News Archive 2010
10 December 2010: Richard Fairchild presents research on emotional finance at Behavioural Finance 2010
Dr Richard Fairchild, Lecturer in Corporate Finance at the School of Management, gave a presentation earlier this week at 'Behavioural Finance 2010: Strategies for Improving Trading and Investment Performance', a one-day conference in London.
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29 November 2010: Professor Andrew Graves presents paper at Defence Conference
Professor Andrew Graves of the School of Management was a speaker at The Spectator’s recent one day Defence Conference at the QEII Centre in London. He presented a paper, for panel debate, entitled ‘Defence Procurement in Crisis - a call for Leadership’.
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23 November 2010: CSR Best Paper award for School of Management team at BAM
The School of Management’s Paul Caulfield, FME Fellow, PhD student Gabriela Miranda and Dr Mina Vasalou Research Officer, recently won the Best Paper award for the CSR track at the British Academy of Management’s 2010 Conference in Sheffield in September.
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15 November 2010: BBA students undertake research project for Norton Rose in Singapore
A group of BSc in Business Administration (BBA) students working on their final-year project are working with international legal practice Norton Rose (Asia) LLP.
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11 November 2010: Bath's Susan Mawemuko wins prestigious MBA Student of the Year Award 2010
Bath MBA student, Susan Mawemuko, has been awarded the prestigious title of MBA Student of the Year at a Gala Dinner held in London on November 4th.
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5 November 2010: Am I an Entrepreneur or a Corporate Person? Margaret Heffernan presents to the Bath MBAs
During her presentation, as part of the Personal Leadership and Careers module on the Bath MBA, Margaret Heffernan, Entrepreneur in Residence at the School of Management, unpacked the popular cliché of having to choose between corporate versus entrepreneurial career paths.
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5 November 2010: Visit to the School of Management from Shandong University, Jinan, China
The School of Management welcomed academics and MBA students from Shandong University to the School on the 27th October.
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28 October 2010: School of Management announces new PhD Studentships for 2011
The School of Management is very pleased to announce new funding opportunities for its PhD applicants in 2011.
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25 October 2010: Why universities are good for your health
14 October 2010: Inaugural Global MBA Residency held at Stellenbosch University
Professor Richard Elliott, Dean of the University of Bath School of Management, joined seven Bath MBA students last month to take part in an inaugural Global Residency in collaboration with Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Also taking part in the residency was Dr Juani Swart, Director of the Work and Employment Research Centre (WERC) at the School of Management. Juani is also a visiting Professor at Stellenbosch.
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14 October 2010: Photo exhibition cements links between Bath and Tashkent State University
A recent photography exhibition (4-9 Oct) charting the development of Tashkent, one of Asia’s most ancient cities, recently took place at Bath Central Library, thanks to links forged recently between the School of Management and Tashkent State University of Economics (TSUE).
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14 October 2010: Bath MBA student Asma Ahmad shortlisted in Women of the Future Awards
Asma Ahmed, a full-time Bath MBA student due to graduate later this year, has been shortlisted for the MBA Star Award, a category within the Women of the Future Award.
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14 October 2010: Sir Keith Mills guest speaker at Marketing Alumni Group meeting
Sir Keith Mills, the force behind the London 2012 Olympic bid and founder of Air Miles loyalty scheme, gave a fascinating talk at the latest University of Bath Marketing Alumni Group meeting on 6 October in central London.
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14 October 2010: Team Bath provide new MBAs with ice-breaker and team building event
The new cohort of full-time Bath MBA students attended a team-building day run by the Teaching and Coaching Fellows in the Department of Sports Development as part of their induction.
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13 October 2010: New students enjoy the fun of the fair at The Big Team Challenge 2010
New School of Management BSc and MSc students enjoyed the School’s annual Big Team Challenge last week - five days of logic tasks, team-building exercises and networking opportunities, sponsored by five of the School’s Corporate Partners: Zurich, PwC, Intel, 3M and BP.
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8 October 2010: New Interactions Lab opens in Bath
1 October 2010: IMML graduate launches new tutoring business
29 September 2010: Ian Tonks challenges the Government’s pension annuity proposals in new report
A University of Bath academic has written a new report quantifying the implications of the government’s proposal to remove the requirement to annuitise personal pension schemes at retirement. In the report Professor Ian Tonks of the School of Management challenges the view that the proposed changes will be beneficial for pensioners.
