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EFMD Global is a worldwide network of business schools, companies and associations involved in management development. Sharing updates & insights from the community. #EFMDEQUIS #EFMDaccredited
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📚 We are pleased to announce the publication of EFMD Global President Eric Cornuel’s latest book, "Management Education and the Rise of Uncertainty of Global Business," which is now available in:
📖 Hard copy (bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OUP)
Or
⬇️ Download (bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OA)
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📖 Hard copy (bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OUP)
Or
⬇️ Download (bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OA)
academic.oup.com/book/61649
Management Education and the Rise of Uncertainty of Global Business
Abstract. This book examines how management education responds to economic, social, and geopolitical uncertainties by reimagining global business education
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January 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM
📚 We are pleased to announce the publication of EFMD Global President Eric Cornuel’s latest book, "Management Education and the Rise of Uncertainty of Global Business," which is now available in:
📖 Hard copy (bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OUP)
Or
⬇️ Download (bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OA)
academic.oup.com/book/61649
📖 Hard copy (bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OUP)
Or
⬇️ Download (bit.ly/Eric-Cornuel-OA)
academic.oup.com/book/61649
EFMD has recently released a two-part podcast episode: “Exiled researchers: academic life in displacement”, as part of the EXIL Project, an EU-funded initiative that improves the integration of exiled students and raises awareness about the role HEIs play in humanitarian crises.
EXIL: Shared Experiences Integrating Displaced Students into HEIs
EXIL is an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership project to improve the inclusion of Ukrainian refugee students in European HEIs.
blog.efmdglobal.org
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 AM
EFMD has recently released a two-part podcast episode: “Exiled researchers: academic life in displacement”, as part of the EXIL Project, an EU-funded initiative that improves the integration of exiled students and raises awareness about the role HEIs play in humanitarian crises.
🌟We are pleased to announce that the Royal Academy of Management (RAM) has completed EFMD’s LIFT Certification! The Sultanate of Oman's RAM strengthens leadership capability across sectors. The LIFT framework assesses how learning impact is designed, delivered, & evidenced.
🔗➤bit.ly/LIFT-RAM
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January 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
🌟We are pleased to announce that the Royal Academy of Management (RAM) has completed EFMD’s LIFT Certification! The Sultanate of Oman's RAM strengthens leadership capability across sectors. The LIFT framework assesses how learning impact is designed, delivered, & evidenced.
🔗➤bit.ly/LIFT-RAM
🔗➤bit.ly/LIFT-RAM
🔔 Learn more about Paris School of Business, France, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India, Cork University Business School, Ireland, and Wits Business School, South Africa, which have recently been granted EQUIS Accreditation!
EQUIS Accreditation awarded to five international business schools
We are delighted to announce that five schools in India, Ireland, and South Africa, have obtained EQUIS Accreditation. Warm congratulations to all five schools!
blog.efmdglobal.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:23 AM
🔔 Learn more about Paris School of Business, France, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India, Cork University Business School, Ireland, and Wits Business School, South Africa, which have recently been granted EQUIS Accreditation!
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🌟 HEC Montréal obtient le renouvellement de son accréditation EQUIS pour cinq ans, confirmant le respect des standards internationaux les plus élevés en gestion.
Lire la #nouvelle 👉 www.hec.ca/nouvelles/20...
#HECMontréal #Accréditation #Reconnaissance @efmdglobal.org
Lire la #nouvelle 👉 www.hec.ca/nouvelles/20...
#HECMontréal #Accréditation #Reconnaissance @efmdglobal.org
HEC Montréal reconfirmée par EQUIS
HEC Montréal a obtenu le renouvellement de son accréditation EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) pour une période de cinq ans, la durée maximale accordée par la European Foundation for Managem...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:16 PM
🌟 HEC Montréal obtient le renouvellement de son accréditation EQUIS pour cinq ans, confirmant le respect des standards internationaux les plus élevés en gestion.
Lire la #nouvelle 👉 www.hec.ca/nouvelles/20...
#HECMontréal #Accréditation #Reconnaissance @efmdglobal.org
Lire la #nouvelle 👉 www.hec.ca/nouvelles/20...
#HECMontréal #Accréditation #Reconnaissance @efmdglobal.org
🏆 Since 2007, the EFMD Excellence in Practice (EiP) Awards have honoured outstanding Learning & Development partnerships. Showcase your impact in the 2026 Awards—entries close 13 March 2026.
