04 Talking Shop 2009 International Deans Programme (IDP) 1st Global Peter F Drucker Forum EFMD-EURAM launch joint programme on research leadership in Europe Quality Services to hold first accreditation seminar in Latin America. Read more (PDF)
08 Separating the wheat from the chaff Should business research have its social implications made explicit? Scholarly journal publishers John Peters and Rebecca Marsh think so. Read more (PDF)
12 A question of priorities The global economic crisis has raised many questions about the current state of management education. Sandra Waddock has some suggestions for how it should respond. Read more (PDF)
16 Throwing sheep Online social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and YouTube are not just a social phenomenon. They and their offshoots, say Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta, have serious implications for the way the corporate world works. Read more (PDF)
22 History lessons Dan Muzyka, Dean of the Sauder school in Canada, on the challenges facing management education, the role of business schools and why teaching business history to MBAs might just have averted the economic crisis. Interview by George Bickerstaffe. Read more (PDF)
26 Getting the true measure of leadership Effective corporate leadership is crucial and much discussed yet everywhere seems to be in crisis. Mario Vaupel suggests an alternative approach. Read more (PDF)
30 Greening the recession You’ve heard it before: measures designed to mitigate the degradation of the Earth and its resources help businesses and the economy by saving money, boosting revenues and creating jobs. So is prejudice, short-term thinking or ignorance preventing you cashing in asks Jonathan T Scott. Read more (PDF)
34 Eastern dreams Virginijus Kundrotas has been a crucial player in the 20-year effort to develop modern management education in central and eastern Europe, founding one of its most important business schools. Coming to the end of a year’s sabbatical to “read, think and reflect” about a momentous two decades, he talks to George Bickerstaffe. Read more (PDF)
38 Stepping up... There is no subject that has received more attention in the business school world than leadership. But nonetheless, says Fernando D’Alessio, it continues to be a perplexing and elusive concept. Read more (PDF)
44 Generation Y: Talent management The characteristics attributed to Generation Y may or may not be valid. But the simple facts of demographic change mean that companies must react in the way they attract and retain employees. Rainer Jensen describes how a Coca Cola bottling company in Germany is tackling the problem. Read more (PDF)
48 A safe pair of hands Project management needs more people or worldwide growth could be at even greater risk. This is a huge opportunity for business schools and other educational institutions says Ed Andrews. Read more (PDF)
52 Growing leaders Jorgen Thorsell and Didier Gonin outline some of the results of research into the current and future state of leadership development. Read more (PDF)
56 Why business schools need their own cross-cultural awareness Business schools like to stress awareness of other cultures to their students. As they increasingly offer executive education programmes taught abroad by their own faculty they also need to practise it themselves says Mark Thomas. Read more (PDF)
60 Corporate responsibility: a business driver or an ethical obligation? Corporate responsibility is a much-discussed topic. But how well are companies doing – and what does acting responsibly do for them? Emmanuel Perakis examines the evidence. Read more (PDF)
