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Global Focus Volume 4, Issue 1 2010
  • 1 In Focus
  • 4 Talking Shop
    GRLI appoints new CEO
    Drucker forum review
    Business of Branding 2009
    Five new EQUIS schools. Read more (PDF)
  • 8 London calling
    A year into his job as Dean of London Business School, Sir Andrew Likierman talks to George Bickerstaffe about his polymath career. Read more (PDF)
  • 14 Can they fix it?
    Jordi Canals looks at the main drivers of business schools’ success in the 20th century along with some of the major problems and challenges they will have to deal with in the future if they want to remain relevant. Read more (PDF)
  • 20 Focus on: EQUIS & AACSB – Credit where it’s due
    Gordon Shenton provides a guide to the AA CSB and EQUIS accreditation systems – their similarities and differences. Read more (PDF)
  • 26 Grassroots: The sustainable MBA?
    Giselle Weybrecht argues that business schools have a key role in preparing the next generation of business leaders to make sustainability the norm. Read more (PDF)
  • 30 Learning on the job
    Innovations in information technology and financial imperatives are fuelling the return of workplace learning. Charles Jennings looks at why an age-old practice is so suited to the 21st century. Read more (PDF)
  • 34 The last frog in the well
    David Gosset examines the extraordinary way in which China and the Chinese people have rapidly become global citizens. Read more (PDF)
  • 38 The business of education
    Growing competition and changing markets have forced business schools to re-evaluate their strategies, often borrowing techniques from the business world. But, asks Emerson de Almeida, can they do this and still remain academic institutions? Read more (PDF)
  • 44 What do deans do?
    Julie Davies and Howard Thomas report on a survey of British business school deans by the Association of Business Schools. Read more (PDF)
  • 48 Economics, scientific doubt and history
    Frank Jan de Graaf argues that the dominance of neoclassical economic thinking in academia has contributed to the economic crisis. Read more (PDF)
  • 52 Cap that!
    Capgemini University is one of the world’s leading corporate universities. George Bickerstaffe meets Vice President and University Director Steven Smith. Read more (PDF)
  • 56 Fit for Purpose: Internationalisation?
    Nicola Hijlkema wonders whether the desire to be “international” has gone too far in business schools. Read more (PDF)
  • 60 Companies, business schools and the economic crisis
    The current recession is having significant, and potentially long-lasting, effects on the relationship between schools of management and corporations say Elio Borgonovi and Manuela Busoni. Read more (PDF)
  • 64 Focus on: CLIP – Creating business impact through learning functions
    The most recent EFMD Sharing Best Practice CLIP Workshop focused on the creation of short- and long-term business impact through learning functions. Andrew Rutsch describes a framework to help diagnose how to do it. Read more (PDF)
 
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