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)
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.
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.
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):
Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics provides a forum for high-quality research in environmental economics. Initiated in 1993, it allows PhD students to present their work and interact with leading researchers in the field. The conference is held at Ulvön (the Wolf Island) a small, attractive old fishing hamlet located along the high coast, about 500 km north of Stockholm.
The 30th Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics is scheduled for June 18-20.
Additionally, on June 17th, the afternoon before the main conference, Eric Naevdal from HVL Business School, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, will be offering a short course on ”Simple numerical recipes for solving optimal control problems”. This course will be valuable for researchers in dynamic resource economics or anyone utilizing optimal control analysis.
The cost for the conference is €500, €300 for presenting PhD students (includes food, lodging and transportation between Umeå and the conference venue)
Registration for the conference will open shortly.
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.
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 ORGANISATIONS
NON-MEMBER ORGANISATIONS
£665/€770/$845
£730/€850/$930
Fees include course materials, refreshments and lunches.
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.
University of Maryland – Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center
4131 Campus Drive
College Park, MD 20742
As Artificial Intelligence transforms the world, business and policy leaders are grappling with high-stakes decisions and questions. This annual AI Symposium, hosted by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, brings together policy and industry thought leaders who have built (or are building) high-impact AI solutions in the real world for an engaging day of talks, discussions and networking. We strongly encourage industry participants to attend not alone, but with your entire team, to increase the odds that some of the ideas discussed make their way into your organization.
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.
The Case Hub at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut in partnership with Ivey Publishing is hosting its second case conference on February 2-3, 2024, at the American University of Beirut – Mediterraneo campus, Paphos, Cyprus, a twin campus of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
The Case Hub aims to build capacity for case-writing and create a community of case writers in the Arab-MENA region. It strives to become the reference platform that allows case method enthusiasts to meet and network with leading case method experts. This enables action-oriented learning in all areas of management education. The conference targets case writers, academicians, instructors, program managers, executive education administrators, business leaders, and executives active in the Arab MENA region or in Cyprus or interested in the region and its potential.
“The Second Case Conference” offers a one-of-a-kind opportunity to network and engage with case writers and educators in the region. A rich program includes a keynote speech, professional development workshops, panels, presentation sessions, and case development sessions led by seasoned case writers, educators, and our partner Ivey Publishing. During case development sessions, participants will present their new case ideas and obtain detailed developmental feedback from experienced case mentors. The aim behind these mentor-participant case development sessions is to help participants move their cases forward to publication in The Case Hub, case publishers and distributors, or refereed journals. Ivey Publishing is a leader in global business case studies, featuring an extensive collection of over 7,000 products available in 11 languages.
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
In celebrating Black History Month in Ireland in October 2023, University College Dublin (UCD) College of Business, in association with UCD Center for Business in Society (CeBaS), UCD Earth Institute, and IPSERA, invites students, faculty, policymakers and those interested in racial and climate justice, to join this conversation on decolonizing curricula.
Date: Thursday, October 19th Time: 1:30PM IST | 2:30PM CEST | 3:30PM EAT
The session will feature input from Dr Sadhvi Dar (Queen Mary University London) and one of the authors of ‘The Business School is Racist: Act Up!’ This will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Penelope Muzanenhamo and involving some of our current Smurfit students (Vignesh Asokh, MSc Supply Chain Mgmt), Angel Brummet (MSc Int’ Business) and Annylah Clarke (MSc Food Business), and CoB EDI VP Colm McLaughlin.
At the center of the conversation will be a number of important questions that include, but are not limited to:
What is meant by decolonizing curricula?
Is decolonizing curricula a Black and Brown people’s ‘thing’?
Who benefits from decolonized curricula?
Why are business school textbooks and other teaching resources mostly produced by White male scholars?
How is Western patriarchy intertwined with the current state of knowledge at the center of our collective debates on decolonizing curricula?
What does decolonizing curricula imply for racial equality, and climate justice?
Beyond racial and climate justice, what would decolonized curricula offer in terms of tackling structural inequalities based on gender, sexuality and ableism among other demographic labels?
What would decolonized curricula look like?
Please join us to understand issues of decolonizing curricula, tackle questions of racial and climate justice, and to hear from a panel of experts.
The Solari Lecture 2023 will welcome Professor Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019. She will address the topic: Good Economics for Warmer Times.
Climate change is not just about getting the right technology. It is also about changing behavior and policies. And it is not (only) about the end of the world: it is also about the damage it does, today, mainly to poor people around the world. In this lecture, Professor Duflo will discuss some of what we know about the impact of climate change on poor countries, and what we know and what we do not know about changing behavior and policies.
Professor Duflo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for her experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. In her research, she seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, environment, and governance.
The Solari Lecture welcomes distinguished guests specialized in economics and econometrics, in memory of Luigi Solari, professor at the University of Geneva and pioneer in introducing research in econometrics in Switzerland. Since its first edition in 1979, this conference has featured several notable guest speakers, e.g., Jan Tinbergen, Richard Stone, Robert Engle, Bengt Holmstrom, and Jean Tirole.
