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Insights from RME Week 2025 At Responsible Management Education (RME) Week 2025 , global leaders in business education came together to explore how academic institutions can enhance societal relevance through strategic alignment in research and education. Co-hosted by AACSB International , PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) , and RRBM (Responsible Research in Business and Management) , the event spotlighted a shared commitment to responsible research and transformative impact . Unity in Purpose: Key Highlights from the Panel on Strategic Alignment The session, “Shaping Impact: Connecting Responsible Research ...

I really enjoyed all the presentations and rich discussions. So many great tactics and strategies to use to further diversity initiatives.

Why students that study abroad are more likely to study business than any other field. AACSB International's Data and Research Blog

Lima traffic is internationally competitive. While stuck in it last week my colleague explained that both Chile and Peru take credit for inventing the deliciously tart cocktail called the Pisco Sour. Her story reminded me that we should not be exceedingly confident in our "knowledge" about the origins of most things. A few scholars have tried to identify the sources of significant management innovations, such as the balanced scorecard, total quality management, reengineering, and the like. By and large they conclude that these innovations have not usually originated with academics or published scholarly research. Their conclusions have ocassionally been ...

Cambridge professor Richard Barker writes in Harvard Business Review that “management is not a profession at all and can never be one” and “therefore, business schools are not professional schools.” I’m not persuaded. To Barker, professional education (presumably delivered by real professional schools) involves three stages, “admission, taught program, and formal assessment.” He describes professional education as pre-experience (one doesn’t practice medicine, then go back to school to learn how to do it), focused on technical knowledge that can be compartmentalized (rather than on developing “attributes” and the “skill of integration”), and conducive to ...

Being the “crackberry” sort that rolls over in bed to check email, I could not help but look forward to my trip to Waterloo (Ca) for a meeting of the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans . Waterloo-based IT companies like the Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) and Open Text , a leader in enterprise content management (ECM), are often cited in Canadian policy circles as examples of the economic success that innovation can generate. The University of Waterloo has a well-earned reputation for cutting-edge research in computer science and a bunch of companies in the information technology sector have clustered around it. I was excited about the ...

Last year about this time I visited Morehouse College, which hosted the business deans of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). During the conference we visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel and viewed its inspiring collection of Purvis Young art and humbling Wall of Honor. After hearing the phrase "Morehouse Man" enough times, I began to realize there is something enormously powerful about the culture in place like this. Almost everything seemed to inspire young black men to excel, to achieve greatness. Dr. King, Maynard Jackson, and Spike Lee are all Morehouse Men. The experience caused me to believe business ...

Don’t just produce a bunch of “yellow-skinned Gordon Gekko’s,” pleaded Ho KwonPing, executive chairman of Banyan Holdings Ltd., as he discussed the ascendency of Asia and pressing need to create an alternative form of capitalism that is rooted in the region’s communitarian spirit. Speaking to nearly 180 management educators attending AACSB’s Asia Regional Conference in Singapore, Mr. Ho argued that our young people don’t have anywhere to look for guidance. They can’t find it in the individualism of Anglo-American capitalism, in the state approaches of Europe, or in the “Davos man” that has come to symbolize globalization. And “95% of entrepreneurs in China are ...