North America

EFMD Global Americas Annual Conference

Event Details

This program is focused on changes in business, business schools, and society at large. We are thinking about social inclusion, diversity, equity, policy, changes in business models and program delivery, ethical leadership and our roles in creating the future with those things in mind.

The Americas Conference allows us to 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.

Registration

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Practical Information

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Legatum Center Pitch Night and Celebration

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Join the Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship at MIT to meet the Legatum Fellows and hear about their ventures. Pitches will be followed by a conversation with Legatum Alumni:

Genevieve Oni, Co-Founder of mDaaS
Alicia Chong Rodriguez, Co-Founder of Bloomer Health Tech
Itai Zlotnik, Co-Founder of tomorrow.io
Jon Ng, Co-Founder of Iterative Scopes

Register Here

Location:

  • E 38, 7th Floor
  • 292 Main Street
  • Cambridge, MA 02142

Virtual participation will take place from 6:00-7:00pm for the pitch session and panel discussion.

Dress: Business Casual

Food and drinks will be served. 

To learn more about Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship and upcoming events, visit their website.

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Meaningful Conversations – “Strategic Shifts in Technology Education- Present and the Future”

Wisdom Tree has launched a series of exclusive invite-only, monthly learning and networking events in industry verticals such as education and SaaS. The aim of these events is to have sponsor-free discussions on contemporary topics impacting business today.

In their second event this November, they’ll be hosting distinguished professors from top universities, ed-tech founders, and thought leaders to discuss how the evolution of boot camps/micro-credentials will impact technology education in the US and the rest of the world.

Date

November 29th, 2021 at 10:30 AM EST

Strategic Goal

To discuss and understand how boot camps are advancing today’s education system, how it will affect the traditional educational methods, and whether there is a way to merge the benefits of both.

1. How to uplift the traditional educational methods?
2. How do Bootcamps/Micro-credentials affect technical education?
3. Is there a way to find a balance between both?

Our Panel

Jacob Cohen: Senior Associate Dean for undergraduate and master’s programs at MIT Sloan School of Management, Dean Jacob Cohen is also a distinguished visiting professor at Schwarzman Scholars in Beijing, China. He has been a big part in leading the launch of Sloan’s most recent graduate degree program.

Tan Moorthy: Currently, heading the U.S. delivery operations and leading our education, training, and development at Infosys, he is an accomplished business leader, with over 3 decades of experience.

Julien Barbier: is the Co-founder and the CEO of Holberton. Holberton is a revolutionary new type of software engineering school that “has no teachers, no lectures, and no upfront tuition” and “helps inexperienced programmers land jobs at Apple” (CNN**).

Moderator

Michellana Jester: Currently a lecturer of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, she is a creative leader with more than 15 years of experience.

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The Business Proofing of Business Schools Webinar Series

Presented by XOLAS, GBSN, EFMD Global Network, and Other Partner Organizations

“The world will be different after COVID-19!” You certainly heard this statement repeatedly in recent weeks. And you and your colleagues were probably left wondering to what extent it will apply to the business school sector as a whole and your institution specifically. Around the globe, colleagues are currently celebrating the successes of switching into online instruction with ease. Business schools have demonstrated tremendous agility in the face of adversity. Equally noteworthy is the strong display of a culture of sharing best practice in our community that helped to ease the transition of many institutions into online delivery.

These remarkable positives can however not make us overlook the financial burden that COVID-19 is imposing on business schools. Many institutions have suffered heavy losses in tuition and executive education revenues that may end up being a structural level-change rather than a temporary blip. Negative economic growth in many countries will reinforce the persistence of revenue drops.

We must further assume that COVID-19 will act as an accelerator for stackability, micro-credentialing and other drivers of institutional unbundling. Technology will make more rapid inroads into business school operations, to the benefit of stakeholders, but also with tangible impact on the underlying economics of delivering management education.

The writing is on the wall: The “business of business schools” will not be “business as usual” anymore.

This webinar series will provide guidance on how to adjust most effectively to this new environment. Sector and topical experts will get at the core of key issues and suggest a way forward. As a participant, you can challenge your own thinking and contribute to the debate.

