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EFMD Global Focus: Volume 07 Issue 03 | 2013
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The IMPM innovations and teaching approach The International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM) programme is 18 years old but continues to be seen as one the world’s most innovative senior management degree programmes. Leslie Breitner and Dora Koop explain how the programme has retained its freshness for so long
40 Accreditation – how to get it right María Helena Jaén outlines how to make the accreditation process as pain-free and rewarding as possible
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Leslie Breitner and Dora Koop explain how the IMPM programme has retained its freshness as one the world’s most innovative senior management programmes. page 36
Walking the talk: managing a management school It is one of the oldest and most common complaints – management schools are great at giving good advice to others but themselves rarely practise the management skills they preach. But it can be done. Loick Roche and Sabine Lauria explain how
48 ACE project offers new opportunities The new EFMD-backed Alliance of Chinese and European business schools (ACE) offers new opportunities for mutual understanding and increased co-operation says Martine Plompen
52 Soft skills in the business and personal world George Pennington provides a psychologist’s perspective on why training in soft skills is vital for business (and personal) life
56 Planting the seeds of change Lea Stadtler and Gilbert Probst describe how the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange came into being and the lessons it holds
60 More EQUAL than others? The European Quality Link (EQUAL) is one of the less well-known bodies in which EFMD is involved but is also one of the most innovative and long-standing. Irina Sennikova explains its role