Jun 18, 2025
Our quarterly series of international speaker events continued in June at the RDS as we welcomed Deborah Perry Piscione, author of the recent Harvard Business Review publication Employment is Dead! How Disruptive Technologies are Revolutionizing the Way We Work. Deborah Perry Piscione is a thought leader who helps Fortune 500 companies boost profits and grow talent by […]
Jun 04, 2025
We were delighted to make available to members an off-site visit to Dail Eireann in May. Leinster House is the seat of Ireland’s Parliament and the tour honed in on its rich 300-year history, as well as taking in both the Dail and Seanad chambers, and the famous Dail bar. MBAAI Past-President and Fine Gael […]
May 19, 2025
The annual MBAAI Golf Outing again took place at Powerscourt Golf Club in Co. Wicklow, with past Board member and retaining champion Bryan Murphy taking the spoils, two shots ahead of previous winner Conor Horgan. In glorious sunshine, members and guests took on the East Course. designed by the talented golfer and successful Walker Cup […]
Apr 28, 2025
In conjunction with Resonate Leadership, a LEGO® Serious Play® session took place recently for members in the RDS dealing with the subject of “Navigating Complexity”. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, traditional approaches to leadership often fall short when facing complex, adaptive challenges. How might you unlock new perspectives and solutions that conventional methods may […]
Mar 13, 2025
In the first in our series of international speaker events this year, we were delighted to welcome Hira Ali, author of Her Allies: A Practical Toolkit to Help Men Lead Through Advocacy, to Dublin to address members in the RDS Members’ Club. The event took place in the week of International Women’s Day 2025. Her […]
Feb 28, 2025
The Association’s Southern Chapter was delighted to host a breakfast event at the UCC Centre for Executive Education in Cork in February with MBA Adjunct Professor Alf Smiddy speaking on the topic of effective leadership. This was an illuminating session on adaptive leadership with CUBS Adjunct Professor Alf Smiddy, a distinguished business leader whose extensive […]
Feb 26, 2025
TU Dublin beat off stiff competition from four other business schools to win the annual MBAAI National Strategy competition at Platform X at KPMG in Dublin. The team, comprised of Tom Proctor, Xiaoyu Xie, Thokozile Phiri and Rachel Murphy, were adjudicated by a panel headed up by renowned strategist and disruptor Ade McCormack, who came […]
Jan 30, 2025
The MBAAI MidWest Chapter hosted an event with Dell in January in the Kemmy Business School in the University of Limerick on the subject of Leadership in Motion: Navigating change across business functions. We were delighted to welcome Sean O’Reilly, Vice President & Site Lead, EMEA Logistics, Dell Technologies and Tricia Kelly, formerly of Dell […]
Dec 06, 2024
Our annual Christmastime event took place in the RDS, where we welcomed branding expert Gerard Tannam for a festive take on branding, accompanied by wine and mince pies! A renowned brand-builder, author and keynote speaker at Islandbridge Brand Development, Gerard’s recently-published Branding for SMEs: A Guide is packed with all sorts of goodies. All the […]
Dec 04, 2024
The MBA Association of Ireland’s Northern Chapter and Queen’s Business School presented – navigating the NI venture capital & start-up landscape. This event, taking place in Riddel Hall in Queen’s Business School, Belfast in December, presented an opportunity for organisations, alumni and current MBA students to gain valuable insights from expert speakers and engage in […]
Nov 23, 2024
Leading wealth manager Goodbody recently hosted a virtual event for MBAAI members on the Economic and Investment Outlook. Goodbody Head of Investment Strategy Joe Prendergast was MC. On the panel was Chief Investment Officer, Bernard Swords and Senior Wealth Manager, Kate Walley. Bernard gave the global investment outlook for 2025, concentrating on what themes we can expect to see in […]
Nov 15, 2024
The last in our quarterly series of international speaker events in 2024 saw Harvard Business Review author John Winsor in the RDS Members’ Club in Dublin to speak on reorganising around the new, digitally enabled world of “open talent”. In his eye-opening, essential guidebook for the new world of work Open Talent, John, leader at the […]
Oct 11, 2024
The third in our quarterly series of international speaker events this year, author Nuala Walsh addressed members in the RDS Members’ Club in Dublin in October on the subject of her new book Tune In – how to make smarter decisions in a noisy world. An adjunct professor of behavioural science at Trinity College Dublin, […]
Sep 20, 2024
The MBAAI MidWest Chapter hosted an event on sustainability at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick in September. Under the theme of ‘Metrics to Action’, our panel of speakers covered the essence of sustainability, and looked to future-proofing a sustainability strategy rather than reactive compliance. Professor Sheila Killian of UL walked us through the […]
Jun 04, 2024
The Answer: Buckle up, you are in for a bumpy ride! The resounding feedback from the expert panel at this event in conjunction with the Kemmy Business School at Analog Devices – Catalyst Limerick in May was this is not going to be easy! The event was effortlessly moderated by Val Cummins PhD, Simply Blue […]
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 […]
Mar 01, 2024
In conjunction with Cork University Business School (CUBS), the Association’s Southern Chapter was delighted to host a networking breakfast and seminar with Carol Kulik on Line managers: the unsung heroes in every organisation, taking place at the UCC Centre for Executive Education, Lapps Quay, Cork. Line managers are the unsung heroes in every organisation! Their […]