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29 September 2010: Adam Joinson on the dark side of Facebook in The Sunday Times
Dr Adam Joinson, Reader in Information Systems at the School of Management, has been quoted in The Sunday Times’ article ‘The dark side of Facebook’ (26th September 2010) which takes a closer look at the social networking site’s latest development, Facebook Places.
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29 September 2010: Edi Kasabov on customer compliance business strategies
With the advent of new technologies, an increasing number of companies have been redefining the manner in which they interact with their customers. Some of the fundamental precepts of marketing thinking, including what we read in our textbooks - such as customer centricity and customer orientation - have been questioned by practitioners.
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22 September 2010: Rajani Naidoo appointed to the EFMD's R&D Committee
Dr Rajani Naidoo, Senior Lecturer at the School of Management and Director of the DBA in Higher Education Management at the University of Bath, has been appointed as an Inaugural Member to the Research and Development Committee of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
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17 September 2010: Bath MBA breaks into The Economist's top 30 global elite
Bucking the trend that has seen US schools leapfrog above European schools, the Bath MBA has risen sharply up The Economist's MBA ranking published today.
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27 August 2010: BBA graduate prepares for World Judo Championships 2010
24 August 2010: Accounting and Finance degree continues to attract top students
11 August 2010: Bath MBA alums launch UK's first sewage-powered car
The UK's first car to be powered by human sewage has been launched by two Bath MBA alumni, Ingram Legge and Noel Lock.
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5 August 2010: Svenja Tams guest-edits Journal of Organizational Behavior special issue
July 2010 saw the publication of a special issue exploring ‘New Directions for Boundaryless Careers’ in the Journal of Organizational Behavior (a top tier peer- reviewed journal, ranked 4th in the Association of Business Schools’ (ABS) Academic Journal Quality Guide 2010). This issue was guest-edited by the School of Management’s Dr Svenja Tams, Lecturer in Organisation Studies, in collaboration with Professor Michael Arthur from Suffolk University, Boston, MA.
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5 August 2010: Ania Zalewska awarded Visiting Scholar at Hass, Berkeley
Professor Ania Zalewska has been awarded a position of Visiting Scholar by Haas School of Business at Berkeley, University of California, to visit the School and to research at Berkeley.
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4 August 2010: Michael Beverland and Iain Davies achieve Best Paper awards
Two members of the School of Management’s Marketing Group have won awards recently for their published papers.
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3 August 2010: Johanne Grosvold wins Best Paper at IABS Conference
Dr Johanne Grosvold, Lecturer in Environmental Management at the School of Management, has been awarded the Best Paper Prize at the 2010 International Association of Business and Society (IABS) Conference in Banff, Canada.
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26 July 2010: Richard Fairchild co-hosts conference on Behavioural Finance
Dr Richard Fairchild, Lecturer in Corporate Finance at the School of Management, recently co-organised a conference at Cass Business School on the cutting-edge area of behavioural finance.
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22 July 2010: The 19th Cranfield MBA Regatta
Three crews of students and alumni from the Bath MBA enjoyed the competition and the sunshine at the 19th Cranfield MBA Regatta which took place over the weekend of 9th -11th July.
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21 July 2010: Andreas Krause on Swindon job losses
20 July 2010: First line managers: speaking out - Yiannis Gabriel
15 July 2010: Professor Klaus Meyer speaks on multinationals from emerging economies
Professor Klaus Meyer delivered a keynote address on multinational enterprises from emerging economies at the annual meeting of the Chinese Economic Association (UK) in Oxford on July 13th. The speech was delivered in a special forum on the competitiveness of Chinese enterprises, sponsored by Fudan University of Shanghai.
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13 July 2010: Summer Graduation Prizegiving 2010
The School of Management held its annual undergraduate Prize-giving Ceremony on the July 7th, a few hours before the official graduation ceremony took place at historic Bath Abbey.
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6 July 2010: iPhone app wins first prize in Bath MBA business plan competition
Students on the Bath MBA showcased their business ideas for a panel of judges last month, in the culmination of this year’s Entrepreneurship in Action project, an integral part of the Bath MBA programme.
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2 July 2010: School of Management signs agreement with Stellenbosch
The School of Management is delighted to announce the signing of an agreement of collaboration between the University of Bath School of Management and the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) in South Africa.
