The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Policy and Advocacy Manager, Dr Stan Hardman, shared the organisation’s vision for Durban’s economic development during a lecture held at the Graduate School of Business and Leadership (GSB&L).
Dr Stanley Hardman delivering a lecture at the Graduate School of Business and Leadership.
The lecture titled: “The role of partnerships in Local Economic
Development (LED)”, highlighted the crucial role LED plays in growing
the economy and liberating entrepreneurs to grow their wealth whilst
creating employment.
Hardman interpreted policy processes and outputs with the perspective of
promoting efficient, effective and ethical business practice to
challenge the Masters in Commerce and Leadership Studies and
Postgraduate Diploma students to align the business community’s vision
for the city with their research.
‘The business community has a vision for the promotion and development
of vibrant and sustainable enterprises. The LED perspective is an
important element that you will cover during your course and it will
raise research questions and research agendas aligned to skills
development and education. We have to look at the economic space and how
the nature of work is changing,’ said Hardman.
The presentation also looked at investment creation, institutional
business partnerships and the requirements for economic growth to give
students a well-rounded picture of how the theory they are learning in
class translates into practice.
MCom student and South African-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s
KwaZulu-Natal’s Regional Representative, Ms Yvonne Iyer, said the
lecture highlighted a different perspective to LED.
‘Dr Hardman’s presentation highlighted the need for us as business
practitioners to teach each other different skills of enterprising. It
is interesting to see the role the Chamber plays in partnering with
business and where we fit in as students in ensuring that the city
fulfils its vision,’ she said.Type your content here...