📥 Submit your case: bit.ly/EIP-Awards
🎞️ Watch an EiP winner’s story: bit.ly/EiP-Muriel-Larvaron
📥 Submit your case: bit.ly/EIP-Awards
🎞️ Watch an EiP winner’s story: bit.ly/EiP-Muriel-Larvaron
January 8, 2026 at 8:52 AM
🏆 Since 2007, the EFMD Excellence in Practice (EiP) Awards have honoured outstanding Learning & Development partnerships. Showcase your impact in the 2026 Awards—entries close 13 March 2026.
📥 Submit your case: bit.ly/EIP-Awards
🎞️ Watch an EiP winner’s story: bit.ly/EiP-Muriel-Larvaron
📥 Submit your case: bit.ly/EIP-Awards
🎞️ Watch an EiP winner’s story: bit.ly/EiP-Muriel-Larvaron
👥 We are pleased to announce the admission of 13 new members to the EFMD Global community, reflecting a shared commitment to excellence and engagement in management education. These additions further extend EFMD’s geographic reach, with Malta represented for the first time.
EFMD welcomes 13 new members in 2026
EFMD Welcomes 13 New Members in 2026/ The institutions joining EFMD at this time reflect the continued evolution of our community.
blog.efmdglobal.org
January 7, 2026 at 10:04 AM
👥 We are pleased to announce the admission of 13 new members to the EFMD Global community, reflecting a shared commitment to excellence and engagement in management education. These additions further extend EFMD’s geographic reach, with Malta represented for the first time.
🌟 Eighteen business school deans outline shared priorities for 2026. In conversation with Stephanie Mullins-Wiles at @blueskyeducation.bsky.social, they collectively argue that success in the new year rests on balancing long-term purpose with disciplined execution and credible public value.
18 business school deans share their priorities for 2026
What should business school deans around the world focus on in 2026? We asked 18 deans to find out. Here's what they said.
blog.efmdglobal.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:37 AM
🌟 Eighteen business school deans outline shared priorities for 2026. In conversation with Stephanie Mullins-Wiles at @blueskyeducation.bsky.social, they collectively argue that success in the new year rests on balancing long-term purpose with disciplined execution and credible public value.
🇮🇳 Research on India’s vulture decline shows how biodiversity loss harms human health and the economy. Diclofenac-driven near extinction worsened sanitation, increased disease, and raised mortality by more than 4 per cent, costing $69.4bn annually. @financialtimes.com
Sustainable thinking: research aligned with green goals
Why are endangered vultures a threat to humans? Many business school studies align with UN sustainability targets
www.ft.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
🇮🇳 Research on India’s vulture decline shows how biodiversity loss harms human health and the economy. Diclofenac-driven near extinction worsened sanitation, increased disease, and raised mortality by more than 4 per cent, costing $69.4bn annually. @financialtimes.com
🇲🇦 Business education can play a vital role in preserving cultural heritage. At Al Akhawayn University, embedding it in the curriculum and engaging directly with artisans sustains traditional crafts while providing students with experiential learning and expanded research opportunities.
How business education can preserve cultural heritage
Strengthen communities and protect cultural traditions by using business education to support artisanal practices. Here are four ways to do so
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:00 AM
🇲🇦 Business education can play a vital role in preserving cultural heritage. At Al Akhawayn University, embedding it in the curriculum and engaging directly with artisans sustains traditional crafts while providing students with experiential learning and expanded research opportunities.
📢 We're planning a variety of global conferences, workshops and more in the months ahead. Check out the list and the QR codes for our 2026 events to grow your network.
🗓️ All Events:
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📚Explore our Activities Portfolio:
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🗓️ All Events:
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📚Explore our Activities Portfolio:
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January 2, 2026 at 8:01 AM
📢 We're planning a variety of global conferences, workshops and more in the months ahead. Check out the list and the QR codes for our 2026 events to grow your network.
🗓️ All Events:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/EFMD-Events
📚Explore our Activities Portfolio:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/EFMD-Portfolio
🗓️ All Events:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/EFMD-Events
📚Explore our Activities Portfolio:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/EFMD-Portfolio
🎇 Wishing you a joyful New Year from EFMD Global! 🎇
✨ May 2026 be filled with new opportunities, rewarding connections, lasting accomplishments, and great achievements. ✨
✨ May 2026 be filled with new opportunities, rewarding connections, lasting accomplishments, and great achievements. ✨
December 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🎇 Wishing you a joyful New Year from EFMD Global! 🎇
✨ May 2026 be filled with new opportunities, rewarding connections, lasting accomplishments, and great achievements. ✨
✨ May 2026 be filled with new opportunities, rewarding connections, lasting accomplishments, and great achievements. ✨
💫 2025 in focus: The year's defining reads. Professor Baback Yazdani explains that, with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) being adopted faster than any previous technology, graduates must possess both technology proficiency and an understanding of ethical use.
