Leadership roundtable: The future of business education

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast

Leadership roundtable: The future of business education

Summary

To mark the opening of Nottingham Business School’s new Postgraduate and Executive Education Centre, three experts come together to discuss the future of business education.

They are, the President of the European Foundation for Management Development Professor Eric Cornuel, the Chief Executive of the Chartered Association of Business Schools Flora Hamilton, and the Dean of Nottingham Business School Professor Baback Yazdani.

In a candid discussion hosted by Honorary Visiting Professor Mike Sassi, they talk about impactful research, challenging technologies and why business schools will only be truly successful if they embrace a higher purpose.

They also agree that business schools should be proud to generate the revenues that underpin other university departments.

Introduction

• Professor Eric Cornuel has been President of the prestigious European Foundation for Management Development for more than 15 years.

• During a career spanning more than three decades, Eric has helped establish world-class standards of management education and research in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

• His work has set new benchmarks for the impact of management teaching on business practice across the globe.

• Eric has held leadership positions at management schools in Europe and Asia, including HEC Paris and the Catholic University of Louvain.

• He is a fellow of numerous universities – and sits on the boards of several international business organisations.

• In recognition of his outstanding contribution to higher education, Eric has been awarded France’s highest honour, the Légion d’honneur.

• Flora Hamilton is Chief Executive of the Chartered Association of Business Schools.

• The chartered association is an organisation that promotes the UK business schools that offer the most effective support for small business.

• Flora became CEO last year, having previously spent ten years as Director and Head of Financial Services at the CBI.

• Professor Baback Yazdani has been Dean of the Nottingham Business School for 17 years.

• NBS is now the fourth biggest business school in Britain and a global exemplar for the sustainability of its research and education.

• It is also among the one per cent of business schools across the world, recognised by all three international accreditation bodies, EQUIS, the AACSB and the AMBA.

• NBS is a global leader in experiential learning and personalisation of education.

• NBS is also acknowledged as a major innovator in the delivery of its programmes and in its connectivity to business.

Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast

Leadership roundtable: What is the future of business education?

Episode 45

Summary

To mark the opening of Nottingham Business School’s new Postgraduate and Executive Education Centre, three experts come together to discuss the future of business education.

They are, the President of the European Foundation for Management Development Professor Eric Cornuel, the Chief Executive of the Chartered Association of Business Schools Flora Hamilton, and the Dean of Nottingham Business School Professor Baback Yazdani.

In a candid discussion hosted by Honorary Visiting Professor Mike Sassi, they talk about impactful research, challenging technologies and why business schools will only be truly successful if they embrace a higher purpose.

They also agree that business schools should be proud to generate the revenues that underpin other university departmen