09:45
Walk from hotel to school
10:00 – 14:00
Registration
10:15 – 11:00
Optional Pre-Conference Session
- Sangeet Chowfla, President & Chief Executive Officer, GMAC® – Graduate Management Admission Council®, US
11:00 – 12:30
Optional Pre-Conference Session
The EFMD Quality Services Team will report during this optional plenary session on the current status and the latest developments of EFMD accreditations. Through this session, Deans and Directors will also learn about the future objectives of the EFMD accreditations.
It should be noted that this is not a standard accreditation seminar; explanations on Standards & Criteria or Processes are NOT the main objective of this session.
- Alfons Sauquet, Director, Quality Services & EQUIS, EFMD
- David Asch, Senior Advisor, EQUIS, EFMD
- Bob Galliers, Senior Advisor, EQUIS & EPAS, EFMD
- Susan Hart, Associate Director, EQUIS, EFMD
- Piet Naudé, Director, EDAF, EFMD
- Michael Osbaldeston, Senior Advisor, EQUIS & EDAF, EFMD
- Keith Pond, Director, EOCCS, EFMD
- Martin Schader, Senior Advisor, EQUIS, EFMD
- Barbara Sporn, Director EPAS, EFMD
- Jens Peter Tøndel, Senior Advisor, EPAS, EFMD
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:15
Welcome Address
- Representative IE Business School, ES
- Eric Cornuel, President, EFMD & EFMD Global Network
14:15 – 15:15
EFMD Updates – Special 50th Anniversary
- Eric Cornuel, President, EFMD & EFMD Global Network
15:15 – 15:30
Setting the Scene
- Chairperson: Martin Boehm, Dean, IE Business School, ES
15:30 – 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 – 17:45
Plenary Panel I – Diversity
Aim: identifying dilemmas linked to diversity in institutions and discuss different ways of dealing with them. For business schools the diversity challenges lie in gender balance, students nationality faculty, governance, internationalisation, multi-languages, scope of the institution, amongst others. How can schools best deal with them?
17:45 – 18:30
Walk to Eurostar hotel
18:30 – 21:00
Drinks & dinner at Eurostar hotel
08:45
Walk from Eurostar hotel to school
09:00 – 10:30
Plenary Panel II – Several Models of Talent Development and Retention
Aim: What can business schools learn from a very successful company in terms of talent development and retention? On the other hand, how do business schools deal with talent and retention? What is their understanding, how do they attract talent, develop and retain it?
10:30 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30
Breakout series A – Internal Management Issues
A1 — Balancing in Pursuit of Excellence – Research
Aim: how to promote research excellence, to build a strong research culture and to find the right model for your school.
- Moderated by Nils Stieglitz, President and CEO, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, DE
A2 — Balancing in Pursuit of Excellence – Teaching
Aim: how to promote teaching excellence in executive education or for undergraduate education whether you have 5 000 or 20 000 students? What is the current context of teaching?
- Moderated by Martin Boehm, Dean, IE Business School, ES
A3 — Balancing in Pursuit of Excellence – Pay, Compensation & Retention
Aim: challenges, constraints and solutions business schools are facing when it comes to academic freedom, mobility, compensation and retention.
- Moderated by Winfried Ruigrok, Dean, Executive School of Management, Technology and Law, University of St. Gallen, CH
A4 — Balancing in Pursuit of Excellence – Executive Education
Aim: how can you create connections between executive education and the rest of your activities? How can you make sure your faculty teach on both sides and that you connect your executive education contacts to the rest of the institution?
- Moderated by Tereza Martinez, Head of Executive Education, IE Business School, ES
A5 — Balancing in Pursuit of Excellence – Digitalisation
Aim: understanding internal challenges of digitalisation.
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:15
Workshops series B – Relationship with Different Stakeholders
B1 — Entrepreneurship
Aim: best practices in entrepreneurship.
- Moderated by Gunther Friedl, Dean, TUM School of Management, DE
B2 — Alumni
Aim: best practices in alumni relationships and activities.
B3 — Societal Impact
Aim: best practices of schools which stand out when it comes to their impact towards society.
- Moderated by Piet Naudé, Director EDAF, EFMD and Director, University of Stellenbosch Business School, ZA
B4 — Fundraising
Aim: best practices in the field and explanation of what is linked to receiving some large donations.
15:15 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30
Plenary III – Design of Space
Aim: what is the impact of the design of a classroom on teaching and the new way of learning? What are some of the existing tensions when it comes to a design idea versus an academic reality? Are schools sufficiently eloquent to formulate ideas or needs? Are architects client friendly?
17:30 – 17:45
Conclusion session
- Chairperson: Martin Boehm, Dean, IE Business School, ES
17:45 – 18:00
Presentation of next year’s venue
18:00
Walk to conference hotel Eurostar
19:00
Bus from Eurostar hotel to dinner venue
19:30 – 22:00
Dinner at Palacio Neptuno — Calle de Cervantes, 42, 28014, Madrid
22:00
Bus back to Eurostar hotel
