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Alumni Event: Is it difficult to influence people's behaviour? Stories and data from the public and private sectors
…law enforcement. Although nudges (small interventions to alter people’s behavior) are trendy, they are not the only way to employ behavioural sciences in policy.
Heidi Reinson (Class of 2006) is the behavioural science lead at Kantar Estonia. Her career began in marketing, but she now applies behavioural science to public sector behavior change initiatives. She is also one of the authors of the recently published guidelines for public sector experiments. Additionally, she's a lecturer at SSE Riga…
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Open Door Day – an opportunity to find out about life at SSE Riga from the people who know it best
…Amrita is currently conquering the US market. Vladlens Kovaļevs (Class of 2016) explained what lobbying is, as he is the Managing Partner of VA Government, a full-service government relations and public affairs firm. Both graduates stressed that careers are not straight lines.
Our core faculty member Inga Gleizdāne shared tips and experiences on what skills will be in demand in the future, while Head of the Economics Department Morten Hansen convincingly explained why it’s worth it to study economics…
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Latvian President Egils Levits meets with SSE Riga “Future Leaders Academy 2021” participants
…their team and allows the best ideas to flourish. He emphasized that a good leader only uses the ‘carrot’ and never the ‘stick’.
“Future Leaders Academy 2021” participants had a range of questions that they asked the President – about his career, his experience in the legal sector, how he has addressed issues of gender equality, about his most memorable moments during the presidency, how he wants to be remembered, and about overcoming difficult moments. He emphasized that he believes…
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John Branch: Teaching MBA skills to the working executive
…time. Full-time MBA students, while often having some business experience, have left the day-to-day world of business (or sometimes public administration) to complete the degree and then return to their careers with new qualifications or moving in a new direction.
EMBA: For mid-career executives who work while learning
“Typically, a full time MBA is taken by students 27, 28 years old because they are planning to make the switch from a functional contributor to a more general manager…
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Open Workshop by Yves- Martin Felker: Multiple learning pathways in acquisitions, towards a rule based approach
…of our study supports the demand for a portfolio perspective of learning pathways in rare strategic situation.
Yves-Martin Felker is a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant in Management at Lancaster University. Prior to his research career, he was responsible for the coordination of strategic partnerships between businesses and the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern in Germany. His research interests cover the performance of merger and acquisitions — the impact of management…
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