Fiona Buckley of IMI outlines steps we can take to ensure fear doesn’t hold back our career progress.

The following is a selection of people who have recently begun interesting new roles in Ireland.

In many corporate offices, around the world, all that matters to directors and executives is shareholder value as expressed in share price, writes Terry Prone

Irish-based businesses are recruiting and expanding across a wide range of sectors. Here is a selection of people who have moved into interesting new roles.

UCC’s acquisition of the Irish Management Institute (IMI) was a major driver of a 7.7% increase in the university’s income to €371.7m in 2017, according to its latest accounts.

The Irish Management Institute (IMI) has become the first Irish educator to be listed in the Financial Times global top 50 for executive education.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The reliance of foreign firms on the economy has been further signalled with an IDA-backed management course aimed at training management for Irish subsidiaries of multinationals.

Annie Fletcher has been named as director of IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

RTÉ is standing over an investigation on spending and governance at third-level colleges as it prepares responses to complaints from two universities.

University of Limerick (UL) president Des Fitzgerald says he will not hesitate to take action if a number of ongoing probes uncover any breaches of conduct rules by staff or directors.

Third-level bosses face a severe grilling by TDs over gaps in their evidence to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee about financial affairs.

University College Cork acquired a private business college without picking up the tab for its pension scheme, which previously had a deficit of more than €10m.

University College Cork has said it is satisfied it paid market value when it bought a former bank from a local authority for €800,000 more than its purchase price two years earlier.

With third-level funding at crisis point, how prudent is it for UCC to borrow €18m to take over the Irish Management Institute, asks Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

The ex-Irish amateur boxing head coach comes out swinging in the wake of the IABA statement. This is his statement in full.

He has admitted to being tempted into the Ireland role, in part, by the carrot of a less hectic pace of life, so it was ironic yesterday to hear Joe Schmidt talk about being whisked through the suburban traffic of Paris on a motorbike at 140kph.

Effective use of cloud strategies could create up to 8,600 jobs and deliver €9.4bn annually in sales, business analysts said at an Irish Management Institute (IMI) breakfast briefing in Dublin.

EMC has urged colleges to create more 'Big Data' programmes as experts predict millions of new jobs in analytics over the coming years.

The Government has unveiled plans for a €1m research centre aimed at making Ireland a world leader in the rapidly growing area of data analytics.

The London market started the fourth quarter strongly today as positive economic data from the US and renewed optimism over Spain’s banks boosted investor confidence.

A resilient performance from the scandal-hit banking sector and better-than-expected retail sales figures helped the FTSE 100 Index hold firm today.

Public servants need to develop management and leadership practices capable of driving Ireland’s economic recovery, according to senior Teagasc executives.

A rise in Spain’s borrowing costs today fuelled fears about the eurozone debt crisis and triggered a sell-off on world markets.

London’s leading shares index struggled to find direction today as downbeat housing data in both China and the US saw the recent upbeat mood stutter.

An upbeat note from Goldman Sachs boosted the banking sector today and helped limit losses for London’s leading shares index.

A bleak warning from Bank of England governor Mervyn King, eurozone uncertainty and worse-than-expected US unemployment data ended the rally on the London market today.

London’s blue chip index fell for a second day running as investors took fright at slower than expected growth in China and rising inflation fears in the United States.

Moves across Europe to bolster the region’s banks and economies sparked a second day of strong gains for shares in London.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny announced yesterday that the Irish Management Institute (IMI) and UCC have agreed an alliance that will “transform business education in Ireland”.

THE new Commission on Credit Unions will issue its recommendations for the long-term structure and regulation of the movement to Finance Minister, Michael Noonan in three months time, ahead of a more detailed report next March.

The London market made scant progress today as an IMF endorsement of the UK government’s deficit-busting plans was overshadowed by wider fears over the global recovery.

British banking stocks gained today after a key report shied away from recommending a full-blown split of their retail and investment arms.