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Golf outing at Powerscourt
A familiar face on the podium at our annual golf outing this year ... congrats to Bryan Murphy who again came out on top ahead of Robert Cooper at sundrenched Powerscourt Golf Club. Bryan mastered the ultra-tricky greens to emerge with a score of 30 points and took...
Like: the button that changed the world
Our members recently enjoyed a webinar with Bob Goodson, co-author of the Harvard Business Review book Like: The Button That Changed the World, a riveting, insider’s look at the creation and evolution of the like button and what it reveals about innovation, business, and culture—and its profound impact on modern human interaction. Over 160 billion […]
AI in the interview room
A recent Learn over Lunch 30-minute webinar took place in March with Sinead English, founder and CEO of Hilt. This session was designed for hiring managers, HR professionals and business leaders who want to protect the integrity of their hiring decisions while being realistic about the role AI now plays in the recruitment landscape. AI tools […]
DCU claims National Strategy Competition
A huge congratulations to DCU Business School who won a very exciting National Strategy Competition in Aptiv in Dublin in February, against teams from Dublin Business School, TU Dublin Graduate Business School and the University of Limerick MBA. In a pressure cooker...
The case for a shorter workweek
The Association was delighted to welcome author Joe O’Connor recently to the RDS Members Club to deliver an impassioned, data-driven case for a four-day working week, drawing on his new book Do More in Four: Why It’s Time for a Shorter Workweek which is published by Harvard Business Review. The five-day workweek is a pillar […]
The World is your Office
We were delighted to welcome LSE professor and author Raj Choudhury to Dublin to address MBAAI members in the RDS Members Club on “The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation”, which is the subject of his latest book. The last few years have been a global experiment in work […]
Networking with Kingsley Aikins
We were delighted to invite Kingsley Aikins, a renowned authority in Ireland on business networking, to address MBAAI members and guests in the RDS Members Club in October 2025. Dublin-born, Kingsley is an Economics and Politics graduate of Trinity College Dublin who has lived and worked in six countries around the world. He returned to […]
Learn over lunch: pensions and auto-enrolment
The latest in an occasional series of informative 30-minute virtual insights on topical business issues, labelled "Learn over Lunch", took place with a talk by pensions experts Moneycube on "Auto-enrolment – what it means for you and your team" . Auto-enrolment – the...
“Learn over lunch”: the AI Act
The first of an occasional series of informative 30-minute virtual insights on topical business issues, labelled "Learn over Lunch", kicked off in July with a talk by Parva Consulting on the AI Act. Attendees came away with a clear understanding of what the EU AI Act...
Deborah Perry Piscione: Employment is Dead!
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....










