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BOOK REVIEW
The Disruptive Economics of AI
Rotman economists, Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb, delve deep into the transformative power of artificial intelligence
VIEWPOINT
Valuing High Sensitivity at Work
Vlerick’s Karlien Vanderheyden highlights the benefits and challenges presented by individuals with sensory processing sensitivity
WEBINAR
The Do’s and Don’ts of Workplace Wellbeing
Watch our recorded webinar with Warwick Business School’s Dr Redzo Mujcic to learn how to institute a wellbeing strategy in your organization
RESEARCH
The Road to Meritocracy at Work
MIT Sloan and Berkeley Haas study reveals the barriers to achieving meritocracy in the workplace
BOOK REVIEW
Finding Positivity in Uncertainty
A thought-provoking guide to facing the unknown and turning uncertainty to innovation and gain
VIEWPOINT
Understanding Leadership Psychology
Professor Maja Djikic describes the thinking behind Rotman School of Management’s ‘Psychology of Leadership’ program
BOOK REVIEW
Surviving Jerks at Work
NYU psychology prof on toxic co-workers and what to do about them
BOOK REVIEW
Brave New Business Thinking
Former Rotman Dean, Roger Martin, offers a better way to think about fourteen essential aspects of management
RESEARCH
Addressing Severe Uncertainty
HEC Paris’ Professor Brian Hill offers valuable guidance at a time of economic, geopolitical, and environmental uncertainty
BOOK REVIEW
Leading Wisely in Turbulent Times
Leadership guru Kets de Vries lauds reflection and self-knowledge as the royal road to wisdom—the quality leaders need above all others
BOOK REVIEW
Feeling the Love—at Work
Amelia Dunlop’s guide to elevating human experience (and performance) at work by nurturing worth and growth through love
RESEARCH
Productive Meetings and Conversations at Work
With 71% of senior managers reporting their meetings to be unproductive new research offers a better way
VIEWPOINT
What’s Your Problem?
Warwick Business School’s Dr Umar Taj shows how tightly defined problem statements are key to using behavioral science in helping organizations ‘do’ culture change
VIEWPOINT
Developing High-Potential Executives at Orange
Orange Business Services places its trust in HEC Paris to train its high-potential employees
VIEWPOINT
Creating Customer Centric Leaders
How HEC Paris designs executive programs on customer centricity
WHITE PAPER
5 Capabilities for Strategic Flexibility
Vlerick Business School report describes the strategic flexibility needed to set a trajectory for growth in turbulent times and the skills required to develop it
CORPORATE PRACTICE
Developing Talent at MBDA Missile Systems
How MBDA partners with HEC Paris Executive Education to attract, nurture and retain top talent - a decade of trust and collaboration
WHITE PAPER
Responsible Capitalism Post-Pandemic
UVA Darden professors consider seven key issues businesses must address to be ready to help solve global environmental and societal issues
VIEWPOINT
Embracing Inclusive and Equitable Business
HEC Paris’ Marieke Huysentruyt explains why organizations should open their minds to inclusive business
VIEWPOINT
Innovation to Meet Social and Eco Challenges
HEC Paris’ Laurence Lehmann-Ortega explains how to capitalize on innovation to respond to social and environmental challenges
WEBINAR
The Great Training Robbery
In this video recording, Cranfield University experts explain how to avoid bad practices and learn five key impact drivers for executive education in your organization
BOOK REVIEW
Understanding the Dynamics of Power
An essential guide to how power works and how everyone can harness it to make change happen
VIEWPOINT
Pandemic Driven Innovation and Transformation
HEC Paris’ Christopher Hogg describes how the crisis stimulates innovation and accelerates the economic transformation of companies – and how to capitalize on it
VIEWPOINT
The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Explain Their Work
Senior Lecturer in Management Communication at MIT Sloan, Miro Kazakoff, explains why—even armed with insights based on sound data—leaders are still often failing to persuade their audience
VIEWPOINT
How to Master Upward Influence
Professor Connson Locke offers practical advice and tips on how to make our voices heard, influence people with more power than us―and create positive change
VIEWPOINT
5 Core Skills to Harness Data and Make Better Decisions
LSE’s Dr James Abdey considers five essential skills for professionals seeking to analyse data in more meaningful ways, communicate more effectively using data, and to make better, data-informed decisions
VIEWPOINT
The Power of Purposeful Leadership
How Purposeful Leadership is turning businesses into something bigger and better
VIEWPOINT
Building a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
For HEC Paris Professor, Matteo Winkler, diversity is about headcount, whereas inclusiveness is making each head count
EVENT
Stimulating Radical Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Warwick Business School’s James Hayton helps corporate entrepreneurs find new markets, technologies, and business models
EVENT
The Supply Side: New Models in Executive Education
Impressions, insights, and takeaways from Day One of UNICON’s Directors’ Conference 2021, hosted by Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC)
EVENT
Apprenticeship Levy [Live Panel Event]
Upskilling UK Senior Leaders to Face Tomorrow’s Challenges
VIEWPOINT
How Is Exec Ed Innovating with Program Design to Meet the Needs of the Modern Learner?
