2024 Symposium and Conference Example Sessions
October 16-18, 2024
Questrom School of Business, Boston University
The Power of Business for Good in an Uncertain World:
The Role of Graduate Business Education
Examples of potential session topics (These are only suggestions and we welcome receiving a variety of session submissions):
- How can business schools empower future business leaders to navigate increasing risk and uncertainty?
- How can our graduate curricula support students’ and society’s understanding of the role that business can and should play in advancing solutions to real-world problems?
- How can we help students better understand the role that relationships among business, non-profits, and government play in addressing increasing risk and uncertainty? Can action learning be used to facilitate an understanding of how these entities can work together more effectively?
- How do we encourage open dialogue about important issues in the classroom and through extra-curricular activities? How do we contribute to the development of an open and curious mindset among our students?
- How can MBA programs broach these topics and effect meaningful change when confronting increasing risk and uncertainty themselves?
- There seems to be a segment of potential business students who are “turned off” by the term “business”. How can we reframe a business education so that more potential applicants see the value of business in advancing societal goals?
- How do we make business education more accessible to a broader audience via changes in delivery and format?
- Developing Leadership for the modern organization
- Business schools role in maintaining democracy
- Program performance assessment and measurement
- Relationships and partnerships – Corporate and Alumni
- Developing your team/Professional development
- Do the jobs the students want really exist? How are you connecting the students desires for careers with the market’s needs.
- How do you prepare students to manage and lead in a world of rapid change?
- How to successfully enact change in your programs?
- How to position international students for success?
- Building community in part-time and online programs?
- What is the value proposition of GME today? In the future?
- Creating inclusive learning experiences?
- DEI - where do we go in this politicized environment?
- Business as a bridge – helping to create community in this divided environment
- Developing leadership and communication skills for our students
- Are business schools living up to their missions?
- Best practices in interdisciplinary curriculum and programs.
- Using technology effectively across program delivery modalities
- Improving student engagement
- AI?! Its everywhere!!
- Business Schools at the intersection of the person and society