Business Schools are Ideally Positioned to Answer the Demand for AI-literate Graduates - Global Focus Magazine
Nottingham Business School integrates GenAI across curricula, blending ethics, technical skills & soft skills to prepare adaptable graduates.
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December 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
💫 2025 in focus: The year's defining reads. Professor Baback Yazdani explains that, with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) being adopted faster than any previous technology, graduates must possess both technology proficiency and an understanding of ethical use.
💫 2025 in focus: The year's defining reads. Management Professor Thomas Bieger discusses how, in an increasingly competitive higher education market, strategy is crucial for business school excellence and accreditation.
Business School Strategy – What Really Matters - Global Focus Magazine
With AI drafting strategy papers, business schools must build distinctiveness, foster shared vision, and manage strategic dilemmas with agility.
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December 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
💫 2025 in focus: The year's defining reads. Management Professor Thomas Bieger discusses how, in an increasingly competitive higher education market, strategy is crucial for business school excellence and accreditation.
★彡 Poets&Quants’ 2025–2026 International MBA Ranking again places INSEAD first, marking its eleventh win in sixteen years and a third consecutive top position. Europe dominates the upper tier, led by INSEAD, IESE Business School, and London Business School, followed by SDA Bocconi, IMD, and Esade.
Poets&Quants' 2025-2026 International MBA Ranking
Europe’s domination continues: INSEAD, IESE, LBS & Bocconi repeat as the top 4 while CEIBS, last year’s No. 9, falls 20 spots.
poetsandquants.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
★彡 Poets&Quants’ 2025–2026 International MBA Ranking again places INSEAD first, marking its eleventh win in sixteen years and a third consecutive top position. Europe dominates the upper tier, led by INSEAD, IESE Business School, and London Business School, followed by SDA Bocconi, IMD, and Esade.
💫 2025 in focus: The year's defining reads. Ekin Ilseven and Filipe Santos reflect on the 2025 EFMD Deans Conference, which examined how deans can act as safe harbours amid volatility, balancing competing realities, conflict, and responsibility.
In the Middle of it All: Deans as Cultivators of Community Resilience - Global Focus Magazine
The EFMD Deans conference spotlighted deans embracing resilience, innovation, and dialogue to lead through global challenges.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
💫 2025 in focus: The year's defining reads. Ekin Ilseven and Filipe Santos reflect on the 2025 EFMD Deans Conference, which examined how deans can act as safe harbours amid volatility, balancing competing realities, conflict, and responsibility.
💫 2025 in focus: The year's defining reads. Dr Stephanie Lambert reflects on the EFMD Student Experience Workshop, which highlighted parallels between student and leadership loneliness, emphasising emotional and social connectedness as central to wellbeing, resilience, and effective decision-making.
Lonely at the Top - Global Focus Magazine
The EFMD Student Experience Workshop exposes the cost of competitive leadership, urging business schools to nurture resilient leaders.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
💫 2025 in focus: The year's defining reads. Dr Stephanie Lambert reflects on the EFMD Student Experience Workshop, which highlighted parallels between student and leadership loneliness, emphasising emotional and social connectedness as central to wellbeing, resilience, and effective decision-making.
🏆 What Does Success Mean to You? Drawing on her interviews with executives, artists, academics, and students, "Your Career, Unscripted" podcast host Jane Cortez, reflects on success as a deeply personal concept, shaped by experience rather than titles, income, or comparison.
What Does Success Mean To You? What I’ve Learned From Executives, Leaders, Artists, MBAs & Students
Jane Cortez explores how redefining success on your own terms can be the most liberating career move of all.
poetsandquants.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🏆 What Does Success Mean to You? Drawing on her interviews with executives, artists, academics, and students, "Your Career, Unscripted" podcast host Jane Cortez, reflects on success as a deeply personal concept, shaped by experience rather than titles, income, or comparison.
