OPINION
Shining a light on BUSINESS EDUCATION
EDITORIAL Editor David Woods-Hale d.woods@associationofmbas.com 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
‘We’re passionate about raising awareness of your achievements’
he time has come, and AMBA has opened entries for its AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2022/23. We are hosting our awards presentation and Gala Dinner in December this year, so have opened entries a little earlier than usual, to give you plenty of time to pull your sumbissions together and impress our panels of esteemed judges. You can find out more about all the categories you can enter – for your Schools or on behalf of your students – on page 12, as well as the all-important details of how to upload your applications to our digital platform. To help spark some ideas, we’re continuing our series of articles shining a light on the winners and commended entries from our 2022 awards, which took place in January this year. On page 24, you can read my interview with Ellen Touchstone, Associate Dean for Responsible and Sustainable Business Education at the International Business School Suzhou, which won the AMBA & BGA Excellence Award in 2022 for Best CSR and Sustainability Initiative for its campaign ‘15 Ways in 15 Weeks’. The initiative resulted in the establishment of a Sustainable Future Talents student association, ¥13,000 RMB in charitable donations, and hundreds of healthier choices. For faculty, staff, and students, it also led to positive life changes regarding the contributions individuals must make to achieve the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Then, on page 34, you can peruse Ellen Buchan’s interviews with the winners of the MBA Startup of the Year 2022, and MBA Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 – Sotirios Ptochos an MBA graduate of Athens University of Economics and Business; and Ximena Aleman, an MBA graduate of Escuela de Postgrados en Negocios, Universidad ORT Uruguay. These remarkable graduates share their stories of how their MBAs enabled them to make waves and create change in the fields of logistics and transport, and finance, and make for inspirational reading. At AMBA, we’re passionate about raising awareness of the achievements of our network of Schools and their students and graduates, so I encourage you to use our awards to share your success with the world. David Woods-Hale , Editor, Ambition
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE AMBITION PODCAST
Steven D’Souza is a world-renowned author, educator, and speaker. He has written five bestselling books, and joined us on The AMBITION Podcast, to speak about his most recent publication, Not Being . This is not your usual business publication, as its interspersed with poetry and personal stories on transformation and identity. D’Souza spoke about how we need to act as a collective, rather than individuals to be able to survive in the ‘new normal’ business world.
People make up organisations, so why is it that employees are still not treated as the most important asset in business? Simone Fenton-Jarvis is the Workplace Consultant Director at Relogic, and an expert on making organisations thrive. She joined The AMBITION Podcast to teach us how to create workplaces which are centred around the ‘human’, sharing key ingredients for making a human-centric workplace, and some of the steps needed for creating a culture where employees can bring their authentic selves to work.
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