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The higher education enterprise faces increasing strategic, demographic, commoditization, and technological threats in the context of a declining birthrate and rising costs. Yet, the ability of nations to keep raising their standard of living is dependent on its current and future workers, i.e., higher education is an investment that produces long term returns for individuals, industry, and nations. Today, higher education is struggling with its response to the pandemic while searching for escalator(s) to raise productivity and improve quality to address structural competitive challenges. Is the pandemic the circuit breaker that will stimulate higher education to examine its business model? In this panel, we will examine major transformation options that generate significant efficiencies and radical new approaches to meet the human capital needs of today’s society.
Recommended Citation
Mandviwalla, Munir; Watson, Richard T.; Li, Joanne; vom Brocke, Jan; and Patel, Niraj, "Next generation business models for higher education: The pandemic push" (2021). AMCIS 2021 Proceedings. 4.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2021/panels/panels/4
Next generation business models for higher education: The pandemic push
The higher education enterprise faces increasing strategic, demographic, commoditization, and technological threats in the context of a declining birthrate and rising costs. Yet, the ability of nations to keep raising their standard of living is dependent on its current and future workers, i.e., higher education is an investment that produces long term returns for individuals, industry, and nations. Today, higher education is struggling with its response to the pandemic while searching for escalator(s) to raise productivity and improve quality to address structural competitive challenges. Is the pandemic the circuit breaker that will stimulate higher education to examine its business model? In this panel, we will examine major transformation options that generate significant efficiencies and radical new approaches to meet the human capital needs of today’s society.
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