{"id":6355,"date":"2014-03-18T17:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/?p=6355"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T20:00:06","slug":"the-emba-knowledge-fair-sharing-expertise-and-building-the-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/2014\/03\/18\/the-emba-knowledge-fair-sharing-expertise-and-building-the-network\/","title":{"rendered":"The EMBA Knowledge Fair \u2013 sharing expertise and building the network"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/2014\/03\/18\/the-emba-knowledge-fair-sharing-expertise-and-building-the-network\/knowledge-fair-emba_opt_opt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8799\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8799 aligncenter\" alt=\"knowledge-fair-emba_opt_opt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/03\/knowledge-fair-emba_opt_opt-473x300.jpg\" width=\"473\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As you might expect from a program whose participants are ranked best in Canada, and who average 18 years of work experience and 12 years of management experience, there\u2019s a tremendous amount of knowhow in the class even before the professor steps into the room. A key philosophy of the EMBA McGill-HEC Montr\u00e9al is to ensure that knowledge gets shared.\u00a0 Part of that comes through program design, where time is built in to each module for experience sharing. And part comes through the emphasis on networking and the importance of the class network.<\/p>\n<p>The EMBA McGill-HEC Montr\u00e9al Knowledge Fair, during which the class spends two half days soaking in each other\u2019s areas of expertise, taps both of these aspects, by sharing ideas and knowledge and cementing the network.<\/p>\n<p>How does the Knowledge Fair work? Everyone in the class volunteers their own areas of expertise, and indicates topics in which they are interested in learning more.\u00a0 Using that information, topics were chosen for \u201cKnowledge Booths\u201d, for a fair held over two afternoons.\u00a0 The topics are diverse, ranging from <i>Catastrophe and business continuity planning, <\/i>to <i>The art of asking the right question, <\/i>to <i>China business strategies update<\/i>, and many more.\u00a0 Everyone in the class will have the chance to learn from at least 7 experts on topics of interest to them.\u00a0 The cumulative experience of the class is hundreds of years, and the Knowledge Fair gives everyone a way to directly access that experience.\u00a0 The fair\u2019s orientation is practical: how is a particular topic dealt with successfully in business today? What are the learnings from real experiences? What REALLY works?\u00a0 The Knowledge Fair gives the class a chance to learn from someone who\u2019s \u2018been there\u2019 \u2013 asking questions, sharing experiences, leveraging each others ideas to build new ones.<\/p>\n<p>The Knowledge Fair is an important element in the practice-oriented, issue-driven learning approach we adopt in the McGill-HEC Montreal Executive MBA program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might expect from a program whose participants are ranked best in Canada, and who average 18 years of work experience and 12 years of management experience, there\u2019s a tremendous amount of knowhow in the class even before the professor steps into the room. A key philosophy of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3702856,38,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8802,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions\/8802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}