AMBA & BGA’s workshop series connects people, ideas and practices in locations around the world to fuel collaboration and continuous improvement on key topics. In Dublin, schools reflected on programmes and purpose, as speakers and attendees at the recent event reveal. Tim Banerjee Dhoul reports T he AMBA & BGA capacity-building workshop (CBW) series travels the world of management education to meet business schools in their local contexts and provide an accessible platform for the exchange of ideas, experiences Collective purpose
Sessions are also conducted in a welcoming, friendly setting in a bid to strengthen the sense of community among network members and boost the value of interactions on the day, sparking collaborations that continue well beyond the event itself. Over the past two years, CBWs have taken place in India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Romania and the UK, with the most recent iteration taking place in Dublin, Ireland. At the latter, a group of around 20 business school practitioners came together to the discuss the modern business school value proposition. Sessions at the workshop covered a range of topics, from the purpose of business education and the impact of AI on future careers to changing student expectations and programme innovations designed to boost access and inclusivity. Among the speakers were Eimear Nolan, founder and director of the flexible executive MBA at Trinity Business School; Soheil Davari, director of accreditations at the University of Bath’s School of Management; and Michele O’Dwyer, MBA programme director at Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick. To better understand how the CBW series is experienced by participants and how future events can be further enhanced, Business Impact caught up with Nolan, Davari and O’Dwyer, as well as a handful of delegates in attendance at the Dublin event.
and best practices. With numbers capped at each event, the format offers a one-day programme tailored to the needs of individual countries or regions as well as an alternative to the more formal confines of a conference.
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