The Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award challenged the students to submit ideas about how organisations can innovate to create value from the shift to a low carbon economy. In this podcast, we speak to Matt Gitsham, Director of theCentre for Business and Sustainability at Ashridge Business School; Award-winner Jonathan Alexander, a Masters student at Bath University and Srikanth Madani from the University of St. Gallen who won the third place.
The essay competition, run jointly by Ashridge Business School
, the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS), World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and HP, invited MBA students and postgraduates to submit ideas on how organisations can create value from the shift to a low carbon economy.
In this podcast, we speak to Barbara Kreissler, Project Manager at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) about HP’s GET-IT programme.
About two thirds of the African youth entering the job market have difficulties finding a job. The GET-IT programme provides training to unemployed youth and graduates between the ages of 16 and 25 and helps potential entrepreneurs acquire IT skills with the aim of becoming better placed to create and run their own businesses.
In this podcast, we speak to Martin Bell, Director of Information Management and Technology and Mark Osborne, Head of IT to find out how North Bristol NHS Trust implemented an HP ProCurve Adaptive Network to support its ambitious vision of a digital ‘super hospital’.
In this podcast, we speak to Michel Benard, director of Open Innovations for HP International; Ibrahima Niang, director of the computing center at the University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal; and Benjamin Ogwo, Senior Lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka about UNESCO-HP's Brain Gain project.
Many nations in Africa and the Arab region are losing highly skilled professionals to more developed countries. UNESCO and HP are engaged in a joint effort to reverse this trend. The project links university researchers who have stayed in their home countries to scientific resources beyond their borders and to colleagues in the Diaspora.
In this podcast, we speak to Igor Belousov, HP IIT manager and head of HP’s Open Innovations Office in Russia about HP’s International Institute of Technology (IIT) which is educating a new generation of IT specialists.
The programme has provided 17 of Russia’s most distinguished universities with new hardware and software and technical departments that match worldwide standards in IT education. As part of IIT, innovative Technology Centres have established by HP at these universities. They offer interactive courses dealing with practical IT-related business challenges such as software, IT management and printing technology.
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