Global Leaders of Tomorrow

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Global Leaders of Tomorrow

• Lead Organisation
• Ashridge Business School, Matthew Gitsham,
  Principal Researcher
• Start and completion dates of project
• May 2008 January 2009

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Basic Information

• Partner Organisations
• Center for Creative Leadership, Graduate School
  of Business, University of Cape Town, IEDC-Bled,
• IESE, INSEAD
• University of Waikato,
• China Europe International Business School
  (CEIBS), EGADE, Tec de Monterrey,
• Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western
  Reserve University,
• United Nations Global Compact Office

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Project Objectives

• To create a global profile of corporate
  expectations and perceptions on the knowledge and
  skills required by current and future business
  leaders
• To map corporate perceptions on how these
  knowledge and skills might be developed
• To map corporate perceptions on how effectively
  these knowledge and skills are currently being
  developed

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Business/Academic Collaboration

• Business partners provide input to survey design
  and expert comment on findings
• Academic partners provide input to survey design
  and analysis, conduct interviews with business
  partners and collaborate with dissemination of
  findings

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Research Methodology

• Convene an advisory group of partner business
  schools
• 2. Conduct a series of scoping interviews with
  representatives from relevant organisations to
  inform the design of a questionnaire survey
  ensuring all key issues are addressed
• 3. Design and conduct a survey of corporate
  signatories to the UN Global Compact

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Research Methodology II

• 4. Analyse data and produce a comprehensive
  practitioner report integrating key findings and
  expert stakeholder commentaries, along with the
  production of targeted Executive and Policy
  Briefings
• 5. Design and implement a dissemination
  strategy to stimulate public debate around the
  project findings.

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Outputs and Deliverables

• Launch of findings at PRME Global Forum, UN 4-5
  Dec 08
• Final Report
• Executive Briefing
• European analysis and policy briefing
• Academic article
• Conference presentations

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Mainstreaming

• This research will bring a robust evidence base
  to debates about the knowledge and skills
  required by the global leaders of tomorrow and
  how these might be developed
• These findings will assist the mainstreaming of
  these knowledge and skills into corporate
  leadership development programmes and business
  school curricula