AACSB Insights Submissions

Most of the articles published on AACSB Insights are contributed by members of our Business Education Alliance—business school deans, administrators, and faculty; business leaders; and strategic partners and collaborators. Current and former business students may provide perspectives based on their business school journeys and learning experiences. We also have an editorial team dedicated to providing quality coverage of global business education topics and trends. Occasionally we work with freelance writers with specialized knowledge and influence in the business education community.

We welcome individual and collaborative authorship. As many as five coauthors may contribute to a single article.

AACSB Insights is global in reach, and its thought leadership is relevant to several audiences within the business education ecosystem. While the primary audience includes business school administrators and educators, additional audiences include employers, business leaders, prospective and current business school students at all stages of education, and business school alumni. Additional audiences include other higher education leaders and academics in complementary disciplines.

Articles on AACSB Insights provide thought leadership on topics of interest to the broad business education community. We seek original articles on topics that adhere to AACSB’s organizational values: members first, inclusivity, global unity, excellence, and curiosity. Ideally, submissions will fit into our monthly editorial calendar with designated themes and areas of focus for each month; however, we will also consider submissions outside of these areas, particularly if the topic coincides with current trends and events in business education. Articles must not be already published on another platform.

The tone of the article should be collegial, as though conversing with colleagues. Because our audience includes readers from outside of academia, authors should avoid jargon and highly technical or obscure language related to distinct disciplinary areas. Concepts and ideas that are well known in the business world, however, are appropriate for the author to reference and discuss.

The objective of the article must be to provide insights, practical advice, or a fresh perspective on a business education topic relevant to business educators, practitioners, or students. Submissions should aim to help schools, organizations, or students improve by sharing new ideas or best practices. Submissions should include concrete examples of effective practices and/or helpful suggestions for the following:

• How schools can improve or innovate on programs or initiatives or work toward an ideal future state
• How organizations can collaborate with business schools for mutual benefit
• How learners can get the most out of their educational journeys

The objective of a submission cannot be to promote any one program, school, organization, initiative, or person (with exceptions made for sponsored content). However, mention of these things can be included in the article to help illustrate a point. If a submission has copy that would typically be found in a promotional brochure or webpage, it likely is not right for our platform.

We are currently interested in submissions that discuss the following aspects of business education:

• Accreditation
• Admissions and Enrollment
• Artificial Intelligence
• Assessment and AoL
• Collaboration
• Credentials
• Cross-Disciplinary
• Cultural Intelligence
• Curriculum
• Data Insights
• Deans and Administrators
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Environment
• Entrepreneurship
• Ethics and Responsibility
• Executive Education
• Future of Work
• Innovation
• Leadership
• Learning Delivery
• Lifelong Learning
• Mental Wellness
• Program Trends
• Rankings
• Research Impact
• Responsible Business
• Skills
• Strategic Planning
• Student Engagement
• Sustainability
• Talent Development
• Technology

Because we aim to provide insights from a variety of voices, regions, and contexts, we limit article publication from the same individual or school/organization to three times per year (with exceptions for sponsored content).

The suggested length for an article is 1,000 to 1,500 words. An average article length is about 1,300 words. We encourage contributors to use shorter paragraphs to facilitate easier web reading, subheadings to create visual structure, and bulleted or numerated lists (where relevant) to draw out key points and aid in reader engagement.

All quotes or ideas that are not the author’s (and not commonly known to the audience) must be cited by naming the person quoted and/or including a URL for the source of the idea shared. Footnotes or other reference lists are not used in articles.

We request that authors submit a high-quality photo of themselves to include at the end of the article. Creative imagery to accompany the article will be selected by the editorial staff solely, unless directly relevant, high-quality imagery is provided by the author. If you have data visualizations to accompany your article, such as graphs, charts, etc., we will likely reformat them in our brand colors and style.

Initial drafts should be submitted one month in advance of the intended publication month. For example, if you are submitting an article for alignment with a July editorial theme, we would want to receive the submission by June 1. We can occasionally offer some flexibility, so if you aren't certain you can make an upcoming deadline, please feel free to contact us.

If you are not submitting an article for alignment with a particular month's theme, you can submit it at any time. If it is accepted for publication, we'll schedule it for a time that best fits with the other content planned for the upcoming months.

We will contact you within a week to let you know we have received your submission. All submissions for a given publication month may be held for review until the beginning of the month prior. For example, if you are submitting an article for intended publication in September, we will review it by the first week of August.

We may accept your submission as is, we may ask for revisions, or we may inform you that the submission is not the right fit for our publication. Possible reasons a submission would not be accepted include the following: the topic is not appropriate for our audience; we already have articles covering the topic of your submission; or the format, style, or tone is not appropriate for our publication.

If your article is accepted for publication, we will add it to our editing schedule. We edit all articles for mechanical correctness, clarity, flow, and consistency with our voice and style. Once an article has been edited, one of our editors will send it to you for review and approval.

We have a limited number of articles we can publish each month. When we are unable to accept an article that may be of interest to our audience, we strive to find other opportunities within AACSB to highlight the ideas or best practices shared.

AACSB Insights articles are regularly included in AACSB’s weekly email newsletter, AACSB LINK, as well as shared on the association’s social media channels. Contributors are also highly encouraged to share their articles among their networks.

Once the article is published on AACSB Insights, contributing authors may post the finalized article to their own content platform or that of an affiliated school/organization (e.g., LinkedIn article, school/organization blog or newsroom, other professional blog or magazine), provided the following attribution is included, with a hyperlink to the article: "This article originally appeared on AACSB Insights."

Contributed content is eligible for reposting on AACSB’s partner websites as part of a content-sharing agreement. Authors may request in writing to have their contributions excluded from this consideration. Learn more about AACSB's strategic partners.

Each month, we publish writeups of news curated by our editorial staff in two recurring sections: People and Places and Research Roundup.

For the People and Places section, published once a month, we look for announcements about new or outgoing deans or presidents/CEOs, new programs or courses, major donations, collaborations or partnerships, new or redesigned facilities, and upcoming case competitions. We do not publish news about school/organization events, business school positions other than the dean, faculty honors and awards, student or alumni honors and awards, or anniversaries.

For the Research Roundup section, also published once a month, we look for descriptions and analyses of recently published or forthcoming innovative research occurring at business schools.

To send your news or research summaries, please use our AACSB Insights submission form.

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