This year, business school INSEAD topped the rankings of the Financial Times' annual Global MBA Rankings for the first time - dislodging the previous year’s leader, Harvard Business School. It is also the first time a business school with a one-year MBA programme made it to the top of the list. We speak to Professor Ilian Mihov, the Dean of INSEAD on how INSEAD is adapting to a changing business education landscape.

The Morning Run crew gives you their take on today's business headlines:

- Standard Life: first UK property fund to shut the gate

- Temasek facing a drop in net portfolio value

Forward-thinking new music from everywhere. Saturdays and Wednesdays (repeat) 9pm with Tim Sharp.

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0:00 - Lapsley – Operator (DJ Koze Edit)

5:34 - Dengue Dengue Dengue - Badman

10:27 - Mall Grab - Never

16:27 - Edward Scissortongue - Hyperballad

20:22 - DJ Zozi – Snow Globe

25:33 - Jaymo & Andy George – 1968 (The Broken Tape)

31:15 - Elka – BBX1999

35:48 - The Posse – MS-DOS

41:06 - Physical Therapy – Girl Track

46:00 - Guest Mix: Kiat [SG, Syndicate]

78:26 - Moderat – Running (Tale of Us Remix)

78:24 - DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall

83:29 - Ngaiire – Diggin’

88:20 - Katrina - Scintilla

Enterprises expect data to be available instantly, but complex infrastructure creates an app-data gap that disrupts data delivery and makes end users wait. Closing the app-data gap required predicting and preventing barriers to data velocity, no matter where the barriers occur across IT infrastructure. Immediate data access is critical to maintaining competitive edge. Rachel Ler, Regional Director of Nimble Storage ASEAN talks on why businesses need a flash solution.

We have a large amount of unutilised fund from the employer contributions and 30% of this pool fund is now being used to harness potential of talents via 1MalaysiaGRIP. HRDF Chief Executive talks about how the pool fund will solve the nation’s shortage of skilled workforce and how employees now have a choice to select what programmes they need to upskill themselves.

We have, for generations, projected our political and spiritual longings onto our closest celestial neighbour: the Moon. So much so that she been a talismanic home to science fiction's most ambitious dreams for generations. In Luna: New Moon - a novel by science fiction legend Ian McDonald - the moon is both beautiful and terrible… the moon is both deadly and dramatic

This week, on Invisible Cities, join Uma - and special guest Ian McDonald - for a tour of the omnisexual, kinky, violent, passionate, beautiful, awful, vibrant, and crushing… moon.

Show Notes:

i. Be sure to check out some other great works of science fiction set on the moon. Namely Robert A. Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” and Arthur C. Clarke’s “A Fall of Moondust". 

ii. If you’re looking for some non-fiction… well… then you can’t really go wrong with Andrew Chaikin’s “A Man on the Moon” or with Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff”.

For every person dreaming of leaving their country for better promises and prospects, there are people and systems determined to keep them out, and no system is more scrutinised than that of the United States. In this episode, we look at the discrimination faced by immigrants, the friction that happens between borders, and find out what the original Americans, its Native population, think about migration and whether they’ve been treated fairly in the mix. This episode was originally broadcasted on 20th October 2015.

The other installments of The Pendatang Cometh series can be found here:

1) Episode 1: Arrival

2) Episode 2: Hard Work and Economics

3) Episode 4: Identity

The Morning Run crew gives you their take on today's business headlines:

- TNB not in synergy with EC, Kettha

- MRT rapidly awards RM 20bn worth of contracts

- Tony Fernandes on board Amnesty International

- Democratic party blocks off Wall Street

This month, Michael Kossler from Iclif Leadership and Governance joins us to talk about all things related to working well with other people and within an organization. In the first episode, we start with how to engage members of your team. Each person has a different set of needs for full engagement. In this session, Michael Kossler takes us through how to identify those needs and how a leader can leverage them to engage members of the team. 

We get you out of bed, to your first cup of coffee or to your first destination of your day with thought-provoking discussions on ideas, people and events shaping all our lives