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26th May 2022, Johannesburg, South Africa. Henley Business School is top in Southern Africa for Executive Education Latest FT ranking puts Henley Business school in the top 20 worldwide for its executive education programmes and number one in Southern Africa in the combined rankings of custom and open executive education programmes. HENLEY Business…
HENLEY Business School Africa has been chosen once again as the research partner for the All Africa Business Leaders Awards. This is a particularly special edition of the awards, because they weren’t held last year because of COVID-19 plus this year will be the 10th time they are presented. “We are overjoyed to be partnering…
Winners of the EFMD Global Excellence in Practice Awards have been announced, and this year a customised executive education programme co-designed by Henley Business School and Standard Bank has won Silver for its innovative learning programme designed to develop future-fit African leaders. __________________________________________________________________________________ 19 May 2022, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa and…
Maybe the time has come to slay the sacred cow that is the five-day working week 16 April 2022, Daily Maverick 168 WHEN South Africans think of employment, it’s normally framed as an issue of unemployment. It makes sense after all the latest figures are terrifying, but what’s as concerning is the tectonic shifts…
26th April, Johannesburg, South Africa. FIGHTING COVID 19 has disrupted everything we once held true. Working from home became a reality, working remotely and asynchronously have become distinct possibilities in a post-pandemic world. But what about working a four-day week? A new study by Henley UK, building on its pioneering study conducted in 2019 before…
6th April 2022, Johannesburg, South Africa. African MBA and master’s graduates will be able to enroll for their doctoral studies at Henley Business School’s African satellite office later this year. Henley Africa is currently pursuing its own accreditation through the Council on Higher Education, but in the interim Henley UK will open a satellite support…
The Daily Maverick, 6th April 2022 THERE’S a small cluster of neurons the size of an almond in the back of each of our heads. It’s called the Amygdala from the Greek word for almond. We never really think about it – until it’s too late. The amygdala controls the body’s fight or…
Following COP26, companies, investors, civil society, regulators, and other stakeholders are looking for guidance from leading academic and industry experts in navigating the shift towards a sustainable economy at the time of stakeholder capitalism and the 4th industrial revolution. Attuned and proactive conscious leadership is critical at a time of global uncertainty and large-scale geopolitical…
JON FOSTER-PEDLEY WHEN WE STARTED this journey of fighting COVID-19, we were all uncertain. There wasn’t a playbook so we all did what we are wired to do as humans; we managed what we could see, touch – and rationalise – in between getting distracted, going down rabbit holes and sometimes becoming overwhelmed. In the…
Is it time to break the traditional barriers to learning and provide vital corporate education? By Jon Foster-Pedley, dean and director of Henley Business School Africa. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-foster-pedley-b83805/ As we pass the two-year anniversary of our first lockdown to battle the spread of Covid-19, the question now is whether education will stay online, go back to…
