09:00 – 09:30
Welcome & introduction by the Chair
09:30 -10:15
Opening plenary: The MBA at a crossroads
How can MBA programmes maintain value for their stakeholders in a changing world?
- Nick van Dam, Director, IE University Center for Corporate Learning & Talent Management, Professor at Nyenrode, Faculty at Harvard and UPenn and Senior Advisor and Faculty, McKinsey & Company
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30
Leveraging your ecosystem
This panel will showcase how MBA programmes can differentiate themselves by drawing on and responding to the unique characteristics of their own ecosystems.
- Veroniek Collewaert, Director, Centre for Excellence in Scale-Ups, Vlerick Business School, BE
- Chahndra Dal Pont, Director, MBA & EMBA programs, GEM Alpine Business School, FR
- Silvia McCallister-Castillo , Senior Assistant Dean, Graduate Admissions, Fordham University, US
- Leon Gazet Du Chattelier, Chief People Officer, Milpark Education, ZA
11:30 – 12:30
Working groups
Drawing on insights from the previous sessions, participants will exchange experiences and discuss the challenges they face in their own contexts.
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45
To Know What Works in Education, Build Institutions That Learn
In times of rapid change and increasing complexity in educational systems, the key challenge for educational policy and practice is not simply designing new initiatives, but building systems that implement them successfully and continuously learn what works in the process. Drawing on the experience of Education Lab NL, this keynote explores how evidence, research-practice partnerships and implementation science can help create robust infrastructures for innovation and decision-making. It reflects on what such learning systems might imply for educational institutions—and for business schools as learning organisations themselves.
- Tijana Breuer, Founder, Education Lab Netherlands, NL
14:45 – 15:15
Coffee break
15:15 – 16:30
Breakout sessions
Breakout 1:
Reimagining the MBA: Design principles for MBA programmes committed to improving the state of the world
Based on research on leading impact-oriented MBA programs, we propose a practical, design-science–informed framework for structuring MBA programs as intentional identity-development spaces that guide students from self-exploration toward purpose-driven leadership committed to improving the state of the world.
- Aleksandra Wrobel, Researcher, Rotterdam School of Management, NL
Breakout 2: How to cope with leaner budgets
Explore practical examples of how institutions can maintain quality with limited resources and continue to stand out in an increasingly competitive landscape in this interactive session.
- Christine Menges, Chancellor, Munich Business School GmbH, DE
- Luís Marques, Professor Auxiliar Convidado, Católica Porto Business School, PT
Moderated by Toyin Aderiye, Associate Head: Operations & Quality/ Online programs, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University , UK
16:30 – 17:15
Leadership lessons from nature
- Barney Jordaan, Professor, Trainer, Mediator, Negotiation & Conflict Coach, Author, BE
19:00 Dinner
