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The annual international HR forum, titled “The Changing Society: Implications for the HR Function”, was held at IEDC-Bled School of Management this October. Eighty participants and eminent speakers from 16 countries gathered at the event to discuss the human resource challenges of today’s changing business environment with a focus on one of the most crucial challenges: negative demographic trends.

With the meeting of Hidden Champions research partners in Bled successfully concluded, October continues to be a key month for the Hidden Champions projects CEEMAN is involved in. Today, the symposium “Hidden Champions in the Connected World” is opening at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

Learning with cases can be a challenging experience for students. The Case Centre's interactive study guide will take your students through the process, providing practical tips, tricks and tools.

This year’s EdTech seminar, hosted by CEEMAN at the IEDC-Bled School of Management during October 15-18, took more than a dozen professors, program directors and administrators from Europe, Russia, and the United States on a dizzying exploration of graduate management education in the throes of disruption and change. This is a place where micro-masters replace traditional two-year MBA programs, where gamification supplants conventional lectures and tests, and terms like “virality, badges, block chain, uplinking, digital learning, playability, chunking, and grinding” are the nomenclature of the day.

We are happy to announce that a new corporate member is joining us this month – Generali CEE Holding

Last week, more than 150 representatives of higher education institutions, businesses and other organizations participated in the 26th CEEMAN Annual Conference at the Vienna House Diplomat in Prague, Czech Republic.

CEEMAN is proud to announce the winners of the 2018 CEEMAN Champion Awards. Launched in 2010, the annual CEEMAN Champions Awards recognize and promote outstanding achievements of faculty, management, and staff from CEEMAN member institutions in the categories of teaching, research, institutional management, and responsible management education.

CEEMAN and Emerald Group Publishing are proud to announce the winners of the 24th annual Case Writing Competition. After careful deliberation, the panel of three judges, professors Vladimir Nanut, MIB School of Management, Italy; Al Rosenbloom, Dominican University, USA; and Leif Sjoblom, IMD, Switzerland, has selected the following winners:

CEEMAN has been working with several partners on the Lead4Skills research project on management development needs and is now proud to present the project outcomes!

The world in which real managers live is becoming increasingly complex and challenging as technological change accelerates, digitalization and globalization upend one market after another, and responsibilities "beyond the bottom line" multiply. However, even though rumblings of dissatisfaction with management education and research have been occurring for the last 20 or so years, the majority of management development institutions, influenced by various external and internal forces, still have not been able to shift their focus from scientific research to impactful teaching, from disciplinary approach in their curriculum to holistic and cross-disciplinary program design, or from academic peer recognition to stronger bridge building to the business community. A consensus seems to be emerging around the world that a change of course in management development is long overdue and increasingly imperative.