Feb 02, 2024
The Association’s Mid-West Chapter was to host an evening with Pat McDonagh and Professor Stephen Kinsella at the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick. The format of the event was a fireside chat, which took place in front of a full house of members and students. Pat McDonagh is the Managing Director of […]
Jan 26, 2024
The Association recently invited entrepreneur Michael Dwyer for a fireside chat with Conor Horgan following its AGM. Founder of Pigsback.com, Michael drew on his book from the arena: an entrepreneur’s journey – the story of pigsback.com to recount a marathon entrepreneurial journey with Pigsback.com, starting at the height of the dot-com boom in late 1999, […]
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 26, 2023
Expert Nishtha Chugh provides valuable lessons on perfecting the often neglected art of networking. Most people tend to treat networking events like fish markets. Armed with shiny business cards they move from table to table looking for the finest catch the place has to offer. But what distinguishes networking events from fish markets is that […]
Oct 25, 2023
The Association was delighted to host the third in its series of international speaker events in 2023 last September with New York Times best-selling author Karen Dillon. How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it – there is a force in our everyday lives that we aren’t even […]
Jun 01, 2023
The Mid-West Chapter of the MBA Association was delighted to welcome John Ryan to speak at a lunchtime event in at ACI Worldwide in Limerick recently. This followed an evening with John in Dublin some weeks earlier. Formerly of the Great Places to Work organisation, John has set up a business focussed on the global […]
May 23, 2023
The Association’s 2nd international speaker event of 2023 was an evening in the RDS with author and industry leader James Burstall. James is the author of a new book called The Flexible Method – Prepare to Prosper In The Next Global Crisis (Hachette, March 2023). It is a step by step guide to preparing companies for the […]
May 12, 2023
The annual Association golf outing for 2023 saw board member Bryan Murphy retain his MBAAI Perpetual Trophy on a sunswept East Course at Powerscourt in Wicklow. Bryan had a 5-shot win over Robert Cooper with Conor Horgan a further shot back.
Mar 30, 2023
The Association kicked off a quarterly series of international speaker events in 2023 with a webinar with Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, the renowned psychologist, author and entrepreneur, who uses science and tech to help organizations predict human performance. Against the backdrop of his latest book I, Human, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic took us on an enthralling and eye-opening journey […]
Feb 03, 2023
With the Guinness Enterprise Centre in Dublin 8 as our venue, our popular ‘Meet the Entrepreneurs’ evening took place in January, when we heard first-hand the stories of a number of start-ups from the Centre and elsewhere. Among the entrepreneurs on the night was sustainability champion Dr. Mary O’Riordan, whose company HaPPE Earth has produced a […]
Dec 12, 2022
The Association’s Southern Chapter hosted an event at Johnson & Perrott Jaguar Land Rover, Cork in November with John Cormican, General Manager of Vehicle Engineering JLR Shannon & Portland USA, who addressed guests on the topic of Driving the Digital Transformation of Ireland through Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. John originally helped Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) […]
Dec 01, 2022
On the occasion of the Association’s Christmas event in the RDS, Irish Times business book reviewer Frank Dillon gave us his best reads of the year … Net positive, how courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take by Paul Polman and Andrew Winston. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary Gerstle […]
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 […]
Jun 27, 2022
A team of MBA students from The South East Technological University (SETU) has won the prestigious National Strategy Competition for 2022, organised for the second consecutive year by Michelle Gallagher, Academic Liaison at the MBA Association of Ireland. The competition is open to all MBA programmes across Ireland, past winners having included UCD, NUIG, DCU. […]
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 […]
May 23, 2022
Congratulations to MBAAI board member Bryan Murphy, who recently won the MBAAI Perpetual Golf Trophy at Powerscourt Golf Club in Co. Wicklow. Bryan squeezed out Ken Greene by the tightest of margins, finishing on the same stableford score of 37 points, but with a better back 9. The annual MBAAI Golf Outing returned after an […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Jun 16, 2021
The MBA Association recently hosted a webinar with Donal Murphy of Intuity Technologies on the pressing topic of Cyber Security and Internet Fraud. In light of the high profile cyber-attack on the HSE IT systems, this webinar was designed to provide businesses and managers with relevant guidelines on how best to protect themselves and their […]
May 14, 2021
We were delighted to welcome Gillian Horan, CEO and founder of branding consultancy The Pudding, recently to speak on the subject of “Brand – why it needs to be on the board agenda”. Companies dramatically underestimate the value of a strong brand. Now more than ever, executives need to consider how building and developing purposeful […]
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 […]
Mar 18, 2021
The Association was delighted to welcome change management consultants Sia Partners for a virtual event recently centred on Artificial Intelligence and how it can be used to optimise business decisions. The session provided an overview of some of the most common topics tackled nowadays in business: Customer centricity, Marketing and Productivity and connect them to […]
