ISSUE 1 • 2025 • VOLUME 79
FEATURES
22 | VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School’s Anastasia Kynighou on the arduous yet rewarding journey of designing and developing a new MBA programme from concept to launch
12 | COVER STORY IN CONVERSATION WITH... MORRIS MTHOMBENI
The dean of the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science reveals how challenges can be transformed into advantages in the Global South and details the school’s
emphasis on nurturing humane‑centred leaders
26 | LIFE BEGINS AT 40 Emlyon dean Isabelle Huault and directors Frédéric Delmar ( pictured below ) and Alexander Bell discuss the school’s spirit of entrepreneurship, as it marks four decades of start-up support with the launch of a new institute for innovation
16 | CONNECTING IN KUALA LUMPUR Highlights from the AMBA & BGA Asia Pacific conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, including discussions around the need for business schools to act as agents of societal change
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