Article Submission Guidelines | AACSB

Submission Guidelines

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 must not be to promote or advertise a specific vendor solution, platform, program, school, organization, initiative, or individual (with exceptions made for sponsored content). While references to these things may be used to illustrate broader insights or trends, the content should remain impartial and informative. Submissions that read like marketing materials, sales pitches, or promotional brochures are not suitable for our platform. AACSB member organizations that are interested in sharing content that highlights their specific offerings or solutions can consider posting in our Solutions Library. Non-member organizations that have a product or service that would be of interest to business schools can learn more about becoming a business member at www.aacsb.edu/businesses/business-membership.

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 school/organization to three times per calendar year (with exceptions for sponsored content) and from the same individual to two times per calendar year.

Initial drafts should be submitted six weeks prior to the start 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 19 May. We can occasionally offer some flexibility, so if you aren't certain you can make an upcoming deadline, please feel free to contact us. Please also note that even when an article is submitted by the deadline, we may still consider it for a later month, depending on submission volume and editorial needs.

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.

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.