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Latin America: management education’s growth An ‘at home’ study abroad experience
and future pathways Julie Davies, Pamela Decker, and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
A new book looks at some of the key findings from a study of discuss how the world comes to iaelyon School of Management
the evolution of management education in Latin America and for an international week every January
highlights current issues facing the region. By Gabriela Alvarado,
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The digital revolution in executive education
30 Nowhere is the impact of digital technology more apparent –
Stacking the odds and important – than executive education custom programmes.
Stackable programmes and courses deliver flexibility and Olga Alonso Pelegrín and Sergio Vasquez Bronfman investigate
options to the market and allow universities to unlock their the implications, particularly the use of ‘blended’ teaching
breadth of knowledge. Paul Kofman describes a quiet revolution
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34 Developing world-class students in Peru
The rise of the MENA region: succeeding in a ‘spiky’ world Percy Marquina Feldman outlines the innovative approach to
The world is not so much flat as ‘spikey’. Wolfgang Amann, using artificial intelligence to enhance the student experience
Laoucine Kerbache and Nadine Burquel argue that traversing the at a business school in Peru
rough terrain of the MENA region requires a lot of local knowledge
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40 Facilitating responsible research
Digital learning and how to train for long-term impact Michael Bisaccio explains how a new blacklist is making it
David Pontoppidan and David Everhart say that a solid harder for ‘predatory journals’ to hoax academics and others
understanding of the basics of learning is now in place and
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to put them together into blended learning journeys that deliver Seven things to learn about succession in organisations
high and lasting impact Emerson de Almeida and co-authors report on a four-year
research study in how to plan and execute a successful
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Value co-creation and value destruction
Greater understanding of value, together with today’s big data
analytics, gives companies the potential to put value creation
at the core of their business. By Peter Stokes, Gautam Mahajan,
and Paul Hughes
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