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EDiNEB Newsletter December 2005
NEWSLETTER CONTENT :Innovation – A Requisite Skill for Business Leaders and Educators
In May of 2005 a message was delivered via an HBR article by Warren Bennis and James O'Toole that was meant to shake up the thinking of faculty members and administrators at business schools. Challenging the current activities of business schools, the authors argue that "Business schools have taken the wrong track.... Read more
EDiNEB Book Series - Volume X
As we approach the end of 2005, we also are bringing to conclusion the work on the last volume of the EDiNEB book series. This volume combines the best papers from the Salzburg and Maastricht conferences. Fifteen papers from the Salzburg conference and fourteen papers from the Maastricht conference were selected for inclusion, based on a process using the input of outside reviewers and the editorial team assembled for this volume Read more
Teaching and Experiencing Managerial Competencies
Business education has increasingly taken up the challenge of fostering competency development in students to enable them to compete on a protean and complex work market, and guarantee entry, promotion and even retention specific organisations. Edhec Business School is no exception in this regard with different types of learning spaces and contexts offered to students to acquire the essential managerial competencies requires in the future workplace Read more
Higher Education as Knowledge Ecosystems
Institutions of Higher Education are contrived human systems designed to provide formal learning through a process of knowledge generation, acquisition, and transfer. Within this context, learning is a process of instructional, organized experiences, which involves acquiring and integrating varying forms of knowledge, skill, and understanding that the learner may use or apply in later contexts and under conditions different from those of the initial instruction. Read more
3 reasons why I value EDiNEB
Via Nova Academy is a networked school for graduate and postgraduate students working in and from the Netherlands. The core of our education services to schools, businesses and government organisations is helping individuals, teams, organisations and networks grow, learn and create value (human value, social/cultural value and economic value). The focus of Via Nova is on entrepreneurship, innovation and learning based on research and the model of Learning by Sharing Read more
Industry & Higher Education (IHE) – Special Issue
In collaboration with IP Publishers we are pleased to announce that papers submitted at last year’s EDiNEB XII conference - Innovating the Dynamics of Organizing Learning in Business and Business Education held in Antwerp, Belgium (June) will be the sole contributions in a special issue of Industry & Higher Education (IHE) planned for 2006 Read more
What’s the problem?
Kids today know all about it. PBL (Problem-Based Learning) is fun, inspiring, effective and widely used in schools around the world. Then why are organizations so reluctant to follow suit?
Developing a Global Mindset for Business
Globalization, technology, and rapid change have created the need to effectively manage and succeed in a cross-cultural and networked world. To win in a globally competitive marketplace, companies must be able to deliver timely products and services worldwide. Market innovation and business success depend upon effective learning and knowledge transfer practices. The global mindset and skills of internal teams determine whether an organization can play and succeed in international markets. Then how do we create global minds?
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