Welcome to the 15th issue of our periodical newsletter i-MBA SCOPE. This issue focuses on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the management of human resources and talent.
Two joint surveys by kariera.gr and the Athens University of Economics and Business, led by Professor Ioannis Nikolaou, reveal a Greek labor market in dynamic transformation. Professor Nikolaou highlights that nearly half of employees are actively job hunting, driven by pay, stress, and lack of recognition, while valuing respect, balance, and growth.
In the second article, Serafim Karaiskos, Executive Director, Greece & Cyprus at ICAP People Solutions, highlights that leadership has long relied on intuition — the “gut feeling” of business leaders and the “battleground awareness” of commanders, making parallels to his military experience.
Fani Pagona, Principal, Tech Market Advisory at Code.Hub, exposes how AI is transforming HR from an administrative function into a strategic partner that enhances recruitment, engagement, and learning.
In the fourth article Ioannis Pontikas, Managing Director, HirePP, discusses the ways that AI redefines how organizations attract, engage, and develop talent. AI’s strengths -data processing, automation, and personalization- free HR professionals from repetitive tasks, allowing focus on strategy and relationships.
As always, this 15th issue of i-MBA SCOPE also contains alumni contributions and news, and updates about program activities. i-MBA Alumna Iliana Karvela Kalogeraki of Workable, shares exposes challenges from AI in talent acquisitions.
It is also our great pleasure to welcome and briefly present the new cohorts of talented and progress-seeking individuals, the Full-Time and Part-Time 28 students.
We further highlight an important achievement of the program, with the Eduniversal 2025 ranking of the Part-Time MBA International Program reaching number 5 globally from its previous 6th position. This impressive achievement awards the efforts and satisfaction of all program stakeholders, students, faculty, alumni, staff, recruiters and other business partners..
Other news presented in the issue cover the 2025 Career Fair, and Graduation, the Second Energy Summit by the Energy and Sustainable Development Student Club, the Lugano Summer School, the Mentoring Program and many more exciting news that happened during the past six months in the MBA International.
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