Feb 17, 2021
The South East chapter of the Association was delighted to host a webinar in February with Dr. Aidan Duane of Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) on the ever topical subject of blockchain. Designed as an introductory business-oriented presentation to Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology, the session included examples from across multiple industries to suit all […]
Nov 24, 2020
In conjunction with Decision, the Association was delighted to host a virtual event in November with renowned author Dorie Clark of Harvard Business Review. Dorie Clark has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and was recognised as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall […]
Nov 04, 2020
Once again the Association partnered with the Guinness Enterprise Centre to host our annual Meet The Entrepreneurs event, which took place as a webinar in October. We heard about the major development taking place at the GEC in Dublin, whose capacity will double in 2021, and a number of start-ups inspired us with their ideas, […]
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, […]
Sep 15, 2020
Once again the Association was delighted to welcome Davy for its annual economic review at a genuinely unprecented time for the Irish and global economy, with the ongoing uncertainty surrounding around Covid-19 compounded by the possibility of a no-deal Brexit and the upcoming US elections. Donough Kilmurray, Chief Investment Officer at Davy lent his expert insights on the prospects […]
Sep 06, 2020
The Association hosted a virtual event in September with Professor Megan Reitz from Ashridge Business School in the UK. Reitz’s latest book, Speak up – say what needs to be said and hear what needs to be heard, has been described as a ‘how-to guide to navigating the power and politics of conversations at work’. […]
Jul 31, 2020
We were delighted to have careers expert Ciara Garvan as host of a virtual event on The Future of Work. The Future of Work as a topic has accelerated due to the pandemic. Hot themes such as remote working and flexible working are no longer trending but realities we are all grappling with. What does this mean for highly skilled […]
Jul 30, 2020
The Association was delighted to have David Codd, Group Transformation Director at Musgrave, as our speaker for a webinar in July. The Covid-19 crisis has brought the importance of food retailers in our lives to the fore like never before, and none more so than Musgrave. With over 1,450 stores, and brands including Supervalu, Centra, Donnybrook Fair and others, the Group feeds […]
Jun 30, 2020
Most Diversity and Inclusion initiatives are developed to comply with corporate governance and self-regulation (often under the heading “Corporate Social Responsibility” or CSR). But most fail to move the needle and are just a box check. At a webinar in June, expert John Rankin enlightened us on how to move the needle substantially and make […]
May 25, 2020
The Association was delighted to host a webinar with Ralph Benson and Feargal McKenna of pensions adviser Moneycube on trends in the pensions market and what “auto-enrolment” – where an employee worker will be automatically enrolled in a pension scheme when starting a job – is likely to mean for Irish industry, both from an […]
Apr 21, 2020
The MBAAI South East Chapter, in collaboration with the WIT Graduate Business School, recently hosted a visit to the Waterford Distillery facility located at the converted former Guinness Brewery building. Head Distiller Ned Gahan facilitated the group on the day. Waterford Distillery was established five years ago by entrepreneur and third-generation wine merchant Mark Reynier. […]
Mar 25, 2020
The MBAAI Mid-West chapter recently hosted an event at the University of Limerick on career progression with John Fitzgerald, Managing Director of Harmonics Ireland. The 4th Industrial revolution is disrupting traditional approaches to how we build and grow a 50-year career. Career progression is no longer predictable. Stability has been replaced by the constant need […]
Jan 24, 2020
The MBA Association of Ireland was again delighted to team up with Harvard Business Review to welcome Dr. Nick Morgan to Dublin for a breakfast event on Wednesday, 20 February in Mason Hayes & Curran in Barrow St., at which he spoke on the challenges of communicating in a virtual world. We’ve all felt disconnected […]
Jan 24, 2020
Panel discussion with Cpl at UCC What can you do to prepare for the upcoming technological revolution? The MBAAI Southern Chapter, in conjunction with UCC and Cpl, was delighted to host a panel discussion and Q&A on this most compelling of topics. In our talk we discussed: The Future of Work What jobs will be […]
Jan 02, 2020
It was tools down as the RDS was the venue for our annual Christmas gathering, which this year was run jointly with the Corporate Governance Association of Ireland. We were delighted to have Diageo as sponsor of this year’s event and to welcome Eamon DeBurca, Commercial Manager Diageo Ireland, who explored key themes facing the […]
Nov 10, 2019
The Association was delighted to have Curtis Lefrandt visit from London to speak on Innovation Capital. Published by Harvard Business Review, Lefrandt’s book Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders features case studies with the superstars who made the list of the top 25 people in the world with […]
Sep 18, 2019
Congratulations to WIT who were victorious in the annual MBAAI National Strategy Competition, which took place in 2019 at Microsoft. From left, winning team members Jon Hawkins, Ann Keenan, Tommy Murphy and Tony Lonergan receive the trophy from Alacoque McMenamin, MBAAI President. The annual Competition presents an opportunity for students from MBA Programmes from all over […]
