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Developing Emerging Leaders

Professor Julie McCarthy explains the thinking behind Rotman School of Management’s executive program for up-and-coming leaders

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Delivering Strategic Change

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Three key areas of expertise at emlyon business school

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Developing Senior Executives

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Intrapreneurship with emlyon for competitive advantage

emlyon pioneers in inspiring and equipping intrapreneurs for business success

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Delivering Genuine ESG

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Transformational Impact with emlyon

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Glass Ceiling: Still Here, Still Breakable

MIT’s Professor Fiona Murray and Senior Lecturer Elsbeth Johnson offer six approaches to help women leaders break through the glass ceiling once and for all

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Integrated Thinking and Reporting

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Don't Resign, Reassign!

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Getting Men Onside with Gender Parity

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Options for Leadership Learning

In-person, live online, self-paced online, coaching—the options for developing leadership skills are many. CCL experts use research-based evidence to help you find the right fit for your organization

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Leading Strategy Execution

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Developing Healthcare Leaders

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The End of ESG?

LBS professor offers a balanced view of ESG and its significance

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Effective Executive Coaching

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Alleviating Burnout at Work

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Time to Scale Leadership Development

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Valuing High Sensitivity at Work

Vlerick’s Karlien Vanderheyden highlights the benefits and challenges presented by individuals with sensory processing sensitivity

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Should Employers Help with Inflation?

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People Analytics: Applied AI

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Why Workplaces Need a Wellbeing Strategy

Dr Redzo Mujcic, explores the link between organizational performance and workplace wellbeing—and describes the thinking behind Warwick Business School’s ‘Creating Value Through Workplace Wellbeing’ course

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Understanding Leadership Psychology

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Learning Business Readiness

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Diversity with a Difference

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Threats to Cyber Security

Advice from St. Gallen University’s Samir Aliyev amid a gathering storm of potential cyber risk

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If Remote Working Is Here to Stay

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AI and Big Data: Reality Beyond the Hype

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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

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What’s Your Problem?

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Developing High-Potential Executives at Orange

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Creating Customer Centric Leaders

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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

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Think You’re Not Creative? Think Again….

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The Environment and Business Post COP26

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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

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Impact Drivers vs. Impact Destroyers

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The Danger of False ESG Claims

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Tailor-Made Leadership for the Post-Pandemic World

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Embracing Inclusive and Equitable Business

HEC Paris’ Marieke Huysentruyt explains why organizations should open their minds to inclusive business

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Progress in Gender Equality

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Innovation to Meet Social and Eco Challenges

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Why Lifelong Learning is Essential

HEC Paris Executive Education responds to a report, by Dell and the Institute for the Future, that "85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 have not yet been created"

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Conflict Resolution Between Associates

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Pandemic Driven Innovation and Transformation

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Igniting Innovation

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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

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Ecological Transformation at HEC Paris

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Is Your People Strategy Today Fit for Tomorrow’s Workforce?

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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

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How to Master Upward Influence

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No, Robots Aren’t Destroying Half of All Jobs

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Business Model Innovation Meets Organizational Design

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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

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How to Become a Transformational Leader

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Business Benefits of Social Enterprise

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The Power of Purposeful Leadership

How Purposeful Leadership is turning businesses into something bigger and better

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Apprenticeship Levy for Leaders

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Building a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace

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New Leader Integration

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Training Professional Managers

The Aston Professional Managers' Award continues to raise the skill level of the UK’s emerging managers and young professionals

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Stimulating Radical Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Creating Intelligence in Times of Uncertainty

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Financial Analysis for HR Professionals

A new Rotman initiative aims to give HR executives enough financial savvy to contribute effectively at the highest level

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Innovation, Purposeful Leadership and Inclusive Growth: The Three Pillars that Drive Us Forward

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How Is Exec Ed Innovating with Program Design to Meet the Needs of the Modern Learner?

