ASSOCIATION OF MBAS’ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR DEANS AND DIRECTORS INNOVATION IN POSTGRADUATE BUSINESS EDUCATION 14-16 May 2012 Barcelona, Spain PROGRAMME
Monday 14 May 2012 OPTIONAL: Induction Training for Faculty of Assessors 09.00 – 13.30
This extra session is free and optional for any deans and directors wishing to join the Association of MBAs Faculty of Assessors.
For more information, please contact George Iliev g.iliev@mbaworld.com or Mark Stoddard m.stoddard@mbaworld.com
11.30 – 15.00
Registration
14.30 – 15.00
Welcome Coffee
15.00 – 15.15
Welcome & Introduction: Overview of the conference
Sharon Bamford, Chief Executive, Association of MBAs, United Kingdom
15.15 – 15.45
Update on Association of MBAs: Strategy and new activities
Sharon Bamford, Chief Executive, Association of MBAs, United Kingdom
15.45 – 16.30
Presentation of certificates for newly accredited schools
16.30 – 17.00
Keynote 1 The world in 2032 Plenary Session 1 Innovations in MBA programmes
17.00 – 18.15
In order to differentiate in an increasingly crowded marketplace and to move management education forward in a rapidly changing world, business schools must innovate and take risks. So what constitutes the genuinely new and exciting in the world of business education? The finalists and winner of the MBA Innovation Award 2011 will offer up their best practices in programme innovation spanning delivery, content and curriculum. Allen Brant will
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Chair: Sir Paul Judge, President, Association of MBAs, United Kingdom Speakers: Belén de Vicente, MBA Executive Director, Lisbon MBA Désirée van Gorp, Associate Dean and the Program Director
highlight the best and most innovative initiatives and new ideas to come out of the $260,000 GMAC MET Fund Ideas to Innovation (i2i) Challenge.
for our International and Executive MBA programs, Nyenrode Business Universiteit Allen Brandt, Director, GMAC MET Fund
18.15 – 18.30
Closing remarks
20.00 – 23.00
Reception and dinner
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Sharon Bamford, Chief Executive, Association of MBAs, United Kingdom
Tuesday 15 May 2012 09.30 – 09.40
Welcome
Plenary Session 2 Trends and innovations in management education 09.40 – 11.00
Our speakers will deliver an overview of the global MBA market with a specific focus on how this is impacting innovation in post-graduate business education.
Sharon Bamford, Chief Executive, Association of MBAs, United Kingdom Chair: Professor Franz Heukamp, Associate Professor in Managerial Decision Sciences and Secretary General, IESE Business School Speakers: Deborah Somers, Associate Director, EMEA, Graduate Management Admissions Council® Michael Desideiro, Executive Director, EMBA Council George Murgatroyd, Research Manager, Association of MBAs
11.00 – 11.30
Refreshments generously sponsored by IESE Business School
Plenary Session 3 The changing corporate environment: Innovations in the business world 11.30 – 12.45
What innovations are shaping the business environment that our graduates will work within and lead? Technology, remote management, the borderless office? This session explores the corporate infrastructure and by implication, the skills that employers require from MBA graduates, now and in the future.
Speakers: Naina Lal Kidwai, Country Head India and Director, HSBC AsiaPacific Jeanette Liendo, Global Director, Microsoft, Corporate Marketing Group Doug Gray, Director, TalentHawk Ltd Dan Sandhu, Owner and Director, Ark Horizons
12.45 – 14.15
Lunch Chair:
Plenary Session 4 The business school in 2022
14.15 – 15.30
What will your school look like in ten years’ time? Will bricks and mortar business schools even exist? What will have changed in terms of technology, delivery, output? How will a changing regulatory and legal environment impact on the place of the business school? This session invites three speakers to predict the innovations and changes that will take place within business schools and consider the impact of these innovations on schools today and tomorrow.
Professor Valérie Gauthier, Associate Professor, HEC Paris, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan Management Speakers: Peter Lorange, Dean, Lorange School of Business Zurich Dr Alfonso Gómez, Dean, School of Business, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Alex Dalley, Association of MBAs Student of the Year 2011
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Professor Gabriel Hawawini, The Henry Grunfeld Chaired Professor of Investment Banking,
INSEAD
15.30 – 16.00
Refreshments Chair: Professor Alfons Sauquet, Dean, ESADE Business School Plenary session 5
16.00 – 17.15
Innovative models from business education and beyond This session presents the best and most innovative education, teaching and motivational models from other sectors.
Speakers: Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius, Principal, KaosPilots Itay Talgam, Conductor and teacher Joe Lockwood, Programme Director, The Centre for Design Innovation, The Glasgow School of Art
17.15 – 17.30
Closing remarks
19.30 – 22.30
Reception and dinner
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Wednesday 16 May 2012 09.20 – 09.30
Welcome
09.30 – 10.45
Facilitated workshop sessions A and B (select one) Workshop A: Deans managing in a complex environment This workshop will focus on managing across cultural and regulatory barriers; and managing pay and performance when crossing the academic and professional chasm in course delivery. Workshop B: Innovations in Chinese MBA Education Participants: 1. Executive Dean Xiaobo Wu, Zhejiang University 2. Dean Jiazheng Huo, Tongji University 3. Dean Yifeng Shen, Xiamen University 4. Dean Haishu Wang, Central-China University of Finance, Economics and Law 5. Dean Yiming Wei, Beijing Institute of Technology
10.45 – 11.15
Refreshments
11.15 – 11.45
Keynote 2 st
21 Century leadership
11.45 – 12.15
Summing up and farewell
12.15 – 13.45
Lunch
14.00 – 16.00
Accreditation Seminar This seminar is aimed at business schools in the process of accreditation or thinking of being accredited. It will give you detailed information on each stage of the accreditation process and you will be able to hear first-hand experiences of business schools who have been accredited. There will also be a Q&A session.
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Facilitator Henrik Totterman, Boston Dean of Hult International Business School
Facilitator Professor Zhong-Ming Wang, Association of MBAs China representative and Professor of HRM and entrepreneurship, School of Management, Zhejiang University
Professor Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School Sir Paul Judge, President, Association of MBAs, United Kingdom