Governance

ABS Announces New Executive Members and Three New Companions

ABS announces four new executive members

  • Professor Amanda Broderick, Dean of Salford Business School
  • Monica Gibson-Sweet, Head of the Faculty Business and Society, University of Glamorgan
  • Jerry Forrester, Deputy Dean, Hertfordshire Business School; and
  • Professor Simon Lilley, Head Leicester Management School, University of Leicester

Full details of the Executive can be found *here*

Corporate governance is under the microscope in the investigation into the activities of News International

To listen to the podcast please go to:
http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/expert_comment/2011/deakin_buck.html

The parliamentary and police investigations into phone-hacking and corrupt practices involving journalists and their police sources will also call into question the corporate governance of not just News International but its parent, News Corporation.

Unrest in the Middle East is injecting ‘fear’ into energy prices - but democracy may well benefit the West in the long term

To listen to the documentary podcast and the individual interviews please go to:

http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/interactive/phd/2011/podcast_krane_arab.html

Colonel Gaddafi needs to engage the ‘hearts and minds’ of his people to keep power, and even if he does survive, the new Libya will look more like the old Iraq says Jim Krane, a researcher in Energy Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School in a new broadcast for our podcast series. 

Unique course to help family businesses this summer at UWE

To address this extremely important issue at an early stage in the process of transition, a unique five day residential course aimed at family businesses is being held this summer by experts from Bristol Business School at the University of the West of England, The International Centre for Families in Business and Veale Wasbrough Vizards, Lawyers.

Generation2Generation (G2G) will present a chance to explore the unique and complex nature of the family business with a particular emphasis on succession planning.

The Doughty Centre at Cranfield releases new CR guides

Commenting on the guide, Director of the Doughty Centre, Professor David Grayson said: “In the wake of the financial crisis it is even more critical that boards and management assess their approach to their governance of responsibility.

Latest paper from Cranfield’s Doughty Centre puts the media under the spotlight

The Daily Telegraph ran a month long expose of MPs’ abuse of parliamentary allowances to subsidise their lifestyles and multiple homes.  Whilst few outside parliament challenged the public service value of the expose, controversy focussed on the fact that the information was sourced from computer discs which may have been stolen.

Warwick Business School wins major contract with National Police Improvement Agency

This means that cohorts of at least 50 police per year will come to study at Warwick over the next 9 years.

From Rats to Retail - Oxford MBA students successfully complete strategic consulting projects in a wide range of sectors across the world

Each year, small teams of MBA students complete a challenging eight week long project within a sponsoring organisation to address specific issues or business opportunities identified by the company.  The projects are located in a broad range of sectors and the nature of the briefs is equally diverse.  This year projects ranged from developing a business plan for a multi-country expansion for an organisation that has developed unique landmines detection technology using rats; to exploring the importance of ‘supply chain visibility’ to retailers as supply chains become more consumer de

Executives on course for a new lease of life

What Next?  is an intensive five day programme for those experienced in leadership positions who are within a few years of leaving, or have recently left, their senior roles and who are keen to use their experience and insight to enhance the quality of governance and performance of organisations  – whether on boards, as trustees, or in launching new initiatives.

What Next? Looming crisis over lack of quality non-execs

The scarcity of talented and insightful individuals to replace those who are withdrawing their expertise from boards, is of concern to many organisations, not just in the private sector but also in the public and not-for-profit sectors. The Ernst and Young study recommends that innovative management development programmes (alongside creative search techniques) are required to address this potentially damaging shortfall.

What Next? is an innovative, high-quality management development programme from Oxford, created to address this need directly.

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