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Scoping the Path Ahead for Exec Ed

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Digital Learning at HEC Paris

A new way of learning that is attracting more and more companies

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The Challenge of Data Transformation in Companies

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A Double Helix Structure to Drive the Digital Economy

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Healthcare Leadership and Innovation

Warwick Business School Professor and former CEO of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Dr Bernard Crump, gives a mid-pandemic assessment

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Embracing Change

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Embedding UN SDGs Into Business Practice

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Diversity, Inclusion and Disability

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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

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Post-Pandemic Corporate Finance

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5 Keys to Managing Virtual Teams

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Time to Embrace the Internet of Things

Ruby Grey explains how the Internet of Things (IoT) will drastically transform how we do business

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The Hazards of Hiring with AI

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2020 Leadership Lessons for 2021

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Work/Exercise Balance

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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

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The Promise and Perils of Social Media

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10 Ways to Stop Bullying at Work

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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

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Executive Education in a Future World

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Distance Learning Reimagined

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Group Coaching to Unify Executive Effort

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Post-Pandemic Leadership Challenge

St Gallen’s Prof Winfried Ruigrok describes the three-part strategic and human capital challenge posed by COVID-19

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Kind, Calm, and Safe: Leading in a Time of Covid-19

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A Strategizing Framework for the Digital Era

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Deeper, More Resilient Learning

The Wharton School’s Mike Malefakis asks: What Next for Exec-Ed?

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Making the Recovery Green

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A Leadership Stimulus Package

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A Pivot to Online with Long-Term Value for Executives

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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

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Leadership for a Nimble Response

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Attention, Energy, & Momentum: Thriving in a New Normal

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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

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Building Back Better After the Pandemic

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The Purpose of Answers

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Negotiation Strategies Online and Offline

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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

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Coaching for Effective Leadership

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Learning from Those Living Through Change

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A Time to Humanize Business

Hult Ashridge’s Vlatka Hlupic presents a people-first model to support organizations ‘do the right thing’, and sustain long-term success

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Innovation Readiness for the New Normal

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Ethical Decision Making in a Crisis

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Creating a Crisis-Ready Board

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No More Business as Usual

A conversation with Tim Wray, Professor of Practice and Director of Executive Education at Warwick Business School

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No More Nine-to-Five

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Better Connections in the Workplace

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Intersection of Data & Human Experience

Columbia’s Omar Besbes explains the importance of bringing human experience and domain expertise to data analytics

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Building a Cyber-Safe Business

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How B2B Marketing is Learning from B2C

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Complex Drivers of Employee Motivation

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Managing with Machines

Rotman School of Management’s Matthew Mitchell shows how AI and machine learning can transform complex business challenges into new opportunities

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Embracing Change to Drive Innovation

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Actors and Architects of Ethical Behavior

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The Changing Role of the University Executive Education Function

A new co-ordination across Aston University is bringing faculty and expertise together from different schools and departments to create and deliver new value and services for clients in a way which other universities can learn from

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The Three Shifts of Leadership Mastery

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Executive Presence

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Aston Goes Multi-Disciplinary in a Complex World

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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

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Business for Society and the Environment

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Apprenticeship Levy with Impact

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Hypotheses not Predictions

Ryan Hamilton discusses the value of scientific thinking in business

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Strategy for a Messy Tomorrow

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Mind-and-Machine

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Learning for Disruption

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Good Bosses and Bad Bosses

Cass Business School’s Dr Amanda Goodall says experts can make good bosses, and bad bosses are less common than we might imagine

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Leadership for Industry 4.0

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FinTech in Large Organizations

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Coaching’s Bright Future

Henley’s Jonathan Passmore discusses the benefits and impact of individual and team coaching

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What’s Not to Like?

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New York Smart; World-Class Ready: Executive Education in the Big Apple

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Exploring the Efficacy of Monetary Incentives to Motivate Employees

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Black Swan Events in Project Management

Schulich’s Doug Boebinger asks: Do project managers adequately prepare for unforeseen events and their consequences?

