Business Impact Magazine Volume 31

BGA DIGEST NEWS

Business briefing

Fostering future-proof AI proficiency in students, boosting academic engagement using psychological capital and how childhood anxiety can spur a quest for status all feature in this round-up of news and research from BGA schools.

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Of the beaten path: Preparing students for career complexity

The singular track to success is increasingly giving way to portfolio work, multi-role progression and lifelong reinvention, changing what students need from business school. That means redesigning the model around which programmes and services have been built for one that better connects degree education, alumni engagement, executive education and career support, writes Henrik Totterman.

AMBA & BGA RESEARCH

Data Points

There’s clear room for improvement in schools’ ability to align messaging with the digital communication preferences of today’s students, as part of efforts to contact and connect with them effectively.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Licence to reskill

As the demands of leadership continue to evolve, ITESO’s Fernando Ortiz Cueva and Carlos Reynoso Núñez make the case for reskilling management development to match the modern context of continuous learning, hybrid workplaces, diversity and AI proliferation.

STUDENT SURVEYS

In search of satisfaction

Schools need to stop treating feedback as just another dashboard metric. True insight requires moving beyond data points to embrace open dialogue around the nuanced, lived experiences of their cohorts; the University of Bath School of Management’s Soheil Davari elaborates.

SUSTAINABILITY

Putting down roots

More than 170 community initiatives have been carried out by master’s and MBA students at Mannheim Business School through a long-established action learning component known as the Social Class Project. Here, Bettina Meltzer delves into the details of a recent project focused on supporting a tree-planting programme in the German state of Baden-Württemberg’s second-largest city.

SOCIAL IMPACT

Moving the needle on global mobility

At Centrum PUCP in Peru, a new international summer exchange programme is seeking to bring the format into modern times, through its focus on generating lasting solutions for societal challenges and local communities. The programme’s creator, Fernanda Falcone Pino, provides the details.

SPONSORED CONTENT

Producing AI-fluent graduates

BoodleBox founder and CEO France Hoang outlines the importance of “AI fluency” and explains why multi-model AI, faculty trust and equitable access can reshape how business schools prepare tomorrow’s leaders