Elevate: Americas

Proposal Link

Submission Deadline: 1 November 2026

Selection Announcement: 15 November 2026

Topics

• Navigating Change: Business Education Across the Americas — How enrollment, funding, regulation, demographics, mobility, and economic conditions are affecting business schools across Canada, Latin America, and the United States.
• Redefining the Value of a Business Degree — How schools can define and demonstrate the value and ROI of a business degree as student and employer expectations evolve.
• International Without International Students? — New approaches to global education as visa uncertainty and changing mobility patterns make traditional international enrollment less predictable.
• The New Enrollment Playbook — How schools are adapting recruitment, pricing, scholarships, yield, and retention strategies to changing market conditions.
• Rethinking Assessment in an AI-Enabled Classroom — Approaches to assessment that provide credible evidence of student learning, judgment, application, and independent thinking in the generative AI era.
• The Changing Role of Faculty — How AI is shifting faculty roles from delivering content toward developing students’ judgment, curiosity, creativity, and deeper thinking.
• Beyond the AI Hype: What Are We Getting Wrong? — Lessons from early AI adoption, including challenges surrounding learning, integrity, privacy, intellectual property, workload, and vendor dependency.
• Curriculum Redesign — Practical examples of significant curriculum transformation, including what schools have added, removed, or redesigned and what they learned in the process.
• When Students Don’t Engage — Strategies for addressing challenges with student attendance, preparation, participation, belonging, motivation, and persistence.
• Small School, Big Choices — How smaller and resource-constrained schools are prioritizing investments and making trade-offs around AI, enrollment, programs, faculty, and student services.
• Creating Impact Locally — How business schools are contributing to regional economic and societal development through entrepreneurship, workforce development, employer partnerships, and community engagement.
• Building Deeper Partnerships with Industry — Moving beyond advisory boards toward sustained partnerships involving curriculum, experiential learning, faculty engagement, research, and talent development.
• Rethinking the Business School Program Portfolio — How schools decide where to invest and when to redesign, consolidate, or close programs as demand and financial realities shift.
• The New Lifelong Learning Model — How schools can serve learners throughout their careers through shorter programs, stackable credentials, flexible delivery, and employer-sponsored education.
• Preparing Students for What AI Can’t Do — Developing and assessing human capabilities such as judgment, persuasion, leadership, critical thinking, negotiation, and relationship-building.