Robert Boland

DR ROBERT BOLAND,

MD, MPH (Johns Hopkins), DBA, ITP (Harvard Business School), ex IN Geneva and former visiting professor at: INSEAD: IMD, Cranfield, Columbia, GSB, Stellenbosch, Wits, WHO, ILO, WB, UNEP, UNIDO, AID, IRC, Peace Corps, Shell, Burma, Barlows, Baxter, Nokia and others.

The impersonal biography below could never give you a real insight to this remarkable man. You can read it but here's the real story first. A maverick of the first order, Dr Boland is the ultimate role model for life-long learning.
Never tell Bob Boland "you can't do that"

"You can't go to Harvard" - he did
"You can't write a book" - he wrote five
"You can't teach people finance in two days" - he developed AGL
"You can't teach paramedics in Africa how to treat simple medical cases, you're not a doctor." - although aged 44, he went off and became an MD. At first no-one would accept him. Finally Mexico said yes. So he learned Spanish in order to study medicine in Mexico. He qualified at John Hopkins in Maryland a few years later.
"You can't go on working - just retire" - at age 21 ( ! ) the doc is as active as ever, teaching, consulting and playing the piano. He has just learned hypnosis simply in order to design a ground breaking programme on handling stress. His work on learning languages is a revelation.

Official Biography

Early education in the U.K. to qualify as Chartered Accountant
University of Nottingham: B.A. with Honours in Economics
Harvard Business School: I.T.P.Stellenbosch University: PhD Finance
Juarez Medical School, Mexico: PhD/M.D. Programme
St. Agnes Hospital, Maryland: M.D. License, Maryland
John Hopkins University, Baltimore:Master of Public Health, Preventive Medicine Residency. Programme with specialisation in International Health.

After a year at Harvard as visiting faculty, Dr. Boland was responsible for the establishment of the first Engineering Management Programme at Cranfield, the U.K.'s first management school. At the University of Cape Town he was instrumental in the founding of the Graduate School of Business, of which he was named Director, as well as the development of the MBA and Executive Programmes. Subsequently, he concentrated on consulting, teaching and research into behavioral science as applied to accelerated learning systems and educational technology, and was a visiting professor and consultant in Educational Technology to INSEAD.

In addition to his experience in the teaching consulting field, Dr. Boland is also the author of many books, articles and reports dealing with accounting, finance, investment and environmental management. From 1983, Dr. Boland worked in Africa and Latin America as a consultant to the International Labour Office in Geneva.Dr. Boland is currently with the French Geneva Campus of Thunderbird - The American Graduate School of International Management and the European Institute, Geneva.

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