2016 conference program
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26
1:30 – 5:00pm Conference Check-In
2:00 – 5:00pm AACSB Accreditation Volunteer Training
Volunteer training is for individuals who are interested in assisting AACSB in its accreditation work by serving as a mentor, peer review team member, and/or accreditation committee member. The training provides an overview of the different volunteer responsibilities, addresses the philosophies behind the accreditation standards, and provides a detailed description of the accreditation process. Requires advance registration at https://goo.gl/7LIy9C
Workshop Leaders:
Robert D. Reid, Executive Vice President and Chief Accreditation Officer, AACSB
Barb Higel, Manager, Accreditation Services, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, AACSB
3:00 – 4:00pm MAACBA Board of Directors Meeting
4:30 – 5:30pm First Timers Welcome Meeting
6:00 – 7:30pm Cocktail Reception
7:30pm Dinner on Your Own
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27
7:30 – 1:00pm Conference Check-In
7:30 – 8:30am Continental Breakfast: Table Topics
8:30 – 9:00am Conference Welcome
9 – 10:15 am Plenary Session 1: The Future of Retailing
The current landscape of retail is under a major transformation. The digital side of the business has grown exponentially over the past decade with enabling technologies giving the brick-and-mortar business a “call to action” to keep up. An empowered and entitled consumer is a shift in demographics that will shake up the employee workforce. Retailers converging highly complex infrastructures and systems to deliver a seamless cross-channel experience are creating a retail maelstrom. Meet top industry executives and hear their perspective on the retail landscape today, tomorrow and where the industry is heading as the blurred lines between formats, retail/wholesale, and the industry become less clear.
Moderator:
Robin Sackin Litwinsky, Chair of Fashion Business Management, FIT
Panelists:
Howard Kreitzman, VP Cosmetics and Fragrance, Bloomingdale's N.Y.
Shelley E. Kohan, Resident Retail Expert, FIT
Robin Lewis, Founder and CEO of the Robin Report
Greg Petro, Chief Executive Officer, First Insight, Inc.
10:15 – 10:30 am Morning Break
10:30 – 11:45 am Plenary Session 2: Demonstrating Business School Impact to AACSB and Other Stakeholders
With the new AACSB standards emphasis on demonstrating “impact,” B-Schools must expand the data used to demonstrate quality from what has historically been a focus on “input” variables, e.g., faculty credentials, financial resources, journal “hits,” and curriculum, to include more attention to “output” factors, e.g., student success over time, scholarship that influences the discipline and practice, impact on our communities and industry. As we attempt to articulate impact across the three-legged stool of teaching, research, and service/outreach, we must tackle a new set of challenges related to determining and demonstrating impact. In doing so, however, we will benefit from a more accurate narrative regarding the benefits of our programs, initiatives, and faculty activities. In this session, we will address both the challenges and the opportunities of telling our “impact stories.”
Speaker:
Sarah Gardial, Dean of the College of Business at the University of Iowa
Noon – 2:00pm Lunch: Keynote Session #1 - Technology, Disruption & the Digital Enterprise
What does technology and the new digital enterprise mean for the future of industry? As we approach the “Fifth Industrial Revolution,” newer technologies allow for changes in the way we work and play, which creates expectations for business. In this age of new markets, massive disruption, and the “digital jungle,” developing a winning digital strategy could pose a dilemma for the unprepared business in any sector. In this session, explore how the convention of a “store” will transform over the 21st century with the prevalence of e-commerce and technology. Discover how business professionals across industries can approach strategic planning to anticipate the future of business, and how this can inform curricula at your business school to better prepare students to become new leaders in the fast-evolving landscape of the business world.
Speaker:
David Cox, Global Business Manager at Microsoft Corporation
2:15 – 3:15pm Plenary Session 3: Dean’s Perspective Panel Discussion
Topics during the discussion will focus on contemporary challenges of being a business school Dean. We will begin with a set of moderated questions, then will open up the floor to the audience for open Q&A.
