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The Distinguished Speakers in International Business Series-University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

The Distinguished Speakers in International Business Series (DSS) brings together policymakers, industry leaders, academia, and students to present and discuss emerging trends in international business throughout the year.

The DSS is supported by the Title VI CIBE grant provided by the U.S. Department of Education to foster international understanding and promote the ability for U.S. businesses to compete globally.

Upcoming Event

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

5-6 p.m. EST

Attend virtually or in person.

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Join the Center for Global Business and CGB Academic Director Kislaya Prasad for a discussion with Erik Peterson, managing director of Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council, on Promise and Peril, the Kearney report that outlines the five significant trends that will dramatically shape the global outlook and operating environment from 2021 through 2026. Trends include the race for quantum supremacy, rise in water dislocations, ungovernability, mainstream central bank digital currencies, and the new age of genetic manipulation.

Participants will have the option to attend this event in person or virtually. Please register and choose your preference. Participants who opt to attend the event in person will go to Room 2333, Van Munching Hall. Virtual participants will log in using the Zoom information they receive upon registration.

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Energy Access on the African Continent

Event Overview

In Africa, the number of people gaining access to electricity rose from 9 million a year between 2000 and 2013 to 20 million people between 2014 and 2019, outpacing population growth. Despite that fact, in Sub-Saharan Africa, just 46.7% of the population had access to electricity in 2019.

How do we make sure that energy is more widely accessible in Africa in a world becoming more conscious about climate change? How should we balance Africa’s rising energy needs and the world’s increasing need for clean energy generation?

Join Stanford Seed for a thought provoking discussion with our panel of experts on the topic of Energy Access in Africa.

Speakers

Date & Time

Saturday, January 29, 2022

  • 9:00am PST
  • 5:00pm GMT
  • 7:00pm CAT
  • 8:00pm EAT
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Questions? Please email tintinyw@stanford.edu.

Apply Now for the Second Edition of “This is How I Moved my #BusinessFoward” Campaign

Business Forward, the knowledge portal of AUC School of Business, is starting off 2022 running a very exciting digital campaign that calls for the participation of the business community. In recent years, and even more accelerated by COVID-19, there is a movement emphasizing that the purpose and role of business in society is to create values, sustainable development, diversity, and stakeholder interests.

However, in Egypt and this part of the world, literature about responsible business or corporate responsibility and documentation of its practice is very limited. It is often mistakenly associated with charity, philanthropy and public relations.

In this edition of “This is how I moved my #BusinessForward”, in partnership with The Coca Cola Company and the Commercial International Bank (CIB), the objective is to build the narrative and awareness about corporate responsibility, highlighting positive examples that demonstrate responsible business conduct embedded in the vision and day-to-day operations of the business, rather than a one-off act. Join now to showcase how your institution, business or company helped promote corporate responsibility over the past year.

The call for participation is open until February 15, 2022. The campaign ends with the audience voting on the most inspiring stories and an awards ceremony in March 2022.

Learn more about the campaign and how to participate in this video.

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Woxsen University’s National Symposium: Reimagining Global Education in Business Schools

It gives us immense pleasure to invite you to an International Symposium “Reimagining Global Education in Business Schools” being organized by Woxsen University in association with ETS, the leading provider of educational testing and assessments for GRE and TOEFL examinations. This event shall be broadcasted live on the 24th of January, 2022 (Monday) on Zoom from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Indian Standard Time (IST).

Brief Background

Creating global citizens and leaders from today’s youth calls for innovative curricula that support new ways of teaching and learning. These curricula must also provide students with effective opportunities to develop the dispositions, knowledge, and capabilities to understand the world in which they live, to make sense of the ways globalization shapes their lives, and to be good stewards of the world’s resources.

These are momentous and exciting times for business education! The current operating landscape faced by many business schools globally is one defined by an increasingly dynamic range of opportunity, uncertainty and risk. One of the challenges for higher education in the current era is the strategic need to adapt to an external environment that is changing much more rapidly and unpredictably than that of the higher education sector itself.