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Inclusion by Design

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Design Thinking Complex Problems

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Finessing the Family Enterprise

Moonshot opportunities and insights from multigenerational family enterprises

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The Sisterhood Posse

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Mastering Supply Chains

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Nobody Does It Better

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See, Be and Make the Change

Emerging World helps the Kuwaiti Petroleum Corporation get future-ready through human development

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Mindsets for Change

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Having a Voice and Giving a Voice

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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

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Andragogy’s Emotional Element

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Finance for a Sustainable Future

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Problem Statements Solve Problems

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Improving Employee Engagement

Despite better news, CCL suggests 4 areas in which companies can take steps to increase employee engagement

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Virtual Learning at Aston

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Forecast Documents for Business

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Innovating with Real World Impact the Goal for UEFA and IMD at ‘Innovation Week’

Improving the experience of football fans at Euro 2024 with the 2019 UEFA Innovation Challenge Powered by IMD, ECAL and ThinkSport for MBA candidates

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Profit Plus People and Planet

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Networks for Entrepreneurship

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Executive Learning for Life

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Pros & Cons of Blind Recruitment

St. Gallen’s Gudrun Sander considers whether using anonymous job ads and blind-profiles is a good way to foster diversity

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Empowering the Family Enterprise

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Talent Management Goes Agile

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The Entrepreneurial Corporation

CJBS’s Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat discusses how organizations can gain and maintain an entrepreneurial orientation

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5 Keys to a Cybersafe Culture

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Transformative Online Learning

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Leadership Improvisation

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Solving Complex Problems

MIT Sloan, the birthplace of ‘system dynamics’, offers hope for hard-pressed leaders perplexed by complexity

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Nordic Leadership Expedition

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Building Brands for the Future

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Five Strategies for Creative Negotiation

Insights from IESE’s Kandarp Mehta on ‘The Power of Creative Comebacks’ in unlocking negotiations

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Dealing with Emotion at Work

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Innovation and Strategic Stability

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Digital Innovation & Design Thinking

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Leading in Times of Uncertainty

Where AI and the real intelligence of your team intersect

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The Dynamics of Innovation

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Design Thinking in Organizations

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Entrepreneurship

Etienne Krieger shares two important insights for entrepreneurs: for starting up, for scaling up an enterprise

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Championing AI for Business

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Diversity Beyond Fairness

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Women Leaders Vs Less Competent Men

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Executive Education’s Enduring Value

The aims and experiences of four General Management Program participants highlight the value of business school exec ed

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Re-building Trust in Business

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Perfect Your Leadership Story

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The Innovation Navigator

How to leverage digital design and collaborative culture to steer through the ever-expanding innovation landscape

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Promoting Nice Guys and Female Leaders

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Using Pretotypes to Drive Innovation

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Innovation Unplugged

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Upside to an Ageing Workforce

London Business School’s Professor Andrew Scott reveals a ‘longevity dividend’ that companies can unlock to boost productivity

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Beyond Greenwashing

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5 Building Blocks for Industry 4.0

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Architecting Culture Change

CCL's David Dinwoodie discusses the need to craft developmental architecture for ‘leadership at every level’ of your organization

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Executive Education Refreshed

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Enabling Leaders to Develop their People

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Evaluating Executive Learning Impact

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Developing a Digital Culture

HEC Paris’s Kristine de Valck stresses the importance of training and life-long learning in preparing for our digital future

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Emerging World Executive Learning

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A Manifesto for Better Business

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How Blockchain Benefits Business

Rotman’s Andreas Park explains why blockchain technology and machine learning are keys to future business success

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Business Presentation for Leaders

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Solve Big Problems – Sell the Solutions

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The Psychology of Resilience

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Digital Barbarians at the Gate

HEC’s Albert Meige considers digital disruption and the future of the mobility market citing Total, Tesla and Amazon

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A Mindset for Sustainability

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4 Principles for Leading Change

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The Age of the Digital Human

How people and their organizations must develop to get the best from all that digital has to offer

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Mastering Catastrophic Risk

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Managing the Risk of Disruption

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Cultivating Leadership Energy at IMD

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Educating Executives to Change the World

HEC Paris’s ‘Tomorrow is Our Business’ campaign highlights the key themes for transformative business education

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Neuroscience for Business Impact

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New Technologies' Impact on HR

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The Independents’ Challenge

The necessarily uncomfortable role of Non-Executive Directors: Insights from Rotman’s David Beatty

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Collaborate, Compete and Innovate

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May, BREXIT and the Human Brain

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Brexit Viewed as a Major Project

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Being Prepared for Blockchain

