Monday, 28 November 2016

15:00 – 16:00

Registration & Welcome Coffee

16:00 – 16:30

Welcome Address:

• Inge Jan Henjesand, President, BI Norwegian Business School, NO
• Janicke Rasmussen, Academic Director MSc Programmes, BI Norwegian Business School, NO (Conference Co-Chair)
• Feite van Dijk, Special Adviser International Relations, BI Norwegian Business School, NO (Conference Co-Chair)
• Nadine Burquel, Director, Business School Services, EFMD

16:30 – 18:00

Defining and Promoting Master Programmes’ Unique Value Propositions
Overall Framework for Positioning of Master Programmes

• Bendik Samuelsen, Head, Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School, NO

Shaping Programmes around External Ranking and Initiatives
The Economist

• Bill Ridgers, Business Education Editor/Travel & Tourism Correspondent, The Economist, UK

The Experience of EADA Business School:

• Jordi Diaz, Associate Dean for EADA Business School Programmes, EADA Business School, SP

Poets & Quants

• Matt Symonds, Management columnist for Forbes, BBC, FR

18:00 – 19:00

Icebreaking at school

19:00 – 21:30

Dinner at the school restaurant

Tuesday, 29 November 2016

08:30 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:45

Designing Relevant Curricula for the Issues of the Present and Future

• Christian Møller, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Kongsberg Digital, NO

09:45 – 10:45

Panel: Dealing with Critical Issues
3 examples :

• The need for ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as part of master curriculum
  Caroline D. Ditlev-Simonsen, Associate Professor, Department of Law, Co-director BI Centre for Corporate Responsibility, BI Norwegian Business School, NO
• The Impact of Big Data
  Ingunn Myrtveit, Head of Department, Professor, Department of Accounting, Assurance and Business Analytics, BI Norwegian Business School, NO
• Entrepreneurship – new approaches
  Rita G.Klapper, Visiting Senior Researcher, Leuphana University, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK

10:45 – 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45 – 12:45

Breakout Sessions on four topics (each breakout will be run twice for 30minutes)

• Dealing with Plagiarism
• Different models to deliver the Thesis
• Innovation & Curricular Responses
• Didactic and Digital Developments

12:45 – 13:00

Feedback from breakout sessions

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Panel: Managing Diversity in Master Programmes
Before the arrival of Students:

• Ann Kristin Calisch, Administrative Director Master programmes, BI Norwegian Business School, NO
• Emma Rebeca Pinto Guzman, Student at BI Business School, NO

During the Programme:

• Ad Scheepers, Policy advisor, project manager at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, NL
• Irma Bogenrieder, Associate Professor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, NL

Beyond the Programme:

• Aram Karakashian, Senior Recruitment and Admissions Manager, Early Career Programmes (MiM, Global MIM, MFA), LBS UK

Moderator: Ann Kristin Calisch, Administrative Director Master programmes, BI Norwegian Business School, NO

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:30

Joining Forces: Examples of Alliances and Consortia Offering Master Degrees
Short presentation (4x15 minutes)

• The Case of London Business School and Fudan University
  Fiona Lennoxsmith, Programme Director, Masters in Management and Global MiM, LBS, UK
  Kevin Mi, Director of post-graduate programmes, Fudan, CN
• The CEMS Global Alliance in Management Education
  John Shields, Deputy Dean, Professor of Human Resource Management & Organisational Studies, The University of Sydney Business School, AU
• QTEM
  Bruno van Pottelsberghe, QTEM Chairman, Dean, Solvay Business School, BE

Panel Q&A

17:45 – 18:15

Optional information session

The Erasmus+ Master Loan facility

• Lionel Grandi, Manager, European Investment Fund, Institutional Business Development (IBD), Mandate Management, LU

19:00

Buses leaving from the Hotel to go to the Gala dinner

19:30 – 22:00

Gala dinner at Holmenkollen Restaurant, Holmenkollvn 119, 0787 Oslo

22:30

Buses back to the Hotel

Wednesday 30 November 2016

09:00 – 09:30

Overview of the Survey on global development prospects of Masters in Management

Universum – CEMS Survey Overview

• Rafael Garavito, Country Manager, Universum Consulting, SP

09:30 – 10:00

The views of students on Masters in Management

• Eva Hecht, student, Lund University, SE

10:00 – 11:00

Panel: Discussion on Employability

• Petter Meyer, Head of Recruitment and Talent Management – Central bank of Norway (tbc)
• Kristina Bors, HR Director, BDO, NO
• Glenn Menkin, Head of Employer Branding and Executive Recruitment, DNB, NO

Panel discussion
Moderator: Adriana Jansen, Head, Career Service, BI Norwegian Business School, NO

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30

“The Big Picture” and the implications for Higher Education institutions – Reflections from a higher level expert

• David Walker, Chief Group Development Officer, DNV, NO

12:30 – 13:00

Wrap up by the Co-Chairs & welcome to the 2017 conference

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch