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Dr Sinem Bulkan We are in an era of constant change. For businesses, the environment is evolving at a rapid pace. How can companies not only survive these challenging and volatile conditions but also look for opportunities to thrive? In the last few years, we have encountered unprecedented challenges – from Brexit to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to new ways of working – and now the war in Ukraine is adding to the ongoing economic crisis. For the business community, this has compounded a growing list of challenges, such as severe disruptions to business operations and staffing, a rise in ener ..read more

Group photo of Henley students and faculty Lectures done . Exams done . Now it’s time to dig deep into research which is a major requirement for Masters students looking to complete their studies and do so with flying colors. These are surely exciting times as we race with high hopes to the finish line of our 100-meter sprint towards achieving a world class degree that will propel us into a world of opportunities across numerous career paths. This is what sets us apart and makes us competitive amongst our peers globally. The Henley Postgraduate Summer Networking Social could not have come at a ..read more

Returning to studies after a gap of many years (13 for me) is always challenging. And if you throw in juggling parenthood while you are at it, it is mayhem, to say the least!    When I got my Henley acceptance letter for an MSc in Marketing, I was elated to be accepted and was thrilled to be finally doing a Masters degree. But soon that excitement was replaced with anxiety and as September approached closer, I grew more and more worried about balancing my life as a mother to a 5-year-old (very mischievous, may I add) daughter and that of a student. The task seemed daunting, and I was unce ..read more

Dr Chris Dalton At the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show in London this year, one garden caught the eye of the judges, the imagination of the public and the headlines in the press like no other. The Rewilding Garden, co-engineered by landscape designers Urquhart and Hunt and (we’re told) some beavers, won Gold Medal and Best Show Garden awards. The garden represented the effects and benefits of rewilding as an approach, in this case on the likeness of a landscape from the southwest of England. Rewilding means returning a habitat to its natural state. It is a contemporary reaction ..read more

Professor David Pendleton While debating leadership with a group of very smart people, I was provoked by a man with a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye. I had just been extolling the virtues of distributed leadership and sharing some compelling evidence about it when my interlocuter wanted to remind me of the towering figures of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and others. These leaders, he insisted, were iconoclastic, uncompromising visionaries whose single-point, authoritarian leadership was the key to their organisations’ success. They had no truck with shared leadership, he went on, so why m ..read more

Henley Business School, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, UK By Janelle Benedict, MSc Digital Marketing student As the end of the academic year approaches at Henley, I have had time to reflect on what I have learnt this year and how I’ve managed to stay afloat during challenging times! The step up from undergraduate to masters level is unquestionably difficult. The amount of work you are given increases and expectations are much higher than undergraduate. If you search for study tips, results will show highlighters, past exam papers and mind maps. Although these are important, as a masters student ..read more

Dr Caroline Rook & Dr Can Ererdi What is a resilient team? What does team resilience look like in a healthy and productive post-pandemic organization? How can we be resilient as a team when we are not together as we used to be? These are the questions that the second webinar of the of the Henley Centre for Leadership Leading Healthy and Productive Post-Pandemic Workplaces Series explored.  Dr Caroline Rook and Dr Ana Graça delved into the concept of team resilience, with the aim of uncovering questions and assumptions that allow us to meaningfully engage in better practice for healthy ..read more

Nadia Nagamootoo was the winner of our Women in Leadership scholarship in 2014, hear her experiences on applying and what winning the scholarship has meant for her. Listen to the full interview here. Apply now for your chance to win a fully funded place on our MBA programme, with the Women in Leadership scholarship competition 2022 ..read more

We sat down with Elizabeth Garber, our Women in Leadership scholarship 2017 winner, to hear about her experiences of applying for the competition and studying for an MBA at Henley. Read on to find out how she juggled family life with the challenges of study and how the MBA has helped her in her career, five years on from winning. What inspired you to apply for the Women in Leadership scholarship? I applied for the Women in Leadership scholarship because the question lit me up and got all my neurons firing. “Would more women at the top in tech create social good?” I’d been working in tech; I’d ..read more