Title: Innovative executive education programs for in-house employee reskilling/upskilling: the case of the Bayer Active Leadership Program in partnership with EADA Business School

Authors: Jordi Diaz

Addresses: EADA Business School, Carrer d'Aragó, 204, 08011, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract: The problem is that most of the 16,000 business schools operating across the globe today lack the knowledge and preparation needed to forge business school-industry partnerships. A literature gap exists on how business schools can provide reskilling and upskilling executive education that partners with the industry to meet the changing workforce's employability skill gaps. The purpose of this embedded, single-subject case study is two-fold: 1) describe through an exploratory case study the knowledge and preparation needed for a robust business school-industry partnership for a tailored executive education program; 2) to offer practice and policy recommendations on strengthening the business school-industry partnership bond in reskilling/upskilling in-house workforces. This study applies an archival data collection method (Yin, 2017) to describe and investigate the Bayer Active Leadership Program's development in partnership with EADA Business School presented through the lens of an innovative executive education ecosystem model grounded in concepts defined within disruptive innovation theory.

Keywords: academic-industry partnerships; Bayer Active Leadership Program; business school innovation; disruptive innovation in education; EADA Business School; innovative executive education ecosystems; lifelong learning; future of the workforce; reskilling and upskilling; transformational learning ecosystem.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTCS.2022.129956

International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies, 2022 Vol.13 No.3, pp.259 - 280

Received: 15 Jan 2023
Accepted: 24 Jan 2023
Published online: 03 Apr 2023 *

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