Join WiBE (Women in Business Education) for their First Virtual Associate Deans convening! WiBE Associate is for advanced women leaders looking to propel their career growth trajectory. In WiBE Associate, you will always know that no matter what is happening, you have a global community that always has your back.
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This year, the EFMD Global Americas Conference is going online on 7-9 December. With the theme Lessons Through Crisis, the program is structured around a series of stakeholder roundtables interrogating how the pandemic crisis has affected them.
The conference will touch on the following key stakeholder perspectives:
Industry partners – How have hiring needs changed, and what do they look for in new hires now?
Faculty – How did your role as faculty change?
Leadership – What were your biggest takeaways as a leader through the crisis?
The program will bring together a unique cross-section of attendees from all over the Americas within the EFMD network and the larger management education community. It is important to EFMD Global to create opportunities for business schools in the region to gather and connect with each other while engaging with content that is relevant to them and their realities. The EFMD Global Network Americas Annual Conference has been designed for all those interested in management education and development. It brings together EFMD Global Network members, companies, educational institutions and other associations that have an interest in the Americas. This includes Deans, Deputy and Associate Deans, International Relations Directors, Program Directors, Executive Education Directors and other Business School and Executive Development Professionals.
Conference Fees
The conference registration fee is 420 USD for EFMD GN members and 550 USD for EFMD GN non-members. Alongside the individual rate, EMFD has introduced institutional rates to make it easier for teams to participate. Institutional pricing for multiple registrations is $1500 for up to 6 representatives and $2000 for up to 10 representatives.
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.
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.
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.
Join FIU in Connecting Your Classroom to the World. COIL connects teachers and students from two or more countries to work on meaningful projects together using common communication technology and the Internet. FIU CIBER will host a webinar each week in the month of August. Please stay tuned for details on the upcoming webinars and opportunities offered through CIBER.
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.
Director, Head & Manager- Placement Officers/Chief Managers
Chancellors & Vice Chancellors
Directors & Principals
Deans & Senior Faculty Members
Researchers
Agenda:
Time
Agenda
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
