21729: Measuring, Managing and Improving the Impact of Business Schools

Monday, July 28, 2025

08:30 - 10:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C1-m5

Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Teaching,Practice
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/bRavWB

Organizer(s)

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Michael J. Mol

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Panelist(s)

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Andrew Jack

Financial Times, United Kingdom
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Susan Christoffersen

Rotman School of Management
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Søren Hvidkjær

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Speaker(s)

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Felipe Monteiro

INSEAD, France

This panel aims to discuss how we can measure, manage and improve the impact of business schools. There have been many criticisms of business schools and the education they offer, some focusing on a lack of real-world impact and others on negative externalities of business school training. At the same time business schools have attempted to improve their impact. With the recent publication of the Financial Times Business School Impact ranking a new way of looking at impact has been established. This panel will look at three interrelated questions. First, how should we think about, and particularly measure this impact? Second, how do business schools manage their impact? Third, can rankings such as the FT ranking help in increasing the impact of business schools, or should this come from an intrinsic drive of academics to become engaged scholars?