Dean Jet’s POV
Who will be the next President of the Philippines?
April 29, 2022
It’s undoubtedly a question of critical importance to our country. For the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, as a community devoted to learning about leadership and management, there’s a related question that is as critically important:
What is the thinking process that you are using to decide your own answer?
Happy Easter, AGSB Community!
April 22, 2022
For a relevant Easter message, I invited our Ateneo Professional Schools chaplain and my PhD classmate, Fr. Pat Falguera, to share his thoughts and prayers for Easter.
As we – with God’s mercy – enter the post-pandemic era, we would do well to reflect on Fr. Pat’s two themes of Hope and Gratitude.
Flex Learning in the New Normal
April 11, 2022
“Excited!” “Ecstatic!” “Overly excited ”
It wasn’t difficult to guess the overriding emotion felt by AGSB students as they attended the first pilot “flex” sessions held in the Rockwell campus. After one-and-a-half years of purely online learning, the students were eager to try the new learning mode – with some students onsite and some online, in the same class. As of this first week of April, there have been eight pilot sessions.
Two teachers comparing notes in a classroom
March 27, 2023
We all know Atty. Leni Robredo as a lawyer, a government official, a public servant, a political figure, and a leader. We don’t know much about her as a teacher.
Atty. Leni had just returned from teaching a course in the Harvard Kennedy School when I met her last Friday. We talked about how students in different countries prepare for a class; how students discuss a case study differently in the Philippines and in the U.S.; about student consultations and why her consultation lines were the longest in her time in Harvard; about questions that students tend to ask, and so forth.
AGSB Leadership Conference 2023
March 27, 2023
I was happy to be with the student leaders this weekend at the Leadership Conference (LeadCon) in Clark, admiring their accomplishments, listening to their aspirations, and engaging them in their plans for the student body.
The LMDP has come full circle
March 27, 2023
When we designed the Leadership and Management Development Program (LMDP) for Batch 1, almost 30 years ago, there was a gap in the market for a “mini-MBA.” The LMDP quickly became the flagship program for the Ateneo Graduate School of Business Center for Continuing Education (CCE) Ateneo Center for Continuing Education and has graduated hundreds of managers who wanted to retool, to upskill, and to advance their careers.