What is responsible leadership?
That’s the big question that takes center stage at the recent annual conference hosted by Imperial College Business School. It is the first time I have spoken in my capacity as chair of the advisory board of Imperial’s new Leonardo Centre, a research facility for sustainable business, which will formally launch in June. With this cross-disciplinary, multi-faculty and stakeholder-oriented center of excellence, the Leonardo Centre is setting out to explore what defines the new logic of business enterprise and the new type of responsible business leadership the world needs in this Decade of Action.
How can business schools compete with the growing number of customizable, flexible, and low-cost learning opportunities offered outside of academia?
Three weeks after starting a new role at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business in Atlanta, Brian Jennings was tasked with launching an exciting new roster of microcredentials.
The three flexible graduate certificate programs can be completed fully online. They’re stackable, meaning students gain credits that count toward a future formal degree program. And they focus on cutting-edge business topics artificial intelligence, disruptive innovation, and fintech responding to the needs of employers.
Business schools are increasingly launching microcredentials, sometimes referred to as alternative credentials, to address the challenges posed by business education disruptors. In April 2021, Google extended its educational offerings, launching three Google Career Certificates in data analytics
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Summary
Cristobal is a Research Associate at Imperial College Business School’s Management and Entrepreneurship Department where he conducts academic and practitioner-relevant research on corporate, new venture, industrial and moonshot acceleration models, including new systemic innovation heuristics to address wicked challenges across sectors. He co-leads the Corporate and Industrial Acceleration Initiative, which connects cutting-edge research with best practice through an Annual Symposium at Imperial. Cristobal is also a Visiting Lecturer at Royal College of Art’s Service Design Department, and an External Faculty at Columbia s Center on Organizational Innovation. Cristobal is the founder of three start-ups in the Smart City, EdTech and Data Analytics domains as well as of Jump Chile, one of the largest business model accelerators in Higher Education worldwide. Previously, he advised Fortune 100 companies on change and innovation management as a Senior Consultant at PwC in
Science and Technology in childhood Obesity policy (STOP) Project
The STOP project is funded with a grant (no. 774548) from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research Programme for Sustainable Food Security. The project is led by Professor Franco Sassi, Director of the Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation at Imperial College Business School, to bring together a range of key health and food sector actors to generate scientifically sound and policy-relevant evidence on the factors that have contributed to the spread of childhood obesity in European countries and on the effects of alternative policy options available to address the problem. This evidence will complement, systematize, and partly re-frame the findings of an established body of prior research by leveraging the latest scientific findings. In a timely fashion STOP will generate comprehensive and policy-relevant measures of childhood obesity in all European countries; it will generate new trans-disciplinary evid