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Our curiosity and insight will inform your strategic decisions

Our creative solutions will make your school stand out

Our professional implementation will help you deliver your goals

After all, your success is our success.

Great solutions come though shared experience. If you have a challenge call us now, we are the H&A team, we could be your team too...

Simply helping business schools to be better

“Hardcastle & Associates’ extensive knowledge and understanding of the business school environment means that they deliver real value at project inception and can quickly establish themselves with a range of stakeholders, internal and external. Drawing on their network of experienced colleagues means that we can quickly, efficiently and effectively deliver a range of initiatives, including marketing support and test-and-learn projects.”

Head of External Engagement, The Open University Business School

Know your market,

develop your programmes

Understand and engage with alumni

Optimise employability and external interaction

Improve your candidate journey

Achieve greater impact from your communications

Get the most out of your advisory board

"It has been great to work with Hardcastle & Associates on a strategic alumni project – they brought a wide range of experience and skills and know business schools inside out."

Associate Dean, Quality and Accreditation, Coventry Business School

What our clients say

A series of reports drawn from in-depth interviews, round tables, research and analysis that combine the experiences of our friends, colleagues and clients. We continue the series with our latest report The MBA and the Value of Practitioner Engagement >

Our latest news

Workshop Excellence

This workshop was part of a six month programme Dr Sybille Schiffmann and I created for the senior leadership team at Leicester Castle...

Being the Changemaker

Always exciting to embark on a new project and even better when it is a collaboration! I am delighted that our third Sharing the...

Speaking at the Brighton Pavilion

Brighton holds some mixed memories for me, however today the sun shone: I was delighted to be asked to speak for a second year running at...

Our latest events

11/12 April 2024

British Academy of Management Development Programme
for Directors of Engagement
H&A Session: Advisory Board Engagement and Impact

30 May 2024

Project workshop Italy

(Private Event)

3-5 June 2024

Project Research Visit Germany

9, 10, 11 June 2024

EFMD Annual Conference - Bologna

H&A and Birmingham Business School Session:
Increasing the Impact of Advisory Boards

24/25 June 2024

Project workshop Italy

(Private Event)

10 July 2024

Senior Leadership Team Development Workshop

(private event)

16-18 October 2024
GBC Roundtable Symposium
Session and new Sharing the Experience report launch:
Being the Changemaker: Successfully Navigating MBA Design Improvements and Innovation

Questrom School of Business
Boston University