The series will initially consist of five webinars. The first two webinars will deal with the most challenging financial issues facing business schools right now, how to cushion the downturn of executive education (#1) and how to cope with the drop of tuition revenues from international enrollments (#2). #3 will explore how business schools can become more resilient (i.e. strengthen their ability to “bounce back”). #4 will take a critical look at risk management practices in business schools (and their parent institutions); it will examine how risk management can be moved beyond compliance thinking to serve as a strategic decision-making tool. Finally, #5 will address funding issues that may present themselves nowadays in an exacerbated form, especially for stand-alone business schools or institutions transitioning into a semi-public status with enhanced financial autonomy.

We kindly request that you register for the webinars individually. Participation is free of charge.

WEBINAR LINEUP

Moving Executive Education Online: How Much and for How Long?
1 JULY 2020, 14:00 CEST – 8AM EDT
Partners
GBSN, EFMD Global Network, ESMT Berlin, XOLAS

Moderator: Ulrich Hommel, Founding Partner of XOLAS

Panelists: Martin Möhrle, Director Corporate Services, EFMD Global Network, Belgium
Jörg Rocholl, President, ESMT Berlin, Germany
Dominique Turpin, Former President & Dean of External Relations, IMD Business School, Switzerland

Executive education is treated by many companies as discretionary spending that gets cut back in bad times and the reactions to COVID-19 seem to confirm this conjecture. Business schools are currently challenged to fulfill existing commitments in times of social distancing. In addition, they are struggling to refill their pipeline with new contracts. A range of questions needs to be addressed in this context: How can business schools maintain their attractiveness as an education provider in recessionary times? How can executive education be delivered effectively in virtual learning space and how can clients be convinced of its value-added? And, most importantly, will COVID-19 ultimately change the role of executive training provided in an academic setting?

Participants will be able to explore these issues with a panel of executive education and talent management experts.

Summary

How to Reposition International Student Recruitment After COVID-19?

8 JULY 2020, 14:00 CEST – 8:00AM EDT

Partners: EFMD Global Network, GBSN, studyportals, XOLAS

Moderator: Ulrich Hommel, Founding Partner of XOLAS
Panelists: Andrea Longaretti, Global Head of Recruitment & Admissions, IE University, Spain
Jerker Moodysson, Dean, JIBS, Jönköping University
Thijs van Vugt, Director Analytics/Consulting Team, studyportals, Netherlands

The University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, prophetically purchased a 3-year insurance against a drop in Chinese enrollment with a coverage of USD 60 million and a premium of USD 424K. Many other universities (and their business schools) were left “holding the bag” and the reported losses are staggering. Most of them identified the diversification of student intake as a priority item of their risk registers, but it was not followed up by tangible action. The future certainly has to be different.

This webinar will look at international student recruitment from a business perspective by putting the focus on recruitment cycles and international study motives. How much international diversification is desirable and needed? And how can international recruitment and diversification targets be effectively balanced?

Summary

How to Make Business Schools More Resilient?
26 AUGUST 2020,  11:00 AM CEST
Partners: EFMD Global Network, GBSN, studyportals, XOLAS

Moderator: 

Ulrich Hommel, Founding Partner of XOLAS

Panelists:

Robina Xavier, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice President (Education), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), former Executive Dean, QUT Business School
John Vargo, Resilient Organisations NZ
Baback Yazdani, Dean of Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University

COVID-19 lets the future appear ever more uncertain. Will there be a second or third infection wave and, if so, will it trigger another lock-down? To what extent will the pandemic crisis shift learning behavior and, in the process, accelerate the switch to online provision? And finally, how will the impending economic recession impact demand for business schools and will displacement pressures by higher-ranked institutions seeking new revenue sources play an important role in this context?

Under the guidance of an expert panel, participants will explore the benefits of a proactive posture when dealing with these environmental uncertainties. Should it involve the deliberate build-up of resilience (ability to “bounce back”) or even anti-fragility (ability to profit from uncertainty)? What does this concretely imply in terms of pricing policies, degree delivery choices, etc?

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Reconfiguring Risk Management of Business Schools: How to Move Beyond Registers and Other Compliance Rituals

COMING IN SEPTEMBER

How to Manage the Institutional Funding Gap

COMING IN SEPTEMBER

Cross-Border Webinar: Business Schools and the Call to Community Action Part 3

width=Welcome back to Part 3, the finale, of Business Schools and the Call to Community Action. We all know COVID-19 has affected every sector of our lives, including education.But how have business schools responded to the call to action during this crisis? In the third part of this three-part unique panel series, GBSN CEO, Dan LeClair speaks with three schools from around the world showcasing innovative solutions tohelp their communities.

