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A Blueprint for Smart Decisions
Rotman School of Management’s Anne Bowers discusses how to develop a strategy for competitive advantage
WEBINAR
How to Arrange Remote Work to Boost Employee Satisfaction
In this video recorded webinar Georgetown McDonough’s Jason Schloetzer discusses how remote working arrangements affect employee satisfaction and retention
RESEARCH
How Future Fit Companies Excel
Research from Vodafone and LSE reveals a close correlation between being ‘fit for the future’, commercial performance, and social impact
VIEWPOINT
The Disciplined Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is a non-linear yet systematic process that can and should be learned to help solve our biggest challenges. MIT’s Bill Aulet shows us how it can be done
VIEWPOINT
The ‘Third Way’ to Innovate
In a brutally competitive market sometimes a great product just isn’t enough. MIT Sloan’s David Robertson uses the corporate journey of LEGO® to provide a fascinating look beyond ‘incremental’ and ‘disruptive’ innovation, and offers a ‘third way’ to innovate, when a great product isn't enough
VIEWPOINT
The Danger of False ESG Claims
University of St Gallen compliance expert explains how good ESG (Environment Social Governance) intentions create legal, ethical, or reputational liability
RESEARCH
Equality Drive by Women in Finance
A WIBF and LSE’s framework for promoting gender equality in the finance sector offers lessons for all
WEBINAR
How Can We Improve Algorithmic Fairness?
In this video recording, LSE’s Kate Vredenburgh provides essential insights into fairness and the fair use of algorithms in AI decision-making
RESEARCH
The Return of Craft Work
New research shows how ‘craft’ as a way of work organization can offer solutions to today’s workplace challenges
WEBINAR
Multi-Generational Change Agents: New Leadership Lessons from Family Business
In this video MIT Sloan’s John Davis offers universal insights into leadership, learned from successful family enterprises
REPORT
Redesigning and Reimagining Executive Education
Impressions, insights and takeaways from UNICON’s Annual Workshop 2021, hosted by the University of St. Gallen’s Executive School of Management, Technology and Law (ES-HSG)
VIEWPOINT
Igniting Innovation
HEC Paris’ Jean-Rémi Gratadour offers valuable keys to meeting the challenges of innovation in disrupted times
VIEWPOINT
Competition Law vs the Tech Giants
LSE’s Niamh Dunne, Associate Professor of Law, discusses the challenges facing competition law as it seeks to deal with the evolving problems posed by Big Tech
VIEWPOINT
Business Model Innovation Meets Organizational Design
Influential author and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, Bill Fischer offers concrete tips on leading business model innovation—and reveals the importance of organizational design in the process
FROM THE MAGAZINE
Developing Leaders eMagazine - Issue 37
Scoping the way forward for executive education — how the pandemic has accelerated changes already afoot in the corporate learning sector and what the future holds
VIEWPOINT
Apprenticeship Levy for Leaders
Now in its fourth year the Senior Leader Apprenticeship, a leadership pathway co-created by large UK employers including Aon and Cranfield School of Management and powered by the Apprenticeship Levy is beginning to form a dynamic new playbook for others to follow
REPORT
Developing Future Leaders - New Report
A new report from IEDP highlights the critical skills needed in business today―and the latest routes to acquiring them
VIEWPOINT
Creating Intelligence in Times of Uncertainty
Why you should be making decisions right now
EVENT
Financial Analysis for HR Professionals
A new Rotman initiative aims to give HR executives enough financial savvy to contribute effectively at the highest level
VIEWPOINT
Innovation, Purposeful Leadership and Inclusive Growth: The Three Pillars that Drive Us Forward
Anne Valérie Corboz, Associate Dean HEC Paris Executive Education, in conversation
BOOK REVIEW
The Imaginative Organization
How to unleash new ideas, creativity and innovation to create your company’s future
WEBINAR
How To Diagnose Misalignment to Improve Post-Pandemic Recovery
Join Saïd Business School’s Dr Jonathan Trevor, on Wednesday 14th April, to learn how to lead strategic re-alignment for post-pandemic success
RESOURCE
Partnership for Sustainability
