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AMS Alumni in Indonesia
On Friday, February 18, Dean Paul Matthyssens launched a brand-new Alumni Chapter at the Belgian Embassy in Jakarta in presence of alumni and top managers.
AMS Professor Jamie Anderson wins award for Nespresso-case
Yesterday, Jamie Anderson and his colleagues won the Strategy and General Management category at the ‘Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2017’. The Centre granted him the award for having written the most commonly-used case in current business education.
How do you stay balanced as a leader? The importance of reflection and introspection.
In an earlier article in the newspaper De Morgen, Jesse Segers called CEOs to the yoga mat. To avoid the negative effects of power, he said, introspection is necessary. You have to build in moments when you as a leader can distance yourself from your work and reflect on your power and position. In the podcast "The Leader's Story", he explains why he personally values introspection and the ways he seeks it.
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.