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Are You Self Employed or in Business and Pregnant?

Julia
Rouse at Manchester
Metropolitan University
would like to speak to you! Julia is
starting a new research project on how women who are self employed or in
business scope with pregnancy and the maternity period.

Small firms need to stay alert to stay ahead - research findings

Conducted some weeks before serious knock-on effects from the US ‘sub-prime’ mortgage crisis hit Britain, the survey revealed that just 11 per cent of the 528 respondents had the general economic climate as their main concern, 6 per cent were troubled by cashflow/bad debts and only 2 per cent were mainly worried about interest rates or access to finance.

Ashridge signs up to United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education

Ashridge Business School is one of the first schools to become a signatory to the new United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education.
 The principles - covering purpose, values, methods, research, partnerships and dialogue constitute the first global guiding framework for academic institutions to advance the teaching and development of corporate responsibility.

Cabinet Reshuffle

The three new departments are:

Report says office turf wars and dirty politics in decline

The report, published with Warwick Business School, shows that only 31 per cent of the 1,495 respondents view politics as protecting their turf.  Fewer still believe that it is about pursuing personal advantage (21 per cent).  More common is the belief that good political skills are about alliance building (59 per cent), followed by interaction with government (40 per cent) and reconciling differences (39 per cent).

London South Bank University's Local Economy Policy Unit & Research and Business Development Office invite you to:

University-Industry Collaboration and Regional Economic Development Seminar

How can Universities make a real difference?

Thursday 14th June 2007, 4.00-6.30pm

Followed by a drinks reception

The seminar will report on the work of the Regional University-Industry Strategies Network (RUISNET). London South Bank University, with eight other European partners, has been working since 2004 to identify cases of good practice in university-industry cooperation and their impact on regional development.

Success of Inaugural Diploma class at Sa?d Business School, as numbers for second intake increase threefold!

The year-long, masters-level module-based Diploma course is designed for finance professionals who have the potential to reach boardroom positions, and will help them take a more active role in the financial and business strategy of their organisations.

The first intake attracted participants from a wide range of backgrounds, from a mergers and acquisitions specialist in the oil industry to a finance director of a start-up company and a business analyst from the public sector.

Warwick Diploma Goes Abroad!

Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in January between the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA), the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) and WBS, the Diploma is to be launched at the end of March.

Press Invitation: Speakers and programme announced for 2007 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship

Speakers and programme announced for 2007 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship

?Enabling Social Innovation?

March 27-29, Said Business School, Oxford

Research from Aston Business School finds companies can struggle by focusing too much on competitors

A detailed study of the Chinese travel industry regarded as one of the fastest growing and most influential in the world at present reveals that although such an approach can produce a real competitive advantage, it is not entirely clear how a market orientation can be developed.

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