Given the dynamically changing world around us, it is imperative for business schools to evaluate traditional models and processes that intentionally or inadvertently support operating in academic isolation. Shifts in market demand for how business education is delivered is driving business education to innovate and to “unpack” traditional full-time degree programs. This suggests that, in addition to traditional degree offerings, business schools increasingly may provide shorter, flexible, modularized, and just-in-time educational experiences that support professionals throughout all stages of their careers.

To help understand the changing landscape, we have invited the ETS members for sharing their insights.

It’s time to herald a new standard in business education!

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After registering, you will receive an auto-confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

28th CEEMAN & Emerald Case Writing Competition- Open for Submissions

Overview

Read all about the 2021 winners and highly commended cases HERE!

The aim of the CEEMAN & Emerald Case Writing Competition is to encourage and promote the development of high-quality teaching case material relevant for the realities of dynamic and emerging economies, and at the same time to promote the development of case-writing capabilities in those countries. Since its launch in the 1990s, the Case Writing Competition has amassed over 650 cases from 80 countries, and it is with pleasure that we observe what an impact they have had on management education that strives to be relevant to its environments and stakeholders.

In the spirit of a fully inclusive competition, global submissions are encouraged. As the co-organizers, Emerald Group Publishing will support global exposure of the submitted high-quality cases through a direct link with Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies  (EMCS), a growing collection of around 700 case studies with teaching notes. All case submissions will be considered for international publication in EMCS.

The total CEEMAN/Emerald award prize pool is worth over €10,000, including €4,000 prize money. Prizes are awarded to the overall winner and two runners-up.

We are pleased to offer feedback to authors of cases submitted to this competition early. If you submit your case before 28 February 2022, you will receive some feedback from the judges of the competition, and be able to revise and resubmit your case before 17 April for final judging. Please note the early feedback will be brief, general comments on the focus of your case/teaching notes that will help you improve for the competition and is not full double blind peer review. You will receive in depth feedback once your case is submitted for peer review in EMCS.

Webinar on writing teaching cases: Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 4:00-5:00 PM CET – Watch the recording!

Second webinar on case writing: March 2022

Early case submission deadline: 28 February 2022

Case submission deadline: 17 April 2022 

Announcement of winners: June 2022

Award ceremony: winners will be announced during the CEEMAN Annual Meeting at the CEEMAN Annual Conference, taking place on 21-23 September 2022 in Bled, Slovenia.

Prizes

The value of the total prize pool is over €10,000, which will be distributed as follows:

The overall winner will be awarded:

The first runner-up will be awarded:

The second runner-up will be awarded:

Depending on the quality and number of submissions, additional awards may be bestowed in different categories. If a winning case has more than one author, the prize will be split among the co-authors (the prize may be subject to local taxes). Full evaluations from the competition’s judging panel will be made available to authors upon request.

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Gamification of Learning: Designing an Engaging Classroom Experience

Event Details

Ever felt your learners should be more engaged?

Gamification is an approach that builds on the psychology of human engagement and capitalizes on the exciting, motivating and engaging strategies and design ideas from games.

Applied in the educational context, it transforms attitudes towards learning. It creates an immersive, entertaining experience. Such a hands-on approach helps students to connect with their learning and improves concentration, determination to succeed or overall knowledge retention.

This online workshop led by Rob Alvarez is an entry-intermediate level training for learning professionals who have none or limited experience with Gamification.

The training focuses on five steps every educator can take to gamify the student learning experience. These five steps have derived from interactions with over 100 experts through Rob Alvarez’s Professor Game Podcast as well as two decades of experience with interactive learning materials at IE Business School in Madrid.

The online training consists of an introductory session, four live classes and a live feedback – six meetings in total. In between the live sessions, participants work asynchronously (individually, as well as in peer groups) on an individual project based on their specific challenges.

