Elevate: Asia Pacific
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For years, written assignments, take-home exams, and case analyses have helped faculty assess what students know. Generative AI has disrupted that equation. If students can produce polished work in seconds, how do educators determine what they understand? Business schools are rethinking assessment itself - bringing back oral exams, increasing live demonstrations and presentations, redesigning assignments, and in some cases creating separate AI-enabled and non-AI assessment pathways. This session explores the implications of AI for assessment and how faculty can move beyond trying to detect AI use toward designing credible evidence of learning, judgment, application, and independent thinking.
When students can generate explanations, summaries, analyses, and even solutions on demand, the role of faculty can no longer be centered primarily on delivering content. AI changes what faculty do before class, during the learning experience, and after it, from course design and student preparation to discussion, feedback, assessment, and reinforcement. What does this mean for teaching practice and faculty development? This session explores how faculty are using AI while also taking on roles that are harder to automate: helping students frame better problems, challenge assumptions, exercise judgment, think creatively, and engage deeply with ideas.
For many business schools, attracting students is only half the challenge; helping them secure meaningful work in an increasingly competitive labor market is becoming just as urgent. Graduate employment is a particular concern in large markets such as China and India, where outcomes can vary dramatically across institutions and sectors. This session examines how business schools respond when a degree alone is no longer enough. Attendees will explore what schools can realistically influence and how graduate outcomes are reshaping expectations of business education.
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Business schools face a difficult curriculum problem: the market is changing faster than programs can. Employers and students expect relevance in AI, technology, geopolitics, sustainability, human skills, and interdisciplinary thinking, yet curricula are already crowded and formal change can take years. How are schools responding without simply adding another course to the catalog? This session examines innovative approaches to curriculum design - what schools are teaching differently, how project-based and experiential learning are being incorporated, how they are creating more flexible learning, and how they are using employer and market signals to keep programs relevant.
Business schools rely on strong relationships beyond the institution, but the most valuable partnerships often extend well beyond traditional advisory boards or one-off employer engagement. Alumni, employers, industry partners, and other organizations can play an important role in curriculum, experiential learning, career opportunities, research, societal impact, and the school's broader reputation. Through practical examples from across Asia Pacific, this session explores how schools are building and sustaining these relationships, the role alumni can play in connecting schools with business, and how partnerships can create meaningful value for students, schools, alumni, and industry.
How do we know that teaching is effective - and who gets to decide? As expectations around teaching effectiveness continue to evolve, schools are grappling with how to demonstrate quality without reducing good teaching to a single metric or model. This interactive session will help participants unpack the intent behind emerging expectations and consider how teaching effectiveness can be understood within different institutional missions, cultures, disciplines, and educational contexts. Rather than prescribing one approach, participants will compare practices, challenges, and emerging ideas from across the region and collectively explore what meaningful evidence of effective teaching can - and should - look like.
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Whether you are preparing for an Initial Accreditation or Continuous Improvement Review visit, considering AACSB accreditation, or simply have questions about the process, this session is an opportunity to get answers directly from AACSB. Bring your questions and join an open conversation about accreditation expectations, the review process, preparing for a visit, and other topics that are top of mind for your school.
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.
Begin the final day with networking over coffee. Reflect on the insights gained and prepare for the final sessions.
The traditional business school model was built for a different era of learners, careers, technology, and competition. Across Asia Pacific, schools are experimenting with new models for how business education is organized, delivered, and sustained - from redesigned program portfolios and learning models to new institutional structures and deeper connections with industry, technology, and the broader university. What happens when schools move beyond improving the existing model and begin designing something different? Through examples from across the region, this session explores emerging models for business schools and the strategic choices institutions are making to remain relevant, distinctive, financially sustainable, and responsive to changing learner and market expectations.
Network with peers and check out the Discover AACSB area to explore our products and services, including the Academy, technology and data, and additional resources to support your institution. Stop by to visit exhibitors and enjoy refreshments.
Enrollment volatility, demographic change, rising costs, technology investments, and growing expectations are putting increasing pressure on business school finances. At the same time, schools must continue investing in faculty, programs, student experience, and innovation to remain competitive. How are leaders making the numbers work? This session explores the financial strategies business schools across Asia Pacific are using to strengthen long-term sustainability - from managing costs and program portfolios to diversifying revenue, redesigning offerings, and deciding where to invest.
Business schools are increasingly expected to show not only that research is rigorous, but that it makes a difference. As schools adopt stronger approaches to research impact, an important question is emerging: are the emerging frameworks changing behavior and outcomes? This session features examples of institutions that are changing incentives, engagement practices, or research systems and beginning to see results. Participants will examine what practical systems change looks like - from how faculty work with business and policymakers to how impact is recognized and rewarded - and what early lessons can be learned from schools putting research impact frameworks into practice.
Climate change creates challenges that no single discipline, organization, or sector can solve alone. Across Asia Pacific, communities and businesses are confronting extreme heat, flooding, changing food and energy systems, vulnerable supply chains, and other consequences that require expertise from business, engineering, science, government, and beyond. What role can business schools play? This session explores how schools are using interdisciplinary education and cross-sector collaboration to prepare students to tackle complex societal challenges, and in some cases, contribute to solutions while they are still students. Through examples from across the region, participants will examine how these experiences develop the collaboration, systems thinking, and problem-solving capabilities future leaders will increasingly need.
Network with peers and check out the Discover AACSB area to explore our products and services, including the Academy, technology and data, and additional resources to support your institution. Stop by to visit exhibitors and enjoy refreshments.
Some of the world's sharpest demographic declines are unfolding across Asia, with significant implications for business education. Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and other markets are confronting shrinking youth populations while institutions face growing competition and rising costs. How are business schools adapting to a future with fewer traditional students? Through examples from across the region, this session explores how schools are responding through portfolio redesign, new learner segments, regional recruitment, cross-border education, and other strategies to remain competitive and sustainable as demographics shift.
The map of student mobility is being redrawn. Fewer students are following some of the traditional routes to the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, while stronger institutions within Asia Pacific and changing visa, policy, cost, and geopolitical conditions are creating more reasons to study closer to home. What does the growth of intra-regional mobility mean for business schools? Beginning with empirical data on changing flows across the region, this session explores how schools are responding through recruitment strategy, regional exchange and partnerships, portfolio design, and cross-border offerings, and how greater collaboration among Asia Pacific institutions could create new opportunities for students and schools.
Conference closing comments will offer a brief opportunity to reflect on key themes, insights, and takeaways that emerged over the course of the event.