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Alternative angles AND PERSPECTIVES
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
‘Our first East-meets-West virtual event’
elcome to this special bumper edition of Ambition , created for our 2022 Global Conference. This month, we’re illustrating the gravity of the AMBA network from a few interesting angles, and offering alternative perspectives. First, we catch up with commentary from our first ever East-meets-West virtual event, which was held in January this year, in association with the China Data Analysis and
Research Hub. In a four-hour long session, during which the sun set in the Eastern hemisphere and rose in the West, we explored how the shift to the Pacific region is reflected in the development and success of current Business School models. We were joined by a myriad of speakers from across Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America in a global and innovative session. You can read about some of the key commentary from this unique event on page 12. We are also launching a series showcasing winners and finalists from the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2022. IE Business School won an AMBA & BGA Excellence Award for Lifelong Learning. I spoke to the School’s Dean Lee Newman (page 18) about IE’s ‘Turn It Around programme’ to support students and alumni during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. I was also pleased to catch up with the winner of MBA Student of the Year, Monique Farquharson (page 34), to talk about her about her varied career, what’s next on the agenda, and how she exemplifies her life motto, ‘fail fast, learn fast’. Finally, as the AMBA accredited Schools network continues to grow apace, our international community of students and graduate members has now exceeded 60,000, and to mark the milestone Ellen Buchan spoke with our 60,000th member Enoch Opare Mintah, an award-winning Ghanain University of Liverpool MBA student, to find out about his career so far, and his drive to make a positive impact on society. You can read more on page 40. David Woods-Hale , Editor, Ambition
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unable to live their lives to the fullest, and are seeking to revolutionise the financial sector. In another recent episode we met Lynn Yap, who has had a varied career – from lawyer to investment banker and now mentor. Yap shared insights from her book, The Altruistic Capitalist, and outlined the mindsets that leaders should develop to have a positive impact on the planet, as well as people. She spoke about how leaders need to develop mindfulness, curiosity, and grit to solve social problems, at the same time as being successful in business. www.associationofmbas.com/podcast
To live in today’s world, you need money; yet the majority of people do not have access to it. The formal financial system is taken for granted, but it represents the barrier to financial inclusion. To discuss this worrying phenomenon, we spoke with Erlijn Sie, author of Reimagining Financial Inclusion . During a recent episode of The AMBITION Podcast, Sie shared insights from her book, which includes stories from 13 game changers who are thinking outside of the financial box. She explained how these organisations are acting on behalf of the excluded people who are
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