KINGSTON, Jamaica – Professor Densil Williams, Executive Director of Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM), has highlighted a number of initiatives aimed at the positive growth of the school.

Speaking at a recent MSBM staff and faculty retreat at the Alhambra Inn in Kingston, Professor Williams said that these initiatives will assist the school to continue to provide high impact research, and an exceptional teaching and learning experience for its students for the academic year 2015-16.

Professor Williams spoke to several long term areas of development including: projects to improve the teaching and learning experiences of the students including a CEO reasoning series: technology driven delivery of programmes outside of Jamaica; human resource transformation to improve staff productivity; new approaches to  marketing of MSBM programmes; the launch of MSBM  policy, and governance and regulation programmes to assist corporate enterprises to better understand new developments in the public policy arena.

Despite a fall in revenues, he said that MSBM was able to return a surplus on its operations, due to efficient and effective management of its costs.

He explained that the surplus would be ploughed back into the school, to assist with the new programmes, over the academic year.

CEO of First Global Bank, Courtney Campbell, who delivered the keynote addressed at the Retreat, emphasized the importance of working as a team in order to achieve its vision and mission.

Campbell noted that 70 per cent of change programmes fail to achieve their goals, largely due to employee resistance and lack of management support. He highlighted that when people are truly invested in change, it is 30 percent more likely to stick.

He also highlighted the critical importance of team members working together in achieving the school’s growth objectives, without being concerned about who gets the credit.

MSBM was established on August 1, 2012. It evolved from the merger of the former Mona School of Business (MSBM), which had a 25 year history of delivering master’s level business management education, and the Department of Management Studies (DOMS), which had a 42-year history of delivering undergraduate and graduate management programmes.

Balford Henry