Responsible leadership and its role in business
To be in ownership of a company is to hold a lot of responsibility, most of which will extend beyond your business to the world around you. Whether it’s the…
The growing business of education
The business of education is the business of our future. Within its field and scope, the minds of an entire generation yet unrealized are being sculpted, refined, and polished. While…
Business and the environment: A European perspective
In response to growing concerns about climate change and environmental damages caused by industries, nations across the world have begun passing legislation regulating industrial activities and their impact on the environment.
Resolving disputes in business
It’s inevitable that in any gathering of people, disagreements and disputes in business will arise, and there is likely to be a clash of personalities. The larger the group, the…
Bringing executive-level business challenges into the student learning journey
Professor Henrik Totterman shares his experience of bringing top-level executive business challenges into his day-to-day teaching at Hult—and how, in times of shifting edtech formats, we’re equipped to learn more…
Three tips for creating a high-performance mindset in your organization: Part 3
Based on psychological research on beliefs and motivation, in this final part of a three-part blog series for Hult, Professor Davide Rigoni provides three actionable tips that can help companies…
Promoting a free-will culture to boost performance: Part 2
In the second of a three-part blog series for Hult, Professor Davide Rigoni provides an overview on psychological research revealing how leading people who are skeptical about free will, can…
Why it matters if you believe in free will or not: Part 1
In the first of a three-part blog series by Hult Professor, Davide Rigoni summarizes the findings of his research on why believing in free will is beneficial for the society,…
Business dress code in front of the screen
Appearance matters. How people see you influences their opinion about you, willingness to work with you, eagerness to trust you or follow you. This also stays true in an online…
Netflix leverages learning systems to get ahead
In the first quarter of 2020, the world-leading stock indexes crashed, sometimes losing over 12% in a single day, due to the global pandemic. In the same period, Netflix’s stocks…
Need to create or update your personal brand image?
We all—entrepreneurs, professionals, teachers, and students—find ourselves in a strange world of unknowing and wondering when our lives will return to our pre-pandemic normal. While there is plenty to keep…
Kindness—humanities happy link
There are a wide range of concepts that we might embrace as philosophical truths yet many of those ideas rarely get incorporated into our daily activities and actions, personally and…
Coming out a winner after the global reset
If there was ever a time for a leader to lead, this is it. Society’s velocity is increasing at an exponential rate. In such an environment, paralysis is not an…
Virtual Skills Lab: Data and decisions
Hult’s Virtual Skills Lab is an online global meeting space offering you the opportunity to skill up and get ahead—from home. Connect with likeminded go-getters from all over the globe and…
When multi-cultural teams work from home
A hedge fund manager that I work with was visibly annoyed by the substandard performance of one of his firm’s associates. Working from home, the employee was simply not delivering—sloppy…
Virtual Skills Lab: Cutting Through the Crisis Fog
Hult’s Virtual Skills Lab is an online global meeting space offering you the opportunity to skill up and get ahead—from home. Connect with likeminded go-getters from all over the globe…
Hult Virtual Skills Lab: Coronomics: Resilience in the Global Pandemic Economy
Hult’s Virtual Skills Lab is an online global meeting space offering you the opportunity to skill up and get ahead—from home. Connect with likeminded go-getters from all over the globe and…
Hult Virtual Skills Lab: Managing difficulty and diversity
Hult’s Virtual Skills Lab is an online global meeting space offering you the opportunity to skill up and get ahead—from home. Connect with likeminded go-getters from all over the globe…
Hult Virtual Skills Lab: Leadership in Crisis
Organizations face ambiguous threats with the potential to escalate into full blown crises without notice or fanfare. How should leaders respond? Explore the special challenges of business crises and what…
How to prepare for an uncertain future in a world of AI
As the world of work changes, so too does what it takes for a graduate to be prepared for the workplace of the future. And educators, such as Hult, face…
Webinar: The Human Moment
This webinar, as a part of Hult’s Thought Leadership webinar series, reflects issues that matter to global business, the community and you. Professor Amy Armstrong presents her topic The Human…
The danger of “hypotheses” for entrepreneurs when designing new ventures
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” – Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride How “hypothesis” has entered the…
Why you need to develop a growth mindset ASAP
I’m sure you will have come across the terms “fixed mindset” and “growth mindset” at some point. If you haven’t, well, it’s time to get yourself acquainted with them. I…
A new model for leadership development in the 21st century
Traditional leadership development training needs to be re-evaluated Today’s rapidly changing and digitalized work environment requires more than ever before leaders who know who they are, what they stand for,…
New research seeks to reveal students’ hopes and fears about AI
The prospect of us having to share offices, classrooms and our personal lives with Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been covered at length in the media over recent years. There have…
Webinar: Strategic drivers for the near future
Exponential technologies like artificial intelligence, driverless cars, biotechnologies, 3D printing, and robots are transforming the way we live and work, triggering the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). In this age of…
Disrupting the curriculum
This article was originally published in Vol.13 of EFMD Global Focus, the European Foundation for Management Development Business Magazine. This article is also available as a podcast, listen now…
Webinar: Airbnb’s Chip Conley on staying relevant at all stages of your career
After running his own successful boutique hotel company for close to 25 years, baby boomer Chip Conley was invited by Airbnb’s millennial CEO and co-founder to join the company as…
Chip Conley of Airbnb: The advice I wish I’d been given at 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50
This summer, I spent a week in Mexico with my two young sons who, on occasion, want to tap into my wisdom. While there, I received an email from a…
Sticking to your values in a VUCA environment: The challenges of working with integrity
The acronym often used to describe an environment of noise, mess, and doubt is VUCA. These four letters represent volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It’s something that’s recognizable for many…
