Publications

The third issue of the EU Business School ON Magazine deals with technology in business, looks into the life of EU Business School campus city of Geneva and how it has led the country on a path of neutrality, as well as keeps the readers informed of the latest news and events taking place across the global EU Business School network.

The 72 edition of CEEMAN News features an interview with Prof. Arshad Ahmad, Director of McMaster Institute for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (Canada); brief reports from the CEEMAN’s Hidden Champions Conference, Program Management Seminar and IMTA – International Management Teachers Academy; information about the upcoming 22nd CEEMAN Annual Conference events and speakers; as well as updates from CEEMAN member and partner institutions.

The objective of this paper was to analyse the emerging scope of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the successor development instrument to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which are scheduled to end by 2015. The top priorities of the stakeholders involved in the processes include poverty eradication, water sanitation, energy, economic growth, green growth, governance, and employment. Current trends appear to favour a progression of the shaping and negotiation process which goes beyond the established MDG goal.

The first of two books to be produced by the PRME Working Group on Poverty in cooperation with Greenleaf Publishing, Socially Responsive Organizations and The Challenge of Poverty (published in July 2014) aims to provide both researchers and practitioners with the most wide-ranging coverage yet published on how business can be a positive force in alleviating poverty and how management education needs to adapt to this increasingly crucial prerogative.

The spring 2014 issue of CEEMAN News features an interview with Madis Habakuk, the Founding President of the Estonian Business School, news from the CEEMAN office on the upcoming Hidden Champions conference in Vienna in May, the 22nd Annual Conference, as well as other CEEMAN programs, news from CEEMAN members schools and partner associations, review of the book Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey – Carving Out a Global Niche and much more

We are glad to present the latest book by Jean-Philippe Deschamps, Professor Emeritus at IMD Lausanne (Switzerland) and Beebe Nelson (Wiley/Jossey-Bass, March 2014), with a foreword by Bill George, Harvard Business School Professor, leadership author and former CEO and Board Chairman of Medtronic.

Emerging Markets ESG - Second Survey of Gender Composition of Management Boards and Supervisory Boards of Companies Listed on the Main Index of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the WIG20 - Data as of December 31, 2013

The Sustainable MBA: A Business Guide to Sustainability’ is a guide for those interested in current business practices and trends in sustainability. The book introduces sustainability as it relates to Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Finance, Marketing, HR, Operations and Strategy. Endorsed by the CEO of Unilever and directors of the UN Global Compact and PRME, the book is being used by businesses and business schools around the world. To learn more and to read a sample chapter, visit www.thesustainablemba.com.

Baltic Management Institute recently began publishing BMI Knowledge executive briefs. The texts summarise new business research from BMI‘s international network of management educators and analysis of business trends. The first three issues of BMI Knowledge address corporate alliances, young firm internationalisation and the European strategy of China‘s biggest telecommunications firm.

EU Business School recently published the second issue of their new ON magazine, which focuses on Women in Business. In addition to features on the main theme, there is also information on EU Business School news; events; alumni; interviews; and student-written material, as well as several opinion pieces from EU Business School faculty.

The 2013 PRME Summit – 5th Annual Assembly titled “New Ways of Developing Leaders for the Future We Want” was held in Bled, Slovenia, on 25-26 September, 2013 and gathered more than 300 participants from 60 countries.

The winter 2013 issue of CEEMAN News offers an interview with 2013 CEEMAN Champion Award winners, reports on 2013 PRME Summit and 21st CEEMAN Annual Conference, reports on other CEEMAN activities, introductory articles from three new members schools and news from the CEEMAN members.

The 21st CEEMAN Annual Conference titled “Business Schools as Responsible Change Agents: From Transition to Transformation” was held in Bled, Slovenia, on 26-27 September, 2013 and gathered more than 190 participants from 46 countries.

CEEMAN in cooperation with IEDC-Bled School of Management published a new book titled "Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey – Carving Out a Global Niche". The book was edited by Peter McKiernan of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and Prof. Danica Purg of CEEMAN and IEDC. It was published by Springer.

Report on CEEMAN activities from September 2012 to September 2013 and plan of upcoming events.

On the occasion of its 21st Annual Conference, held in Bled, Slovenia in 2013, CEEMAN was proud to present a book CEEMAN: 20 Years of Creating History, capturing important events and paying tribute to people and institutions that have made this organization what it is today.

Palgrave Macmillan has published The Passion and Discipline of Strategy, a new book by Prof. Krzysztof Obloj, Professor of Strategic Management of the School of Management at Warsaw University and Kozminski University of Poland. Prof Krzystztof Obloj, who has been IMTA faculty for Strategic Management Track since 2002, serves also as an advisor to the President of Poland.

The autumn 2013 issue of CEEMAN News offers an interview with Danica Purg, President of CEEMAN and IEDC-Bled School of Management, where she talks about challenges of management education, CEEMAN development in past 20 years and the impact of CEEMAN, other associations and PRME initiative on responsible management education and sustainable development.

In preparation for the its 2013 Annual Conference, “Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship”, which was held in Tunisia in June, the Global Business School Network produced a research paper to provide context for a conversation about the global employment situation. The paper, titled “Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship: A Snapshot of the Global Jobs Challenge,” provides an overview of current research on jobs in developing countries, with special attention given to youth and women. The paper explores the relationship between education and employment, and the role that entrepreneurship plays in increasing jobs and decreasing unemployment overall. It highlights the importance of using technology to improve access to quality education and calls for cooperation between business schools, government representatives, NGOs, entrepreneurs and business professionals from around the globe.

The summer 2013 issue of CEEMAN News offers an interview with Nick Binedell, the dean of Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. We spoke with Nick on the new ways for developing leaders for the future we want, including on the related inspiration, innovation, implementation and impact, which all are at the core of the general theme of the 2013 PRME Summit. Besides this he expressed his thoughts on the role of business schools as responsible change agents in dynamic societies.