Throughout the training participants will:

  • explore gamification as a way to create a learner experience
  • get hands-on experience with using gamification to design a course/lesson, address a workplace challenge
  • deliver a prototype of a gamified course/lesson/workplace process
  • receive individual as well as peer feedback to apply the newly gained insights in practice 

TARGET GROUP

This online workshop is designed for learning professionals as well as programme directors and designers, who have none to limited experience with gamification and who are interested in incorporating new methods to increase student’s engagement and performance levels.

COURSE TIMELINE

  • March 10; 14:00-15:00 CET: Introductory session
  • March 15; 14:00-16:00 CET: Live session 1
  • March 18; 12:00 CET: Assignment 1
  • March 21; Peer feedback 1
  • March 22; 14:00-16:00 CET: Live session 2
  • March 29; 14:00-16:00 CEST: Live session 3
  • April 1; 12:00 CEST: Assignment 2
  • April 4; Peer feedback 2
  • April 5; 14:00-16:00 CEST Live session 4
  • April 14; 14:00-16:00 CEST Feedback and closing 

DIGITAL BADGES

After completing all assignments, course participants will receive a digital badge.

Criteria for receiving a badge:

  • 80% attendance of live sessions
  • Submitting two individual assignments (Friday March 18 & Friday April 1)
  • Submitting two filled-in peer feedback forms (Monday March 21 & Monday April 4)

The submission platform for all assignments including peer feedback is Slack.

ZOOM

This workshop will be run using Zoom. To ensure the best Zoom experience, we recommend that you install the latest version of Zoom Client for Meetings. If you are not familiar with Zoom, you can test the tool via this weblink.

Registration

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Program

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Practical Information

Programme Fees

EFMD Member fee: 490 €  

Non-member fee: 590 € 

2022 EFMD Global Fairs Powered by Highered

Event Details

Connect your students and alumni with companies and organisations from around the globe, in a sophisticated job fair simulation environment that enables real-time interaction between recruiters and candidates.

We are pleased to continue the EFMD Global Fairs powered by Highered in 2022, allowing companies and organisations to attract and engage top talent from participating member schools while strengthening their employer branding.

The 2022 offer will consist of

  • two three-day global fairs (April 5-7 and October 18-20), the largest virtual fairs for talent ever organised, including hybrid elements, allowing companies greater visibility and employer branding, while providing talent with the opportunity to prepare their visits with an employer-focused approach properly, 
  • complemented by a free private event, to be organized by your school on the same platform.

If your school career event agenda is already set up and you know you will organize more than one private event, you can book extra private events at a discounted fee.

Registration

Register Your School Here

Practical Information

This service is exclusive to EFMD members. Non-members may contact Liliane Gaspari for more information.

Early Bird Fees until January 31st, 2022: 590 € for EFMD members (including unlimited talent and alumni participation to the 2 Global Fairs and one complementary private event)

Normal Fees from February 1st, 2022: 790 € for EFMD members (including unlimited talent and alumni participation to the 2 Global Fairs and one complementary private event)

Preferred Early Bird Fee for an extra private event (booked upon registration) until January 31st, 2022: 590 €

Preferred Fee for an extra private event (booked upon registration) after February 1st, 2022: 790 €

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2022 EFMD Middle East and Africa Conference

Event Details

This conference tackles the specificities of both Africa and the Middle East regions in common plenary sessions and in separate tracks, specifically targeting relevant issues for both regions. The conference addresses topics such as ongoing trends and new developments in management education, inside, and outside of the two regions. It promotes an active debate between regional actors and participants from other regions of the world.

Business school professionals that attend the conference will develop higher levels of insights on how to approach challenges in the upcoming years, while also strengthening their networks across the regions.

Supported by EFMD steering committee members
This conference is designed with the expertise of our committee members from the following institutions:

Target Group:

Deans, Associate Deans, Directors of Programs, those in charge of External Relations or International Relations with an interest in the Middle East and Africa regions.

