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Video of Brussels' panel on the importance for EU of Management, Santiago Iñiguez, Alexander von Gabain, Adrian Wooldridge

Management Skills for Growth: EFMD EU Affairs Call to Action

Adrian Wooldridge (Management Editor, The Economist), Alexander von Gabain (Chair of the European Institute for Innovation and Technology - EIT  and Santiago Iniguez (President of IE Business School and President of IE University) gave opening statements at the EFMD April Roundtable: Management Skills for Growth. A full report on the roundtable is available here and video highlights are below. Readers are also invited to comment on the EFMD Call To Action “Management Capacity: The Missing Link to set up value creation and innovation in Europe” by mid June 2012.

Three key suggestions concluded from this roundtable are:

• Re-inventing the EU innovation model: The current European innovation strategy design tends to be based on a stable evolutionary model. This approach needs to be changed. The idea of supporting the creation of high-growth companies in Europe is highlighted as an important element. It is also suggested to re-prioritise policy objectives, to avoid trying to achieve everything at the sametime. Too many equivalent priorities lead to no priorities.
  
  
• Developing skills for future leaders: There is a call to develop humanistic managers who are not only expert in management techniques, but also have the capacity to understand and deal with cross-disciplinary and inter-cultural issues.
  
  
• Entrepreneurship: The possibility to exploit knowledge and capital from all entrepreneurs needs to be further addressed. Entrepreneurial mid-sets are required in all types of organisations, small and large, pubic and private.

The Call to Action addresses key issues such as the inclusions of management education in scientific and engineering studies, supporting entrepreneurial mind-sets and values from school-level onwards, and providing community research funding for important fields such as design thinking, open innovation and organisational sociology. This paper is to be used as the essential basis for EFMD EU Affairs’ interactions with the EU policy makers as well as relevant consultation and networking activities in the coming future. You are invited to comment on the EFMD Call to Action, please send your comments and feedback to: jocelyne.wang@efmd.org

Martine Plompen, Associate Director, Research & Surveys Unit, EFMD
Jocelyne Wang, Manager, EU Affairs Unit, EFMD

IE Business School and Brown University Announce IE Brown Executive MBA

Brown University (on Wikipedia) was named by the 2010 Princeton Review as the #1 College in America for Happiest Students.

www.iebrown.com/executive-mba

Brown University Press release March, 2011

IE Business School and Brown University announce the launch of the IE Brown Executive M.B.A. Program, a one-of-a-kind offering that integrates the innovative approach to management education at IE Business School with Brown University’s excellence in the humanities, social, biological, and physical sciences. The program is designed for senior managers with more than 10 years of experience who want to develop their entrepreneurial mindset and gain a deeper and much richer understanding of the global business environment...

The art of management - Business has much to learn from the arts

February 17th 2011, The Economist

...If businesspeople should take art more seriously, artists too should take business more seriously. Commerce is a central part of the human experience. More prosaically, it is what billions of people do all day. As such, it deserves a more subtle examination on the page and the screen than it currently receives.

Dean Santiago Iñiguez of IE Business School - BusinessWeek - Business School Rx: Humanities

Business Week, February 14, 2011

The dean of IE Business School says the study of humanities—critical thinking, foreign cultures, even modern art—helps create better managers.

We live in a brave new world where business schools face the challenge of preparing not just good financial engineers or accomplished management technicians, but also global citizens. Thus education delivered at business schools can and should be a personal transformation process. And this implies a constant state of learning...

Brown, IE unveil joint M.B.A. program

Brown, IE unveil joint M.B.A. program, March 2, 2010

PROVIDENCE – Brown University (Ivy League, founded in 1764) will team with Instituto de Empresa, an elite European business school, to launch an executive MBA program aimed at experienced business people in the spring of 2011...