Nottingham University Business School

As Professor of Entrepreneurial Development and Director of the Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI) at the University of Nottingham, Martin Binks has pioneered links across the University, including at its campuses in Asia, as well as creating excellent connections with small and medium-sized enterprises.

Professor Schoefer joins Newcastle University Business School from the University of Vienna in Austria where he last held the position of Associate Professor of International Marketing. 

Prior to his time in Austria, Professor Schoefer completed his Doctoral Studies at Nottingham University Business School before becoming a lecturer in Tourism Management and Marketing at its Christel DeHaan Tourism and Travel Research Institute. 

It has been observed that many of these senior executives hold MBAs from some of the world’s leading schools. The questions about the relevance and legitimacy of the MBA continue.

A panel of experts will explore the issues at Saïd Business School and debate: ‘This House Believes that MBAs are best placed to lead us out of financial crisis’.

Speakers for the motion are:

• Professor Colin Mayer, Dean and Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School

• Phil Walker, COO, CapGemini

Changes are needed to plug an 'information gap' that currently makes it difficult to judge the relative risk exposure of different banks before problems become apparent.

In recent research, a team of risk experts  at Nottingham University Business School concluded that any such revision to the regulations should ideally include requirements to disclose specific categories of information that are useful for the evaluation of risk exposure.

Currie explains that despite the growing dissatisfaction expressed by many international students studying on MBA programmes in the UK, few have tried to find out why. He says, ?In other sectors, interrogation of the consumer to determine service need is considered paramount, in management education, the voice of these participants has been pushed to the margins.? His evidence supports the view that UK and Chinese students experience the MBA differently and that Chinese students struggle to adjust to MBA teaching, which is based on Anglo-American assumptions and norms of behaviour.