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lectures, or other types of opportunities and competitions.” MBA alumna Roseline Nkanta is now an operations manager at a renewable energy company, focused on helping businesses to decarbonise. “I remember my lecturer telling us that if we don’t take care of the environment, there will be no environment to do business in. The course reminded us that businesses have to think beyond profit.” • Leading The Future is a collaborative project between AMBA & BGA and BlackRook Media. Watch the video in full at amba-bga.com/business-school-docuseries-season-two
learning. “MBA students have a number of opportunities to work on projects with a sustainability angle to them. It’s a core part of the programme, for example, on the Business & Action module, which is one of the first opportunities the students have to apply theory to practice.” Projects such as sustainability-led initiatives conducted with Northumbrian Water over the past four years take place in partnership with real business and form a critical part of the school’s industry links, as Sadi details. “We work with more than 300 businesses a year in terms of what’s being taught in the business school, whether that’s projects and guest
also the first cross-cultural working group I was part of, collaborating with people from four different countries.” Santos França highlights how the challenge has helped prepare him for his future career, pushing him to work at pace and in a team with people from different backgrounds. “I felt like this is how real business life is. We need to be prepared to work with people from different parts of the world and tackle potential issues in a short timeframe.” Meanwhile the school’s corporate relations manager, Steven Sadi points to the topic’s importance in relation to industry interactions and experiential
Top : Corporate relations manager Steven Sadi ( left ) outlines the importance of sustainability in relation to industry interactions and experiential learning. Bottom : MBA programme director Lucy Hatt stresses the need to instil the importance of sustainable and responsible leadership into students. BLACKROOK AT WORK BlackRook Media has delivered documentary video content across EMEA, APAC and LatAm since 2011. As well as its work with AMBA & BGA, BlackRook partners with industry leaders such as Pensions Europe, Sustainable Travel International and the World Bioenergy Association. The company’s event TV teams also offer global editorial and technical services, including live streaming for the financial services conference, Sibos
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