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1 July 2010: Gregory Schwartz awarded British Academy Grant
Dr Gregory Schwartz, Lecturer in Organisation Studies at the School of Management, has been awarded a research grant of £7,480 from the British Academy, the UK’s national body for the humanities and social sciences, to study the “Discourses of ‘Community’ in Collaborative Work: The Case of Clean Technology”
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30 June 2010: Silvana Stanford wins Staff Recognition Award
28 June 2010: Bath professor made management “Champion of the Year”
24 June 2010: MBA alumnus Richard Knight awarded OBE
Richard Knight, a graduate of the full-time Bath MBA (2007) has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2010, published on June 12th.
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23 June 2010: EUNIP Conference in Reus
Four members of the Business, Society and Business Economics Group in the School of Management participated in the 12th European Union Network for Industrial Policy (EUNIP) conference, held in Reus, Spain, between 9th and 11th June.
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9 June 2010: Mehdi Boussebaa invited to speak at TECMOND conference, Aix-en-Provence, France
Dr Mehdi Boussebaa, Lecturer in Organisational Studies, at the School of Management was invited to present a paper at TECMOND, an international conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of the LEST (Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail).
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8 June 2010: The Guardian: Bath 1st for Career Prospects
In the Guardian’s University Guide 2011, published today, the University of Bath School of Management has been ranked 1st for Career Prospects highlighting the excellent employability enjoyed by our BSc in Business Administration graduates.
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4 June 2010: Alumnus Justin King talks about how recession is hitting retailers
3 June 2010: Prof Michael Beverland presents Inaugural Lecture
Michael Beverland, Professor of Marketing at the University of Bath School of Management gave his inaugural lecture on Wednesday 26th May, entitled ‘The Future of Brand Management: Negotiating Brand Meaning with Consumers’.
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3 June 2010: The Times: Bath excels in graduate prospects
In The Times Good University Guide 2011, published in June 2010, the value of our BSc in Business Administration (BBA) degree in preparing students for the workplace is shown by our ranking of 2nd in the UK for graduate prospects.
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3 June 2010: DBA(HEM) student receives Outstanding Women’s Award in Belize
The University of the West Indies (UWI), Open Campus, Belize, has awarded Luz Longsworth, Director of the Open Campus Country Sites of UWI, its 2010 Outstanding Women’s Award.
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3 June 2010: Bath student reaches final of MBA Student of the Year Award
Bath MBA student, Susan Mawemuko, has beaten off stiff competition to make it through to the final of the MBA Student of the Year Award 2010.
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21 May 2010: Complete University Guide: Bath 3rd in UK for Business Studies
The 2011 Complete University Guide is published today in The Independent newspaper. The ranking puts Bath in third place for Business Studies and third place for Accounting and Finance. Both subjects have risen from a position of 4th place last year.
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21 May 2010: Undergraduate University Open Day - 24th June 2010
The University is holding an Open Day on Thursday 24th June from 10am - 4pm.
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13 May 2010: Entrepreneurs who couldn't wait to graduate - The Independent
12 May 2010: Teressa Mitchard awarded Departmental Administrator of the Year by Students' Union
7 May 2010: Inaugural Chevening Forum 2010 a great success
The University of Bath’s inaugural Chevening Forum was held at the Innovation Centre on Friday 30 April.
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7 May 2010: School of Management signs agreement with Groupe Euromed Management in France
The School of Management is delighted to announce the signing of an agreement of collaboration between the University of Bath School of Management and Groupe Euromed Management in Marseille, France.
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6 May 2010: Ian Crawford awarded grant by British Council
Ian Crawford, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the School of Management, has been awarded an INSPIRE (International Strategic Partnerships in Research and Education) grant of £41,130 by the British Council.
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29 April 2010: Bath CMI group discuss social media - marvel or monster?
A recent meeting of the Bath branch of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) found itself in an intense discussion about the role social media plays in business and society.
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28 April 2010: Sarah Dixon launches research project with Intel and Motorola
Dr Sarah Dixon, Senior Lecturer in Strategy at the School of Management, has just launched a three year research project with Intel and Motorola.
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27 April 2010: PhD alum Helen Edwards joins Marketing magazine
24 April 2010: MSc Marketing students help relaunch 200 year-old British brand C.W. Dixey & Son
Students on the MSc in Marketing programme are working on a real life project to reposition and relaunch a 200 year-old British firm which pioneered optical instruments and played a role in the development of the contact lens.