Moderator:
Giacomo (Jack) Oliva, Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Elmore Alexander, Dean of the Ricciardi College of Business at Bridgewater State University
David Brookstein, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in Engineering at Temple University
Joseph DiAngelo, Jr., Dean of the Erivan Haub School of Business at St. Joseph's University
Michael Williams, Dean of the School of Business and Management at Thomas Edison State University
3:15 – 3:30pm Afternoon Break
3:30 – 5:30pm Concurrent Sessions 1
1a: Digital Data and Enrollment Growth Strategies: What You Need to Know to Grow
Learn how much market intelligence you can obtain from mining digital datasets. From market sizing to product trends to competitor marketing strategies, you will be astonished to find how much you can learn about your market and how these digital insights can drive your enrollment growth strategy. This session will use actual business school digital data to highlight how you can compete in the digital era. Eduvantis helps higher education institutions develop and execute enrollment growth strategies. The firm specializes in working with business schools and combines its deep product expertise with digital proficiency to provide clients with unrivaled growth strategies and marketing execution. For more information about Eduvantis, visit here.
Speaker:
David Mulligan, Chief Executive Officer, Eduvantis
1b: What's New with GMAC in 2016?
Join this session to hear updates from a leading source of research and information about quality graduate management education from an international non-profit organization that provides products and services to academic institutions and prospective graduate management education students. For more information about GMAC, visit here.
Speaker:
Glenda Lucas, Senior Manager of the Americas, Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)
1c: Your Financial Data Needs on Campus
How can you best determine your academic institution’s data needs? What value and insights might the Capital IQ platform provide on your campus? Join this interactive session where Q&A will help you assess the right concepts and issues to consider for decision making at your school. For more information about S&P Global Market Intelligence, visit here.
Speaker:
Howard Bernheim, CFA, CPA, Director of Client Development for the Academic Division, S&P Global Market Intelligence
6:00 – 8:00pm Cocktails and plentiful hors d’oeuvres at Rare Restaurant Rooftop
8:00pm Dinner on Your Own
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28
7:30 – 8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 9:15 am Breakfast: Keynote Session #2 - Leadership May Not Be the Problem with Your Innovation Team
A recent study published in the Harvard Business Review highlights the four conditions that leaders must create for innovation to thrive: Constant Energy is the productive tension that keeps people innovating. Creative Friction involves rich interactions that generate diverse ideas. Flexible Structure maximizes speed and agility. Purposeful Discovery means testing possibilities to develop user-centered solutions. Hear more from one of the researchers and authors of the study about the 1,500 HBR readers that participated in the study, in-depth definitions and concepts related to each condition, explore why each condition is important, and learn what you can do as a leader to create these conditions in your organization.
Speaker:
Danny Dworkin, Partner, Schaffer Consulting
9:15 – 10:15am Plenary Session 4: AACSB International Update
AACSB’s Chief Executive Officer will provide an update with the latest news and views coming from Tampa world headquarters. This session includes time for Q&A, enabling attendees to dialogue with our AACSB representatives.
Speaker:
Thomas (Tom) Robinson, President and CEO of AACSB International
10:15 – 10:30am Morning Break
10:30 – 11:30am Concurrent Sessions 2
2a: The MBA’s Metamorphosis: Future Trends
A generation ago MBA programs were ubiquitous, with the MBA degree essentially synonymous with graduate management education. Since then graduate management education has morphed into a wide range of program options and modes of delivery, including graduate certificates, specialized MS programs in functional disciplines (i.e., MS in Finance, MS in Operations Management, etc.) or industry specialties (i.e., MS in Sports Management, MS in Health Care Administration, etc.) and market-based variations of the traditional MBA (i.e., Global MBA, Executive MBA, High-Tech MBA, Cohort MBA, dual MBA between two partner institutions, MBA as part of a dual degree program within a single institution, etc.). In response, many institutions have developed a varied and extensive portfolio of graduate management programs. This interactive session will explore the evolution of graduate management education and identify trends and opportunities for graduate management education in the future as well as implications for the MBA degree.
Facilitator:
MarySheila McDonald, Associate Dean of La Salle University’s School of Business
Speaker:
Jeffrey Mello, Dean of the School of Management at Rhode Island College
2b: Make Global Goals Local Business
The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), an initiative by the United Nations Global Compact, is a collaborative, collegial learning community that thrives on sharing good practices to inspire and champion responsible management education, research and thought leadership globally. In September 2015, all 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted a plan for achieving a better future for all – laying out a path over the next 15 years to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and protect our planet. At the heart of “Agenda 2030” are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs/Global Goals) and 169 related targets that address the most important economic, social, environmental and governance challenges of our time. The new global goals result from a process that has been more inclusive than ever, with governments involving business, civil society, higher education and citizens from the outset. Successful implementation of the SDGs will require all players to champion this agenda; the role of higher education is critical to this.
