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Donald Trump and the contemporary leadership deficit.Read Jean-Pierre Lehmann's latest comment on the American presidential race: http://link.imd.org/flvnz
Read Jean-Pierre Lehmann's latest post on his Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jplehmann/2016/05/07/donald-trump-and-the-contemporary-leadership-deficit/#7d27efac5809
Nik Gowing and Chris Langdon have written an excellent challenging report entitled: Thinking the Unthinkable: A New Imperative for Leadership in the Digital Age. One of the key lessons is that in this extremely confusing and unprecedented transformative era in which we are living, most leaders the a...
Managers in the energy industry or responsible for procurement of energy for large end-users, join the 2016 Erasmus Energy Forum in Rotterdam on 18 May. Examine the transition towards decentralised sustainable energy with leading thinkers from business, academia and politics. www.erasmusenergyforum.com
How do you leverage your knowledge and strength? Women seeking to develop their career path and maintain her professional and personal interests needs to be familiar with negotiation tools and techniques. Learn how to negotiate successfully on Thursday 16 June! Here’s more:
Are you a woman seeking to develop your career? Find out how the Negotiating for Women workshop can make you familiar with negotiation techniques.
The 26th MBA Tournament was a huge success! Congratulations to the 17 business schools who took part in events over the weekend! #MBATGameOn
Rythm and great energy around during the closure of the MBAT 2016!
MBAT is proud to be sponsored by Prodigy Finance, Uber, iHealth and DassaiSake.
We are delighted to be ranked in the top 100 universities for the third year in a row in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings! http://bit.ly/1T6DoZV
“For every entrepreneur, there will be a time when things get bleak and dark. That’s when you decide what you’re made of.”
Solving complex problems when risks are high…
Think you're an ethical shopper? WBS Professor Kevin Morrell looks into how values play an important part in the UK's shopping habits, and how marketers can use this information to increase sales. http://bit.ly/1WiGddL
The power of diversity: How a team of Kellogg students leveraged its members' diverse backgrounds to design a talent management strategy for the 21st century http://kell.gg/1Xh8Pni
Kellogg students took first place at the Executive Leadership Council's 2016 Case Competition by developing a talent management strategy that centered on diversity.
Choosing to play the dual role of an ambitious MBA student and an attentive mum at the same time is probably not everyone’s cup of tea. But as choice, I believe it is doable. Here’s why I think so.
A typical MBA candidate is full of ambition and bursting with talent: A stellar professional record, outstanding grades and exceptional leadership are the minimum qualifying criteria. To then choose to crack the GMAT and commit to spending tens of thousands of pounds, and a year of your life to get an MBA is not an easy decision to make. It’s no wonder that, in the past, top MBA schools have largely been filled with ambitious and single males from affluent backgrounds.
Brilliant women, in spite of their education and ambition, often choose not to invest in an MBA, and arguably, those who desire motherhood have even more reasons not to go. Having a child is no mean feat. If you are an ambitious twenty-something, having a kid (or two) often means opting out of a demanding commitment at a critical time of your professional life.
USING A MATERNITY BREAK TO GMAT PREP
Though this might not seem to be the easiest decision to take, I believe choosing to be an MBA mum can be a rewarding choice. As a mother of two little toddlers, I received innumerable discouraging comments from well-meaning family members and friends when I mentioned that I was using my maternity break to prepare for my MBA. But for me, my maternity break was a perfect time to study and try something new.
After having achieved some professional growth and spending a maternity break with my little girls, this was the best time for me to pause and re-equip myself professionally, before committing to future professional challenges by pursing my MBA. This year so far has been fantastic for me and my family. Being a student means that I can decide my schedule and choose electives that best suit me, my ambitions and my family–a flexibility that a job in finance or technology might not have been able to provide.
MBA mums, are in most ways, no different from any other mother. My fellow MBA mums at Cambridge and I, like others, juggle classes, clubs and careers, but we also chat childcare and toddler tantrums in the Common Room. While we are lucky to be able to afford childcare and have supportive partners and families, when our regular childcare fails, sometimes our toddlers end up crawling around in one of the study rooms as we study macroeconomics and corporate governance.
DEVELOPING A ‘RESILIENCE FACTOR’
I also juggle my role as the president of two clubs at CJBS, and I often choose to go home over the lunch break to catch up with my little one. Nursery PTA takes priority over coffee catch-ups and weekends are all about parks, play-dates and then late-night revisions. The secret behind keeping up the balancing act is the “resilience factor” that we all have. The Cambridge MBA teaches you about multitasking, being patient and the ability to negotiate.
As an MBA mum, I am never apologetic about my ambition and desire to excel. It often takes more focus and intention on my professional and personal demands to ensure that I can maintain the balance. While I might not be attending the Cambridge balls and exotic events, the opportunity to learn at an outstanding academic institution and make some lifelong friends is priceless.
