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Omar Mohout appointed as chairman valorisation board VITO
Omar Mohout is a well known name in the start-up scene. His expertise in the upscale of start-ups is gobally recognised. He provides companies with a perspective, gained by hands-on building and scaling of startups.
The Traffic Sign Database: an instrument for safer and more sustainable traffic
Recent data shows that every two days, a child dies in a traffic accident involving a lorry. Another fact is that on average, Flanders has 120 speeding-related deaths on its roads every year. Meanwhile, it is perfectly possible to equip vehicles with software that sends freight transport along sustainable routes and which controls speed.
Communal trailer parking get lorries out of traffic jams
Belgian transport companies lose an average of 335 hours per lorry each year as a result of trucks being stuck in traffic jams. This congestion often occurs at well-known points along the road network but also builds up in queues at freight forwarders, receivers or terminals.
Women stand their ground as the heads of family businesses
Family businesses have done particularly well in recent decades. The reasons for this are manifold, but what is particularly striking is that family businesses are usually still strongly imbued with the values that lay at their roots, even in later generations. This manifests itself in several ways, but perhaps most notably in terms of equality. Family businesses have a huge amount of female leadership worldwide, and those entrepreneurial women are doing well, a recent study by Bisnode Belgium has shown.
Leaders of paradoxes: 4 important organizational types
In this blog, Jesse Segers, PhD, explains us to which invisible tensions leaders get exposed. He illustrates which 4 important organizational paradoxes can be defined.
Launch valuation tool: how much is your company worth?
Antwerp Management School and the Knowledge Community Family Business have developed a unique online valuation tool in collaboration with UNIZO and with the support of the Agency of Innovation and Entrepreneurship: a simulator to determine the value of your company.
What is the most effective leadership style?
The question of what would be the best leadership behaviors starts from the idea that behaviors are developable and certain behaviors of leaders have more and better effect on employees than others. So if we know which behaviors are effective, then we can teach executives these behaviors and employees will contribute better to the organization. Can it be that simple?
Agreement between Antwerp Management School and the Flemish government provides a significant boost for academic research
On Wednesday, April 26th, Antwerp Management School (AMS) and the Flemish Minister for Employment, the Economy, Innovation and Sport, Philippe Muyters, signed a new agreement. This 6-year agreement covers the period 2017 – 2022, during which time Antwerp Management School will receive annual funding to support academic research.