How Can Recent Graduates Be Effective Team Players?
In this series, we take a look inside our Master’s in International Business students’ classrooms. Publishing the research and results of the exceptional papers they’ve been graded on—in full. First…
How Does the Use of Emojis and Abbreviations Impact Professionalism and Individual Reputations in the Workplace?
This blog is the first in a series of blogs that displays our master’s and MBA students as the experts they are. We fast forward the learning experience to bring…
Innovating With Impact: Insights From the Authors
Ted Ladd is Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Hult’s San Francisco campus. Here, he gives a glimpse into some of the tools, methods, and guidance you can find in…
How Brands Can Adapt to The New World of Social Media
Social media is a rapidly evolving landscape. In order to find their footing, brands, now more than ever need to adapt to these shifts – particularly when it comes to…
Building Future Leaders
What do you think when you hear the term ‘apprentice’? As likely as not, you’ll imagine a school leaver learning a trade, not an established leader honing their skills. For…
Deromantisizing Love Through Tech
The colossal milestone that we have achieved over the last couple of centuries is that finally, we choose our partners based on this beautiful feeling of…love! No more transactions—you take…
Brands Need to Put Consumers at the Heart of Their Strategy
Matt Johnson, PhD, is a neuroscientist, author, and professor of consumer psychology at Hult International Business School. As a consumer scientistist, his specialty lies in applying a human-centric perspective to…
Running on Empty: Navigating The Dangers Of Burnout At Work
Reports of stress, mental ill health, and burnout appear in the press every day. People describe themselves as working longer hours, facing higher workloads, and dealing with more demands. These…
Are You The Coach You Think You Are?
Originally published in Coaching Today, 2018 The latest version of our Coaching Behaviours Questionnaire (CBQ) was used in a large-scale study of coaching behaviours among 537 coaches, 196 consultants,…
Sustainable Business Leadership Starts With Education
Sustainability defined: A company’s delivery of long-term value in financial, social, environmental, and ethical terms. – Guide to Sustainable Business, UN Global Compact (2014) Sustainability—once on the fringe…
Improve your executive decision-making with these economics-based strategies
Daniel Deneffe, Professor of Economics and Strategy at Hult and 23-time Professor of the Year across campuses, recently published articles in two of the world’s most respected business magazines: MIT…
From rhetoric to action in DEIB
Johan Roos, Chief Academic Officer at Hult International Business School, was invited to deliver the key note speech at the inaugural conference on “DEIB in the Business Curriculum” by the…
Critical Thinking: What it is and how to master it
What exactly is critical thinking? It’s a very business-speak title, so you’re forgiven for not knowing. Critical thinking is a group of soft skills which you use every day. These…
Everything You Need to Know About Clubhouse
What is it, why should you care, and how to get started? What is Clubhouse? The new kid on the social media block is Clubhouse: an interactive social networking app…
Mind the gap! Fintech vs. the desired skillset of employees in finance & accounting
Is the technology going to steal all our jobs? Not any time soon, but … the change is happening … and money is flowing to fintech: the global fintech market…
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…