Employer perspectives

A wide variety of organisations sponsor employees on the Sloan Fellowship. Recent employers to have sponsored participants on the Sloan Fellowship include:

 

Here some of our sponsoring employers have shared their experiences and motivations for supporting employees through the Sloan Fellowship:

Shuzo Haimoto
Executive Officer and General Manager of Human Resources
Mizuho Financial Group Inc
Mizuho have sponsored a number of Sloan Fellows

"We are delighted to support our senior management's professional and personal development through the Sloan Fellowship programme at London Business School.

The rigorous and intense academic curriculum covers the principles of management, and is balanced by an emphasis on skills development, such as drafting and delivering speeches. Sloan Fellows return to Mizuho with enhanced levels of performance and effectiveness, enabling them to take up new and strategic responsibilities.

The Sloan Fellowship at London Business School in particular offers our managers a further opportunity to broaden their perspectives by immersion with an experienced and highly diverse, international student body, in a key financial and cultural capital, enabling them to be effective in a competitive global environment.

Mizuho Financial Group will continue to sponsor its most talented managers through the Sloan Fellowship programme."

 

Dong Woo Han
CEO and President
Shinhan Life Insurance Co Ltd
Sponsored Heesong Kim (Sloan 2007)

"We understand that our human resources are a critical source of our competitive advantage, so we put the training and development of our employees at the top of our investment priorities. In particular, we are happy to support our most talented and effective managers to pursue study in an international environment such as the Sloan Fellowship.

After completing the Sloan Fellowship and studying as part of such a diverse cohort, we see managers grow into a balanced, confident senior management group with advanced knowledge and skills. When we take our most high calibre managers away from the day-to-day tasks of their role and send them to study overseas, we are investing in the future."

 

Katsumi Hatao
Deputy General Manager of the Human Resources Division
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd have sponsored a number of Sloan Fellows

"Firstly, a domestic education, even at the best universities, is not enough to compete in today's interdependent global economy. The experience of living overseas in a business capital offers our senior management the opportunity to be immersed in a different culture. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ offers managers the opportunity to get different perspectives through activities such as international secondments, and also through academic programmes, such as the Sloan Fellowship at London Business School.

The process of selection is demanding. We look for the highest calibre individuals to learn the "art of business" and significantly enhance their contribution to the organisation, and to pass on their learning and develop their teams to the next level."

 

Here Kok Fatt Lee (Sloan 2007) gives his perspective as a sponsored Sloan:
Prior to joining the Sloan Fellowship, Kok Fatt was Director for Corporate Development for the Singapore Ministry of Finance.

"The Sloan Fellowship has given me up-to-date insights into business management. It is important for civil servants to understand the concerns of businesses so that government policies can be made more relevant to businesses.  I have also been equipped with tools and skills to analyse and understand the environment, which are valuable to planning and management in any organisation."

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