Issue 62 Winter 2011
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Issue 62 Winter 2011 An interview with cEEmAn champion Award 2011 winners revealing hidden champions in cEE, turkey, and Kazakhstan Program management seminar and imtA 2012 welcome applications content A Word from President of CEEMAN 2 An Interview with CEEMAN Champions 2011 From the cEEmAn office 7 Are We Ready for the Challenge? 9 CEEMAN Annual Meeting 12 Winners of the 17th CEEMAN Case Writing Competition 13 CEEMAN and PRME 15 Success of the International Conference “Hidden Champions in CEE and Dynamically Changing Environments” in Vienna 17 Program for the “Infantry that Wins the War” 18 Faculty Development is Vital 20 IMTA Alumni Conference and International Teaching Week 2012 21 News from Challenge:Future 22 IQA: What Is It All About? Welcome new members 25 Glasgow School for Business and Society, UK 26 Marin Barleti University, Albania news from our members 27 BSL Awards an Honorary Degree to Claude Nicollier and Sung-Joo Kim 28 Developing a Common Vision: St Petersburg State Polytechnic University and ESB Business School Reutlingen Start Joint MBA Program 29 Eurasian Higher Business School Started by the Eurasian Open Institute, Russia 30 HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany 31 IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia 33 International Academy of Business, Kazakhstan 34 MIM-Kyiv Launches National Business Platform 35 ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania 36 Doing Business in Eastern Europe: Flash-Light from kmbs 37 LvBS: Competences of Responsible Leaders in CEE 37 Moscow International Higher Business School “MIRBIS”, Russia 38 Plekhanov University Social Research Project 39 RISEBA - University that Changes the City 39 Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands 40 SBS Swiss Business School 41 Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia 42 Ural State University of Economics – Host of the Eurasian Economic Youth Forum 43 New Erasmus Mundus Project at the Warsaw School of Economics news from partner associations 44 Baltic Management Developement Association – BMDA Books 45 The Vision and the Voices of IEDC-Bled School of Management A Word from President of CEEMAN Dear Colleagues and Friends, Faculty development is the key precondition The winter issue of CEEMAN News is always an for business schools to effectively respond to opportunity to reflect on our work in the passing the new challenges. Therefore it remains as the year and think of the challenges that are in front main priority of our association. The 13th edition of us in the year to come. of CEEMAN’s major faculty development pro- gram – the International Management Teachers Last December, we expressed our convince- Academy (IMTA) is scheduled for 10-22 June 2012. ment that the depth, and above all the nature, For the first time, IMTA will have, besides discipli- of the crisis required from businesses, govern- nary tracks in Finance, Leadership, Marketing, ments, other social partners, as well as from and Strategy, also a new track on teaching busi- management development institutions, to rethink ness ethics, CSR and sustainable development. their traditional practices and search for new You are invited to consider the participation of approaches for creating value. This was one your faculty in IMTA 2012 already now. of the messages also from the 19th CEEMAN Annual Conference “Management Education PRME activities are representing a permanent in a Changing World: Are We Ready for the concern of CEEMAN, and we are preparing our Challenge?” held in Tbilisi, Georgia, where 130 contribution for the 3rd PRME Global Forum, to be participants from 32 countries had the oppor- held in June in Rio de Janeiro. tunity to enjoy the professionalism combined CEEMAN will continue also with other programs with the warmest hospitality from our hosts, the and efforts aimed at developing capabilities of Caucasus School of Business, Caucasus University well-rounded management educators who will and our friends Kakha Shengelia and his excel- be able to cope with the challenges of the future. lent team headed by Boris Lezhava. The seventh IMTA Alumni Conference, to be held The international research and the conference in April 2012 in Vilnius, offers the opportunity to on “Hidden Champions in CEE and Dynamically discuss how IMTA Alumni Association could con- Changing Environments”, held in November in tribute to all this. Vienna, Austria provided answers to some of the The eighth edition of CEEMAN’s Program questions raised in Tbilisi. They revealed that there Management Seminar that takes place on 2-4 are many innovative and high-growth compa- April 2012 in Bled will be another one of CEEMAN’s nies in dynamically changing environments that contribution to the development of operational have succeeded in becoming regional and excellence of its members and other interested global leaders in their respective industries and/ institutions. or niches. They also proved again that busi- With your support and help, CEEMAN has ness schools from the region have remarkable marked 2011 as another successful year. While research potential that is capable of producing a thanking you for your contribution, let me body of knowledge that business schools need to also express my strong belief that by working improve their overall quality and relevance. together we can achieve even more in 2012. I Business schools need to innovate and improve in warmly welcome you to the activities planned all key aspects of their performance and develop- for 2012, and wish you a most Prosperous and ment. In this respect, the high quality of nomina- Happy New Year. tions for the 2011 CEEMAN Champion Awards demonstrated remarkable results. Let me use this opportunity to congratulate the winners of the Yours, CEEMAN 2011 Champion Awards for their outstand- ing achievements in the areas of academic and practice-based research, teaching, course design/ program development, institutional management, and responsible management education. Danica Purg An Interview with CEEMAN Champions 2011 By Milenko Gudić CEEMAN’s efforts to promote and foster excellence in the areas considered as critical for the success in business education and management development continued through the second edition of the CEEMAN Champions Award. In 2011, the Awards were given for outstanding individual achievements in academic and practice-based research, teaching, institutional management, and for the first time, also in the area of responsible management education. The winners of the CEEMAN Champion Awards 2011 are: ■ Michael Netzley, Singapore Management University, Singapore (in teaching category) ■ Ruth Alas, Estonian Business School, Estonia (in academic research) ■ Sean Meehan, IMD International, Switzerland (in practice-based research) ■ Andrzej Kozminski, Kozminski University, Poland (in institutional management) ■ W Michael Hoffman, Center for Business Ethics, Bentley University, US (in responsible management education). The awards were announced at the gala dinner of the 19th CEEMAN Annual Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia on 23 September, where CEEMAN President Danica Purg congratulated the winners and delivered the Awards to those who were present (Ruth Alas and Sean Meehan). Traditionally, CEEMAN interviews represent opportunities for CEEMAN readership to learn more from those whose achievements and experiences could offer learning lessons of a broader value. CEEMAN Champions are among those from whom we get food for thought and who inspire us for continuing our own strives for excellence and outstanding achievements. For this reason, we asked the Champions to respond to the questions that were relevant for the respective 2 areas of their excellence, business education, and leadership development in general. We also wanted to understand their perspective on how these awards were perceived in their respective institutions. Milenko Gudić: Ruth, the Estonian Business School A paradigm shift is needed to move our focus emphasized in your nomination for CEEMAN from technical systems to social systems in Interview Champion Awards in Academic Research your management; more emphasis should be contribution to a better understanding, and man- laid on teaching human resource manage- aging (or preventing) the crisis and organizational ment – including diversity issues; change and change management processes in different crisis management should be guaranteed as cultural and institutional contexts. How relevant a secure and definite place in the curriculum; are your research findings for the current crisis in our teaching, the theories of individual and and change that many businesses and societies organizational learning should emphasize the at large are facing globally? differences in the factors that influence learning Ruth Alas: Changes taking place in the global and in groups with different backgrounds and demo- local landscape continuously force organizations graphic data; management by values should to change and therefore, require change manage- be more emphasized. ment. The triangular and process models, which MG: Academic research in CEE and dynamically resulted from my research, provide useful tools for changing environments is still lagging behind planning and implementing changes, as well as, management research in established econo- for preventing a crisis and for recovering from it. mies. How do you see the research potential of However, there are also some broader implications the region and what do business schools and