Strategic Partner:

Registration

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Program

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Practical Information

Early Bird Fee until 28 February: 

  • EFMD Full & Affiliated member: € 360 plus 21% VAT
  • EFMD non-member: € 420 plus 21% VAT

Normal Fee from 1 March: 

  • EFMD Full & Affiliated member: € 510 plus 21% VAT
  • EFMD non-member: € 595 plus 21% VAT

Special Fee for Regional Participants:

  • € 180 plus 21% VAT

A 25% discount on the applicable fee will be available for every second and further participant from the same institution. Please contact mea@efmdglobal.org to receive the promotional code if you are the second or third participant from your institution.

CANCELLATION POLICY FOR REGISTRATIONS:
Cancellations must be confirmed in writing. If EFMD receives notice of your withdrawal before 28/02/2022, a cancellation administrative fee of (75€ plus 21% VAT) will be charged. Thereafter, we regret that we are unable to refund any fees. However, in such cases, substitutes are welcome at no extra cost as long as EFMD receives the notification of the name, title and address of the substitute.

Please note that if we haven’t received your payment (or proof of payment) before the start of the conference, you will not have access to the online conference platform.

EFMD Global-Rethinking Business Education: Building Your Own Online Strategy

Event Details

What does it take to build a sustainable strategy for online education?

First of all, developing a strategy is a process/journey where you need to collect data information and have ways of interpreting/framing that knowledge with tools as well as time for reflection.


Secondly – it is not a one man show; good strategies are developed by teams and involve the wider community. 
If colleagues are involved from the start, they are more likely to buy into its direction and implementation.


Finally, the key aim of a strategy is to ensure that colleagues are all working in the same direction and that resources are used to best effect, it’s a useful tool to sense check any action you take to assess if it contributes to your objectives. 

This workshop “Developing a Sustainable Strategy for Online Education” guides you through this process. The aim is to create a supportive community who can learn FROM each other and WITH each other.

A range of tools has been developed that you can use through the process including an institutional questionnaire, a learning journal to capture your thoughts in systematic way and a PowerPoint template that you can use to develop a presentation for use within your institution.

You will need to assemble a support group within your institutions who you can work with between the modules.

During the online sessions you will have opportunities to share your thoughts, ideas, and problems with fellow participants using action learning principles.

Overall, the programme is there to provide shape and impetus so that over the course of the 3 weeks you can have made real progress in developing your own institution`s strategy regarding online education.

Target group
This workshop is designed for Deans, Executive Directors and Programme Managers. Faculty and professional staff that are engaged in online learning strategy are also welcome to join.

Structure of the learning journey

There will be one free Introduction session familiarizing the participant with the tools and frameworks required for the following 3 live modules, in between these participants will be working asynchronously together with their own internal support team on projects which be central to their learning process in order to start building an online strategy.

Workshop Modules:

Free Introduction webinar – MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION HERE

Essentials when developing an online strategy – the tools you need
Understanding what it takes to develop your own strategy

Module 1: 
Reflecting on your internal situation – capacity and capability gaps
Developing institutional insight

Module 2: 
Assessing the changing external environment
Understanding the external context

Module 3: 
Moving forward – developing and implementing your strategy
Understanding how to drive implementation

All mentioned times are CET.

Registration

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Program

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Practical Information

Fees:
EFMD Full member: € 350
EFMD non-member: € 450

Cancellation Policy
Cancellations must be confirmed in writing. If EFMD receives notice of your withdrawal before 1 February 2022, a cancellation fee of 40 EUR for administrative costs will be charged. Thereafter, we regret that we are unable to refund any fees.

2022 BSIS Webinar: Assessing the Impact of Research in Business Schools

Event Details

We have designed this event as a two- part webinar designed to explore why business schools need to demonstrate the impact of their research and propose some potential methods for doing so. The webinar will take place across two half- days on 3 and 4 February from 14 – 17 CET.