Speakers:
Jonas Haertle, Head, Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) secretariat & Global Compact Academic Affairs, UN Global Compact Office
Claire Sommer, Communications Director for AIM2Flourish.com
11:45 – 12:45pm MAACBA Annual Meeting, Fall 2015 Survey Results, Teaching Award Presentation & Beta Gamma
Sigma Awards
Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) is the global honor society serving higher education business programs throughout the world. Amber Nicholson, BGS Director of Chapter Relations, will provide an overview on the state of the society and new initiatives, and recognize BGS “Honor,” “High Honors,” and “Highest Honors” chapters.
1:00 – 2:30 pm Lunch: Keynote Session #3 - Stuck in a Rut: The State of the Global and U.S. Economy
If you listen to any speech by either presidential hopeful for this November's 2016 election, you will feel as though we are still stuck in the trenches of a recession. Whether it’s the portrayal of the disillusioned American worker, or the notion that we are being cheated by our trade lifeline (China), post-recession traumatic stress is alive and well on the campaign trail. Are we truly stuck in a rut? In this session we will examine the factors contributing to what feels like glacial growth, and how a potential change in leadership could impact the current recovery.
Speaker:
Sara Eisen, Co-Anchor CNBC's Squawk on the Street and Worldwide Exchange
2:45 – 3:45 pm Plenary Session 5: Business School Rankings According to the Experts
This session will provide an insider’s look at all the major university-related rankings including: Best Undergraduate Business programs, Best Full-time and Part-time MBA programs, Best Online MBA, and Best Online Graduate Business (Non-MBA) programs.
Panelists:
Lance Lambert, Data Journalist, Bloomberg
Robert Morse, Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News & World Report
4:00 – 5:00pm Visit Sponsor Tables and Networking
5:00 – 6:30pm Dinner on Your Own
6:00 – 10:00pm Professional Networking Excursions (optional, additional cost)
1:30 – 5:00pm Conference Check-In
2:00 – 5:00pm AACSB Accreditation Volunteer Training
Volunteer training is for individuals who are interested in assisting AACSB in its accreditation work by serving as a mentor, peer review team member, and/or accreditation committee member. The training provides an overview of the different volunteer responsibilities, addresses the philosophies behind the accreditation standards, and provides a detailed description of the accreditation process. Requires advance registration at https://goo.gl/7LIy9C
Workshop Leaders:
Robert D. Reid, Executive Vice President and Chief Accreditation Officer, AACSB
Barb Higel, Manager, Accreditation Services, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, AACSB
3:00 – 4:00pm MAACBA Board of Directors Meeting
4:30 – 5:30pm First Timers Welcome Meeting
6:00 – 7:30pm Cocktail Reception
7:30pm Dinner on Your Own
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27
7:30 – 1:00pm Conference Check-In
7:30 – 8:30am Continental Breakfast: Table Topics
8:30 – 9:00am Conference Welcome
9 – 10:15 am Plenary Session 1: The Future of Retailing
The current landscape of retail is under a major transformation. The digital side of the business has grown exponentially over the past decade with enabling technologies giving the brick-and-mortar business a “call to action” to keep up. An empowered and entitled consumer is a shift in demographics that will shake up the employee workforce. Retailers converging highly complex infrastructures and systems to deliver a seamless cross-channel experience are creating a retail maelstrom. Meet top industry executives and hear their perspective on the retail landscape today, tomorrow and where the industry is heading as the blurred lines between formats, retail/wholesale, and the industry become less clear.
Moderator:
Robin Sackin Litwinsky, Chair of Fashion Business Management, FIT
Panelists:
Howard Kreitzman, VP Cosmetics and Fragrance, Bloomingdale's N.Y.
Shelley E. Kohan, Resident Retail Expert, FIT
Robin Lewis, Founder and CEO of the Robin Report
Greg Petro, Chief Executive Officer, First Insight, Inc.
