This paper aims at exploring the contexts of academic research outputs faced by Lebanese researchers at four major Lebanese business schools. It analyzes both challenges and support mechanisms at these institutions to suggest improvements to the existing framework considering the researchers'...

Purpose - This study aims to explore Dr Judy Olian's leadership journey from business school dean to university president, aiming to distill key lessons for aspiring higher education leaders. Design/methodology/approach - The research employs a multimethod qualitative approach, including a...

Sustainability discourse provides directions for sustainable development in the global context; education should be transformed to address sustainability concerns. Many universities have adopted a sustainability focus and university instructors play a vital role in inculcating sustainability...

In a time of increasing polarization, how can we address sensitive topics and ensure that university classrooms remain places of healthy discussions and ethical deliberations? This paper addresses this important question by drawing on unique qualitative data from our students’ accounts of...

Commercial education emerged when women's rights were limited and single-gender schools dominated. Inevitably this system created differences in educational attainment and contributed to unequal gender roles in business organizations. This article examines an alternative trajectory in the rise...

This paper examines the impact of substituting regular classroom programmes with online classes on students' academic performance. We compared the change in the delivery mechanism of preparatory courses for two consecutive Master of Business Administration (MBA) batches in one of the top...

Die hier skizzierte empirische Untersuchung wurde im Rahmen eines Projektseminars des Lehrstuhls für Unternehmensführung und Organisation an der FWW in der Zeit vom 10.10.2023 bis zum 20.03.2024 von insgesamt 24 Studierenden entwickelt und ausgewertet. Dabei entstanden Projektberichte im...

This paper examines the posturing, positioning and practice of Business Design (BD) at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, exploring its evolution since the late 1990s to today. It outlines BD's introduction as a design thinking-lite approach to strategy innovation and its...

Purpose - This study aims to examine the potentially important effects of academic embeddedness on college of business student retention and performance as well as the mediating effects of self-efficacy on the academic embeddedness student outcomes relationships. Improvements in student...

Purpose This study aims to introduce management students to climate change by providing them with an opportunity to address it in their own lives, through a class exercise. Design/methodology/approach An in-class exercise was designed, carried out and described in this study. Student teams were...

Intelligence and creativity among school-going students are buzzwords. The exponential growth of studies has spurred on the influence of intelligence on creativity; however, the center of the debate is on the effect of the former on the latter. Surprisingly, very few studies have attempted to...

The benefits of demographic divided by fastest growing economy (India) can be reaped only if it is supported by fully equipped and skilled human resource. There is gap in supply of quality human resource. Management education is oriented towards training the managers who can handle functional...

If we look at entrepreneurship education, we will find that there are basically two types of entrepreneurship courses. The first is an Entrepreneurship course with experiential learning and the second is an Entrepreneurship course including lectures, formal seminars, and personal essays. In...

This paper focuses on two questions. How do award-winning business school professors teach and conduct research across a variety of disciplines in ways that contribute to both the advancement of business and the common good? How do they inspire students and effect societal change?

Purpose: The article studies how the shutdown of campuses and subsequent change to online course delivery during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have changed the experience of organisational space in management education. Design/methodology/approach: The study utilises a mixed...

This paper studies the effects of business school education on manager career outcomes, using evidence from the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training (ESMWT), that offered MBA-style education to middle managers and production supervisors working at U.S. war industrial facilities...

We study the mental health of graduate students and faculty at 14 Economics departments in Europe. Using clinically validated surveys sent out in the fall of 2021, we find that 34.7% of graduate students experience moderate to severe symptoms of depression or anxiety and 17.3% report suicidal or...