Key takeaways: Participants will…

  • Explore reasons why Business Schools need to demonstrate the impact of research
  • Develop a better understanding of methods for measuring research  impact
  • Identify potential synergies between impact assessment of research and  accreditations and rankings
  • Plan for evidence of success

Target Group:

  • Deans and directors of Business Schools globally
  • Directors of Research and administrative staff responsible for research
  • Heads of Accreditation
  • Impact Managers in Business Schools

Registration

Register Here

Program

Thursday 3 February

14:00 – 14:15

Welcome and Introductions

  • Debra Leighton, BSIS Senior Advisor, EFMD Global
  • Michel Kalika, BSIS Director, EFMD Global

14:15 – 14:45

Group activity 1 – What does research impact mean to you?

  • Presenter: Debra Leighton, BSIS Senior Advisor, EFMD Global

14:45 – 15:05

Why the impact of research is a key issue for Business Schools today?

  • Eric Cornuel, President, EFMD Global
  • Michel Kalika, BSIS Director, EFMD Global

15:05 – 15:25

Case study 1- Action research and Impact
Nottingham Business School, UK

  • Presenter: Prof. Baback Yazdani, Executive Dean

15:25 – 15:45

Types of research and research dimensions
Overview of research evaluation for accreditations

  • Presenter: Debra Leighton, BSIS Senior Advisor, EFMD Global

15:45 – 16:00

Refreshment break

16:00 – 16:20

Case study 2- Assessing research impact at CEIBS
CEIBS, China Europe International Business School, China

  • Presenter: Dr Yuan DING, Vice President and Dean

16:20 – 16:40

Case study 3 – The impact of research in the context of FNEGE Journal ranking

  • Presenter: Prof. Jérôme Caby, Executive Officer, FNEGE

16:40 – 17:00

Day 1 Plenary and Close
Summary of day 1 & Q and A

  • Debra Leighton, BSIS Senior Advisor, EFMD Global
  • Michel Kalika, BSIS Director, EFMD Global
Friday 4 February

14:00 – 14:15

Welcome back- summary of day 1

  • Debra Leighton, BSIS Senior Advisor, EFMD Global
  • Michel Kalika, BSIS Director, EFMD Global

14:15 – 14:35

Ways of measuring the impact of research

  • Presenter: : Michel Kalika, BSIS Director, EFMD Global

14:35 – 14:55

Case study 4- Assessing research impact at SDA Bocconi
SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy

  • Presenter: Professor Manuela Brusoni, Deputy Dean for Accreditation

14:55 – 15:15

Planning to improve the assessment of research impact

  • Presenter: Debra Leighton, BSIS Senior Advisor, EFMD Global

15:15 – 15:30

Refreshment break

15:30 – 15:50

Case study 5- The impact of research: the choice of IAE Sorbonne
IAE- Paris Sorbonne Business School, France

  • Presenter: Prof. Eric Lamarque, Director

15:50 – 16:20

Group activity 2 – Next steps in research impact assessment

  • Presenter: Debra Leighton, BSIS Senior Advisor, EFMD Global

16:20 – 16:40

Emerald’s new “Impact Services”: an online tool to help measuring the impact of research

  • Presenter: Steve Lodge, Emerald Publishing, UK

16:40 – 17:00

Plenary and Close
Summary of day 2 & Q and A.

  • Debra Leighton, BSIS Senior Advisor, EFMD Global
  • Michel Kalika, BSIS Director, EFMD Global

Practical Information

Fees:

  • EFMD Members: both 1/2 days €300, 1/2 day €150
  • Non- members: both 1/2 days €500, 1/2 day €250

Cancellation policy:

Cancellations must be confirmed in writing. If we receive notice of your withdrawal before 20 January 2022, a cancellation administrative fee of 50 € will be charged. Thereafter, we regret that are unable to refund any fees. However, in such cases, substitutes are welcome at no extra cost as long as we receive notification of the name, title and address of the substitute.

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