I n January 2022, the AMBA & BGA team joined Business Schools, students, and alumni from around the world, for its virtual AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2022. This represented a unique opportunity for Business Schools to celebrate their shared successes throughout the past year, in spite of global turbulence, and to congratulate all the shortlisted entrants and winners of this year’s Excellence Awards. While the ceremony was virtual, due to the ongoing uncertaintly of the Covid-19 pandemic, no ‘new-normal’ or virtual event, could take away from the phenomenal achievements of our finalists – all of whom demonstrated excellence in the face of unprecedented disruption. This makes these awards even more special than usual. As you will discover over the coming pages, the AMBA & BGA Schools network continued to cope magnificently with the challenges caused by Covid-19, showing determination and innovation. Additionally, the students and graduates who were shortlisted as finalists have used their qualifications to achieve a spectrum of impressive results, making a positive contribution to business, education and society. We would like to offer our sincere thanks to our panels of judges for their passion and commitment to selecting the winners. The decisions were certainly not easy to make. Based on written submissions from Business Schools, and panel interviews with the finalists, the judges were asked to score all finalists confidentially; these anonymous scores were been added up to determine the winners in each category.
However, the unanimous feedback we received from our panel of experts was how impressed they were with the quality, creativity, and variety of achievements among this year’s entries from your Schools and students, and we are proud to celebrate these with you today. We would also like to take the opportunity to thank our sponsors Barco, McGraw Hill Education, Koretext, Wharton Research Data Services, and Insendi, a Study Group Company. Their support for our awards – and the business education sector – is greatly appreciated and has made this ceremony possible. And now, to announce the winners. In some categories, the judges were so impressed with the finalists that they have awarded bronze and silver awards.
BEST INNOVATION STRATEGY, IN ASSOCIATION WITH BARCO
This award is a celebration of innovation and radical thinking in business education delivery across all areas of the Business School, and has been developed to recognise and reward game-changing new practices, risks, and creativity around AMBA-accredited and BGA member programmes. It promotes the value of taking risks, in pursuit of the new, across different areas such as teaching, learning, recruitment, and alumni relations. The gold award for Best Innovation Strategy, in association with Barco, was presented to NEOMA Business School (France) for ‘NEOMA Business School Virtual Campus’. NEOMA Business School was the first Business School in Europe to respond strongly to the Covid-19 crisis by launching an online
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