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WE JUNK jargon, we kill clichés, we’re simple enough for clever people. Three simple concepts but ones that you’re going to be seeing a lot more of on billboards in and around Johannesburg soon. But they’re far more than that. Dejargoning education isn’t an advertising campaign, it’s a real statement of intent. I speak from…
FOR JUST over a year now, Henley Business School Africa has been busy training filmmakers across the continent, 60 of them in fact, drawn from 13 countries. It might seem a strange fit for a business school, but it actually makes perfect sense. If creativity and innovation hold the key to Africa’s development, then film…
Graduation Ceremony for MTF’s 1 st Batch of Academy Students! Along with Certificates of Completion, various students rewarded with exciting opportunities including placements & internships with the New York Film Academy College of Visual & Performing Arts (NYFA) in New York; an Indian Film Industry ‘Bollywood’ production internship with Nihilent Limited in India, a ‘Nollywood’…
FOR 30 years the world’s been consuming and spending like never before, but it’s about to come to an end. The globe’s literally a village, but between Brexit and Trump – with a whole bunch of smaller players on the side – we’re entering an era of isolationism. Chuck in the 4th industrial revolution, fluctuating…
The great complexity theorist Ralph Stacey once defined most conventional strategy as simply an anxiety-reducing device for managers in a world of mostly unfathomable complexity. The confidence of having a plan at least calms the nerves enough to allow co-ordinated movement, and yes, with movement results can start to happen. It’s not strategy experts that…
5th August 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa JON FOSTER-PEDLEY TO SAY that we are overjoyed by Henley Business School’s back-to-back PMR platinum award for the best MBA business school in the country would be an understatement. We are ecstatic, because it underscores the importance of the journey we set out on in 2011 and affirms the milestones…
SOUTH Africa needs businesses, great businesses, to help transform the economy to address our pressing socio-economic issues. To do this it needs great business leaders, but not all business leaders are managers or C-suite executives, in addition to these some of our most important business leaders are company directors. Directors play a critical role ensuring…
HENLEY Business School Africa hosted a well-attended breakfast panel and discussion on ‘The importance of dignity in ethical leadership’ on campus on Wednesday 16 July 2019. Business leaders, current students and alumni were able to hear Rabbi David Lapin, the renowned South African born US based business ethicist; Columba CEO Tracy Hackland; RMB CEO James…
HENLEY Business School Africa is proud to release ‘What is the Future of Work in South Africa? Examining the side hustle economy. This ground breaking study was conducted in the first part of 2019, building on a similar study conducted last year by Henley Business School UK, to establish the prevalence of the gig economy…
“HENLEY Business School Africa is in mourning along with the rest of South Africa – and indeed the world at the news of the death of Johnny Clegg,” says dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley. Johnny Clegg has a special place at Henley Business School Africa, he gave his name to the first ever scholarship for…
