“The number of women on the boards of top companies overall remains far below 50%, and few make it to CEO. How can organisations, policymakers and individuals encourage greater female participation at the top?” It’s not women’s careers that need fixing—it’s men’s. It took a global pandemic for my friend, a director in a City…
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Here’s why you should apply for the Women in Leadership Scholarship
24th of May, 2021. The deadline I had been working towards for some time, to submit my application for the Women in Leadership Scholarship competition. For quite some time, since I first read the details of the competition I had been managing two different lines of thought: What should make the cut to the concise…
What the Marketing Materials Don’t Tell You About an Executive MBA
What the Marketing materials won’t tell you about an MBA! Laerke Marie Norn discusses
Challenge what the future holds
“Nobody said it was easy, no-one ever said it would be this hard…” As I was writing my latest assignment, I felt like either Chris Martin or Spotify could read my mind. Yes, doing the MBA is a real challenge, but challenging in ways I hadn’t anticipated. The content and teaching is thought provoking, the…
How the MBA careers team can help you
Learn how the Henley Careers team can help you throughout your MBA experience
Myths of Leadership
Myths of Leadership by Jo Owen Now, from my memory, this is the first book review I have written since I had to choose one for my Year 5 English homework. As you may have gathered from that opening sentence alone, I wouldn’t describe myself as much of a book worm. You’ll only ever find…
The Map that is your life – doing an MBA (part 3)
Is it what you know or who you know? As part of my MBA Blog triptych, this final instalment deals with the part of my MBA journey that included researching, writing my dissertation and implementing my newly-found know-how into my daily life (yes, not just into my life as a solopreneur, but also areas that…
Machines (Back to Humans) or: Who leads whom?
At this year’s Henley Global Masterclasses, I was immediately pulled in by the motto “Championing humanity in a Digital World”. That’s due to two factors: I recently submitted my Henley MBA on the impact of digitisation on the music industry with its benefits (data transparency) and threats (staff redundancies) and the need for freelance or…
Expect the unexpected! Doing an MBA (part 2)
Of course the MBA journey is different for everybody. And, of course, the key learnings are different for everybody. On Saturday 21st April, at Henley’s MBA Open Day, I was part of the alumni panel. I was surprised how many of my fellow alumni mentioned that some of their key learnings were similar to my…
My Flexible MBA: 6 Months In
Around this time last year, Facebook (which seems to know me unnervingly well) insisted that I answer a question. I say it “insisted” because I tried to resist: yes, I’d been browsing MBA programmes and researching the effects of identity in the workplace, but no it was not a good time. In fact, by any…
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