INSEAD Libraries
Academic trends
B-Schools and Social Media
Two researchers from the University of Massachussetts Center for Marketing Research have released a study on The Missing Link In Social Media Use Among Top MBA Programs:Tracking Prospects
Google’s Knowledge Graph
Google's latest development on its search engine is explained in the video below and on this page.
2012 – Top 10 issues for IT leaders in Higher Education
Top 10 IT issues 2012 - Educause survey.Updating IT professionals' skills and roles to accommodate emerging technologies and changing IT management and service delivery modelsSupporting the trends toward IT consumerization and bring-your-own deviceDeveloping an...
How’s your life?
Check out the newly released interactive OECD Better Life Index. You can also create your own better life index and have it compared to the average index. The index compares well-being based on 11 topics - housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment,...
New look for Google Scholar
Google Scholar has a new look, read all about the changes from the Google Scholar announcement.To access the advanced search features, users must click on the arrow in the search box and can refine the search without leaving the result page.
Free online courses from Harvard and MIT
Harvard and MIT have teamed up to release edX an open source platform to deliver online courses worldwide.The schools have committed to a combined $60 million ($30 million each) in institutional support, grants and philanthropy to launch the collaboration. Here is an...
AAUP Faculty Salary report – 2011/2012
A Very Slow Recovery: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2011–12The AAUP released its annual review of faculty compensation, read the April 9, 2012 press release.Average Salary for Full-Time Faculty, by Category, Affiliation, and Academic...
Academic salaries, an international comparison
The project led by a team of researchers from Russia's Higher School of Economics and Boston College in the USA looks at salary data from 28 countries.The research will be available in an upcoming book: Paying the Professoriate: A Global Comparison of...
Tablet ownership triples among college students
The Pearson Foundation recently released their second annual survey on Students and Tablets.Key findings:Tablet ownership has more than tripled among college students since March 2011, with one-quarter of students now owning a standard tablet (25%), compared...
The European Business Schools Women on Board Initiative
Several european business schools (including INSEAD) have come up with a list of:"3500 board-ready women to bring Europe into the 21st Century and support European Commission Vice President Reding’s initiative to shatter the glass ceiling for women in Europe’s...
Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing
A study was released in Science magazine on February 3rd: Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing. The authors analyzed 6672 responses from a survey sent to researchers in economics, sociology, psychology, and multiple business disciplines (marketing,...
Elsevier under fire…again — Updated
Update February 28, 2012:In a press release, Elsevier announces that it withdraws its support for the Research Work Act (a bill that was threatening open public access of federally funded research).In parallel it has announced to the Mathematics research community...