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BACK-TO-BACK VICTORY FOR SETU AT NATIONAL STRATEGY COMPETITION
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...
Towards Better Networking
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...
The Microstress Effect
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...
The problem with webinars
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...
Better jobs mean bigger profits
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...
Make Work Healthy
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 […]
James Burstall: Prosper in a Crisis
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 […]
Bryan Murphy triumphs in 2023 MBAAI Golf Outing
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.
AI – for better or worse?
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 […]
Entrepreneurs’ Evening in the GEC
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...