Apr 05, 2024
The first in our quarterly series of international speaker events in 2024 was a virtual event with HBR’s Wendy K. Smith, co-author of Both/And Thinking – Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems. Wendy discussed how to use “both/and thinking” to make more creative, flexible, and impactful decisions in a world of competing demands […]
Dec 08, 2023
Irish Times Business Book Reviewer Frank Dillon regaled members at our recent Christmas event in the RDS with his favourite reads of 2023. Here they are : Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson & Risking it All by Michael Vlisman The Digital transformation Roadmap by David L. Rogers Right Kind of Wrong by Amy Edmondson * […]
Nov 15, 2023
A remarkable feat for the second consecutive year, the MBA team from South East Technological University (SETU) emerged victorious at the MBAAI National Strategy Competition 2023. The intense competition, held at Flutter HQ in Dublin, drew participation from renowned business schools nationwide. In a departure from the traditional Harvard Business Review (HBR) case study format, […]
Oct 25, 2023
Webinars are the new seminars. Ashish Mohan and Alfred Hauenstein on how to make them more effective. We’ve all done it. We have all fallen asleep during a webinar. As far as sleeping aids go, there is probably none as effective as the modern, one-hour webinar. At their worst, these meetings are highly ineffective and […]
Oct 25, 2023
Frank Dillon reviews the HBR book “The Case for Good Jobs” by Zeynep Ton. Many MBA students would be uncomfortable making a case for increasing pay if they couldn’t show – with the numbers all lined up on a spreadsheet – that higher wages would pay off financially for their businesses. The effect of this […]
Sep 23, 2022
The Association was delighted to welcome globally renowned speaker, thinker and advisor on disruption Ade McCormack to Dublin for an in-person event in September in the Shelbourne Hotel Dublin. The theme of Ade’s talk was “Leadership reset: How to lead in an increasingly unpredictable world”. Accelerating market uncertainty is making it increasingly difficult to achieve lasting […]
Aug 10, 2022
We bade farewell to our first female President last month with the passing of distinguished academic Estelle Feldman. On the occasion of the Association’s 50th anniversary in 2017, she gave an insightful and wide-ranging interview on the MBA experience to Frank Dillon. Getting an MBA qualification was a seminal moment in the career of Estelle […]
Jul 25, 2022
Transformation specialist Allan Boyle on how to avoid one of the key perils of remote working. If you want to store wheat, creating a silo is a great idea. On the other hand, if you wish to run your business effectively and efficiently, and offer a great customer experience, you want to treat silos as […]
Jul 25, 2022
Ade McCormack argues that we need cognitive diversity in the workplace rather than just tokenism if organisations are to thrive. Are you sitting comfortably? Imagine a world where giraffes are known for their ability to create start-ups. They love the buzz, and their height allows them to spot trends before others. Deep down they fantasise […]
Jul 25, 2022
Organisations need to move beyond exploiting what is currently successful says Martin Reeves, author of ‘The imagination Machine’, in this interview with Frank Dillon. Reeves is chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, BCG’s think tank dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology, economics, and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas. […]
Jun 09, 2022
The Association was delighted to host a webinar on collaboration with acclaimed HBR author Rob Cross. Rob is author of Beyond Collaboration Overload, which reveals how successful people collaborate in ways that enable them to be 18-24% more efficient than their peers. Based on over a decade of research, the book shows how to invest […]
Mar 09, 2022
The South East chapter of the Association recently hosted a lunchtime webinar with Carolynn Chalmers, CEO of the Good Governance Academy. Designed as an introduction to ISO 37000, the first-international standard for organisational governance, the key topics covered were: The purpose of the standard The governance conditions, principles and key aspects of practice recommended by […]
Mar 04, 2022
The Association recently welcomed Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee, author of the HBR title Better, Simpler Strategy, to speak at a virtual event. In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how these companies […]
Feb 04, 2022
The Association was delighted to welcome Kevin Callan of HR and Employment Law specialists Peninsula to speak on the evening of our online AGM in January. Kevin, Consultancy Manager at GraphiteHRM, discussed what employers need to do as they adapt to a new way of working, covering both HR and health & safety aspects, including […]
Dec 07, 2021
As part our Christmas event in the RDS. Frank Dillon, business book reviewer with The Irish Times, recently gave us his list of favourite business books of 2021: The Invincible company by Alex Osterwalder et al: The latest from the inventor of the business model canvas summarises his key ideas on innovation. In an attractively […]
Dec 07, 2021
Authors Seán Meehan and Charlie Dawson on how easyJet went from poor follower to an innovative and successful leader, spurring arch-rival Ryanair to follow them in becoming more customer-friendly Short-haul travel was revolutionised in the noughties. In the age of the national flag carriers, flying was an occasional luxury, but a new wave of pioneers, […]
Dec 07, 2021
Frank Dillon reviews Net positive, how courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take, a book that sets out a radical agenda for business to clean up its act. Reading Paul Polman’s Net Positive in the context of the recent COP 26 conference could leave readers with a sinking feeling. Polman’s book – co-authored […]
Nov 25, 2021
