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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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The demographic reality business schools are ignoring
The Demographic Reality Business Schools are Ignoring
Society’s demographic shape is quietly shifting from bell-shaped to a light bulb, yet business schools have barely noticed. Dan Pontefract...
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The business school human capital system: fostering a climate of wellbeing and organisational health
The Business School Human Capital System: Fostering a Climate of Wellbeing and Organisational Health
The attention on employee health and wellbeing in business has grown over the past decade, with a rapid rise in...
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Woxsen business school’s ‘oven-ready’ graduates: a distinctive approach with an integrated excellence, collaborative culture, socioeconomic impact model for india
Woxsen Business School’s ‘Oven-Ready’ Graduates: A Distinctive Approach with an Integrated Excellence, Collaborative Culture, Socioeconomic Impact Model for India
This article explores the case of Woxsen Business School, which operates outside the traditional IIM hierarchy and aims to produce...
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Greater access to higher education does not necessarily guarantee more jobs or more wealth
Greater Access to Higher Education Does Not Necessarily Guarantee More Jobs or More Wealth
Published in July 2025, Paxter’s global comparative study, Higher Education, Revenue & Employability, challenges a widely held belief: expanding access...
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Redefining the purpose of management for the 21st century
Redefining the Purpose of Management for the 21st Century
Global employee engagement is plummeting, burnout is rampant, and half of all employees are considering leaving, with "poor management" a...
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How business schools, employers and gen z are shaping the future of work
How Business Schools, Employers and Gen Z are Shaping the Future of Work
Together Generation Z, business schools, and forward-thinking employers are reshaping the future of work. A new report from CEMS –...
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The experience paradox: why employers want what students can’t yet give
The Experience Paradox: Why Employers Want What Students Can’t Yet Give
Despite being highly motivated, many students struggle to gain work experience due to limited opportunities—a global issue known as the...
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How does a company help change a nation?
How Does a Company Help Change a Nation?
Abu Dhabi's Vision 2030 aims to transition from oil and gas to a knowledge-based economy. ADQ, the sovereign wealth fund,...
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The paradox of success. Successful stagnation?
The Paradox of Success. Successful Stagnation?
The paradox of success without fulfilment presents professionals with a confusing reality. Despite the prestige, material success, and professional advancement,...
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Shadows of the past: navigating unresolved trauma in organisations
Shadows of the Past: Navigating Unresolved Trauma in Organisations
Nearly one billion people globally struggle with mental health issues, significantly impacting cognition, emotions, and behaviour. These challenges have major...
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Ensuring ‘good work’
Ensuring ‘Good Work’
The development of work in the digital age is often referred to as ‘New Work’. It would be better to...
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Six strategies to enhance international recruitment
Six strategies to enhance international recruitment
Cara Skikne conducted a series of interviews with professionals in the higher education space to find some fresh ideas to...
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“Beyond”: An ambitious next-level talent development programme
“Beyond”: An ambitious next-level talent development programme
OCP needed to explore new business models that would help it diversify. IMD and the Africa Business School (ABS) were...
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African acceleration
African acceleration
A programme designed by Standard Bank and Henley Business School Africa was called Acceleration and formed part of the Bank’s...
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The lived experience model of work
The lived experience model of work
The FutureWork Forum has created a model to represent work as part of a “lived experience” and not as a...
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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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The virtuous circle of specialisation and career evolution
The virtuous circle of specialisation and career evolution
Offering faculty better recognition and rewarding them for their actual contributions and for what they are passionate about, by Valérie...
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The evolving role of the “professions”
The evolving role of the “professions”
What does it mean to have a |”profession”? Ansgar Richter explores the evolution of the concept and how business schools...
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Recruiting and talent development in a post covid-19 world
Recruiting and talent development in a post COVID-19 world
Amber Wigmore Alvarez explores how Business School Career Services are evolving to meet the needs of talent and corporate partners.
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Strategic digital leadership in a rapidly changing world
Strategic digital leadership in a rapidly changing world
The increasing challenge of digital disruption demands faster business innovation. This makes capabilities in strategic insight and effective project implementation...
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Employer views
Employer views
Whatever tomorrow’s business school looks like, it will need to continue to help students advance their careers, whether that’s at...
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The leadership challenge of talent management
The leadership challenge of talent management
Talent management is a key area where leaders are or should be, focusing increased amounts of their attention. For too...
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The future of diversity and inclusion: can leaders scratch beneath the surface?
The future of diversity and inclusion: Can leaders scratch beneath the surface?
How do you entrench diversity into the business value chain and take into account the organisation’s diversity of thought, an...
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Tomorrow’s leaders
Tomorrow’s leaders
Everything you always wanted to know about motivating the next generation but might have forgotten to ask.
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Delivering experience to achieve value
Delivering experience to achieve value
By understanding and attending to employee experience in a far more sophisticated manner than in years past, HR can expand...
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Chinese graduates: the employability disconnect
Chinese graduates: The employability disconnect
As more and more Chinese students study internationally, business schools must look at how they enable graduates to obtain jobs...
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Efmd gn launches the career professionals development institute
EFMD GN launches the Career Professionals Development Institute
EFMD Professional Development and Highered will launch a new training programme in autumn 2019, the Career Professionals Development Institute (CPDI).
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Making hr future proof
Making HR future proof
Amber Wigmore Alvarez asks if we are educating tomorrow’s talent effectively. 
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The trigger for institutional change
The trigger for institutional change
Zita Zoltay Paprika, Dean of the Corvinus Business School & Metka Tekavčič, Dean of the Faculty of Economics (FELU), University of...
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