CAMPUS NEWS
HULT HAPPENINGS
All the latest news from Hult, including a new face in the academic leadership team
and Professor Daniel Deneffe in the Harvard Business Review
Welcoming our new
Associate Provost,
Graduate Programs
Growing from 650 to 2,000
graduates annually, expanding
our campus network, and transforming business education
through the integration of soft
skills into the MBA curriculum,
all in the space of three years—
the time had come to grow
Hult’s academic team. Margaret
Andrews joined Hult in March
to help support the academic
team ensure Hult’s graduate
experience continues to be world-class. As Associate Provost,
Graduate Programs, Margaret will be leading the graduate campus
deans, dean of faculty, and the central academic services team,
and helping to integrate the academic experience into Hult’s other
operational and recruiting teams.
Margaret joins Hult from Harvard University’s Division of
Continuing Education where she was Associate Dean. Her previous roles also include Executive Director at the MIT Sloan School
of Management and Vice President for Strategy and Marketing at
Eduventures. Margaret also has a consulting background having
worked at Deloitte and Mercer Management Consulting serving clients including universities, business schools, associations, testing
organizations, publishers, and investment firms. We’re delighted to
welcome Margaret on board and to the Hult academic family.
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Daniel Deneffe on why
(Western) focused firms
are still alive and kicking
Professor of Strategy and
Managerial Economics at Hult
International Business School,
Daniel Deneffe joined forces
with Herman Vantrappen,
Managing Director of Akordeo,
to argue in a Harvard Business
Review blog posting that
despite popular reports
the conglomerate has not
kicked-out the focused firm
in today’s economy. Deneffe
and Vantrappen argue that the success of conglomerates versus
(Western) focused firms depends on their operational context—
focused firms are better suited to countries with high public
accountability of institutions while conglomerates work better in
nations with lower levels of public accountability, thanks to their
ability to leverage their political connections to greater effect.
The conglomerate, often a ‘necessary evil’ in emerging markets,
is thus a sign of a deficit in public accountability and so, rather
than celebrating the growth of conglomerates, we should value
the focused firm as a positive reflection of society at large. Read
Daniel’s Harvard Business Review blog posting here:
http://goo.gl/xuzhB6