Imperial to award Forté Foundation scholarships to outstanding women
Imperial College Business School joins forces with Forté Foundation.
We are pleased to announce that the Business School has recently become a sponsor of the Forté Foundation, a non-profit consortium of leading companies and top business schools working together to launch women into fulfilling, significant careers through access to business education, opportunities, and a community of successful women.
Diane Morgan, Associate Dean of Programmes at the Business School is on the board of the foundation and, as a sponsor school, we are able to provide our female MBA students and staff access to an elite network of fellow women in leadership, events, information and support reserved exclusively for prospective candidates and students of sponsor schools.
We will also be offering Forté Foundation Fellowships to outstanding female students joining the Full-Time MBA programme.
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The Business School will offer scholarships worth £22,500 to high achieving female MBA students in partnership with the Forté Foundation.
5/7/16 Lake Superior State University is bringing back its master of business administration program more than a decade after it was stopped because of declining interest.
The MBA was offered from the late 1980s until about 2003, said interim provost and vice-president for academic affairs David Finley.
“Now we’re on to a new generation of managers looking to take that next step,” he told The Sault Star. “We want to reinstate that opportunity.”
Tentative start date is fall 2018 with an expected intake of 30 to 35 students. Instruction will be offered online and in class. Professors may travel to nearby communities, such as Petoskey, if there’s a significant number of students from a particular area.
“We’re just looking at options so that people would not have to travel a long ways,” said chief financial officer Morrie Walworth.
He anticipates interest from the Canadian Sault based on a survey done as plans were made to bring the MBA back.
“The Canadian side has a lot more people on it,” he said. “We were very happy to see that were was good interest from the Canadian side.”
LSSU expects to draw from its own student enrolment. Sault College and Lake State are updating an already existing agreement that allows college business graduates to continue their studies at LSSU for a degree, and now potentially a MBA over a six-year span.
“We’re looking at a very clearly defined, easy pathway, nicely articulated pathway, between Sault College and Lake State,” said Walworth.
Read more via: http://www.saultstar.com/2016/05/07/lssu-plans-mba-return
2/19/16 Late last year I contributed to these pages an article in which I lamented business schools’ continued failure to evolve. It was somewhat pessimistic stuff – although not, I hope, unduly portentous. “Our willingness to muster a meaningful response to the transformation taking place all around us is too often rooted in natural inertia,” I wrote. “The need for radical evolution grows ever more pressing.”
Such sentiments are hardly novel, as I knew only too well at the time. But I felt able to express them with more confidence and insight than I could have drawn upon previously, because I had recently stepped down after five years as the dean of Nottingham University Business School.
What I was not able to express with quite so much authority is precisely what might be done to drag the sector out of the mire of incrementalism into which it has gradually slipped. This oversight has been pointed out to me on several occasions since the piece’s publication, and I am grateful for being given the chance to address it.
I should perhaps first note that it may be unfortunate, if not downright ironic, that the proposals I am about to discuss have crystallised only now that I have returned to the comparative safety of the sidelines. Cynics might well be entitled to ask: “Where were all these bright ideas when you were a dean?” I can only protest that what follows is based on experiences to which I have since given extensive thought; that it is easier to be wise after the event; and, sure enough, that time heals all wounds.
The fundamental argument of my original article was that the void between the typical business school curriculum and the conditions that confront students after graduation is widening. My deanship – and with it numerous valuable opportunities to meet fellow deans from around the globe – allowed me to appreciate how alarming and widespread this disconnect has become and, in tandem, how difficult repairing it is likely to prove.
Read more via: http://www.efmd.org/blog/view/987-towards-an-integrated-curriculum
4/21/16 EFMD would like to warmly congratulate the following schools who have recently been re-accredited by EQUIS:
School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, China School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University, China College of Commerce, National Chengchi University, Chinese Taipei KAIST College of Business, South Korea Newcastle University Business School, UK Bentley University, US School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, the Netherlands NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway Cass Business School, City University London, UKRead more via: http://www.efmd.org/blog/view/1023-nine-schools-reaccredited-by-equis-business-school-accreditation
5/18/16 When Peter Todd accepted the role of dean at HEC Paris, he was aware that he would have a difficult and unusual act to follow.
The 57-year-old Canadian, the first non-French head at HEC, took over in September last year from Bernard Ramanantsoa, who had ample time to shape a powerful legacy at the business school. Prof Ramanantsoa had been in the job for 20 years before retiring last summer, a lengthy tenure even for a business school dean.
The transformation is most obvious in the faces of the students around the campus today, who come from almost 100 countries. Barely a third of the teaching staff were born in France, a reversal of the situation when Prof Ramanantsoa took charge.
Given the depth of the changes his predecessor made, it is understandable that Prof Todd might take some time to work out what he can do to make his mark. His first few months were “more about listening than action”, he says. “We work on academic time.”
From the calm comfort of Prof Todd’s large office, it is easy to grasp how time could run more slowly at HEC’s semi-rural 340 acre campus.
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