Young and Nimble

The Indian School of Business responds nimbly to the changes of a dynamic market.

As business education matures, so do the business schools formed at the industry’s outset. How do these elder institutions stay innovative for decades—even centuries—after their founding? By ensuring a continuous flow of fresh ideas and an ongoing spirit of experimentation.

The Asian Institute of Management stakes new ground to remain competitive.

Moscow School of Management Skolkovo balances a global focus with local realities.

Online student exchange programs create cross-cultural learning opportunities without requiring students to travel overseas.

If we are to persuade our students to question their strongly held opinions, we can’t just present the best available evidence. We must help students overcome the most common sources of their resistance to research.

Western Kentucky University enhances student success by innovating process thinking.

An analysis of 20 top schools shows none can claim that 30 percent of faculty are women.

Why we must do more to achieve diversity in the other international language of business.

Australia recently adopted a new method to assess the impact and engagement of academic researchers. This change has forced the nation’s universities to rethink the ways they incentivize their faculty’s scholarship.

How the perception of multitasking can improve an individual’s performance.

Study examines what other businesses can learn from shinise, long-lived family-owned Japanese businesses that forge deep cultural bonds with their communities.

Findings of new survey challenge the perception that anti-immigrant sentiments in the U.S. are on the rise.

Women reach their crowdfunding targets more than half the time. 

CEOs who aren’t native to the region are more likely to value short-term financial wins over the long-term growth of the organization.

What’s been the return on investment for American innovation?

Impact and work-life balance are gaining ground as top priorities among b-school graduates.

An analysis of new patent trends shows how productivity has increased in the U.S. over 200 years.

Transforming a full-time MBA program to be more relevant and responsive to the needs of the future.

BIMTECH announces research fellowships, Strathclyde studies primary education, and Emerald makes commitment to using broader metrics to evaluate research.

The Basic Index of Gender Inequality focuses on education, health, and life satisfaction.

Online activists might want to emphasize hope and progress over gloom and doom if they want to convince more people to support their causes.

Vendors roll out new offerings, from one that catches contract cheaters in the act to one that aims to provide students with a more interactive online learning experience. 

Redesigned MBA at BIMTECH is the result of stakeholder input, industry involvement, and a deliberately student-centered design.

ESSEC’s fifth campus is wholly digital—and its creators hope it will match brick-and-mortar locations in delivering personal, human-centric experiences to students.

Analytics students sift data to determine how schools can retain at-risk students.

Students are pushed to imagine grand solutions to complex 21st-century problems.

View a selection of reviewed books from the July/August 2019 print issue.

New ranking system assesses how well universities meet the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Students in the Beta Gamma Sigma chapter at Marist College support community nonprofit by selling one of its most popular products.

The University of South Florida delivers a curriculum developed at Google to help workshop participants reduce stress and improve performance.

The new Center for Digital Transformation will develop courses for students from all disciplines.

Singapore Management University organizes its new undergrad program around three pillars: capabilities, communities, and civilizations.

Programs at Indiana and Pepperdine aim to improve patient outcomes by delivering management training to healthcare professionals.

Business schools open new research centers and learning facilities.

 

More news from business schools and business.

Business schools announce curriculum revisions and additions.

Recognition for people and institutions.

Individuals in the industry step up and move on.

The latest partnerships in business education.

Institutions announce new sources of funding.

2U and Trilogy, McGraw-Hill and Cengage, and Wiley and Knewton all announce plans to form new companies with broader reach.

Stanford opens a multidisciplinary center to better chart the future of artificial intelligence.