The MBA Association was delighted to host our popular “Meet The Entrepreneurs” event in conjunction with the Guinness Enterprise Centre in Dublin. This was an opportunity to hear first-hand the stories of young entrepreneurs across a range of industries – and the funding, marketing and organisational challenges they face. Taking place in the newly expanded […]
Oct 11, 2021
Grainne Madden, founder of GMJ Associates, a consultancy offering advice and training in business ethics and responsible business practice, recently hosted a webinar for members on Whistleblowing Policy and Process. The EU Whistleblowing Directive has introduced common minimum standards for the protection of whistleblowers in EU countries. In Ireland, the General Scheme of the Protected […]
Sep 15, 2021
The MBA Association was delighted to invite Bill Sanders, co-author of Creative Conflict: A Practical Guide for Business Negotiators, to host a webinar on negotiation in September. Negotiation is stuck. It’s time for something new. Almost everything is negotiable. Almost every interaction is a negotiation. And in no field is this clearer than in business, […]
Aug 16, 2021
The MBA Association was once again delighted to invite Ralph Benson and Olive Ryan of pensions adviser Moneycube for a lunchtime webinar on pensions. The event covered the following: Changes in the pensions landscape Legislative, professionalisation of governance Control, costs and transparency What’s around the corner? IORPS II, auto enrolment 5 big opportunities to enhance […]
Jul 08, 2021
In this insightful interview with Frank Dillon of Decision, made available for MBAAI members, Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, author of ‘What’s Your Problem’ (HBR Press), looks at how to reframe business and personal problems to achieve better outcomes. Thomas has worked with managers in nearly all parts of the globe, including China, India, Russia, Singapore, Britain, France […]
Jul 08, 2021
We are delighted to bring members an exclusive interview with Jeff Lawson, CEO of software giant Twilio and author of ‘Ask Your Developer’, talking to Decision’s Frank Dillon about why developers should be central to your business. Lawson is a serial inventor with over 15 years of entrepreneurial and product experience. You can view the […]
Jun 30, 2021
To coincide with the Association’s National Strategy Competition 2021, we were delighted to have world-renowned strategy expert Kaihan Krippendorff of outthinkers.com address members on the subject of “Outthink the Competition: Excelling in a Digital, Agile, Purpose-Driven Future” . One of the most influential innovation thought leaders in the world, Kaihan was participating as a judge in […]
Jun 23, 2021
With online meetings rather than face-to-face being the new norm, Michael Collins from Toastmaster International shares his insights on how to make successful virtual pitches. Pitching a product or service to a client is traditionally done in a face-to-face meeting. But how can you ensure you deliver the best pitch and win the client over […]
Jun 23, 2021
The pandemic has changed project management forever and how we plan to move forward in a post-covid landscape says Jackie Glynn Since March 2020, organisations across Ireland have had to cope with and adapt to unprecedented changes. The way we live and work has been changed, in some ways, forever. For businesses to survive in a […]
Jun 22, 2021
A team of MBA students from TU Dublin has won the prestigious National Strategy Competition for 2021, organised by the MBA Association of Ireland. The competition is open to all MBA programmes across Ireland, past winners having included UCD, NUIG, DCU and WIT. The students had four hours to prepare a strategic analysis and presentation […]
Apr 24, 2021
The Association was delighted to welcome Paul Dervan, Chief Marketing Officer with National Lottery, to speak on marketing effectiveness recently. Paul is author of Run with Foxes: Make better marketing decisions, a contributor to WARC, the online effectiveness website, and has judged the European Effies Effectiveness Awards. Prior to The National Lottery, he was the […]
Apr 13, 2021
The Association was delighted to invite acclaimed HBR author Alex Lazarow for a virtual fireside chat recently. Alexandre (Alex) Lazarow has spent his career working at the intersection of investing, innovation, and economic development in the private, public, and social sectors. He is the author of Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs – from Delhi to Detroit […]
Dec 21, 2020
The pandemic has accelerated trends in digital transformation that were already well under way, says Matt Graves. In times of uncertainty, large-scale projects and investments are rarely a priority – and no one knows quite how long the uncertainty engendered by COVID-19 will last. As a result, many may see the impacts of the COVID-19 […]
Dec 21, 2020
Everyone has a role to play in making the organisation a more inclusive environment where diversity can thrive, explains Deirdre Gavin, HR Director and Head of Inclusion & Diversity at Bank of Ireland The case for inclusion and diversity The commercial successes accredited to more diverse organisations are well documented and the correlation between business […]
Dec 21, 2020
Kellie McCord of Toastmasters International gives handy tips on how to build rapport on those zoom calls that our dominating everyone’s business day. Moving from face-to-face meetings to online has been a challenge for many. However, the biggest obstacle has been: ‘How to connect with an online audience?’ For most of us, work has been a place […]
Dec 21, 2020
Irish Times business book reviewer Frank Dillon on some of the most interesting business titles published during the year. Humanocracy by Gary Hamel, Harvard Business Review Press London Business School professor Hamel is on a mission to rid bureaucracy from organisations as outlined in this bold manifesto for replacing traditional hierarchies with a more meritocratic, […]
Oct 04, 2020
Experienced executive and team coach Isolde Norris shared her insights at an event in September on a compelling question that all organisations grapple with – what makes teams effective in the workplace? Often when there is a problem in teams, personalities are blamed and people can be scapegoated. Drawing on research from Hackman and Wageman, […]
