Delivering world-class executive development programmes
With rising interest in generative AI and tech-enabled learning, UCD Smurfit expands its diploma and short-course portfolio to help leaders navigate rapid business change
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Unique UCD degree prepares next generation of business leaders
‘Our graduates understand their responsibility to themselves, to business, and to wider society’
Industry asked and academia delivered: Professional qualifications in aviation finance
Leading lessors supported the design of a dedicated degree in aviation finance, and now Smurfit is offering a new professional diploma aimed at busy executives
Peak Pharma - Is it time to rethink our pharmaceutical innovation system?
Prof Susi Geiger to discuss the spiralling price of new drug therapies in 2026 Laurence Crowley Lecture
Meeting the challenges and exploiting the opportunities presented by a volatile world
The world is transforming, and UCD’s Smurfit School is poised to shape the next generation of business leaders with innovation, openness, and global relevance
Smurfit alumni see 91 per cent increase in salaries within three years
Ireland’s top-ranking MBA programme develops future leaders with targeted career development and skills across sustainability, AI and emerging business topics
How to avoid an IT project debacle? Adopt a shared mental model
Boards often have the odds stacked against them, says Joe Peppard, academic director of UCD Smurfit Executive Development
Corporate governance can make or break an organisation
Participants in UCD’s Professional Diploma in Corporate Governance programme gain the competence required for roles in today’s changing environment
At the forefront of leadership development
UCD Smurfit Executive Development Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching ‘a transformational experience’
Money management problems a potential early sign of dementia, warns expert
‘Within the last two years, new drugs have been licensed that can reduce the progress of the disease by up to 30%’
Demystifying technologies at UCD
Ensuring organisations are set up for success in terms of new technologies
‘As soon as I started the EMBA programme, I began to see the bigger world and other opportunities’
After a stellar career with the Defence Forces, Sharon McManus took a Smurfit Executive MBA course, which led her to a new career with the ESB
Ethics of predictive prenatal tests the subject of prestigious UCD lecture
Bioethicist Judit Sándor will deliver the lecture at the university next Monday, focusing on the challenges posed by increasingly accurate predictive technologies
Carrots, sticks and public engagement required to move the sustainability dial
Sustainability reporting is becoming increasingly standardised and rigorous, but data collection is still a roadblock when it comes to Scope 3 emissions
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