With an offer to join Amazon as a Senior Manager later this year, I continue planning childcare as well as prepare professionally for my new role months in advance. It is tiring, crazy, yet a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from my brilliant cohort as well as enjoy my little ones’ childhoods.
Dipika Sawhney is finishing up her one year MBA at the Cambridge Judge Business School this spring. Before beginning her MBA, Sawhney worked as a journalist and was on the founding team of multiple startups. She has two daughters who are currently seven and three.
DON’T MISS: A HARVARD MBA & WORKING MOTHER REFLECTS ON LIFE’S CHOICES
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Meet Mark Fosdick, a former United States Navy Lieutenant and current Part-Time Online Hybrid MBA student from Shippenville, Pennsylvania. After serving as a nuclear trained Surface Warfare Officer for six years and on two different ships – the USS SHOUP, a Guided Missile Destroyer, and the USS CARL VINSON, a Nuclear Aircraft Carrier – Mark decided to start exploring new opportunities and came to the Tepper School to earn his MBA with a concentration in operations.“The support is incredible at Tepper and Carnegie Mellon University in general,” Mark said of the Tepper School community. “Each class has a nice mix [of people], which includes other veterans to help newly transitioned soldiers and sailors fit in quickly.”
Mark also earned a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2015, and is excited to be back at the university and pursuing new opportunities! #TepperVets #MilitaryAppreciationMonth
4/28/16 The Peace Corps has chosen Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business to join its Paul D. Coverdell Fellowship Program, the school announced this week. Coverdell Fellows will receive a rigorous business education that also prepares them to make a positive impact on the community through careers in for-profit, non-profit, or non-governmental organizations.
Georgetown McDonough says it will waive the application fee for all returned Peace Corps volunteers who apply to the program, and those admitted to the full-time MBA program as a Coverdell Fellow will receive a minimum of $10,000 in tuition scholarship funding per year as well as the ability to apply for graduate assistantships.
Read more via: http://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2016/04/28/georgetown-mcdonough-partners-with-peace-corps-for-mba-scholarship-program
5/1/16 Indore: Government Arts and Commerce College (GACC) is now all set to be the state’s first government-run college to offer MBA course from the upcoming academic session of 2016-17.
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has given its nod to the college administration to run the course. Now, the college administration will write it to state higher education department for no-objection certificate and later write to Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) seeking permission for counselling. They will also ask Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya for affiliation of the course.
Project coordinator, Prof. Ashish Pathak said, “It is indeed good news for students who wish to study MBA at an effective cost. GACC will be the first government college in state to run MBA course.”
Read more via: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/GACC-to-be-first-govt-college-to-offer-MBA/articleshow/52061510.cms
Dual degrees in dual continents – shining collaboration from the FinTech Challenge!
Everpine Capital and JD.com CEO’s serve as judges in competition …
A new working paper by Prof. Adair Morse found that asset fund managers who handle money for large institutions such as pension funds beat the market.
One select group of active asset fund managers is actually earning their keep, outperforming the market substantially between 2000-2012.
Rossers are pretty incredible storytellers!
Ralph Nader probably has no idea how much he’s impacted the life of Ross Alum Erica Sivertson, MBA ’16. But it’s kind of huge.
“What makes this program unique and valuable is that it’s tailored to minority entrepreneurs to help them determine which digital investments to make in their business,” says Fred McKinney, managing director of minority business programs at Tuck.
If you’re a business owner, the digital revolution is a phenomenon you just can’t ignore.
Professor Gianpiero Petriglieri has a rational reason why the least rational leaders make the most sense.
Anxiety.
In every aspect of our daily lives, from the way we work, shop, communicate, or socialize, we are both consuming and creating vast amounts of data. In fact, “[e]very two days we now create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.”¹ These daily activities create a trail of digitized data that is being stored, mined, and analyzed by firms, like yours, hoping to create valuable business intelligence.Much of the promises of such data-driven policies have failed to materialize, however, because executives find it difficult to translate data into actionable strategies. Indeed, “Data are widely available; what is scarce is the ability to extract wisdom from them.”²
This course aims to bridge the gap by instilling in executives a general intuition for data-driven decision making and equipping leaders with the tools and techniques necessary to analyze large databases and use effective data visualization to gauge key metrics.
Data-Driven Decision Making is a must for executives who want to leverage analytics to make better business decisions.
For more information on this short course for executives, please visit the course webpage: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/executive-education/short-courses/schedule/short-course-program-17 …
An alum explains how he's turning old tires into new business.
Carbon black is everywhere. The dark, powdery substance can be found in inks, dyes, polymers, rubber, and tires-almost everything that looks black has used carbon black in its production, says Martijn Lopes Cardozo (MBA 2000) , CEO of Netherlands-based Black Bear Carbon.
In discussion led by young professionals, the need for a fairer, more sustainable and innovative NHS was highlighted at a Youth Health Parliament session hosted by the Business School.Read the full story: http://imprl.biz/21NlajC
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