An exemplary learning collaboration between Michigan Ross School of Business, The University of Michigan’s ERB Institute and The Dow Chemical Company
RESOURCE
IWD: Choose to Challenge Gender Bias
A complimentary e-book for female entrepreneurs on International Women’s Day from the Cranfield School of Management Executive Education team
VIEWPOINT
Embracing Change
Aston’s Corporate Client Solutions team embraced the change of a pandemic-enforced pivot to virtual. The lessons they learned show a path to flourishing results in customised executive development delivered online
VIEWPOINT
Diversity, Inclusion and Disability
Thom Dennis and Jane Hatton offer 12 ways to stop tokenism and break the stigma of disability in the workforce
Applying Behavioural Science
An authoritative guide to becoming a behaviourally informed organization
BOOK REVIEW
Inside the Leader’s Brain
Wharton professor Michael Platt reveals how neuroscience can transform leadership and team performance
REPORT
Stimulating Strategic Philanthropy
Cambridge Judge Business School report calls for philanthropists in the Global North and Global South to collaborate better beyond the pandemic
EVENT
Innovation: Shaping Executive Education in the 4IR - Part Three
Impressions, insights and takeaways from Day Three of UNICON’s Team Development Conference 2020 hosted by Thunderbird School of Global Management
WEBINAR
Algorithmic Business Thinking
MIT Sloan Executive Education’s Paul McDonagh-Smith explains how algorithms and the technologies behind can drive your organization forward
VIEWPOINT
How L&D Steers Organizational Change
Cranfield University’s Wendy Shepherd and Steve Macaulay explain what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to L&D’s role in transformational change
WEBINAR
Building (Virtual) Presence
Rotman’s Maja Djikic shows how to build trustworthiness and rapport through virtual communication [webinar recording]
VIEWPOINT
The Promise and Perils of Social Media
MIT Sloan’s Professor Sinan Aral on the rise of fake news and how we tame it
WEBINAR
Online Learning and Leadership
From ‘Doing’ Leadership Online, to ‘Being’ an Online Leader: How to Achieve Deeper Learning Levels in the Emerging Reality [Webinar recording]
VIEWPOINT
Executive Education in a Future World
Cranfield Executive Development’s Camilla Jonsson and Mark Threlfall in conversation
VIEWPOINT
Group Coaching to Unify Executive Effort
INSEAD’s Manfred Kets de Vries explains how group coaching can create forces for change to refocus conflicted executives on strategy implementation
RESEARCH
Barriers to Rebuilding Trust in Organizations
Henley study reveals how regaining trust depends on improving both quality of services and the quality of engagement
VIEWPOINT
A Strategizing Framework for the Digital Era
Hult Ashridge’s Dr Mike Cooray and UCL’s Dr Rikke Duus offer a framework for re-thinking organizational competitiveness in digital spheres
VIEWPOINT
Deeper, More Resilient Learning
The Wharton School’s Mike Malefakis asks: What Next for Exec-Ed?
VIEWPOINT
A Pivot to Online with Long-Term Value for Executives
Cranfield School of Management’s success delivering online learning during the pandemic augers well—not only for the now, but for the future of executive education
VIEWPOINT
Attention, Energy, & Momentum: Thriving in a New Normal
Managing attention spans and maintaining high energy in our increasingly digital daily lives
VIEWPOINT
The Purpose of Answers
Oxford’s Educational Approach for the 2020s: A Conversation with Andrew White and Caroline Williams of Oxford Saïd Business School
VIEWPOINT
A Refreshing ‘New Normal’ for Leadership Development
Saïd Business School’s Steve Mostyn considers the future of executive education with lessons learnt from the lockdown
BOOK REVIEW
Economics Beyond the Pandemic
A review of ‘Economics in the Age of COVID-19’ - the new book from Rotman School of Management professor Joshua Gans
VIEWPOINT
Learning from Those Living Through Change
Hult Ashridge’s Professor Ilze Zandvoort on supporting employees through the emotional cycles of complex change
EVENT
Virtual Roundtable: Emerging from the Crisis
View a recording of this thought-provoking virtual roundtable—when leading voices from the sector discussed talent development in a New Normal
NEWS
Pivoting to Live Online Executive Courses
How MIT Sloan Executive Education is jumping the digital learning curve to forge a whole new path for participant engagement and program delivery
PODCAST
My Boss is a Robot – Help!
