Jon Foster-Pedley is dean and director of Henley Business School, Africa and vicechair of SABSA. Jon has turned his wide-ranging skills and airforce focus to create a triple-accredited business education. Jon Foster-Pedley hails from England originally, born into an English family with deep aviation pedigree. His father, he tells me, was a pilot and a…
Details8th June 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa is the MBA best business school in South Africa – for a third year running, according to the PMR Awards which today announced that it had awarded the school its , highest award, the diamond arrow, again for 2020. “We are absolutely over the moon…
DetailsPublished 26 May 2020 on The Daily Maverick by dean Jon Foster-Pedley AS THE CLAMOUR rises for the Lockdown restrictions to be eased so that we can kickstart South Africa’s economy and avert financial catastrophe, there’s one question that few are asking; what kind of economy is it that we want? South Africa pre-COVID-19 was…
DetailsHERE is something that should scare and excite you in equal measure; in two years’ time, 27% of our economy will consist of new types of jobs that we can’t even imagine yet – not counting the ones whose extinction will be speeded up by COVID-19 and 4IR. But here’s the thing, our universities can’t…
Details20 May 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School is in the top 25 in the world when it comes to executive education – and the best in Africa at providing this. The authoritative Financial Times of London has ranked Henley at 24 in the world, number 16 in Europe, number five in the UK…
Details14 May 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa. TWO South African business schools and a South African bank have won a highly coveted global award – the EFMD Excellence in Practice Gold Award for Executive Education. They are first team to ever do so in this category in Africa since the award’s inception – beating off the…
Details13 May 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa. TENDAI Mtawarira went back to school this week – from the comfort of his home in Durban – as the inaugural recipient of a special scholarship from Henley Business School Africa on a programme designed to help sports icons successfully transition from the change room to the boardroom. “It…
DetailsSOUTH Africa’s three week lock down is going to take its toll in ways many never expected, especially for people forced to work from home. The divorce rates have spiked in China after the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus last November, while France has seen a surge in domestic violence cases. The omens for South…
DetailsIT’S SAID that sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you. It’s not totally true. Communication, particularly miscommunication, can actually kill you. In March 1977, 583 people perished on the Canary island of Tenerife when a KLM Boeing 747 crashed into a PanAm Boeing 747 on the runway. It was…
DetailsThe Saturday Star,18th April 2020 – John Vlismas feature WHAT does a business do if it’s caught in the middle of a 21 Day lockdown? If your executive in charge of marketing is South African comedian John Vlismas, it’s simple; you give away the product for free. Except this is no joke. Ever since the lockdown…
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