Join the Maryland Smith Center for Global Business (CGB) for the next event of the Distinguished Speakers in International Business Series on Monday, February 8 for a discussion on “The Global Shakeout: Global Trends 2020-2025,” with partner and managing director of the Global Business Policy Council at Kearney, Erik Peterson, and academic director of CGB, Kislaya Prasad.
Jagdish Sheth School of Management (formerly IFIM Business School) invites you to attend CONVERGENCE 2020, an international conference on ‘Winning Through Service Excellence: Theory and Practice.” The conference will take place on December 18th and 19th, 2020.
The steady growth of the service sector globally and increasing convergence of technology and services have brought to the fore opportunities never before witnessed in the services domain. The increasing maturity of online services along with the advent of new-age companies and business models has transformed the service delivery ecosystem to cater to the needs of a new breed of emerging consumers.
CONVERGENCE 2020 aims to bring researchers and practitioners together to build consensus on what it takes to win in this new, still-evolving era of services. The centerpiece of CONVERGENCE 2020 is an international conference focused on service excellence in this exciting new era. Join Jagdish Sheth School of Management virtually for insightful talks and panel discussions on ‘Service Excellence by eminent academicians. Witness paper presentations in the area of Service Excellence by the best young researchers across the globe.
The Conference will be chaired by Prof. A. Parasuraman, Professor Emeritus, University of Miami and Pro-Chancellor Academics, Vijaybhoomi University.
Are you the Director of a Centre feeling the challenges of moving forward on the sustainability agenda? And is COVID-19 only adding to your challenges? If so, please join the Network for Business Sustainability Sustainability Centres Community Workshop on July 12-14, 2021, in Vienna, Austria.
This event brings together a powerful community of more than 170+ business school centres from across the world. The Workshop has been held every two years over the last decade — and just ask those who have previously attended to learn how much more progress they have made in their centre through their participation!
The 2021 Workshop will focus on increasing impact and building collective wisdom. In addition to a day of multi-sectoral engagement, two days will examine how to improve sustainability centre research, teaching, outreach, and strategy.
The event will be either hybrid, with both in-person and virtual participation, or entirely virtual. (We’ll make the final decision on format after the New Year, as COVID restrictions evolve.) Registering now, though, holds your spot for a limited enrollment event. Workshop info here; registration here.
If you don’t know about our Sustainability Centres Community, do join. It’s free, and we can do so much more by working together than alone. Keep safe and well — and hope to see you in July.
During the last two years, public discussion around sustainability issues such as climate change, plastic waste, and economic and gender inequality have intensified. Prominent examples are social movements such as the Fridays for Future marches, calls for institutional change such as “New Green Deals,” the recent success of Green parties, and debates around new sustainable technologies such as utility-scale storage of renewable energy, bioplastics, or electric vehicles. Capitalizing on this increasing attention to sustainability issues while successfully developing and diffusing sustainable technologies requires coordinated, constructive, and interdisciplinary interaction between research and society.
This year’s academy focuses on technological, organizational, and institutional changes for sustainability. We provide a unique platform for junior researchers (PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) with a background in engineering, management, economics, and political sciences to present their work to an audience of diverse yet like-minded scholars and an international faculty with a record of accomplishments in research on energy and climate policy, environmental entrepreneurship and business, and sustainable technologies. Participants obtain detailed feedback on their research design, theoretical approaches, and methodology. In addition, we provide plenty of room for informal discussions and networking with other junior scholars and professors. Students in previous years have come from, amongst others, EPFL Lausanne, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University, Stanford University, the Technical University of Munich, and the University of Cambridge.
Research of the participants should focus on — but is not limited to — the following topics:
Corporate sustainability, environmental management, and innovation strategies for sustainability
Socio-technical and techno-economic assessment of sustainable technologies
Process research methodologies in the context of sustainability
Technology and innovation policy in the context of sustainability
Innovation systems, institutional and technological change for sustainability
Ecological change, circular economy, resilience and dynamics of social-ecological systems
This year’s faculty consists of:
Dr. Ann Langley
Professor of Strategic Management, HEC Montréal
Dr. Gregory Nemet
Professor of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Johannes Meuer
Senior Researcher of Sustainability and Technology, ETH Zurich
Dr. Volker Hoffmann
Professor of Sustainability and Technology, ETH Zurich
Location & Details:
The ETH Academy on Sustainability and Technology will take place in a hotel in the midst of the Swiss Alps. To guarantee an intensive learning process, attendance is limited to 15 participants. Third-party funding allows us to offer a participation fee of only CHF 450 (ca. 450 USD) which covers accommodation, meals, and excursions.
Please send your application to Julia Gergek and include
a cover letter explaining your motivation
a paper proposal of max. 2 pages
your CV
The deadline for application is 6 March 2020. They will send out notification of acceptance by 27 March 2020. Deadline for full paper submission (10-15 pages) is 8 May 2020. For additional information contact Julia Gergek. We look forward to receiving your application!
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GBSN Beyond 2024
Don’t miss the GBSN event of the year. Join us in Bogotá for a lineup of speakers, topics, and connections you can't get anywhere else.