75th Academy of Management Conference

This year marks the 75th year of the academy of management meeting. Vancouver is the host city for this year AOM meeting and it is my pleasure to be able to present our project at this important international forum.

The first day of the conference is busy as usual and I attended three professional development workshops and one presentation, focusing on international management and entrepreneurship.

The key foci of international management include chanes in IM educators, students and the subject matters. Are we teaching IM that matches societal and business changes? how to create global professorship that response to today's learners and business structure? And more importantly, how can we decide the curriculum that is truly global?

I was impressed by the quality of this year professional development programs from international management division. This is simply because they have addressed the concept of changes in modern business and business education, curriculum and context.

The entrepreneurship aspect is similar to what we learnt from this project. The fact that entrepreneurial mindset can be an effective way to promote equity in modern economy.

In sum, the first day is full of interesting and timely conversation on how to promote management education as a tool for development.