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Bernard Baidoo will shortly be relocating to Lagos, Nigeria to start a new role with McKinsey & Company – a new adventure that he believes was made possible thanks to the skills and experiences he gained during his MBA at Imperial College Business School
Ever since the Covid pandemic, there has been a great demand for a more values-led culture as a way of ensuring organisational success. A true values-based organisation is one where its culture is shared by its employees and everything the business does is supported by those values, as Judith Germain explains
The University of Glasgow has formally opened a state-of-the-art building to house its business school, named after former rector and renowned philosopher and economist Adam Smith
Coexistence with AI can unveil untapped business avenues and usher in an era where work isn’t just about livelihood, but also purpose and passion, says Genius Group founder Roger James Hamilton
With a background in medicine and bioengineering, Tom McCartan took an MBA to prepare himself for entrepreneurship in the healthcare sector and says that lessons from a course on the psychology of negotiation became an invaluable asset in his leadership toolkit
We need to shift the paradigm from self-serving feedback practices to those that centre on the recipient’s development, says Olga Valadon. Discover five leadership behaviours that will enhance your emotional intelligence and boost your feedback’s effectiveness
Being prepared for the questions you will be asked before you begin your change journey is vital, say Julie Nerney and Geoff Robins. Here are five common questions that you will need to answer and update on
Cultivating freedom is not the usual title of an MBA course and not top of the list of what leaders normally need. However, says Jill Taylor, as a business community we are overlooking a valuable asset – namely, freedom
The recently held AMBA & BGA Accreditation Forum looked at how to manage multiple school accreditations and heard from seasoned business school practitioners on the best way to handle the accreditation process. Ambition editor Colette Doyle reports
New data analysis reveals how private sector debt is increasingly vital to an understanding of the global economy, yet it is often overlooked by economic analysis as that is normally focused on government debt, even though private sector debt is much bigger. Richard Vague elaborates
“I made friends for life, friends who share a common desire to make their careers stronger,” says University of Iceland alumna Auður Lilja Davíðsdóttir of her MBA experience. Find out how the programme also enabled Davíðsdóttir to implement a timely sustainability strategy at work
Edhec Business School and Ring Capital have launched Generations, an impact seed fund for socially and environmentally responsible start-ups
While the desire to be customer-centric remains, companies’ actions in this area often fail to materialise, says Steven van Belleghem. Discover how small changes to the way you communicate and present projects and decisions can boost your leadership’s credibility
The pursuit of professional doctoral study offers a multitude of benefits that extend beyond the individual and can have a significant impact on society, organisations and the academic community. Here, Dr Geoff Parkes, associate professor of marketing and strategy at Aston Business School and director of the DBA programme, shares his own views on the advantages of professional doctoral programmes, emphasising their contribution to personal and career development, the advancement of knowledge and the broader social context
Professor Peter Todd has been confirmed as the new dean of Imperial College Business School, taking up the position from 1 September for a period of five years. He will succeed Professor Franklin Allen who has served as interim dean at the school since September last year
Edhec Business School, ESMT Berlin and Imperial College Business School are jointly launching the Global Economic Transformation & Technology (GETT) Europe Master’s Degree
What employees ultimately want to know is that they are being treated fairly. Cultivating a culture of transparency, one where colleagues trust each other and its leaders, can go a long way towards establishing our organisations as fair and inclusive, maintains Rameez Kaleem
Workplaces are more diverse than ever – we’re talking not only gender equality and ethnic background, but also generational diversity. In many companies, generational labels are used for development purposes, yet this is such an inadequate and lazy way of looking at things, as Helmut Schuster and David Oxley explain
Bernard Baidoo will shortly be relocating to Lagos, Nigeria to start a new role with McKinsey & Company – a new adventure that he believes was made possible thanks to the skills and experiences he gained during his MBA at Imperial College Business School
Ever since the Covid pandemic, there has been a great demand for a more values-led culture as a way of ensuring organisational success. A true values-based organisation is one where its culture is shared by its employees and everything the business does is supported by those values, as Judith Germain explains
The University of Glasgow has formally opened a state-of-the-art building to house its business school, named after former rector and renowned philosopher and economist Adam Smith