In this webinar, we will, one final time, travel across borders to France, where Kedge Business School’s Director of International Operations and Relations, Tashina Giraud, will be discussing the institutions’ expansionary efforts for their emergency funds among other efforts. We will then venture to Florida International University, with Dean Joanne Li, who will discuss their work in Miami, including expanding the mission of the Dean’s Destination Fund. Finally, we will end inBrazil to hear from Fundação Dom Cabral’s Associate Dean for Global Strategy Viviane Barreto. As always, GBSN is proud to showcase just a few of the community solutions our member schools are presenting during this time when we need innovation most.

Date

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

  • 10:00am Washington D.C.
  • 11:00am SĂŁo Paulo
  • 3:00pm London
  • 4:00pm Paris
  • 5:00pm Nairobi
  • 6:00pm Dubai
  • 7:30pm Mumbai
  • 9:00pm Jakarta
  • 10:00pm Malaysia

Registration

Click the link below to register for the webinar.

REGISTER HERE

Speakers

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Dean
Professor of Finance
Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair
Florida International University College of Business

Joanne Li, Ph.D., CFA is dean, professor of finance and Ryder Eminent Scholar Chair at Florida International University College of Business (FIU Business), an AACSB-accredited college and the largest business school in the state of Florida. As dean, she leads the Landon Undergraduate School and Chapman Graduate School, as well as FIU Business’ executive education, global learning and small business development programs (the Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center and Florida SBDC at FIU).

Li serves as president of the Council of Chinese American Deans and Presidents (CCADP). She is a member of the EFMD Global Network Americas Advisory Board, a nonprofit global accreditation body for business schools, business school programs, and corporate universities. Li recently completed her term on the eight-member board of directors of CLADEA, the Latin American Council of Management Schools, the first woman to serve in that capacity.

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Tashina Giraud
Director of International Operations & Relation
Kedge Business School

Tashina Giraud is the Director of International Operations & Relation for Kedge Business School. She joined Kedge BS in 2009 and has held various functions including Directing the Toulon Branch Campus with the Industrial Design and Business Engineering Programs. Before entering the field of higher education, she worked in West Africa in inter-governmental and NGO programs dedicated to Africa peace and democracy initiatives. Committed to sustainable community development, Tashina presides over the Calanques National Park’s Social, Economic and Cultural Council.

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Associate Dean for Global Strategy
Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC)

Viviane Barreto is Associate Dean for Global Strategy of FDC-Fundação Dom Cabral.She holds a Masters in Business with an emphasis on the Internationalization of Business (FDC/ PUC-MG) and had her Executive MBA at FDC, post MBA at Kellogg School of Management/ FDC and others. Viviane brings over twenty years of best practice experience in management and leadership in different countries and cultures. She started at FDC in 2008 as a professor of practice where she designed and delivered executive education programs for large companies in Brazil, the USA and the Middle East. For 2 years she also served as the Associate Dean for International Relations and Programs where among other accomplishments she successfully led the creation of the first all women’s global development program for senior executives launched in Brazil. In her latest role, for the past 4 years, Viviane served as Associate Dean for Corporate Education developing and implementing strategies to maximize the customized learning experience for transformational impact. Prior to FDC, Viviane served as Marketing Strategist at Magnesita Refractories (now RHI Refractories) and worked as a Senior Management Consultant at INDG in Cost Reduction and Lean Management Projects to large companies from different sectors in Latin America and USA. Viviane is married and is the mother of 2 teenage girls.

Fifth Annual Global Strategy and Emerging Markets (GSEM) Conference

Overview

Cornell University Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) and partners — The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Global Business (CGB), Northeastern University Center for Emerging Markets (CEM), and the University of Miami Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) — are pleased to announce the fifth annual Global Strategy and Emerging Markets (GSEM) Conference.

