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Research Impact Conference

26​ – 27​ May
Dublin, Ireland
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Tuesday
26 May
Wednesday
27 May
Tuesday
26 May
Begin your day by networking over coffee/tea. This is an excellent opportunity to reconnect with colleagues, make new connections, and discuss the sessions ahead.
Connect with peers, meet exhibitors, and explore fresh ideas in the Exhibitor Showcase, a space designed to help you build relationships, discover new solutions, and make the most of your time at the conference.
Business schools produce thousands of academic articles each year, but how many truly influence the real world? For decades, stakeholders across business education have worked to close the gap between research output and societal impact, and while progress has been meaningful, it has often been too slow. This opening session confronts the issue head-on, examining whether current systems, incentives, and norms encourage research that addresses today’s pressing organizational and societal challenges. Speakers will explore the risks of the status quo, the need for system-wide change, and AACSB’s new Global Research Impact Framework as a path toward action.
Enjoy refreshments while connecting with colleagues and peers. Take this opportunity to visit the Exhibitor Showcase and discover new ideas and partnerships.
Impact is widely discussed, but far harder to measure. Traditional academic metrics capture citations and journal rankings, yet often fail to reflect influence on policy, industry, or society. This session explores emerging approaches to evaluating research impact. What does meaningful impact measurement look like, and how can institutions operationalize it?
Join your peers for an informal networking luncheon focused on exchanging best practices and fostering connections.
Journal editors play a powerful role in defining what counts as valuable research. Through editorial policies, peer review standards, and publication expectations, journals shape the incentives that guide scholars’ work and influence what research gets recognized and rewarded. As calls for greater societal relevance grow louder, this session explores how journals are responding and what changes may still be needed. Presenters will examine how the publishing system can better support impactful research, whether alternative ranking or rating approaches could accelerate change, and what such models should include, who should govern them, and how they might reshape incentives across the research ecosystem.
Medicine, engineering, and public policy have developed stronger pathways for translating research into practice. This session explores what business schools can learn from translational models, policy engagement, and interdisciplinary approaches used in other fields.
Connect with peers, meet exhibitors, and explore fresh ideas in the Exhibitor Showcase, a space designed to help you build relationships, discover new solutions, and make the most of your time at the conference.
Enjoy refreshments while connecting with colleagues and peers. Take this opportunity to visit the Exhibitor Showcase and discover new ideas and partnerships.
This session explores the role of research in the classroom and how business schools can help students appreciate, apply, and contribute to evidence-based insights. As organizations face increasingly complex challenges, learners at all levels need the ability to interpret research, question assumptions, and use evidence to make sound decisions. Presenters will discuss ways to make research more relevant and accessible across programs, while also considering how MBA students can engage more directly with evidence-based practice and the generation of new insights through applied projects, inquiry, and collaboration.
Funding agencies increasingly expect research to demonstrate societal relevance and measurable outcomes. How are these expectations reshaping research agendas and opportunities for business schools? Representatives from funding bodies discuss evolving priorities, new funding mechanisms, and how scholars can position their work to address pressing economic and societal challenges.
Global rankings and journal lists play a significant role in shaping the priorities of business schools worldwide, influencing how institutions allocate resources, evaluate research, and signal quality. In this debate-style session, speakers will explore the complex relationship between rankings and research impact. Do rankings support excellence and global transparency, or do they create incentives that may limit broader forms of impact? And how might rankings evolve to better recognize research that advances both academic knowledge and societal and practice outcomes?
Wednesday
27 May
Begin your day by networking over coffee/tea. This is an excellent opportunity to reconnect with colleagues, make new connections, and discuss the sessions ahead.
Advancing meaningful research impact requires more than individual institutional efforts - it depends on a broader ecosystem that shapes incentives and expectations in academia. Accreditation bodies, ranking organizations, disciplinary societies, journals, and funding agencies all influence how research excellence is defined and rewarded. This session will explore how these systems collectively shape the research landscape and examine whether current systems enable, or unintentionally constrain, impactful research. Panelists will discuss opportunities for greater alignment across these stakeholders and consider how they might work together, and sometimes differently, to better support research that delivers meaningful contributions to business, policy, and society.
Enjoy refreshments while connecting with colleagues and peers. Take this opportunity to visit the Exhibitor Showcase and discover new ideas and partnerships.
How can business schools better support faculty in translating research into insights that influence practice and policy? While impactful research often begins with strong academic foundations, the pathways through which it reaches practitioners are often less clear. This session explores how schools can strengthen the dissemination and translation of research, including new models for engaging external stakeholders. Speakers will examine different approaches to co-creation and discuss how engaging external stakeholders can most effectively enhance the real-world impact of research.
Enjoy refreshments while connecting with colleagues and peers. Take this opportunity to visit the Exhibitor Showcase and discover new ideas and partnerships.
Achieving meaningful research impact requires more than new metrics, it demands institutional leadership and cultural change. This session highlights business schools that are experimenting with new approaches to promotion and tenure systems, faculty incentives, and research support structures to better align research excellence with societal and practice impact.
Join your peers for an informal networking luncheon focused on exchanging best practices and fostering connections.
Artificial intelligence is beginning to transform how research is conducted, reviewed, and disseminated. From AI-assisted literature reviews and automated analysis to rapidly increasing publication volumes, new tools are accelerating the pace of knowledge production. But this shift raises critical questions about research quality, credibility, and the future role of scholars. How will AI reshape academic publishing, research productivity, and the way knowledge is discovered and evaluated? And if AI dramatically increases the volume of research output, how will the academic system distinguish meaningful contributions from noise? This session explores how journals, institutions, and scholars are responding to these emerging challenges and opportunities.
Enjoy refreshments while connecting with colleagues and peers. Take this opportunity to visit the Exhibitor Showcase and discover new ideas and partnerships.
Business schools produce thousands of research articles each year, yet only a small fraction shape policy decisions, organizational strategy, or leadership practice. What enables some research to influence real-world decision-making while other insights remain within academia? This session explores the pathways through which management research informs policy and practice, including within universities themselves. Speakers will share examples of research that has shaped decisions and discuss the mechanisms that help translate academic insights into action, from policy engagement and advisory roles to thought leadership and practitioner collaboration.