Tag Archives: Business schools

Business school teaching case study: sharing secrets to tackle slavery (FT)

In the quest for ethical and sustainable production, one chocolate company has taken an unconventional route: sharing its playbook. Tony’s Chocolonely, the Dutch company founded specifically to eradicate slavery and child labour from the cocoa industry, has pioneered an “Open Chain” model that details its sourcing approach for competitors to follow. While most corporate sustainability […]
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Business school teaching case study: work-from-home models in retreat (FT)

Earlier this year, the JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon made a town hall speech at an employee event in Ohio that went viral after he made his blunt assessment of a topic that is dividing employers and employees, older and younger generations: the future of the workplace. In a leaked recording that captured his […]
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GIBS Whitepaper: Spaces for dignity: How African business and business schools cultivate regenerative practices that unlock abundance By Roze Phillips

Abstract Businesses and business schools are at a critical juncture: theneed to redefine the value and purpose of management educationand that of work has never been more urgent. Businesses can nolonger solely focus on creating economic profits. They must alsoincorporate societal and ecological values so that the future isinclusive and thus sustainable for all. This […]
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Bridging the gap between business school research and policymaking (FT)

How does business school research shape how our world is governed? Overton, a start-up that tracks the impact of academic research on policy, has some answers. It is the world’s largest database of policy documents, guidelines, think-tank publications and working papers, containing more than 13mn items. The fully searchable resource allows researchers, experts and policymakers […]
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How real-world cases work as business school teaching tools (Forbes)

Business case studies are the closest thing to a window on to real life for the sometimes detached students of an academic institution. Take, for example, an in-depth look at how Spanish retailer Zara differentiates itself from rivals; or how US coffee chain Starbucks has gone through its digital transformation; or how a Ukrainian subsidiary […]
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The business school entrepreneurs tackling sustainable development (Forbes)

If human ingenuity is the fountain from which so many global challenges spring, it is also our answer to them. For instance, climate change. As much as any one event can be suggested as the origin of human-induced global warming, the invention of the first widely used steam engine is a strong candidate, paving as […]
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UK business schools warn student visa change will hit MBA recruitment (FT)

Rules preventing foreign students from bringing dependants prompt concerns over applications and diversity. The government’s decision has also focused attention on how business schools around the world say students’ partners make often unseen — yet valuable — contributions to the academic experience, both on and off campus. For Oluseye Owolabi, a Nigerian MBA alumnus from […]
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Ukraine war tests business schools’ resilience (FT)

Conflict is putting recent progress of central and eastern European schools under pressure. The war has cast its shadow over business education in central and eastern European (CEE) countries, limiting the enrolment of participants at schools such as IEDC Bled, particularly from Russia and Ukraine — two key markets. “The war is hurting us in […]
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