EDITOR’S LETTER
Beyond BORDERS
EDITORIAL Head of editorial Colette Doyle c.doyle@amba-bga.com Content editor Tim Banerjee Dhoul t.dhoul@amba-bga.com
AMBA’s global reach means business schools all over the world can benefit from each other’s fields of expertise
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Art editor Sam Price Sub-editor Heather Ford
here’s an international flavour to this month’s issue; as CEO Andrew Main Wilson notes in his column, AMBA now has member schools in no fewer than 85 countries. Our review of the association’s latest study of application and enrolment trends, meanwhile, covers more than 250 AMBA-accredited business schools located across nine different regions. We start in Italy with our cover story, an interview with Stefano Caselli, the dean of SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan. He talks about the importance of good governance and those skills required for MBA graduates to become efficient and productive leaders – identifying humility, respect and nimbleness as being among the primary ones. Also representing Continental Europe is Anna Ginès i Fabrellas from Esade in Barcelona, who introduces the Equal4Europe consortium, which is helping women in academia deal with the ‘leaky pipeline’ phenomenon that can be a barrier to progression in their careers. Then we’re off to Latin America, where Ecuador’s Espae Graduate School of Management relates how a global alliance was forged to support a social enterprise initiative that offers guidance, mentorship and training to budding entrepreneurs. Next up it’s the turn of North America; our feature submitted by Chicago Booth looks at the fascinating phenomenon that is ETA, or entrepreneurship through acquisition. This approach differs from the better known and more common start-up model because it entails buying a company that already exists. The authors detail how this idea can benefit both MBA graduate careers and national economies. Enjoy the issue – we’ll be back next month with a roundtable exclusively comprised of female deans debating the issues of the day that matter to the higher education sector; ITESO University Business School elaborates on the concept of employee ownership in Mexico; and French institution Neoma explains how generative artificial intelligence is revolutionising the educational experience.
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Head of marketing and communications Leonora Clement
Senior marketing executive Edward Holmes
Head of IT and data management Jack Villanueva
Head of events Carolyn Armsby
HR and employer relations manager Aarti Bhasin Finance and commercial director Catherine Walker
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THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS
Chief executive officer Andrew Main Wilson
Executive assistant to the CEO Amy Youngs a.youngs@amba-bga.com ACCREDITATION ENQUIRIES accreditation@amba-bga.com
MARK AGNEW
ADRIANA AMAYA
STEFANO CASELLI
ANNA GINÈS I FABRELLAS
HANNAH HOLMES
TINEKE LAMBOOY
STEPHANIE MULLINS-WILES
BRIAN O’CONNOR
ANDREA SAMANIEGO
MARCOS SOTO
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