Business and Society ― Making Management Education Relevant for the 21st Century

Professor Danica Purg is the President and Dean of IEDC-Bled School of Management, Postgraduate Studies, Slovenia, and the President of CEEMAN, the International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies. In 2010, Prof. Purg received the 2010 International Educator of the Year Award by the Academy of International Business (AIB) for her outstanding achievements in international business education. In 2013, Prof. Purg was the editor of the book Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey; Carving out a Global Niche (Springer, 2013). Prof. Purg is a professor of leadership and effective management. 

Dr. Alenka Bracek Lalic is the Vice Dean for Research and Co-Director of Executive MBA study program at IEDC-Bled School of Management, Postgraduate Studies. She works actively for CEEMAN, the International Association for Leadership Development in Dynamic Societies, where she acts as the International Quality Accreditation (IQA) Director. She is specialized in providing quality enhancement advisory services for management education institutions in emerging or recently emerged countries related to organizational development and continuous improvement. Her research interests involve organizational development, internationalization of higher education, leadership in higher education, quality management, personal and professional development, innovation, and social responsibility. 

Dr. Jennifer A. Pope graduated from the College of Wooster with a degree in History and German. Dr. Pope received her MBA and PhD in International Business and Marketing from the University of Texas-Pan American, and joined the marketing department at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Michigan in fall 2003. She primarily teaches international marketing, sales and negotiation classes at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has also taught introduction to marketing and logistics. Dr. Pope also participates in the GVSU graduate studies professional development program, giving presentations on negotiating salaries as part of the career development series. She regularly teaches marketing classes at a Duale Hochschule in Bad Mergentheim, Germany and has taught in France, Mexico, Taiwan, Bosnia and Slovenia. Dr. Pope is a Fulbright Scholar and spent the 2016-2017 school year working her Fulbright grant in Slovenia at IEDC-The Bled School of Management.