Prof. Jikyeong Kang, PhD assumed office as the eighth Dean of AIM on January 2015.
Prior to joining AIM, Prof. Kang spent fourteen and a half years with Manchester Business School (MBS) where she recently served as Director of the DBA Program. Prior to MBS, she spent nine years on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was elected as a member of the Teaching Academy.
For the challenge teams of 3 to 8 MBA students (alumni are also eligible) with representation in the Americas, Europe and Asia or Africa compete to present the best solution for the Financial Times’ charity partner.
Global Network Schools are invited to Livestream the keynote speeches by Dr. Zia Kahn of the Rockefeller Foundation and Michael D. Smith, Special Assistant to President Obama to be delivered at the 2015 Yale Philanthropy Conference on Friday, February 13.
Many companies use crowdsourcing in search of new ideas. But in a video interview for ESMT’s Knowledge series, Professor Linus Dahlander says that organizations seeking crowdsourced ideas end up sticking with the most familiar ones.
Former treasury secretary Timothy F. Geithner will judge the competition, which asks students to create videos exploring causes and management of global financial crises.
Three Global Network courses will be available to students this semester, including two new offerings from EGADE Business School and the London School of Economics.
The course, “International Management and Organizational Structures,” will analyze the role of strategic decision making in the global expansion process of businesses.
The holiday season is a time for joy and family and a staggering amount of shopping. In a video interview from UCD Smurfit’s Faculty Insights series, Professor Damien McLoughlin says that marketers make those sales by taking advantage of our holiday impulses, including the drive to be cheerful.
Europe is still struggling to emerge from the financial crisis. Though recent stress tests by the European Central Bank gave passing grades to 90% of the region’s banks, critics question the transparency and rigor of the tests. Professor Sascha Steffen of ESMT European School of Management and Technology talks about the state of the banking system and the challenges of designing and implementing a single system to oversee banks across the Eurozone.
In a blog post, Dayo Olopade explores the strengths of the event, which connected three Global Network schools to solve a business problem impacting a Zambia-based company.