✨Thank you to our members, governance bodies, reviewers, partners, speakers and staff for your commitment throughout 2025. We wish you a wonderful holiday season and all the best in the new year!
🎶🎄Season’s greetings and best wishes,
EFMD Global
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🎶🎄Season’s greetings and best wishes,
EFMD Global
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December 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
✨Thank you to our members, governance bodies, reviewers, partners, speakers and staff for your commitment throughout 2025. We wish you a wonderful holiday season and all the best in the new year!
🎶🎄Season’s greetings and best wishes,
EFMD Global
❄️ bit.ly/Best-Wishes-2025
🎶🎄Season’s greetings and best wishes,
EFMD Global
❄️ bit.ly/Best-Wishes-2025
🇬🇧 Following the recent CLO Roundtable in London, EFMD and @londonbschool.bsky.social have published a joint white paper on corporate learning and #AI adoption based on discussions with more than 20 organisations.
📚 Learn more:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/CLO-White-Paper
📚 Learn more:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/CLO-White-Paper
December 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🇬🇧 Following the recent CLO Roundtable in London, EFMD and @londonbschool.bsky.social have published a joint white paper on corporate learning and #AI adoption based on discussions with more than 20 organisations.
📚 Learn more:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/CLO-White-Paper
📚 Learn more:
╰┈➤ bit.ly/CLO-White-Paper
🤖 Reports of more than half of online articles being generated by AI have ignited concerns about the future of human writing. However, distinctive human voices are not disappearing. They may, in fact, be becoming more valuable precisely because they are harder to replicate. @theconversation.com
More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI – is human writing headed for extinction?
As AI floods the internet with text, it could mean human voices will matter more – not less.
theconversation.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🤖 Reports of more than half of online articles being generated by AI have ignited concerns about the future of human writing. However, distinctive human voices are not disappearing. They may, in fact, be becoming more valuable precisely because they are harder to replicate. @theconversation.com
💫2025 in focus: The year's defining reads. In this feature, the authors discuss the tension between the promise of #AI & the challenges institutions face in adjusting their operational models. We invite you to revisit, "The Executive Imperative: Why Business School Leaders Must Drive AI Adoption."
The Executive Imperative: Why Business School Leaders Must Drive AI Adoption and Become Institutional Entrepreneurs - Global Focus Magazine
Delve into the importance of AI for business schools. Transforming operating models requires decisive leadership and action.
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December 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
💫2025 in focus: The year's defining reads. In this feature, the authors discuss the tension between the promise of #AI & the challenges institutions face in adjusting their operational models. We invite you to revisit, "The Executive Imperative: Why Business School Leaders Must Drive AI Adoption."
🎉 Congratulations to Paris School of Business, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, Cork University Business School, and Wits Business School for achieving their first #EFMDEQUIS accreditation!
🎉And, congratulations to the 13 re-accredited schools!
🎉And, congratulations to the 13 re-accredited schools!
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🎉 Congratulations to Paris School of Business, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, Cork University Business School, and Wits Business School for achieving their first #EFMDEQUIS accreditation!
🎉And, congratulations to the 13 re-accredited schools!
🎉And, congratulations to the 13 re-accredited schools!
🇰🇿 We are pleased to announce that Narxoz University School of Economics and Management (SEM), Kazakhstan, has successfully completed the EFMD Business School Impact System (BSIS) assessment process and has been awarded the #EFMDBSIS label for positive impact.
Narxoz SEM awarded EFMD BSIS label for positive impact
Narxoz University School of Economics and Management (SEM) has been awarded the EFMD BSIS label for positive impact.
blog.efmdglobal.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🇰🇿 We are pleased to announce that Narxoz University School of Economics and Management (SEM), Kazakhstan, has successfully completed the EFMD Business School Impact System (BSIS) assessment process and has been awarded the #EFMDBSIS label for positive impact.
🗺️⁀જ✈︎ European #businessschools are drawing applicants deterred from the United States by political uncertainty, visa limits, high fees, and weaker job prospects. As reported in @financialtimes.com, consultants note a broader shift as candidates from multiple regions look elsewhere.
European business schools gain from US pain
Deans say they are attracting candidates put off US study by visa uncertainty and criticism of universities
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🗺️⁀જ✈︎ European #businessschools are drawing applicants deterred from the United States by political uncertainty, visa limits, high fees, and weaker job prospects. As reported in @financialtimes.com, consultants note a broader shift as candidates from multiple regions look elsewhere.