10:15 – 10:30 am Morning Break
10:30 – 11:45 am Plenary Session 2: Demonstrating Business School Impact to AACSB and Other Stakeholders
With the new AACSB standards emphasis on demonstrating “impact,” B-Schools must expand the data used to demonstrate quality from what has historically been a focus on “input” variables, e.g., faculty credentials, financial resources, journal “hits,” and curriculum, to include more attention to “output” factors, e.g., student success over time, scholarship that influences the discipline and practice, impact on our communities and industry. As we attempt to articulate impact across the three-legged stool of teaching, research, and service/outreach, we must tackle a new set of challenges related to determining and demonstrating impact. In doing so, however, we will benefit from a more accurate narrative regarding the benefits of our programs, initiatives, and faculty activities. In this session, we will address both the challenges and the opportunities of telling our “impact stories.”
Speaker:
Sarah Gardial, Dean of the College of Business at the University of Iowa
Noon – 2:00pm Lunch: Keynote Session #1 - Technology, Disruption & the Digital Enterprise
What does technology and the new digital enterprise mean for the future of industry? As we approach the “Fifth Industrial Revolution,” newer technologies allow for changes in the way we work and play, which creates expectations for business. In this age of new markets, massive disruption, and the “digital jungle,” developing a winning digital strategy could pose a dilemma for the unprepared business in any sector. In this session, explore how the convention of a “store” will transform over the 21st century with the prevalence of e-commerce and technology. Discover how business professionals across industries can approach strategic planning to anticipate the future of business, and how this can inform curricula at your business school to better prepare students to become new leaders in the fast-evolving landscape of the business world.
Speaker:
David Cox, Global Business Manager at Microsoft Corporation
2:15 – 3:15pm Plenary Session 3: Dean’s Perspective Panel Discussion
Topics during the discussion will focus on contemporary challenges of being a business school Dean. We will begin with a set of moderated questions, then will open up the floor to the audience for open Q&A.
Moderator:
Giacomo (Jack) Oliva, Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Elmore Alexander, Dean of the Ricciardi College of Business at Bridgewater State University
David Brookstein, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in Engineering at Temple University
Joseph DiAngelo, Jr., Dean of the Erivan Haub School of Business at St. Joseph's University
Michael Williams, Dean of the School of Business and Management at Thomas Edison State University
3:15 – 3:30pm Afternoon Break
3:30 – 5:30pm Concurrent Sessions 1
1a: Digital Data and Enrollment Growth Strategies: What You Need to Know to Grow
Learn how much market intelligence you can obtain from mining digital datasets. From market sizing to product trends to competitor marketing strategies, you will be astonished to find how much you can learn about your market and how these digital insights can drive your enrollment growth strategy. This session will use actual business school digital data to highlight how you can compete in the digital era. Eduvantis helps higher education institutions develop and execute enrollment growth strategies. The firm specializes in working with business schools and combines its deep product expertise with digital proficiency to provide clients with unrivaled growth strategies and marketing execution. For more information about Eduvantis, visit here.
Speaker:
David Mulligan, Chief Executive Officer, Eduvantis
1b: What's New with GMAC in 2016?
Join this session to hear updates from a leading source of research and information about quality graduate management education from an international non-profit organization that provides products and services to academic institutions and prospective graduate management education students. For more information about GMAC, visit here.
Speaker:
Glenda Lucas, Senior Manager of the Americas, Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)
1c: Your Financial Data Needs on Campus
How can you best determine your academic institution’s data needs? What value and insights might the Capital IQ platform provide on your campus? Join this interactive session where Q&A will help you assess the right concepts and issues to consider for decision making at your school. For more information about S&P Global Market Intelligence, visit here.
Speaker:
Howard Bernheim, CFA, CPA, Director of Client Development for the Academic Division, S&P Global Market Intelligence
6:00 – 8:00pm Cocktails and plentiful hors d’oeuvres at Rare Restaurant Rooftop
8:00pm Dinner on Your Own
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28
7:30 – 8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 9:15 am Breakfast: Keynote Session #2 - Leadership May Not Be the Problem with Your Innovation Team
A recent study published in the Harvard Business Review highlights the four conditions that leaders must create for innovation to thrive: Constant Energy is the productive tension that keeps people innovating. Creative Friction involves rich interactions that generate diverse ideas. Flexible Structure maximizes speed and agility. Purposeful Discovery means testing possibilities to develop user-centered solutions. Hear more from one of the researchers and authors of the study about the 1,500 HBR readers that participated in the study, in-depth definitions and concepts related to each condition, explore why each condition is important, and learn what you can do as a leader to create these conditions in your organization.
