23rd June 2021, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Africa is set for another first – a mid-year graduation in July. There will be 19 virtual ceremonies held between 12 July and 27 July, with most of the 728 graduates coming from executive education programmes, ranging across Henley’s unique ladder of learning, but also including the open…
It’s been a challenging year-and-some, what with the isolation of lockdowns, the inconvenience of masking, and the various Covid conventions that have made life inconvenient and stressful. It’s no wonder, then, that many of us are suffering from what psychologists are labelling “pandemic fatigue”. We just “don’t want to know about it” any more. A…
It’s an easy habit to fall into – we have leisure time on our hands, so we reach out for that familiar crutch of contemporary society; the cellphone. Our intentions are to do some lazy scrolling through social media, but what do we encounter? An endless stream of anxiety and anger. As we all know,…
18th June 2021, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa is the highest ranked business school campus in Africa in the inaugural Open Syllabus/ Financial Times survey on Teaching Power announced at the end of May. There are about 13000 business schools worldwide and Henley was ranked 17th globally in this survey. A total of…
Daily Maverick 168 by dean Jon Foster-Pedley After an appearance on a television show recently I was challenged to back up a claim I made about reasons to be positive about the future for African economies. I was grateful for the challenge as it made me realise that those of us who do see much…
“Pride Month presents us with an annual reminder to be sensitive to the needs of members of the LGBTQ+ community,” urges dean Jon Foster-Pedley. “It’s easy to forget the daily challenges of these family members, colleagues, and peers who constantly navigate a minefield of prejudice, indignity, self-harm, substance abuse and even violence, within their work and living…
26 May 2021, Johannesburg, South Africa. MEDIA entrepreneur Alexander Leibner has been awarded the Dean’s Creative Industries Scholarship to study his executive MBA at Henley Business School Africa. It’s full circle for the seasoned media-man who started his media career while he was still at high school, broadcasting on campus radio at Rhodes Music Radio…
The Star, Pretoria News, Cape Times and The Mercury (Independent Newspapers, Business Report), 28 May 2021 COVID-19 is not just the greatest global public health crisis in living memory; it has also caused the greatest disruption to life as we knew it. One of the first main weapons deployed in fighting the pandemic was to,…
