Plenary Session: Impact and Change

The business school’s impact can thus be discussed in terms of three main aspects: Academic impact, Corporate impact and Social impact. Each of these may be evaluated on the business school’s measurable achievements in fostering entrepreneurship, producing program innovation, and supporting not only leading-edge academic research, but also research that has a powerful effect on globalized business practice. Therefore, how should we develop a mission-guided work agenda to increase business schools’ impact? What is the effect of the impact agenda on business schools? How it may through its activities bring real positive changes to the world? These are questions that business schools around the world are engaged with, and that impel all our opportunities for future progress.

Moderator:

Prof. CHEN Fangruo, Dean, Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R.China

09:00 - 09:30

Keynote Speech 1:

Prof. Soumitra Dutta, Founding Dean, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; Former Chair, AACSB; Chair, Board of Directors, Global Business School Network (GBSN), USA

Keynote Speech 2:

Prof. François Ortalo-Magné, Dean of London Business School, UK

10:00 - 10:40

Group Photo and Coffee Break

Keynote Speech 3:

Prof. Chris Styles, Dean of UNSW Business School, Australia

11:10 - 11:40

11:40 - 12:00

Luncheon

Session A1 (Parallel): The Business School's Impacts on Social Development

Through corporate impact, social impact, or governmental impact, the business schools are contributing in changing the culture, policy, economics, business, and technology, and promoting the social development through its impact. Nowadays, business schools are more and more recognizing the importance of putting the mission-driven impact development into its agenda. Those schools seek impact beyond just innovation and knowledge creation; they seek to foster social responsibility, ethics and responsible leadership as well.

13:30 - 13:35

Moderator:
Prof. WAN Guohua, Associate Dean of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China

13:35 - 14:00

Speaker:
Prof. Andrei Sharonov, President of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Russia

14:00 - 14:25

14:25 - 14:50

14:50 - 15:10

Coffee Break

15:10 - 15:35

15:35 - 16:15

13:30 - 16:15

Session A2 (Parallel): The Corporate Impact of Academic Research

Even though there are few widely acknowledged quality standards for research practice, and few definitions of what constitutes good research, business schools broadly conclude that academic research makes substantial impact on the corporate world. Comparing with seeking more publishing in top journals, the business schools and professors are investing increasing efforts on working with practitioners, to develop the real business cases, to provide business consultancy, to transfer the management knowledge into commercial products. The relevance between business school’s academic research and its impact to corporate world, is interesting to study.

13:30 - 13:35

Moderator:
Prof. DONG Ming, Associate Dean of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China

13:35 - 14:00

14:00 - 14:25

Speaker:
Prof. Kalok Chan, Dean of CUHK Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

14:25 - 14:50

14:50 - 15:10

Coffee Break

15:10 - 15:35

15:35 - 16:00

Speaker:
Prof. WEI Jiang, Dean of School of Management, Zhejiang University, P. R. China

16:00 - 16:15

13:30 - 16:15

Session A3 (Parallel, Round Table): Evolution and Opportunities: Integration between Schools or between Companies in Emerging and Developed Economies
Business education originally evolved in the West, but has since then developed in various countries and regions along with the local economic and business development. But differences in local context, along with the natural tension of globalization vs. localization, is an ongoing and challenging topic. Many business schools or companies in the BRICs have developed  successful international strategies, but the integration between schools or between companies in emerging countries and in developed countries can definitely progress further, to meet both the local and the global challenges.

Panel One:
1)Prof. Dan LeClair, Senior Vice President, The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), USA
2)Dr. Nick Van Dam, Chief Learning Officer for McKinsey and Professor at University of Pennsylvania and Nyenrode Business University
3)Prof. Lars Strannegård, President of the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Panel Two:
1)Prof. Branislav Boričić, Dean of Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, Serbia
2)Prof. Piet Naude, Dean of University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
3)Prof. Huo Baofeng, Dean of College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, China

Conference Banquet (EFMD Evening: Dinner & Cocktail Reception)
Remarks: Prof. JIANG Sixian, Chairman of University Council, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China
Remarks: Prof. Eric Cornuel, Director General, European Foundation of Management Development (EFMD)

Session B1 (Parallel): Do Business School Rankings Mirror its Impacts?

The widely recognized international rankings include those conducted by the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, The Times Higher Education World Reputation, QS World University, the Financial Times and US News . Business schools widely and increasing seek to be recognized as “world-class”. But is global competition pitting business schools against one another into a global academic arms race? Does rankings competition really promote business schools’ appropriate impact, and do the rankings themselves assess such impact? Can rankings participation distract business schools from their missions and appropriate impact? In this session, rankings professionals and other authorities will share their thoughts on this important topic.

09:00

09:05 - 09:40

09:40 - 10:15

10:15 - 10:40

Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:15

Speaker:
Mr. Alex Chisholm, Head of Business School Analytics, QS Intelligence Unit (QS)

11:15 - 11:50

Session B2 (Parallel): What is the Impact in the Vision of International Organizations in Business Education Industry?
The "Impact" is being more and more focused by business school standards of leading international accreditation systems such as AACSB, EFMD, AMBA etc. Why do those business education organizations value the business schools' impact as a significant sector of business education? How they assess the impact - on measurable outcomes? Are these methodologies effective in driving increasing relevant and powerful impact in not only academia, but in the corporate and social environments as well? This session will invite leaders from recognized organizations in business education industry to share their viewpoints.

09:00

Moderator:
Prof. Kar Yan Tam, Dean of School of Business and Management, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; President, Association of Asia-Pacific Business School (AAPBS)

09:05 - 09:30

09:30 - 09:55

09:55 - 10:20

Speaker:
Prof. Ali Elquammah, Chairman of The Association of African Business Schools (AABS)

10:20 - 10:40

Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:05

Speaker:
Mr. Michael Desiderio, Executive Director of EMBA Council (EMBAC)

11:05 - 11:30

Speaker:
Mr. Andrew Main Wilson, Chief Executive of The Association of MBAs (AMBA)

11:30 - 11:45

Session B3 (Parallel): How can business school better nurture leaders?
What makes a successful leader? The possible answers have been subject to debate for centuries, but at least one thing is certain: while students can learn a lot about leadership in business schools, the learning shouldn’t end on graduation day. Educating tomorrow’s leaders requires providing them with the ability and the inspiration to capture lifelong learning opportunities – on and off the job. Are the leadership programs currently offered at many business schools successful? To what degree can leadership be taught at all? In this session, we will invite business school deans to share their viewpoints on the topic with the conference audience.

09:00

09:05 - 09:30

09:30 - 09:55

Speaker:
Prof. Ali Dastmalchian, Dean of Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Canada

09:55 - 10:20

Speaker:
Prof. Martin Lockett, Dean, Faculty of Business, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

10:20 - 10:40

Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:05

Speaker:
Prof. Robert Kennedy, Dean of Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

11:05 - 11:30

Speaker:
Prof. Dipak Jain, President (European) of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

11:30 - 11:45