Ben Laker opens Henley’s new series of essential podcasts with his, mostly positive, perspective on 2030’s predicted half-human half-digital workforce
VIEWPOINT
Creating a Crisis-Ready Board
Rotman’s David Beatty discusses the measures boards should take to ensure survival and seize long-term opportunities
NEWS
Executive Education for After the Crisis
Schulich SEEC suggests now is the time to build a bridge to your future with executive education
VIEWPOINT
Better Connections in the Workplace
Hult Ashridge’s Guy Lubitsh on why making connections within your organization is so important, and a new model and approach that can help
VIEWPOINT
How B2B Marketing is Learning from B2C
B2B marketing practice will follow the lead set by B2C marketers in the years ahead
RESEARCH
Uncovering the Drivers of Gender Inequality
Columbia’s Mabel Abraham examines the root causes of the gender pay gap and the reasons why there are fewer women than men in senior management
RESEARCH
Developing Mindsets for Growth
Hult Ashridge’s Nadine Page explains why growth mindsets really matter, and how we can develop them in individuals, teams and organizations
VIEWPOINT
The Three Shifts of Leadership Mastery
Columbia’s Hitendra Wadhwa explains how to reset mindsets and practices to address the challenges of leadership today
VIEWPOINT
Actively Fostering Compassion at Work
8 lessons to help create a workplace culture where compassion is embedded into systems and practices, and where individuals are treated with dignity and care
VIEWPOINT
Apprenticeship Levy with Impact
How Aston University is developing middle-management competence with the Apprenticeship Levy – and without
VIEWPOINT
Mind-and-Machine
Kellogg School of Management’s Brian Uzzi on how AI can offer the best of both worlds
VIEWPOINT
FinTech in Large Organizations
RSM’s Daniel Liebau on how to make innovation and change happen
VIEWPOINT
Exploring the Efficacy of Monetary Incentives to Motivate Employees
Professor Karen Sedatole explains the four core principles of how and when to use pay and bonuses to improve employee performance
RESEARCH
‘Eco’, ‘Ego’ and ‘Intuitive’ Leadership – A new leadership code for the 21st century
Leaders who have discovered the power of integrating 'eco', 'ego' and 'intuitive' intelligence drive stronger business performance
RESEARCH
New Responsibilities in the Digital Age
New research offers guidance for businesses on engaging with digital technology responsibly
RESEARCH
Pros & Cons of a Four-Day Week
Henley Business School study of the QuadGen workforce shows the benefits of flexible and four-day working
VIEWPOINT
Having a Voice and Giving a Voice
The importance of speaking up and encouraging your team to speak up
RESOURCE
Executive Education at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
RSM's latest catalogue of programs highlights some of the key issues business people care about and business schools aim to address
RESEARCH
Narcissism in Leadership
RSM researcher reveals how power can exacerbate narcissistic tendencies in people with high levels of testosterone
WEBINAR
The Best Kept Secret About Profit
Cass Business School’s Danielle Lyssimachou shares her insights into the best kept secret about profit! A secret every non-finance leader should know
RESEARCH
Leading Vs Managing Big Projects
5 core elements and 8 survival skills needed to lead complex projects
RESOURCE
How to Close Strategy/Execution Gaps
Download Vanderbilt University’s essential 'Learning Tool' to drive transformational strategy
RESEARCH
Working Well with Robots
How an immersive virtual environment can counter robotophobia and help organizations get the best out of AI
RESEARCH
When Competition at Work Turns to Conflict
INSEAD study of Formula 1 offers insights on defusing conflicts at work
VIEWPOINT
Forecast Documents for Business
HEC’s Etienne Krieger explains the value of business forecasting, planning, and budgeting
VIEWPOINT
Networks for Entrepreneurship
HEC’s Etienne Krieger stresses the value of trust in building support networks for entrepreneurial projects
BOOK REVIEW
How Women Leaders Reach the Top
New guidebook draws on the experience of 30 high-achieving women leaders to show the way
BOOK REVIEW
Find the Right Digital Business Model
MIT experts pose six questions to help build the next-generation enterprise