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Strategy lives in the tensions that leadership teams must learn to steward
Strategy Lives in the Tensions that Leadership Teams must Learn to Steward
Seco Tools partnered with Hult Ashridge Executive Education to build the organisational capacity needed for sustained transformation. Rather than treating...
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Rioinspire: building a global pipeline of first nations talent
RioInspire: Building a Global Pipeline of First Nations Talent
RioInspire is Rio Tinto’s global First Nations talent development programme, co-designed with AGSM @ UNSW Business School to accelerate Indigenous...
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Re-imagine tiger: creating a pipeline of strategic leadership and cultural change
Re-Imagine Tiger: Creating a pipeline of strategic leadership and cultural change
Tiger Brands understood that to succeed in a highly regulated and cost-sensitive fast-moving consumer goods sector, it needed more than...
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Dignity by design: how thammasat business school connected learning, livelihoods and opportunity in thailand’s silver economy
Dignity by Design: How Thammasat Business School Connected Learning, Livelihoods and Opportunity in Thailand’s Silver Economy
The Talat Phlu Silver Skills Initiative, supported by Thammasat Business School, connects the knowledge and experience of older workers in...
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The victoria forum: developing ideas for a better world
The Victoria Forum: Developing Ideas for a Better World
The Victoria Forum is a broad initiative to develop solutions to global challenges through dialogue and collaboration. It convenes academics,...
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Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in business education: insper’s example
Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Business Education: Insper’s Example
Interdisciplinarity is increasingly recognised as a core requirement for preparing students, enriching research, and ensuring universities remain relevant to society....
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Decarbonising business schools: from pledges to pathways
Decarbonising Business Schools: From Pledges to Pathways
Decarbonisation is a powerful opportunity for business schools to lead by example and strengthen their long-term relevance. By rethinking operations—from...
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Academic partners in a city-wide doctoral ecosystem
Academic partners in a city-wide doctoral ecosystem
How can a doctoral programme leverage local academic partnerships and interact with peers in the local community? The way such...
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Social education becomes more relevant at fundação dom cabral
Social education becomes more relevant at Fundação Dom Cabral
Throughout its 45 years of existence, Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) has evolved as one of the most relevant business, leadership...
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Co-creating relevant knowledge through regional virtual collaboration: The Latin America Scholars Community case
Co-creating relevant knowledge through regional virtual collaboration: The Latin America Scholars Community case
As business has become increasingly global in nature during the 21st century, business schools’ international collaborations have gained more importance...
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Designing for collaboration
Designing for collaboration
DNB teamed up with IMD to design for collaboration, which was to take place simultaneously and at a robust scale.
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Global responsibility in practice: examples of collaboration, alliance, and inter-dependency from grli partners and associates
Global responsibility in practice: Examples of collaboration, alliance, and inter-dependency from GRLI partners and associates
For GRLI Partners and Associates, alliances and connections acknowledge the truth of our interdependency and the power that comes from...
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Hope in the time of collapse
Hope in the time of collapse
Half of the world’s population is considered “highly vulnerable”. The emergency that so many in the rich world have felt...
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Responsible leadership business model: shifting from competition to collaboration
Responsible leadership business model: Shifting from competition to collaboration
The lack of success in the integration of SDG content in business school education is likely due to the traditional...
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Bridging divides: turf, truth & trust
Bridging divides: Turf, Truth & Trust
Jan-Christian Sorensen introduces the Victoria Forum, a global platform for building consensus toward common goals.
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How a new study-abroad scheme points the way for european business schools
How a new study-abroad scheme points the way for European business schools
The potential of technology, broadening cooperation and accessibility and tearing down barriers, by Josep Franch.
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Business school collaboration: embracing our responsibility towards our planet
Business school collaboration: Embracing our responsibility towards our planet
Concepción Galdón, Knut Haanaes, Daniel Halbheer, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Katell Le Goulven, Mike Rosenberg, Peter Tufano, and Amelia Whitelaw discuss the...
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Learning and teaching boldly: the edtech start-up in the room
Learning and teaching boldly: The EdTech start-up in the room
Paul Somers and Dr Shazia K Jan look at how a partnership collectively pushes the boundaries between higher education and...
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The benefits of collaborative front-line research
The benefits of collaborative front-line research
Jonathan T. Scott and Chenghai Yang explain a front-line research project bringing together an eclectic group of professionals to innovate...
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What does the future hold for europe’s universities?
What does the future hold for Europe’s universities?
A lasting lesson from this pandemic is that collaboration can lead to a more sustainable future for higher education –...
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How traton uses training to accelerate its global champion strategy
How TRATON uses training to accelerate its global champion strategy
The TRATON GROUP brings together four of the world’s leading truck brands – MAN, Scania, Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus and,...
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Managing new business school ecosystems: do’s and don’ts
Managing new business school ecosystems: Do’s and don’ts
Business schools should be at the forefront of supporting businesses in finding their way into the future. Therefore, when business...
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Ecosystem edge: what can business schools learn from businesses?
Ecosystem Edge: What can business schools learn from businesses?
Over the last decade, there has been a renewed and growing interest in deploying loosely coupled networks of companies and...
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Does the dna of business schools need to change?
Does the DNA of business schools need to change?
Arnoud De Meyer argues for a new approach to meet new challenges – transforming business schools into ‘Schools for Business.’...
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What business schools can learn from team sports
What business schools can learn from team sports
Ahmed Abdel-Meguid, Ulrich Hommel and Benjamin Stévenin reason that, like successful sports teams, faculty should be based on synergic skills.
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Efmd excellence in practice awards 2020
EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2020
The 2020 Excellence in Practice Awards (EiP) initiative received over 40 submissions, an all-time record, demonstrating great diversity and showcasing...
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How to close a factory, responsibly?
How to close a factory, responsibly?
Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) had the advantage of having acquired a profound knowledge of Unilever Goiânia ́s business challenges, next...
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Pertamina’s catalyser
Pertamina’s catalyser
The Catalyser programme is the biggest leadership accelerator currently running in Southeast Asia. It represents the growing readiness of Southeast...
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Authentic african leadership requires ‘more than a programme’
Authentic African leadership requires ‘more than a programme’
The brief was as brave as it was wide: take 328 bankers of varying seniority from 20 African countries and...
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Unlocking human potential through learning english
Unlocking human potential through learning English
From 2015 to the present day, ArcelorMittal, alongside EF Education First, has sought to break down these barriers of understanding...
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