Projects are the basis for meeting objectives at work. In all industries, project management emphasizes control, processes and tools. What Matt Kohut, the co-author of the new book, The Smart Mission: NASA’s Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects. learned by interviewing the leadership at NASA, is how human skills and expertise have a bigger impact than technical tools when it comes to running successful projects.
This session, moderated by Dan LeClair, thought leader in management education and CEO of the Global Business School Network (GBSN), will explore the impact of learning, collaboration, teaming, communication and company culture–drawing on lessons from the book. This session will dive into getting things done, learning together and the three key components: people, knowledge and projects.
About the Speaker
Matthew Kohut is the managing partner of KNP Communications and co-author of Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities that Make Us Influential. He has coached public figures for events from live television appearances to TED talks, and served as a communications consultant for organizations including NASA, the Department of Energy, and Harvard University. He has taught at George Washington University and held a fellowship at Bennington College. His writing has appeared in publications ranging from Newsweek to Harvard Business Review.
About the Moderator
Dan LeClair is the CEO of the Global Business School Network (GBSN). Prior to GBSN, Dan was an Executive Vice President at AACSB International, an association and accrediting organization that serves some 1,600 business schools in more than 100 countries. His experience at AACSB includes two and half years as Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, seven years as Chief Operating Officer, and five years as Chief Knowledge Officer.
Widely recognized as a thought leader in management education, Dan is the author of over 80 research reports, articles, and blogs, and has delivered more than 170 presentations in 30 countries. As a lead spokesperson for reform and innovation in management education, Dan has been frequently cited in a wide range of US and international newspapers, magazines, and professional publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, China Daily, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Economist.
You are invited to enter our competition and support and strengthen diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) skills and knowledge for today’s students, who will become tomorrow’s global business leaders.
We encourage you to submit an academic case study about a DEI-related business dilemma within one or across multiple business disciplines. See Submission Requirements for more information.
Encourage and reward the development and publication of new, relevant academic case studies that focus on DEI in business and/or feature diverse protagonists as business leaders.
Publish teaching materials that will increase student understanding of the unique and realistic challenges of creating, implementing and sustaining DEI in a business or organization anywhere in the world.
Present learning opportunities for students that challenge current ideas about DEI in business and that spur critical thinking for creative pathways for more positive change.
Individual students or student teams (graduate or undergraduate) and other professionals may enter, but must enter in collaboration with a faculty member or instructor from an accredited university/college, in the U.S. or internationally.
Individual faculty/instructors or teams from an accredited university/college (in the U.S. or internationally) may also enter.
Key Dates
January 31, 2023: “Intent to Enter” forms due.
This is the first Woxsen Conference on Sustainability and Cognitive approach for a flourishing world and it intends to share commitments and ideas for taking immediate actions to seize opportunities for meeting the social challenges of the 21st Century.
The cognitive approach encompasses the entire realm of human existence. From learning, information processing, and carrying on complex mental activities to language acquisition, communication, coping with the social environment and making the decision for daily living; every phenomenon of modern society is getting included in the cognitive sphere. Leading a meaningful, sustainable and productive life, be it on a personal or professional front, the contribution of cognitive science to modern society has become undeniable.
We invite students, research scholars, social science researchers, academicians, policymakers, and professionals to attend this conference. All participants are encouraged to submit their abstracts for academic.
MIT Sloan Global Programs is inviting you to 3 free websites in collaboration with QUT Business School. These webinars are a series on The Future Enterprise. Learn more about dates and times below:
The Innovate Enterprise
What sparks innovation in organisations? Who sparks the idea? And where does innovation occur within an organisation?
Join two global innovation and entrepreneurship experts, Fiona Murray from MIT and Robert Perrons from QUT, as they draw on their international experiences and deep expertise to unpack the system of innovation.
Date: 19 October 2022
Time: EST 8-9am, Wednesday 19 October 2022 | EDT 6-7pm, Tuesday 18 October 2022
In this webinar two giants of entrepreneurship learning will explore the mindset and toolset that fuels entrepreneurial ecosystems and cultures within organisations.
QUT’s Professor Rowena Barrett will dive into the mindset required to take an idea to execution, MIT Sloan’s Bill Aulet will discuss what is Disciplined Entrepreneurship and the 24 Steps to a Successful Startup.