Previous GSEM conferences have been held in Miami (2016), Boston (2017), Miami (2018) and Dallas (2019). This conference provides a platform to bring together senior and junior scholars, doctoral students, and practitioners in the fields of international business, strategic management, cross-cultural management, technology strategy, and global entrepreneurship with shared interests in global strategy, emerging markets, and emerging market multinationals. The theme of GSEM 2020 is “Competing in the Digital Word.” Digital technologies—including internet of things, 5G, cloud computing, AI, big data, and other new information technologies—are profoundly influencing the global economy by reshaping the rules of competition, generating new business models and enabling innovative ecosystems. Digital technologies are creating new business opportunities for emerging markets to improve their competitiveness and in some instances to leapfrog existing business practices and become world leaders.

Conference Submissions

Examples of possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • How does digitalization affect firms’ competitive strategy, competitive dynamics, M&As, strategic alliances, and joint ventures?
  • How does digitalization affect international business activities, e.g., multinational enterprises, FDI and cross-border and trade activities?
  • How does digitalization affect organizational learning, knowledge creation, and firms’ internal integration of knowledge?
  • What is the relationship between digitalization and innovation?
  • How do digital technologies affect entrepreneurship, e.g., opportunity discovery versus creation, market failure and uncertainty, and entrepreneurial financing (by venture capitalists, IPO, etc.)?
  • How do digital technologies influence cross-cultural management, e.g., how these technologies affect cultural orientations and practices of managers and other organizational members, individual values and cognitive structures?
  • What are implications of digitalization on firms’ economic systems (e.g., interorganizational network, their relationship with competitors, suppliers, and customers) and business models?
  • How do digital technologies redefine firms’ boundary and affect organizational structure and design (e.g., non-hierarchical organizations)?
  • How does digitalization contribute to existing management theories (e.g., by questioning, modifying, and adding new assumptions) or advancing new ones (e.g., by asking and answering new questions)?

We welcome you to submit papers (≀ 40 pages all-inclusive with double-spaced text following Academy of Management Journal guidelines) OR proposals (5 single-spaced pages all-inclusive following Strategic Management Society conference guidelines). Please submit your papers to conferenceemi@cornell.edu.

In addition to research presentations, the conference will feature (1) keynote speeches, (2) a “meet with editors” session, (3) a Cornell “research day,” (4) a paper development session, and (5) an industry (practitioner/policymaker) panel.

Location

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York, United States

Official Conference Hotels:  Ithaca Marriott Downtown, Hilton Garden, Ithaca (more information to follow). There will be a shuttle service between the hotel and campus.

Conference Fee

Conference Registration Fee link to registration to follow $80 faculty / $40 Ph.D. students. The fee covers meals and materials at the conference.

Optional Dinner, Cornell EMI’s 10th-anniversary celebration.

For more information, contact: conferenceemi@cornell.edu

Click here for the conference website.

15th GBSN Annual Conference

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SAVE THE DATE!

The GBSN Annual Conference is a premier international forum attracting some of the world’s foremost management educators from around the globe, as well as leaders in the development, corporate and public sectors to share ideas and network with a focus on strengthening management education for the developing world. The conference is a unique opportunity to network and to learn about trends and best practice in delivering management education around the globe.

Hosted By

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5250 University Dr.
Coral Gables, FL 33146

 

 

 

 

 

Theme

Please stay tuned for more information on the Conference theme.

Target Audience

Business School Deans, Directors, Faculty and Administrators from developed, emerging and frontier markets. Professionals from industry, aid organizations, and civil society dedicated to addressing social and economic challenges effectively and efficiently, Government Officials with an interest in wider stakeholder collaboration to address social and economic challenges.

Registration Information

Please stay tuned for more information on registration and fees.

Sponsorship & Exhibition

The Annual GBSN Conference is a premier international forum attracting some of the world’s foremost management educators from around the globe, as well as leaders in the development, corporate and public sectors to share ideas and network with a focus on strengthening management education for the developing world.

The conference is a unique opportunity to network and to learn about trends and best practice in delivering management education around the globe. Previous GBSN conferences have been held in the US, France, Kenya, South Africa, Mexico, Philippines, India, Tunisia, Spain and Portugal.

Choose from a variety of packages that offer various benefits and opportunities and gain the biggest value with the largest  impact for your organization.

If you are interested in any sponsorship or exhibit opportunities, or if you would like to discuss tailored packages please contact us.

Nicole Zefran
nzefran@gbsn.org
+1.202.628.9040

 

 

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