One of the great things about the business school association, AACSB, is they sponsor terrific seminars throughout the year. This week they presented a 2-day co-lab on connecting business with practice. Topics included recruitment, retention, making collaboration work, social and business value, research collaborations, partnerships that impact learning, and creating an innovation platform.
The conference took an in-depth look at relationships and challenges to answer questions like: How do we leverage the academic strength of business schools to partner with practice to create new and relevant knowledge? Where can business schools and business collaborate more in the development and delivery of educational programs? How can business and business schools work together to drive social impact?
The conference took an in-depth look at relationships and challenges of attendees to answer questions like: How do we leverage the academic strength of business schools to partner with practice to create new and relevant knowledge? Where can business schools and business collaborate more in the development and delivery of educational programs? How can business and business schools work together to drive social impact?
In response to an increasing need for collaboration, AACSB created the event for educators and practitioners to explore leading-edge partnerships and mutually beneficial business models in order to propel the business education industry to serve business in better ways. The industry partners involved in developing this year’s program were: Booz Allen Hamilton, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), The Coca-Cola Company, and General Motors (GM).
Dr. Susan Grant of Boston University outlined a collaborative STEM graduate program, a leading-edge 1-year master’s to help connect academia to industry. Teams work on client challenges in work settings 9-5, 5 days a week. No grades, no GPA, but coaching sometimes 1-on-1 with faculty instead. BU has been attracted many overseas applicants to the program whose tuition can be pricey.
One trend in academia mentioned by your editor is the use of entrepreneurial mindset thinking in liberal arts and community colleges to expand the creativity and innovative process of students. Entrepreneurship students are exposed to teamwork, innovation, and presentation as well as business in general to broaden their specialized skills.
Dr. Susan Grant of Boston University outlined a collaborative STEM graduate program, a leading-edge 1-year master’s to help connect academia to industry. Teams work on client challenges in work settings 9-5, 5 days a week. No grades, no GPA, but coaching sometimes 1-on-1 with faculty instead. BU has been attracted many overseas applicants to the program whose tuition can be pricey.