The Innovative Business School: Mentoring Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Global Challenges

The Innovative Business School formulates a blueprint for the innovative business school of the next decade, with proposed areas of innovation which will train executives to transform the coming technological disruptions into an avenue for world economic development and prosperity.

Offering a new model of business education, the book maps the way forward for business school innovators in exploring questions related to innovation and strategy needed on the part of academic and industry leaders and educators across demographic divides. The chapters cover an overall international and cross-cultural approach in examining the factors at play for business schools of the future and the challenges they face across a range of megatrends affecting today’s business environment. The authors impress the need for stakeholders to strategically engage others in the business and education ecosystems through commitment to experimentation, innovation, and sustainable business strategy. Identifying such opportunities for development of a new model for business schools is important to educators and policymakers in preparing to leverage and contribute to existing megatrends to create shared value for regional economies and in new directions.

The Innovative Business School is written for business schools’ management and decision-makers, related stakeholders, universities, accreditation agencies, and postgraduate students.

Daphne Halkias, PhD, is a Professor of Management at the International School of Management Paris, a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School, a Research Affiliate at Cornell University and is Editor of the International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies.

Michael Neubert, PhD, is a Professor at the International School of Management in Paris, France, where he obtained his PhD and is now also Chair of the Strategic Management Committee. Michael is also a Visiting Professor at Universidad Paraguayo Alemana in San Lorenzo, Paraguay.

Paul W. Thurman, DBA, a Columbia MBA valedictorian, service award winner, and multiple teaching award recipient, has extensive experience helping a variety of governments and corporations realise value from innovative leadership, operations, and technology strategies. Prof. Thurman teaches strategic management and data analysis at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Chris Adendorff, PhD, is a Futurist Professor at the Nelson Mandela University Business School, International School of Management (France), Ecole des Ponts Business School (France), the University of Johannesburg as well as Trinity University (USA), and is MD of various entrepreneurial ventures in South Africa, Greece, and England.

Sameh Abadir, PhD, is a Professor of Leadership and Negotiation at IMD and co-director of IMD’s Negotiating for Value Creation program (NVC). He teaches in IMD’s signature program Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP).