OPINION
A fresh look for our FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
EDITORIAL Editor and Director of Marketing and Communications David Woods-Hale d.woods@associationofmbas.com @davidpaulwoods Content Editor Tim Banerjee Dhoul t.dhoul@associationofmbas.com Art Editor Laura Tallon 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
‘We’re just as ambitious as we’ve ever been’
W elcome to your revamped edition of Ambition . This month, AMBA is celebrating the fifth anniversary of our magazine, Ambition for Business Schools. Before we launched this incarnation of the magazine back in 2016, we circulated quarterly newsletters to MBA students and graduate members. But we also wanted to deliver a publication to our Business School network, to connect them to news within the rest of the AMBA family and provide a channel through which views and experiences could be both consumed and shared. Five years, two awards for editorial excellence, the launch of a podcast, the creation of an online content hub, and (now) a design overhaul later, and we’re just as ambitious as we’ve ever been (pardon the pun) to deliver content that’s inspiring, digestible and practical. The style update will take you through distinct sections within the magazine, exploring news, insight, strategy, interviews with Business School leaders, viewpoints from opinion formers in business, and highlights of features from across our other online channels. I hope that you’ll view Ambition as an appointment read, and that you can take some time away from your working day to reflect, catch up with updates from other Schools in the AMBA family, and feel inspired by the ideas and innovations taking place within our network. With that in mind, this month’s cover feature (page 12) explores corporate reactions to heightened forces of disruption during Covid-19, and how Business Schools and executive education can help managers to become future-ready. This starts, the authors say, quite simply, by filtering out the noise and taking some time to reflect and plan. This is your magazine, so if you have any feedback or would like to contribute an article or an interview, please contact me at d.woods@associationofmbas.com David Woods-Hale , Editor, Ambition
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THE AMBITION PODCAST
Another of our podcast guests, Neil Usher, shared his views on living with uncertainty following the publication of his new book, Elemental Change , and offered practical advice on how leaders can deal with change to achieve the best outcomes for the future. The podcast is available on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Google Podcasts, and Deezer. Just choose the platform you prefer, subscribe to The AMBITION Podcast , and you will be notified each week when a new episode is released. www.associationofmbas.com/podcast
The AMBITION Podcast launched in May 2020, and has since added more than 60 episodes to its catalogue, featuring a spectrum of speakers and topics. During the past month, we were joined by Atholl Duncan, author of Leaders in Lockdown . For his book, Duncan interviewed 28 international CEOs and managing directors, from companies that include the New York Times ; Grant Thornton; and Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, to gain their perspectives on business in the time of Covid-19. The podcast explores some of the key themes which emerged from these interviews.
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