Speaker:
Danny Dworkin, Partner, Schaffer Consulting
9:15 – 10:15am Plenary Session 4: AACSB International Update
AACSB’s Chief Executive Officer will provide an update with the latest news and views coming from Tampa world headquarters. This session includes time for Q&A, enabling attendees to dialogue with our AACSB representatives.
Speaker:
Thomas (Tom) Robinson, President and CEO of AACSB International
10:15 – 10:30am Morning Break
10:30 – 11:30am Concurrent Sessions 2
2a: The MBA’s Metamorphosis: Future Trends
A generation ago MBA programs were ubiquitous, with the MBA degree essentially synonymous with graduate management education. Since then graduate management education has morphed into a wide range of program options and modes of delivery, including graduate certificates, specialized MS programs in functional disciplines (i.e., MS in Finance, MS in Operations Management, etc.) or industry specialties (i.e., MS in Sports Management, MS in Health Care Administration, etc.) and market-based variations of the traditional MBA (i.e., Global MBA, Executive MBA, High-Tech MBA, Cohort MBA, dual MBA between two partner institutions, MBA as part of a dual degree program within a single institution, etc.). In response, many institutions have developed a varied and extensive portfolio of graduate management programs. This interactive session will explore the evolution of graduate management education and identify trends and opportunities for graduate management education in the future as well as implications for the MBA degree.
Facilitator:
MarySheila McDonald, Associate Dean of La Salle University’s School of Business
Speaker:
Jeffrey Mello, Dean of the School of Management at Rhode Island College
2b: Make Global Goals Local Business
The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), an initiative by the United Nations Global Compact, is a collaborative, collegial learning community that thrives on sharing good practices to inspire and champion responsible management education, research and thought leadership globally. In September 2015, all 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted a plan for achieving a better future for all – laying out a path over the next 15 years to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and protect our planet. At the heart of “Agenda 2030” are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs/Global Goals) and 169 related targets that address the most important economic, social, environmental and governance challenges of our time. The new global goals result from a process that has been more inclusive than ever, with governments involving business, civil society, higher education and citizens from the outset. Successful implementation of the SDGs will require all players to champion this agenda; the role of higher education is critical to this.
Speakers:
Jonas Haertle, Head, Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) secretariat & Global Compact Academic Affairs, UN Global Compact Office
Claire Sommer, Communications Director for AIM2Flourish.com
11:45 – 12:45pm MAACBA Annual Meeting, Fall 2015 Survey Results, Teaching Award Presentation & Beta Gamma
Sigma Awards
Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) is the global honor society serving higher education business programs throughout the world. Amber Nicholson, BGS Director of Chapter Relations, will provide an overview on the state of the society and new initiatives, and recognize BGS “Honor,” “High Honors,” and “Highest Honors” chapters.
1:00 – 2:30 pm Lunch: Keynote Session #3 - Stuck in a Rut: The State of the Global and U.S. Economy
If you listen to any speech by either presidential hopeful for this November's 2016 election, you will feel as though we are still stuck in the trenches of a recession. Whether it’s the portrayal of the disillusioned American worker, or the notion that we are being cheated by our trade lifeline (China), post-recession traumatic stress is alive and well on the campaign trail. Are we truly stuck in a rut? In this session we will examine the factors contributing to what feels like glacial growth, and how a potential change in leadership could impact the current recovery.
Speaker:
Sara Eisen, Co-Anchor CNBC's Squawk on the Street and Worldwide Exchange
2:45 – 3:45 pm Plenary Session 5: Business School Rankings According to the Experts
This session will provide an insider’s look at all the major university-related rankings including: Best Undergraduate Business programs, Best Full-time and Part-time MBA programs, Best Online MBA, and Best Online Graduate Business (Non-MBA) programs.
Panelists:
Lance Lambert, Data Journalist, Bloomberg
Robert Morse, Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News & World Report
4:00 – 5:00pm Visit Sponsor Tables and Networking
5:00 – 6:30pm Dinner on Your Own
6:00 – 10:00pm Professional Networking Excursions (optional, additional cost)
