Title: The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Seminar Date: 24 March 2018 Time: 4.31pm & 5.32pm Venue: Putney Embankment (Close to the start line) + Wimbledon Past Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Seminars by The Future Leadership Institute: […]
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Future Leaders Motivated By A Sense Of Purpose According To New Oxford Saïd Survey
The next generation of business leaders puts purpose at the centre of their career, a new international survey amongst 19- to 26-year-olds shows. The Future Skills Survey, conducted by Saïd Business School, […]
November 27, 2017: The Future Leadership Institute Media Lunch Followed By Oxford Seminar “Mediatising Religious Education”
Event: The Future Leadership Institute Media Lunch followed by Oxford Seminar “Mediatising religious education: BBC radio and television for children and schools, c.1920s-1970s” Date: 27 november 2017 Venue: The Future Leadership Institute […]
Corporate Incubation – Giving Innovation a Space to Flourish
Think about this. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report (2016) indicates that twenty two percent (22%) of people across sixty four economies intend to start a business within the next three years. That […]
Why ‘New Beats Old’ Is Just A Fallacy
Large organisations can be as entrepreneurial as Silicon Valley darlings, says LBS expert Gary Hamel Every organisation should feel like a little start-up in Silicon Valley, said Gary Hamel, Visiting Professor of […]
Dating Debunked: Study Reveals that Men and Women Perceive Sexual Intentions Differently, with Men Often Overestimating Women’s Desires and Women Underreporting Theirs
Research by NYU Stern Professor Priya Raghubir and co-author Isabelle Engeler provides guidelines for dating protocol when it comes to sex In a new study, Professor Priya Raghubir, chair of the Marketing Department […]
Trading On Human Tides – The ‘Free Market’ Of People Smuggling
Cambridge criminologists are using emerging sources of information – from court records to Facebook groups – to analyse the networks behind one of the fastest-growing black markets on the planet: the smuggling […]
Social Media Feedback Can Identify High Risk Hospitals
Online patient feedback, including Twitter and Facebook posts, can provide accurate near real-time representations of the quality of care in NHS hospitals – thereby identifying high risk hospitals in need of inspection. […]
‘Keep It Local’ Approach To Protecting The Rainforest Can Be More Effective Than Government Schemes
Conservation initiatives led by local and indigenous groups can be just as effective as schemes led by government, according to new research. In some cases in the Amazon rainforest, grassroots initiatives can […]
Happiness Is Not Determined By Childhood Biomarkers
Happiness is not determined by childhood biological markers such as height or body fat, according to a team of European researchers involving UCL. The paper, published in PLoS ONE analysed longitudinal data […]
How Scenario Planning Can Be Used To Reshape Strategy
Explore what’s plausible rather than determining what’s probable when planning for an uncertain future, says Rafael Ramirez. In turbulent and uncertain times, organisations should not try to predict the future but focus […]
NASA Awards Grants For Research, Flight Opportunities To 22 Universities
Twenty-two universities across the country have been selected to receive NASA grants for research and technology development projects in areas critical to the agency’s mission. Nine of these universities will have the […]
Building Planned Dams Will Significantly And Irreversibly Damage The Environment
New paper in Nature analyses the wide-scale negative impacts of damming rivers in the Amazon basin The Amazon basin will suffer significant and irreversible environmental damage if hundreds of planned dams are […]
Children With Bedroom TVs At Significantly Higher Risk Of Being Overweight
A UCL-led study of over 12,000 young children in the UK has revealed that 11-year-olds who had TVs in their bedroom at age 7 had a significantly higher body mass (BMI) and fat mass […]
