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the case method, disseminate more cases, and improve teaching quality among Business Schools in Asia. From the UK, Sankar Sivarajah, Head of the School of Management at the University of Bradford, talks about the importance of using online technology to widen reach, citing the School's desire to ‘provide quality responsible management education that is affordable and accessible by everyone’. Meanwhile, the Director of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) Catherine Duggan, highlights a fresh opportunity for bringing greater diversity of thought to the forefront of management education: ‘I’m looking forward to thinking about the ways that our new comfort with remote working, conferences, and other collaboration might be able to encourage more diversity among authors in the most influential journals and a more globally oriented scholarship.’ In this context, fears that management education might be forced to become narrower in its focus seem misplaced. Instead, the feeling that persists is that Business Schools remain fixed on the global picture and have the chance to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic with bigger networks and better tools for working with those in other countries, for expanding the reach of their expertise, and for offering enriched programme
Content Editor Tim Banerjee Dhoul t.dhoul@businessgraduates association.com Art Editor Laura Tallon Insight and Communications Executive Ellen Buchan e.buchan@ businessgraduates association.com Director of Marketing and Communications David Woods-Hale d.woods@businessgraduates association.com
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The world of management education is getting bigger, not smaller
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With so many people confined to their homes and immediate locales over the past year, one might think that globalisation had been set in reverse. In-person global experiences and travel offered by Business Schools have certainly been decimated, but this doesn’t
Business Impact leads with interviews that profile four Business Schools representing four different continents. From Mexico City, Alfredo Nava, Director of the School of Economics and Business at Universidad Anáhuac México, talks about taking advantage of newly found enthusiasm worldwide for working with online platforms: ‘There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity right now to be international without leaving your country, and to get faculty and students to interact with each other,’ he says. From Nagoya, Japan, Tim Desmond and Ken Ozawa talk about NUCB Business School’s plans to promote the use of
mean that the world of management education available to prospective students has got smaller.
If anything, it’s getting bigger – such are the opportunities presented by online technology and leveraged by institutions across the world. To showcase the prevailing
experiences as a result. Tim Banerjee Dhoul,
Content Editor, Business Impact
mindset of management education, this edition of
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