St. Gallen’s Julio Prina deciphers some of the jargon behind Blockchain

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4 Levers for an Agile Culture

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Theresa May’s Glass Cliff

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Integrative Thinking Now

Jennifer Riel offers new insights into the concept first elaborated by Roger Martin in ‘The Opposable Mind’ and updated by Jennifer and Roger in ‘Creating Great Choices’

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Functionalization: A Key to Survival

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The Entrepreneur as Explorer

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Data-Driven Decision-Making

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Artificial Intelligence for Beginners

‘Prediction Machines’ a new book by three Rotman professors demystifies AI for the confused and worried

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Non-Profits and For-Profits Come Together

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Is Disruption Really the New Norm?

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A Force for Good in the City

The 'Tightrope Walkers' are fostering power with integrity in London’s business community

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Addressing Workplace Bullying

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In Defence of the Levy

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Connecting for Change in Public Services

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A Hybrid Digital Strategy Is Key

Why your company needs a hybrid online-offline strategy to win the digital disruption battle

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4 Ways to Avoid Burnout

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Closing the Gender Pay Gap

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Leading Effectively in Aerospace & Aviation

How HEC Paris helps aerospace executives broaden their mind-sets to face the challenges of innovation and change

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From Marketing Chief to CEO

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How Women Can Win at Negotiations

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The Shift Towards Purpose

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Preparing for Industry 4.0

7 key recommendations on implementing an Industry 4.0 strategy

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The Rise of Andragogy

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The 3 Ps of Innovation

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Leaders as Explorers

Exploration happens outside the comfort zone – creating new business models, serving new markets and new customers

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Leading in the Digital Age

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5 Predictions for L&D in 2018

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Ideabanks: Networking for Choice

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New Year, New You?

David Pendleton proposes a New Year’s refresh focused on three leadership domains: strategic, operational and interpersonal

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Chinese Leadership: 5 Critical Differences with the West

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Is Strategy a Relevant Concept?

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Staying Ahead in a Volatile World

Why being alert is not enough to beat VUCA and disruption

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Better Key-Account Relationships

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Blended Learning in Practice

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Overwork Can Kill Productivity

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Giving Voice to Values

A renowned resource for enabling values-driven leadership hosted at Darden

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The Changing Workplace

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Creating High Performing Teams

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Best Practice Online Learning

Vlerick’s Benjamin de Wulf discusses the new era of possibility for corporate learning with IEDP

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Giving Meaning at Work

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Learning Ecosystems: Power of Collaboration

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Developing More Responsible Leaders

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6 Drivers of Brand Desire

Be authentic and unexpected – being predictable can kill your brand desire

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Moving up to Leadership

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Quantitative Intuitive Decision Making

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Security Ensures Trust

Security isn’t just about risk and resilience. It’s also about trust and competitiveness

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Supply Chain Innovation

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Six Qualities of Good Leadership

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Women’s Leadership Ecosystem

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Servitization A Model for Growth

How manufacturers are adding value by adding services

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Communication for Leaders

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E-learning for Executives

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Leadership: Mind, Body and Spirit

Understanding the holistic way humans lead in sports, business and the military

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Advanced Management Practice

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Vermeer’s Blue Ocean Thinking

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Data Analysis – It’s a Human Issue

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Ego and Eco Intelligence

6 keys to leadership when the workplace is less a hierarchy and more an ‘ecosystem’ of interconnected teams and individuals

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Leading Corporate Sustainability

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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

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Uber Lessons for Leaders

A CEO’s apology - mistakes are cathartic if leaders actively acknowledge them

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Value Cards and Knowing Yourself

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Leadership Skills for a New Age

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Creating Innovation Cultures

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Collaborative Strategic Thinking

What you're missing by carving out strategy from the top

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Strategic Planning with Foresight

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Engaging Strategy Processes

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Reflection Trumps Uncertainty

Worried about the consequences of Brexit and Trump? Reflection helps us stay positive and effective in uncertain times

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Defeating Rumination

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Big Data – Beyond the Hype

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Engaging with Generation Y

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Action Learning Explained

An executive education process fit for the 21st century

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Non-Executive Director’s Role

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Humans Vs Machines – Mind the Skills Gap