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Celebrating excellence in A NEW ECOSYSTEM
EDITORIAL Editor and Director of Marketing and Communications David Woods-Hale d.woods@associationofmbas.com @davidpaulwoods Art Editor Laura Tallon Content Editor Tim Banerjee Dhoul t.dhoul@associationofmbas.com Insight and Communications Executive Ellen Buchan e.buchan@associationofmbas.com CORPORATE Head of Commercial Relations Max Braithwaite m.braithwaite@associationofmbas.com Commercial Partnerships Manager Emily Wall e.wall@associationofmbas.com
‘The results make for some fascinating reading’
Drumroll please; take a deep breath, because there is much to unveil in this edition of Ambition : First, the shortlists for the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards are included from page 14. The finalists in each of the 10 categories have demonstrated determination, focus, ambition, integrity and strategic ability. Some entries were moving, some surprising – but all were inspiring. From almost 200 entries, our shortlisting panels have whittled the number down to the shortlists you’ll see later in the edition, and now the judges will score all the finalists anonymously, based on their entry and – in the case of the student and gratuate categories – an additional interview. I’d like to thank our panel of world-class judges for their time, and their passion for business education in making the commitment to nurturing excellence. You can meet all our esteemed judges on our website, but to give you a taster, senior leaders from organisations including IKEA, Coca-Cola, Google, PZ Cussons, WWF, L’Oreal, Accor, Thales, PwC, Rolls Royce, Amazon, Microsoft, European Space Agency, Telefonica, and World Health Organization (WHO) will be among the gurus on a mission to decide the winners. The Schools and individuals who win an award this year, really will have impressed the best of the best. We’ll be celebrating the finalists – and announcing all the winners – at a glittering ceremony in London on 21 January 2022, and you can watch the live stream from anywhere in the world. Find out how to secure your place via the AMBA website at www.associationofmbas.com/amba-bga-excellence-awards-2022. If that wasn’t enough breaking news, we’re also pleased to reveal the findings of the latest AMBA & BGA Application and Enrolment research on page 20. This study, which represents the largest in AMBA’s history, measures the applications, offers, yields, enrolments, modes of study, diversity, and graduations at Business Schools all over the world in 2020, providing a snapshot of the business education ecosystem during a year of unpresedented disruptions. I won’t give any spoilers here, but the results make for some facinating reading. David Woods-Hale , Editor, Ambition
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE AMBITION PODCAST
much movement in the job market at the moment?
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Raj Subrameyer, leadership guru, career coach and tech expert, joins The AMBITION Podcast to share some of his expertise about the recruitment market. Raj also provided exclusive teasers from his bestselling book Skyrocket Your Career , which offers insight into his career journey and how those searching for jobs can stand out and stay motivated in today’s recruitment market.
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