by Malik Runswick | Apr 1, 2021 | Business News
Disruption is the goal of many technology start-ups. But, in the education sector, a number of tech ventures are building businesses based on helping — rather than competing with — schools and universities. These online education platforms — such as Coursera, 2U, Udacity and FutureLearn — originally started out with utopian visions of free learning […]
by Malik Runswick | Feb 6, 2021 | Business Ownership
When Darden School of Business set a bold target in 2010 to become carbon neutral within a decade, it resolved to take an unusually hands-on approach to reduce emissions. “The easy way in trying to achieve neutrality is by buying offsets,” says Professor Michael...
by Malik Runswick | Jan 16, 2021 | Business News
In a good place: Matty Dixon says his therapist at business school helped him see strengths in his depression © Anna Gordon There was a time when Matty Dixon would find himself routinely breaking down in tears on his drive to work. Until a run of injuries, he had...
by Malik Runswick | Jan 4, 2021 | Business Ownership
Wilfred Mijnhardt has a problem. Europe is home to some of the world’s oldest and most prestigious business schools, and it has been at the forefront of much of the global innovation in teaching and research on sustainability.But when he analyses institutions’...
by Malik Runswick | Dec 25, 2020 | Business News
In normal times one of the biggest inconveniences for MBA students at Imperial College Business School is the walk to the campus, as they dodge the tourists heading for the Natural History and Science museums on London’s Exhibition Road. But these are not normal...