A new Accelerated Management Development Program from Michigan’s Ross School of Business shows how top business schools are evolving their offering to better meet the changing requirements of executives taking the step up to leadership
VIEWPOINT
Digital Learning at HEC Paris
A new way of learning that is attracting more and more companies
BOOK REVIEW
Being Brave at Work
Darden’s Professor Jim Detert describes the value of courage in the workplace and how it can be developed through practice
VIEWPOINT
The Challenge of Data Transformation in Companies
HEC Paris’s Julien Lévy considers a central driver of the digital revolution
VIEWPOINT
A Double Helix Structure to Drive the Digital Economy
MIT Sloan’s Paul McDonagh-Smith describes the ‘twisted ladder structure’ of our physical and digital worlds, that can help organizations shape the digital economy
BOOK REVIEW
Learn Digital Body Language
A timely guide to communicating with positive emotional connection in the digital space
VIEWPOINT
Post-pandemic Executive Education
In a recent letter to the deans of its business school members, Lise Hammergren, UNICON Board Chair, offers her observations on the current state of university-based executive education and a view of the future
VIEWPOINT
5 Keys to Managing Virtual Teams
St Gallen’s Prof. Winfried Ruigrok describes five essential things you need to know about managing your team virtually
REPORT
A Net-Zero Covid Recovery Plan
Oxford SSEE publishes a net-zero emissions pandemic recovery plan
EVENT
Inclusion: Shaping Executive Education in the 4IR - Part One
Impressions, insights and takeaways from Day One of UNICON’s Team Development Conference 2020 hosted by Thunderbird School of Global Management
EVENT
Impact: Shaping Executive Education in the 4IR - Part Four
Impressions, insights and takeaways from Day Four of UNICON’s Team Development Conference 2020 hosted by Thunderbird School of Global Management
RESEARCH
A Downside to Great Expectations
Study shows how setting high performance expectations can often be counterproductive
WEBINAR
Inclusive Growth Leadership
Schulich’s Brett Richards and Renée Bazile-Jones explain how best to develop adaptability, inclusiveness, and growth in your organization, in this webinar recording
RESEARCH
Post-Pandemic Scenario Planning
IMD’s Michael Wade offers help to business leaders planning for an uncertain future
VIEWPOINT
10 Ways to Stop Bullying at Work
Even remote workers experience bullying—now is the time to stamp it out
VIEWPOINT
Artificial Intelligence for Executives
The University of St. Gallen’s Stephanie Schoss discusses the mindset, skills and knowledge needed for executives to thrive in an AI enhanced world
VIEWPOINT
Distance Learning Reimagined
Warwick Business School’s Dot Powell, Pietro Micheli, and Tim Wray discuss what the past few months have shown about remote learning—what’s effective and how organizations and individuals can benefit
RESEARCH
Avoiding a Social Media Firestorm
A recent study offers insights for detecting, preventing and mitigating online firestorms
VIEWPOINT
Post-Pandemic Leadership Challenge
St Gallen’s Prof Winfried Ruigrok describes the three-part strategic and human capital challenge posed by COVID-19
BOOK REVIEW
When More Is Not Better
Roger Martin’s new book considers how obsessive ‘economic efficiency’ is undermining democratic capitalism
VIEWPOINT
Making the Recovery Green
Hult Ashridge’s Matthew Gitsham and Julian Thompson discuss the potential for a post-pandemic economic recovery to have a green focus
VIEWPOINT
Rapid Innovation in Executive Education
MIT Sloan’s Peter Hirst considers the impact of the pandemic and how it will spur innovative approaches to executive learning
VIEWPOINT
Create a Digital Learning Strategy the MIT Way
Paul McDonagh-Smith sets out the principles and possibilities for digital learning in organizations—based on the creation of MIT Sloan’s own digital learning strategy
VIEWPOINT
Negotiation Strategies Online and Offline
London Business School’s Professor Gillian Ku offers strategies and tactics, employing planning and cooperation, for conducting complex negotiations
PODCAST
Gig Leadership – Taking Turns at the Tiller
