West Virginia University is enhancing its Executive MBA program with a new online version. The first cohort will enter the program in August 2010. As part of our business school innovation series, Karl von Gunten interviewed Gary Insch, Director of Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Management, and Elizabeth Vitullo, Associate Director of Executive MBA Programs at West Virginia University.
Tags: Executive MBA, Karl von Gunten, innovation
Starting in 2010, Percept Research is offering a new value-add deliverable to participating programs in the firm's MBA Student Exit Study called the Alumni Engagement Interest Summary. Within the Student Exit survey, graduating students are asked if they have interest in future participation with the MBA program as alumni in a range of areas such as a guest speaker, mentorship, offering internship, assist with information sessions, etc.
Tags: Brian Mahoney, MBA Student Exit Survey, Alumni Engagement
San Francisco State University is expanding its MBA portfolio with a new accelerated Executive Master of Business Administration program with a sustainable business emphasis. The first cohort will enter the program in January 2011. As part of our business school innovation series, Karl von Gunten interviewed Aaron Anderson, Director of the new Sustainable EMBA program.
Tags: Executive MBA, Karl von Gunten, innovation
This time of the year, there is excitement in the air! This is especially true for those experienced managers who are ending the first year of their Executive Masters of Business Administration (EMBA) program or have just received their degrees. Some have worked in their fields for many years and desire to add to their credentials.
Tags: EMBAC, MBA Student Exit Survey, Executive MBA, innovation
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Evidence-based management (EBM) is a commitment to improve outcomes by using the current, best data to make management decisions. Management educators typically make limited use of the vast behavioral science evidence applicable to effective management practice. Often, business schools know what the best practices are, or have a very strong belief about what is needed to make their institution as effective as possible, but they do not have effective tools test their assumptions in order to effectively turn that knowledge into action.
In many cases, common management "wisdom" is not wise at all but, instead, flawed knowledge based on biases and ideologies that are actually poor, incomplete, or obsolete. More seriously, managers may use this unreliable knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health. Business schools can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidence-based management, an approach to decision-making and action that is driven by hard facts rather than half-truths or assumptions.
Tags: Brian Mahoney, Analysis/Reporting
