1st Edition
Women In, and Beyond, Business Schools
Introduction | Women In, and Beyond, Business Schools: An Editorial Overview
Nicola Kleyn
Gender and Gender Equality in Business Schools
EFMD’s View of Critical Issues of Gender Equality and Diversity in Business Schools
Eric Cornuel, Matthew Wood & Howard Thomas
Promoting Gender Equity in Business Schools and Corporate Leadership: A Latin American Perspective
Gabriela Alvarado
Addressing Gender Equality in Economics as a Discipline in a UK Business School
Emma Jeanes & Rajani Naidoo
Holding Up a Mirror to Gender and Race in UK Business Schools
Fiona Wilson, Susan Vinnicombe & Lina Seidlitz
Bridging the Gender Gap in Business Schools: Communication and Engagement that Matters to Women
Joy Jones
Toward Sustainable Gender Equity and Inclusion Culture in European Business Schools
Mike Page & Hanneke Takkenberg
A Focus on Gender Issues in Business Schools and Universities
Wanted: Courageous Business Schools to Challenge Patriarchy
Sharon Mavin & Gina Grandy
Embracing Equality and the ‘Rounded Academic’: Reflections from the Dean of a Public Value Business School
Rachel Ashworth
Leveraging Business School Research Chairs Towards Women’s Workplace Equality
Anita Bosch
Leading on Good and Bad Days: Experiences of Women Business School Deans
Caren Scheepers, Heather Cairns-Lee & Nicola Kleyn
Women Leaders in Business Schools Transitioning to Senior Roles in Universities
Enase Okonedo
Finding Purpose in Higher Education: Insights from the Distinctive Career of Professor Rajani Naidoo
Howard Thomas
A Journey into Higher Education Leadership and EDIR Allyship
Nic Beech
Impact Beyond Business Schools and Universities via the Ecosystem: Business, Government, Corporate Boards, Professional and Scholarly Community Leadership
Managed Serendipity: A Pracademic’s Path to Dean
Heather McLaughlin
A Relational Approach to Impact: Reflections from a Lifetime ‘In the Field’
Laura Empson
Celebrating Professor Rita McGrath: Winner of the CK Prahalad Outstanding Scholar / Practitioner Award, Strategic Management Society, US 2022: A Conversation with Howard Thomas
Rita Gunther McGrath & Howard Thomas
AUC School of Business Journey to Empower Women in Society Case of Egypt Women-on-Boards Observatory
Sherif Kamel
Making an Impact While ‘Muddling Through’: Conversations with Anne Tsui
Howard Thomas & Anne S. Tsui
Biography
Eric Cornuel has been President of EFMD Global since 2000. An alumnus of Sciences Po Paris and HEC Paris, he earned his PhD from Paris Dauphine University. His influence extends to co-founding and governing various international organisations, such as PRME, CEIBS, GRLI, HigherEd, and ITP. Eric holds fellowships at esteemed institutes and has been honoured with Doctorate Honoris Causas from Koźmiński University and ESCP Business School.
Nicola Kleyn is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in South Africa. Formerly she was Dean of GIBS and Dean of Executive Education at Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands. Nicola’s teaching and research are focused on corporate branding, reputation, and latterly, the theme of academic leadership.
Howard Thomas is an Emeritus Professor of Strategy at Singapore Management University (SMU) and former dean at leading business schools including SMU, Warwick Business School (UK) and the College of Business at UIUC (Illinois, USA). He is currently a special advisor to the CEO of EFMD.
Matthew Wood is the editor of Global Focus, an international business magazine and the flagship publication of EFMD. Prior to his various roles at EFMD, he was a project manager with the UK-based charity Operation Raleigh (in Namibia) and he has also held management positions in advertising (with the Omnicom Group) and in the service industry.