Professor Bernd Vogel concludes Henley’s recent series of essential podcasts with an introduction to the concept of rotating leadership where many people spend an interim period at the helm
VIEWPOINT
Coaching for Effective Leadership
Hult Ashridge’s Erik de Haan discusses leadership shadows, derailment, and the positive impact of executive coaching
WEBINAR
Explore vs. Exploit for Renewal and Recovery
Oxford Saïd’s Prof Marc Ventresca, looks to strategic innovation to re-imagine the firm—and the economy—re-balancing exploration and exploitation
WEBINAR
Negotiation Fundamentals for Business Leaders
In this webinar recording Gillian Ku, Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School, offers practical insights on the strategy and science behind effective negotiations
VIEWPOINT
Innovation Readiness for the New Normal
Rotman School of Management’s Dr. Angèle Beausoleil on how to navigate barriers and stimulate the innovation needed to survive and thrive
WEBINAR
Leading an AI Boosted Business
In this recorded webinar, Georgetown University’s Professor Jose-Luis Guerrero explains how the nature of leadership and employment will be changed by greater use of AI in workplaces
NEWS
Resources from UK Business Schools for Lockdown and Beyond
Three useful online responses to the COVID-19 crisis from some of the UK’s leading business schools
VIEWPOINT
No More Nine-to-Five
Three Rotman experts discuss the challenges and opportunities for those leading a remote workforce
VIEWPOINT
Intersection of Data & Human Experience
Columbia’s Omar Besbes explains the importance of bringing human experience and domain expertise to data analytics
VIEWPOINT
Complex Drivers of Employee Motivation
Columbia’s Stephan Meier on why motivating employees is more complicated than you think
VIEWPOINT
Managing with Machines
Rotman School of Management’s Matthew Mitchell shows how AI and machine learning can transform complex business challenges into new opportunities
VIEWPOINT
Actors and Architects of Ethical Behavior
Creating a workplace culture conducive to making ethical decisions
VIEWPOINT
Executive Presence
MIT Sloan’s Rob Salafia explains the importance of executive presence and offers advice on how to develop it
VIEWPOINT
Aston Goes Multi-Disciplinary in a Complex World
Combining business school and university-wide expertise to support innovation, creativity and capability development in organizations
VIEWPOINT
Business for Society and the Environment
IMD's Frédéric Dalsace believes a new era of business engagement with CSR can mean real change
VIEWPOINT
Hypotheses not Predictions
Ryan Hamilton discusses the value of scientific thinking in business
VIEWPOINT
Learning for Disruption
When no strategy is safe, learn from those who have experienced the same intensity of change as you, says Patrick Faniel, Managing Director at Management Centre Europe (MCE)
VIEWPOINT
Coaching’s Bright Future
Henley’s Jonathan Passmore discusses the benefits and impact of individual and team coaching
BOOK REVIEW
Building China/West Business Relations
Barbara Xiaoyu Wang’s ‘Guanxi in the Western Context: Intra-Firm Group Dynamics and Expatriate Adjustment’ reviewed
VIEWPOINT
Black Swan Events in Project Management
Schulich’s Doug Boebinger asks: Do project managers adequately prepare for unforeseen events and their consequences?
VIEWPOINT
Design Thinking Complex Problems
St Gallen faculty Rachel Brooks and Jennifer Hehn on how design thinking combines human-centricity and rapid prototyping for complex problem-solving
CORPORATE PRACTICE
Making Leaders
emlyon and Capgemini France collaborate to deliver an innovative customized executive program
VIEWPOINT
Nobody Does It Better
How family companies quietly outperform other companies (even in today’s disruptive environment)
RESEARCH
Value of Dyslexia in Organizations
A new EY report highlights the value of dyslexic capability and neuro-diversity for organizations of the future
EVENT
Leading Organizational Resilience
Professor David Denyer and Dr Elmar Kutsch combine for an engaging presentation at the latest Leadership Series event from Cranfield School of Management @Brand Exchange, London
RESEARCH
Achieving a Circular Economy
Saïd Business School report offers a framework for systems change and a guide towards a circular economy for collaborating organizations