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Socially responsible and SOCIALLY SAVVY
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
‘AMBA’s passion for responsible business’
egular readers of Ambition will know how much I enjoy a tenuous link or two when outlining the features of the magazine and showing how they fit together into a perfectly curated thread of content. This month, I’m delighted to say things are no different and I’m about to attempt to frame June’s theme as being the role of Business Schools in developing leaders with a social conscience as well as leaders who are social media savvy. We’re getting social. Regular readers will be just as familiar with AMBA’s passion for responsible business and the role of business graduates in making a difference in the world. This edition introduces you to three projects that are doing just that. First, we learn of a group of graduates from Nyenrode Business University who have set themselves the goal of creating a digital ecosystem where professionals, students, academics, entrepreneurs, and NGOs can build a network with like-minded individuals and work together towards solving social impact issues that they care about (page 12). We then introduce you to two winners from the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2021 – MBA Student of the Year and MBA Entrepreneur of the Year. Our MBA Student of the Year, Mital Thanki (interviewed on page 34), tells Ellen Buchan about her aim to enhance the lives of at least one million children in her lifetime, inspired by her own story of resilience and self-preservation; while MBA Entrepreneur of the Year, Oluwatobi Ajayi (page 40), explains how he is working towards improving the image of Nigeria and the African continent in the world, through his automobile enterprise. Connecting the dots, in our strategy section (page 28), we ask what Business School leaders are doing to improve students’ social media literacy and – more broadly – arm their graduates for the social media age, to help them become ‘social leaders’ and share their transparent, authentic and trustworthy messaging with the
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