Posted by: Felicity Tan on March 24, 2021
The close of Women’s Month has been smeared with the murder of six Asian-American women. It’s hard to divorce race from the ostensibly “sexually motivated” nature of the attack. While racially motivated attacks in the US are down from last year, attacks against Asians have trebled, with nearly 70% of them against women. It’s also […]
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Posted by: Rudina Suti on March 8, 2021
Female leadership is evaluated from different perspectives in many ways and corporate policies are developed accordingly. Leadership is the act of guiding people or a group of people who view the person as the sole light and follow them diligently in various situations, such as in a business. Leadership in the political struggle for women’s […]
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Posted by: Raluca Epureanu on March 5, 2021
When Covid 19 became an issue on a global scale it created, almost immediately, an atmosphere of uncertainty. With regards to future plans and jobs, a large percentage of our population found themselves second guessing their careers, especially those that had previously been taken more or less for granted. Large numbers of employees were furloughed […]
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Posted by: Vanessa Tan on February 25, 2021
Trigger warning for: violence, suicide. The author references using negotiation skills learned on the programme in a real-world situation of a domestic violence intervention. I recently handled a family violence case involving a mother with young children who was almost strangled to death by her spouse. The children witnessed this and, unfortunately, previous violent episodes […]
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Posted by: Rudina Suti on January 29, 2021
As the result of a tendency towards status quo, most leadership positions are still occupied by men. The stereotypes of typically male attributes have fused into the perception of a standard of good performance, putting women at an inherent disadvantage. Conceptual models of what makes good leaders, salespeople, etc. shape processes such as recruitment, performance […]
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Posted by: Vanessa Tan on January 20, 2021
What an extraordinary year 2020 has been. The global pandemic has affected all of us. Being in the nonprofit space, I am acutely aware that COVID has also disproportionately affected people who are resource-scarce in many parts of the world. For instance, during the Circuit Breaker period in Singapore, children from low-income families were affected […]
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Posted by: Thandi Luzuka on January 6, 2021
As we enter 2021, I feel the need to reflect on the year that has just passed. I find myself flipping through pictures of my babies and I am amazed by how much they have grown in a short space of time. In January 2020 I was 6 months pregnant with twins, my toddler could […]
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Posted by: Rudina Suti on January 4, 2021
Beginning eight years ago and in pursuit of its so-called Belt and Road initiative, China established or re-established relations with a group of Central, East European and Balkan countries known as the 16+ China Group, later grown to 17+ China with Greece’s own desire to join the Group in 2019. As regards Balkan countries, those […]
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Posted by: Sebastian Petric, Augustine Agyeman-Duah, Fabian Cazares, Hema Vallabh and Aliya Valiyff on December 4, 2020
As part of the Entrepreneurship class at the University of Oxford, we initiated a promising project in mid-2019, focussed on investing for impact in East Africa. The Executive MBA has equipped us with the necessary skills and the experience for such an endeavour. Nearly two years later, we finished our business proposal for an impact […]
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Posted by: Rufat Azizov on November 30, 2020
In the course of the last 7-8 months, we have used multiple words that start with “Re” for instance, RESHAPE, REIMAGINE, RESILIENCE, REBOUND, REPACK, RECOVERY. I genuinely enjoyed RESILIENCE because it nearly covers all these terms. Business resilience is the ability to recover from crisis, rapidly adapt to new conditions, respond to all types of […]
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