HULT LAUNCHES NEW RESEARCH STRATEGY
SCHOOL: Hult International Business School COUNTRY: US
Hult International Business School has announced that it is launching a new research strategy through dedicated labs to increase the impact of the school’s research. All the labs are geared towards generating impactful contributions to research to help link business and education and each has a focus on sustainability and the good of society. To start, the school has announced there will be three main labs: Futures Lab: Focused on global risk mitigation and future readiness, designed to strengthen resilience and readiness for a complex, tech-driven world. Research examines how current trajectories of technologies will change societies, businesses, governments and individual lives through the agency of behavioural sciences and data. Sustainability Lab: Focused on industrial and societal sustainability transitions, designed to accelerate the changes needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Research aims to connect practitioners and researchers to speed up transitions by advancing knowledge and learning in organisations and across industry ecosystems. Coaching Lab: Aligned with the Hult Ashridge Centre for Executive Coaching and focused on building bridges between science and practice and promoting rigorous
foundations in the executive coaching field. Building on an established research base, as well as via a qualitative plus quantitative approach, research explores new ways of working, new applications for coaching and new ways of delivering impact. To coincide with the launch of the labs, Hult has also launched a post-doctoral fellowship programme where they hope to bring in new fellows who can support and drive the research labs. Hult Futures Lab director Mark Esposito explained that the aim was to “use research to chart a roadmap for a more sustainable, equitable and prosperous future. Based on ground-breaking research and global fellows’ inputs, the lab will strive to design better global systems, seeking to strike a balance towards a viable and resilient world.” The labs will bring together both internal and external colleagues, with the hope that there will also be input from the external world. The labs will be partnered with other labs and research centres around the world to enhance the value of the research. Esposito believes that the research “should become more disciplinary and part of a larger set of initiatives, that span from curricula design to electives, to executive education and consultative reports that can inspire corporate and public sectors in their daily decisions.” EB
10 | Ambition | MAY 2023
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