In many respects, the recent economic crisis stemmed from a failure in leadership and corporate responsibility. According to Valerie Gauthier, associate dean, HEC Paris , If we are to avoid repeating history, MBA students must learn to ask the right questions, challenge the status quo and trace the intricate web of connections between events, cultures, nations and disciplines.

The renaissance period in Europe once produced leaders who were as grounded in science and the arts as they were with diplomacy and war. Now Gauthier suggests that business education needs to create 'renaissance MBAs,' managers and professionals who are as familiar with history, philosophy and design as they are with a business plan or a balance sheet.

One of the ways to achieve this would be to open up MBA programmes to individuals with a much wider range of backgrounds so that bankers and management consultants would find themselves rubbing shoulders with artists or political scientists. The resulting mix would produce business leaders able to see their decisions and actions in a wider context and, therefore, hopefully, with a more responsible and far-sighted approach.

The darkness of September 29th, I had a cubicle quarters at the Renaissance Amsterdam hotel on Kattengat byway someone's cup of tea. In truth I had two rooms, not that I slept in either of them. The first had too much in someone's bailiwick discordance, and windows that didn’t block out the plunge. The tick, well, I woke up at 7.30 AM from construction blast in jail the hotel.

I desire to be unclouded: this was not construction nearby the hotel, this was industry being done on the hotel itself. In other words, administration had made the call that starting construction at 7.30 in the morning was ok.