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UNICON-Sponsored Research: Partnering Effectively With Intermediaries In The Executive Education Market – Tom Ryan

UNICON-Sponsored Research: Partnering Effectively With Intermediaries In The Executive Education Market – Tom Ryan

UNICON sponsored this research initiative that was conducted by Tom Ryan, as part of a series addressing the topic of business model innovation in non-degree executive education. We aim to investigate ways in which university-based

UNICON News
UNICON Board Presents Awards For 2022

UNICON Board Presents Awards For 2022

Several awards were presented at the gala dinner on Wednesday evening, November 30 as the UNICON board showed its deep appreciation for schools hosting recent conferences. Hosting Awards were presented to Cornell University, host of

UNICON News
emlyon business school Joins the UNICON Consortium

emlyon business school Joins the UNICON Consortium

At the November  UNICON board meeting in Vancouver, the UNICON board approved Associate membership for emlyon business school. Founded in 1872 by the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Lyon, France, emlyon business school has

Conference Highlights
Ten Pieces of Motivation and Inspiration From The UNICON Team Development Conference

Ten Pieces of Motivation and Inspiration From The UNICON Team Development Conference

Motivation and Inspiration from UNICON’s Team Development Conference 2022 – from IEDP Many of us were privileged to gather in person for this year’s UNICON Team Development Conference in Vancouver, hosted brilliantly by the team

Event News
UNICON Coffee Break Groups Still Going Strong

UNICON Coffee Break Groups Still Going Strong

Consider joining a quarterly conference call with peers from other schools with similar job responsibilities UNICON “coffee breaks” bring people together to discuss shared challenges, strategies and solutions.  And, it's a great way to network! UNICON facilitates these

Thought Leadership
Leadership Academy Completes Important Segment

Leadership Academy Completes Important Segment

  Before the Team Development Conference in Vancouver, the seventh cohort of the Leadership Academy attended an all-day session on "Creating a Value Proposition and a Business Model." The session was led by Mónica Sacristán

Thought Leadership
Leadership Academy Participants Discuss Technology Trends in Executive Education

Leadership Academy Participants Discuss Technology Trends in Executive Education

Last week, the 24 participants in the UNICON Leadership Academy 2022-23 class spent time discussing the ever-changing landscape of the executive education ecosystem. Part of the discussion centered on global and marketplace trends that we

Research
AUC: The Corporate Learning and Development Landscape in Egypt

AUC: The Corporate Learning and Development Landscape in Egypt

AUC School of Business Executive Education October 18, 2022 By Nada Medhat "Insights from relevant UNICON reports are incorporated for comparison with global trends. AUC School of Business Dean Sherif Kamel explained how this report

Thought Leadership
Welcome to the Future

Welcome to the Future

There are widely varying opinions on the changing landscape of higher education, but many point to opportunity for executive education providers who are ready. Forbes Glenn Llopis, Contributor September 14, 2022 Also available for listening

Thought Leadership
How the Covid Pandemic Might Have Lasting Effects on Executive Education

How the Covid Pandemic Might Have Lasting Effects on Executive Education

The pandemic is known to have changed most organizations in some way, often in quite significant ways. Higher Education is no exception. But which of those changes are of the permanent variety, which are temporary,

Thought Leadership
Financial Times Relaunches “Business School Insider” Newsletter

Financial Times Relaunches “Business School Insider” Newsletter

Touting "Campus news, management research and business education trends," the British daily newspaper Financial Times relaunched the newsletter "Business School Insider" in September. "Designed for and about those involved in business education," the weekly communication

Research
UNICON Releases Two Research Reports

UNICON Releases Two Research Reports

In June UNICON, AACSB and IEDP released a powerful study of the impact of lifelong learning on our industry entitled, “Lifelong Learning and University-based Business Schools.” You can access the executive summary here. This study was the first of