Networking Communities
These groups, led by 18HÂþ» volunteers, comprise members from throughout the Business Education Alliance and focus on a topic or discipline and its associated professional responsibilities or interests. Each group is formally structured with bylaws, a leadership structure, and regular meetings that occur in conjunction with most 18HÂþ» conferences.
To join an affinity group, please log onto the Exchange find the group of interest and click join. For New Deans please submit a join request on the Exchange.
- Associate Deans Affinity Group
- Business Librarians Affinity Group
- Digital Transformation Affinity Group
- Community and Connectedness Affinity Group
- Entrepreneurship Programs Affinity Group
- Graduate Business Education Affinity Group
- Marketing, Communications, and Development Affinity Group
- MBA for Working Professionals Affinity Group
- Metropolitan Business Schools Affinity Group
- New Deans Affinity Group
- Online Learning Affinity Group
- Responsible Management Education Affinity Group
- Small Schools Network Affinity Group
- Spiritually-Rooted Business Schools
- Women Advancing Management Education
These communities are a mix of 18HÂþ»-founded groups and outside organizations that are available exclusively online via the 18HÂþ» Exchange. The groups meet to discuss trending topics and focused issues.
To join a virtual community, log in to the 18HÂþ» Exchange (member-only benefit) using the link provided next to each community description. Once logged in to the Exchange, click the blue “Join Community” button located to the right of the community name.
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- DataDirect Users Group
Anyone interested in DataDirect’s capabilities can join this community to ask questions, share tips, make suggestions, and discuss anything about our reports, benchmarking, and survey tools. - Societal Impact
Aspire this community to be a hub for 18HÂþ» staff and members to collaborate, discuss, share insights on societal impact within business education and the business community at large. - DocNet
Members of this group are dedicated to facilitating quality improvement and marketing in doctoral education in business. Individuals must belong to 18HÂþ»-accredited institutions that offer doctoral degree programs in business and management; up to two representatives per institution, representing both staff and faculty, may join. - Technology in Business Schools Roundtable
Member representatives in this group are in a technology leadership position within their business or management school or are the central IT leader responsible for their institution's business or management school. - Assessment
Learn more about assessment and assurance of learning from your peers. Members are encouraged to explore the resources and discussions available, contribute their thoughts to the discussions and share resources with your peers. - Business Analytics and Big Data
Key issues today deal with organizing and managing massive volumes of data effectively, with the evolution of analytics techniques and software tools to support complex analytical processes, and with how business analytics impacts and changes business organizations and their competitive situations. This Community will address these and related issues. - Impact of Research
Share knowledge and ideas on impact of research, both academic impact and managerial impact. It encourages the discussion on quality and relevance of knowledge produced in international business schools. We invite members of this community to actively share new documents and views on the topic of impact. - Internationalization
Internationalization of business education faces an unprecedented and unpredictable future in a world facing multiple challenges including the pandemic and geo-political uncertainties. This forum serves to connect academicians and administrators in exploring and encouraging discussions, best practices and ideas on internationalization of business education through programs and partnerships both at home and abroad for the benefit of all our stakeholders. This group is a place for Deans, Associate Deans, Assistant Deans, Program Directors, and Coordinators who have specific responsibility for planning, managing and executing international programs and partnerships.
These networks are led by 18HÂþ» volunteers and include individuals from specific regions. Network membership is limited to representatives of 18HÂþ» member institutions located within the respective region and populated automatically according to the country in which you are located.
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- Asia Pacific Network
Representatives of 18HÂþ» member institutions share information and best practices in quality business research and education in the region and provide the Asia Pacific Advisory Council with issues that it might deliberate on and, at their discretion, bring to the attention of 18HÂþ». - European Network
Representatives of 18HÂþ» member institutions from European countries discuss topics related to business education of great importance or unique to the region. - Latin America and Caribbean Network
Representatives of member institutions in the region, or others with interest in regional collaboration, share best practices and resources. Postings in Spanish and Portuguese are welcome and highly encouraged. This network is open to representatives residing outside of the region and will also serve as support to the Latin America and Caribbean Advisory Council. - Middle East and North Africa Network
Members of this group share information and best practices in quality business education and focus primarily on facilitating collaborative opportunities within the region. Further, this group raises issues that the Middle East and North Africa Advisory Council might deliberate on and, at their discretion, bring to the attention of 18HÂþ». - Africa Network
Representatives of 18HÂþ» member institutions share information and best practices in quality business research and education in the region. - UK and Ireland
Representatives of 18HÂþ» member institutions share information and best practices in quality business research and education in the region . - Canada Network
- Representatives of 18HÂþ» member institutions share information and best practices in quality business research and education in the region .