GBSN for BHR impact community. 

Access to remedy is one of the greatest failings of and most critical areas for growth within the business and human rights movement. The aim of the workshop is to bring together business school researchers interested in access to remedy for marginalized workers. 

We will discuss concrete examples from the agriculture industry to understand the situation of marginalized workers, where and why current remedy practices fall short, and what needs to change to provide remedy that is effective and accessible. A specific focus will be given to: 

  • the availability and typology of grievance mechanisms,
  • the blurred line between formal and informal grievances,
  • the lack of a gendered approach to grievance mechanisms, and
  • the gap between access to grievance mechanisms and access to remedy.

Initial findings will be shared from a research project led by the Nottingham University Business School on grievance mechanisms available to agricultural seasonal migrant workers in the UK. A case study on access to remedy for women migrant workers employed in the Fair Food Programme will also be presented. 

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Agenda

  • Welcome and introductions
  • The case of the agri-food sector in the UK
  • The case of the Fair Food Programme in the US
  • Discussion and development of a research agenda 

What factors make seasonal migrant workers particularly vulnerable to exploitation? Why are existing grievance mechanisms insufficient for providing remedy? 

The case of the agri-food sector in the UK, Oana Burcu, Nottingham University Business School

Post-Brexit, the UK agricultural sector has been facing challenges with recruitment from new countries. Workers burdened by debt due to illegal recruitment fees and employer-tied visas may endure exploitative conditions, lacking knowledge of rights and access to grievance mechanisms. Marginalized workers on temporary contracts may accept exploitative conditions rather than claiming their rights. Our project aims to develop a tailored non-state-based grievance mechanism that can guarantee effective access to remedy for human rights abuses to seasonal migrant workers in the agricultural sector in the UK.

How can effective remedy be implemented? How can remedy programs meet migrant workers’ needs, in particular women migrant workers’ needs? 

A rights-holder approach to access to remedy, Alysha Shivji, EGADE Business School Tecnologico de Monterrey

The case of the Fair Food Program represents the first operating worker-driven social responsibility model, that acts as an operable context for dialogic approaches to remediation, including with a specific gender approach. The remedial mechanisms of the Fair Food Program, which are designed and implemented around workers-rights-holders, include worker-driven audits and a 24-hr multilingual complaint hotline.

For more information, please contact the organizers:

Dr Lara Bianchi, Nottingham University Business School, lara.bianchi@nottingham.ac.uk

Dr Samentha Goethals, SKEMA Business School, samentha.goethals@skema.edu

Dr Berit Knaak, University of Geneva, berit.knaak@unige.ch 

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2023 CUHK Conference on Financial Technology

Generative AI and Digital Assets – Governance and Risk Management Perspectives

2023 CUHK Conference on Financial Technology is part of the satellite event of the Hong Kong FinTech Week 2023, Asia’s most anticipated international financial technology event, looking to bring together more than 1.2 million viewers who are executives, entrepreneurs, investors, regulators, and academics from 130+ economies. This is an opportunity to bring together the academia and industry participants, providing a platform to carry out fruitful and productive discussions, encourage the exchange of ideas and promote future collaboration opportunities.

General Information

Date: Wednesday, 1 November, 2023

Time: 9:00 – 18:00 Hong Kong

Hybrid Mode

Location: Lau Chor Tak Lecture Theatre (LT1), Yatsumoto International Academic Park, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Conference Theme: Generative AI and Digital Assets – Governance and Risk Management Perspectives

Language: English

Dress Code: Business Casual

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