In case you wish to start the new year with some food for thought, we suggest “Sustainable Leadership” by Henrik Henriksson and Elaine Weidman Grunewald.

Henrik Henriksson is CEO of Scania and Elaine Weidman Grunewald is the co-founder of the AI Sustainability Center, and former Chief Sustainability & Public Affairs Officer at Ericsson. We are proud that they also appear in our faculty.

The book highlights how Swedish companies have taken and take position in their markets by integrating sustainability into the business strategy. These thoughts are presented by Elaine on video below, and you can find the book itself here.

We also suggest “Responsible Artificial Intelligence” by Virginia Dignum, examining the ethical implications of AI, which will affect all of us.

Virginia Dignum is Professor at Umeå University, where she holds the Wallenberg chair on Responsible Artificial Intelligence. She is also the Scientific Director of Humanities and Society within the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP-HS).

You can find this book here.

Happy 2021!
Your friends at KTH Executive School

Att var byggherre handlar om så mycket mer än bara byggande! Som byggherre har du en nyckelroll för utvecklingen av ett hållbart samhällsbyggande och det yttersta ansvaret för att kraven från brukare, ägare och samhället uppfylls.

För dig som vill öka din kunskap och utvecklas i din byggherreroll kommer vi nu att hålla ett frukostwebbinarium, där vi pratar om framtidens byggherre och vilka utmaningar som finns, samt informera mer om vårt utbildningsprogram Att vara byggherre – Tre utmanande perspektiv, som startar upp den 1 december.

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Two weeks of pure Big Data, Innovation and Entrepreneurship! This year´s online version of the EIT Big Data Analytics Summer School was all about tackling two of our most important challenges, climate change and Covid-19, with the help of IBM´s Call for Code, and took 9 promising projects to the next level. Congratulations to all our participants! Keep up the good work!

We would also like to thank our coaches, speakers and jury members for sharing their knowledge and insights during our program.

• Niklas Gustafsson – KTH Executive School
• Andreas Feldmann – KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Panagiotis Papapetrou – Stockholm University
• Anders Ångström – A-Focus
• Patrick Couch – IBM
• Martin Rydén – IBM
• Staffan Truvé – Recorded Future
• Anders Arpteg – Peltarion
• Galina Esther Shubina – Gradient Descent
• Kristofer Ågren – Telia Company
• Fredrik Löfman – RaySearch Laboratories

In case you wish for intellectual nourishment during lazy summer days, we suggest Lex Fridman’s podcast “Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI” featuring Stephen Schwarzman. Lex Friedman is a research scientist at MIT, working on human-centered artificial intelligence (former Google) and Stephen Schwarzman is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms. You can listen to the podcast here.

We also recommend “A Leader’s Guide to Cybersecurity: Why Boards Need to Lead – and How to Do It”, by Thomas J. Parenty and Jack J. Domet. With the development of technologies such as AI, cybersecurity threats are on the rise. This book by international cybersecurity experts addresses how you as a leader need to be prepared to keep your organization safe. You can find it as audio- or e-book, alternatively as a hardcover here.

Another suggestion is “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire” by the renowned Harvard University professor Rebecca Henderson. In this book, she argues that businesses can make a positive impact on the world by confronting the realities of the environmental crisis and the need to address social and economic inequality, while simultaneously delivering sustained economic growth that brings prosperity and well-being to society as a whole. You can find it here.

Finally, we recommend “Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You”, by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss. Frances Frei is a professor at Harvard Business School and Anne Morriss is a leadership coach. In this book they argue that the most important thing you do as a leader is to build others up, that leadership is about how effective you are at empowering other people and making sure that this impact endures. You can find it here.

Have a nice summer!

We proudly congratulate all the graduates of Executive Program in Industrial Management 2019. Thank you for your engagement and dedication! Welcome into the vast alumni network, now led by the new program director Ulf Änggård.

//Program director Anders Holmström and program coordinator Ulrika Larsson