Date: 3 November 2022
Time: EST 8-9am, Thursday 3 November 2022 EDT | 6-7pm, Wednesday 2 November 2022
The Sustainable Enterprise
The business of going green is a conversation every leader needs to have.
Join us for a provocative discussion about The Sustainable Enterprise with world-leading agriculture bioeconomy scientist and former CEO of South Africa’s National Innovation Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology, QUT’s Prof Saga Mundree, and Venezuelan economist and co- founder of PriceStat, a daily inflation indicator, MIT Sloan’s Roberto Rigobon.
Date: 30 November 2022
Time: EST 8-9am, Wednesday 30 November 2022 | EST 5-6pm, Tuesday 29 November 2022
The School of Economics and Finance at the University of Witwatersrand invites you to a keynote address by esteemed guest, Prof. Robert Engle, who will share his thoughts on ‘A Financial Approach to Risk Climate.’
About the Speaker
Robert Engle, Professor Emeritus of Finance at the New York University Stern School of business, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on the concept of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH). He developed this method for statistical modeling of time-varying volatility and demonstrated that these techniques accurately capture the properties of many time series. Professor Engle shared the prize with Clive W. J. Granger of the University of California at San Diego.
He is currently the Co-Director of the NYU Stern Volatility and Risk Institute at New York University Stern. In this role, Professor Engle has developed research tool to track risks in the global economy and make these publicly available on the V-LAB website.
Location: Auditorium Chilean Chamber of Construction – Av. Apoquindo 6750, Las Condes, Santiago
Industries worldwide are beginning to accept and discuss the roles that climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and other critical environmental challenges will play in global, national, regional, and urban markets. MIT is setting its sights on research and innovations that will deliver game-changing advances in humanity’s efforts to address these changes.
This conference will highlight the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative’s (ESI) knowledge and expertise on sustainable mining and the clean energy transition.
This year, GBSN in partnership with CIPE PNG with support from the PNG-Aus Partnership, will be leading a workshop that is open to the entire GBSN global community, including university leaders from our Papua New Guinea network.
This workshop will be focusing on the role of higher education in addressing the reduction of gender inequality. GBSN will be inviting leading business and gender ethics leaders from across the network to join guest speaker, Deputy Director of the CIPE Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment, Connie Gonzalez.
The workshop will explore:
What the challenges are for addressing gender inequality in higher education
How gender equality shapes entrepreneurship education
The need for more female role models in higher education
What institutions can do to reduce gender inequality
Best practices for ensuring the progress and success of women
School of Business, Woxsen University in collaboration with University of St. Thomas, MN, USA is organizing the 2nd AI SUMMIT 2022 on 25th and 26th November, 2022. The summit partners are Course5 Intelligence, Advertflair, Apt AI Labs and Taylor and Francis Group. It is supported by AI and Robotics club, Woxsen University.
The summit will have an enlightening panel discussion on the topic “The future of behavioral sciences in AI” and “How AI can help create winning business strategies”. Experts from different corners of the world are going to be the part of this panel discussion.
The summit will also see two keynote speakers sharing their valuable knowledge in the field of AI and its applications across domains.
2nd AI SUMMIT 2022 is also going to conduct a 6 hours hands-on workshop on the topic “Machine learning to augment strategic business decision”.
This summit is going to discuss the upcoming trends of AI and its various applications across domains. The summit shares the vision to provide an enriching experience to the participants and a knowledge sharing platform for both academicians and practitioners.
The MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (MIT REAP) is pleased to present Supporting Startup Ecosystems through Policy: The Nigeria Startup Bill (NSB), a conversation between Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy for Nigeria, and MIT Sloan Professor Scott Stern. The Nigeria Startup Bill is a first-of-its -kind, national-level legislation designed to harness the potential of the nation’s digital economy through co-created regulations. The Bill aims to contribute to the creation of an environment that enables growth, attraction and protection of investment in tech startups. In July 2022, the National Assembly passed the Bill.
How can policy support startups and drive an innovation ecosystem for economic and social impact? What roles do multiple stakeholders (e.g., tech startups, investors, and government) play in this process? How did theories and frameworks from MIT REAP influence the evolution of the NSB? The discussion will explore these topics and more, followed by questions from the audience.
Curious about how a customized course of study at MIT Sloan can enhance your career and professional development? Register to attend an info session + Q&A on Tuesday, Sept 27, 9 am (EDT). The Admissions team and Sloan Visiting Fellows will be available to chat and answer questions about their experiences.
