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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…
Far too many of us are prepared to speak of a tax revolt. When we do, we merely feed the creation of a lawless society. We need to be the change we wish to see, we cannot expect others to do the right thing when we continue to do wrong. On 1 May 2019, when…
IOL Article, 17 July 2019, Kevin Ritchie MELODY Xaba had always wanted to meet Johnny Clegg, especially when she won a scholarship in his name two years ago to study for her MBA. Now though it’s too late. Clegg succumbed to his five-year battle with pancreatic cancer on Tuesday afternoon 16 July 2019. “I was…
26 June 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa has the most MBA scholarships of any business school in Africa, having awarded 30 this year alone. “It’s one of our competitive advantages, like our family-friendly MBA or our acclaimed MBAid programme,” says dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley. “One day, we hope that we won’t…
26 June 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa has enrolled its biggest ever MBA class this year – 329 students across five intakes, up from 260 last year. For dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley, it’s an achievement that needs to be correctly understood to be properly celebrated. “This is not about us competing…
