CBFS holds ‘Managing for Success’ seminar

THE College of Banking and Financial Studies (CBFS) held an exclusive seminar titled “Managing for Success” facilitated by Francesca Gino, Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organisations and Marketing Unit of Harvard Business School at Grand Hyatt on December 7, 2016.

The seminar which attracted 250 participants, covered core concepts and behavioural insights for effective leadership. An exciting simulation exercise was used to illustrate creative deal making and test the negotiation skills of the participants. Practical and innovative tools and techniques were demonstrated for creating value while building successful business partnerships.

As would be apparent from the preceding description, the seminar was practical and action oriented and incorporated high level of interactions and group activities.

Professor Francesca Gino has won numerous awards for her teaching, including the HBS Faculty Award by Harvard Business School’s MBA Class of 2015, and for her research, including the 2013 Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award, from the Academy of Management Organisational Behaviour Division. In 2015, Francesca was chosen by Poets & Quants to be among their “40 under 40”, a listing of the world’s best business school professors under the age of 40. Her articles have been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Economist , the Wall Street Journal etc. In the words of Dr Ahmed bin Mohsin al Ghassani, Dean, CBFS “As a leader in training and education, we are pleased to present this top notch seminar to business professionals in Oman. Much of the accepted conventional wisdom is misleading in today’s fast-paced business environment. A new framework for strategic management is needed by all organisations. Executives now have to ask what has to be done to establish the ‘ winning conditions’ that maximise the likelihood of success in these turbulent conditions”.