26 November 2020 Daily Maverick KIMI Makwetu was inspired to become an auditor by his mother, Maureen, who ran a meat distribution business in Gugulethu. “I was exposed to ways of checking how and whether money was complete or not,” South Africa’s former auditor-general told Business Day’s Claudi Mailovich, remembering how his mother had always…
Practice, principles and stance: Your journey is just beginning CHRIS DALTON Today we honour and celebrate those who have completed the MBA at Henley. After all, completion was the whole point of starting. As you stand where you stand today, you may feel you have climbed up a very long, and sometimes very hard cliff…
John Vlismas Marketing Executive, Henley Business School, Africa. The benefit of working at a good school is that you’re encouraged to practice what you teach. The Henley marketing team has been in Beta mode since March. The interplaying complexities of COVID, media being in flux and evolving modes of learning all conspired to render us…
The title of this article is inspired by a conversation I had with Barry van Zyl about music and performance. It occurred to me that this is a placeholder for life, as regardless of one’s art or endeavour, this is how we navigate continuous learning and mastery. At any moment we are the sum of…
HENLEY Business School Africa will be conferring degrees and diplomas on a record number of graduates later this month – in a virtual ceremonies that will run over two and half weeks starting on Monday November 23. It promises to be a logistical spectacle matched only by the business school’s seamless transition to a virtual…
JOHANNESBURG, Monday 16 November 2020. – Henley Business School South Africa has expressed its deepest sympathies to the Makwetu family on the sudden passing of Kimi Makwetu, South Africa’s outgoing auditor-general. Makwetu, 54, died on Wednesday 11 November 2020 after a long and valiant battle with lung cancer that he bore with incredible grace and…
Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 November 2020. Henley Business School Africa has gone on the warpath to fight fraud, protect its students and provide transparency. It has just announced that it is the first business school in Africa to offer digital certification for graduates of its programmes – certification that guarantees the security of its qualifications…
Henley Business School and Afrinolly Creative Hub have been selected by MTN Nigeria to provide entrepreneurial training and coaching to the musicians and artists competing in popular reality talent show Y’ello Star. The show is an open competition created by MTN, a leading telecommunications and data services provider, to discover, nurture, and launch music talents…
Article written by dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley JACINDA Ardern’s recent landslide victory in New Zealand is a victory not just for gender activists, democrats and the caring conscientised, but also for common sense. Her leadership of the tiny country with its population of only five million spread across two islands, literally at the bottom…
Henley’s Glossary of Everyday Business Terms Henley Business School compiled a few handy business terms that form part of the #HenleyLife Ethos. Here are the terms to add to your vocabulary: Agility Economy Asynchronous Autonomy Black Swan Bloom’s Taxonomy Continuous Learning Convergence Corporate Activism Digital Literacy Dissonance Divergence Ethics Governance Intellectual Bravery Interrelationships Intrapreneur Irreverent…
