WHEN Eskom declared Stage 6 load shedding recently, South Africa convulsed in a state of incredible anger. It’s not that the lights had been cut off – we have been living through this since 2007 in one form or another, it’s not even that we were promised earlier this year that the worst that we…
Why did it take the firing of a finance minister to galvanise corporate South Africa to begin caring about the future of this country? asks legendary journalist and social commentator Richard Poplak. Speaking at the launch of the South African chapter of the Henley Business School’s global alumni network, the editor-at-large of South African online…
Henley Business School has launched an alumni chapter in SA. The UK-based school has alumni in 170 countries, 40 of them in Africa. Its Johannesburg campus accounts for 60% of current Henley MBA students around the world. Jean-Pierre Choulet, Henley’s director of development and alumni, says: “We are a true global business school, with a…
We need to radically transform our economies, which means throwing out the cant of isolationism or of only giving jobs to our nearest and dearest and instead appointing people who don’t look like us, but who are undoubtedly the best qualified for the job, sacrificing the toxic recipe of tokenism and short-termism for the longer-term…
THE SCENES of joy resonating around South Africa this week after the Springboks’ watershed Rugby World Cup final on Saturday are as real and as honest as anything you can ever hope to see in this country. For the first time we don’t just have champions to celebrate, we have champions who know all too…
When we look about us, we see the truth everywhere of the failure of any of the three metanarratives of the 20th century; capitalism, communism and fascism, each one of which has proven to be unsustainable in the end. In fact, if we were to be totally honest the world’s slavish adherence to each has…
THERE’S a reason why we feel stressed, why we feel overwhelmed –and it is not just about the amount of work we have to do. Individual brains react in different ways to the same work environment and understanding this can help us cope better and indeed maybe even help to conquer stress altogether. I first…
The world finds itself in a very different place when a 16-year-old can trigger some of ostensibly the most powerful men in the world and while some are moved, others snarl like playground bullies. How else do you explain Greta Thunberg and her unbelievable address to the United Nations General Assembly? Thunberg isn’t just a…
A RECORD number of Henley Business School Africa graduates will receive their MBA degrees in the UK on Friday, September 20th 2019. Some of them can opt to do it all over again at the end of November in Johannesburg, when Henley Africa caps 943 graduates over a joyous three-day festival of success, honouring successful…
Press release 10 September 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa has noted the rising levels of violence in South Africa with absolute abhorrence and great sadness. Today it recommitted itself to be a safe space for both its students and its staff. “We have always prided ourselves on being a safe space for…