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21 April 2010: BSc Accounting and Finance student wins Undergraduate of the Year award
Second year BSc in Accounting and Finance student, Leanne Sweet, has been awarded First Year Undergraduate of the Year, at the Undergraduate of the Year Awards, held at East Wintergarden in Canary Wharf last week.
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14 April 2010: Richard Lambert, Director General of the CBI, addresses the Change Management Forum.
Richard Lambert spoke to an audience of University of Bath School of Management’s Change Management Forum (CMF), alumni, academics and corporate sponsors on the subject of how business and business schools can work together more effectively.
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7 April 2010: Alistair Brandon-Jones in panel debate for National Audit Office
Dr Alistair Brandon-Jones, Lecturer in Operations and Supply, was invited to appear as an academic expert on a panel discussion to launch the National Audit Office's new guide, 'Successful Commissioning: How to secure value for money through better financial relationships with third sector organisations’, which launched online on March 17th.
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29 March 2010: PhD alumnus Sven Janssen publishes book on banking strategies
School of Management PhD graduate Sven Janssen has written his first book, 'British and German Banking Strategies', published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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24 March 2010: BEiR awarded Badge of Honour by Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009
During Global Entrepreneurship Week in November 2009, the University of Bath School of Management launched the Bath Entrepreneurship in Residence Scheme (BEiR), designed to provide students access to some of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs and help them to enhance their entrepreneurial talents and business skills.
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23 March 2010: Professors Yiannis Gabriel and Klaus Meyer appointed to ESRC Peer Review College
23 March 2010: PhD Student Niraj Kumar wins regional runner-up in British Council awards
School of Management PhD student Niraj Kumar has been selected as a regional runner-up in the International Student Awards 2010, run by the British Council.
The International Student Awards 2010 celebrate the achievements of international students and their contributions to life in the UK.
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3 March 2010: Companies that value diversity are also more likely to be eco-friendly
15 March 2010: Dean Richard Elliott visits Shanghai Jiao Tong University
15 March 2010: The 7 habits of highly effective CPOs - MIke Lewis
11 March 2010: Sri Lanka eco-factory achieves highest accreditation from US Green Building Council
In 2008, the Sri-Lankan eco-factory built as part of Marks and Spencer’s ‘Plan A’ eco-iniative in partnership with their supplier MAS Intimates, was the world’s first purpose-built green factory for apparel manufacturing.
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4 March 2010: Bath ranked 5th globally for practice papers published in INFORMS journals
The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) is the world's pre-eminent society for Operational Research and Management Science. It publishes a dozen leading journals in this area, including Operations Research, Management Science and Interfaces
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3 March 2010: BBA students' Arctic Farm frozen yoghurt goes on sale in Sainsbury's
2 March 2010: BBA students launch online fancy dress company for fellow students
Two second year BSc in Business Administration students, Ben Wreford and Sergio Iacobucci, have launched a new fancy dress website, called StandOut Fancy Dress!
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22 February 2010: Final year students enjoy networking opportunity with alumni and corporate partners
Last week, final year undergraduates from the School of Management’s BSc in Business Administration (BBA), BSc in Accounting and Finance (BAF) and BSc in International Management and Modern Languages (IMML) came together at an inaugural event in Bath’s Guildhall.
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19 February 2010: Bath MBA ranked among top global MBAs by CNN Expansión
The Bath MBA has once again been recognised as one of the leading MBAs in the world in the international ranking of the top MBAs for Mexican Executives.
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16 February 2010: 'I started work the day after my course ended' - MSc AMP graduate Lauren Dolan
16 February 2010: Peter Reason takes on role of expert witness at farmer's jury in India
Professor Peter Reason, Professor of Action Research Practice in the School of Management, was invited to India recently to take part in Raita Teerpu, the first ever ‘citizen’s jury’ on the orientation of contemporary agricultural research.
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16 February 2010: BBA James Wong talks about the Chelsea Flower Show
10 February 2010: Sinéad Carey awarded 'highly commended' in 2009 Emerald Awards
Dr Sinéad Carey, Lecturer in Operations and Supply Management, has been selected for a Highly Commended Award in the Operations and Production Management category of the 2009 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards.
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25 January 2010: Bath MBA boasts high levels of employment and excellent value for money in Financial Times' ranking
In the FT’s exclusive ranking of the world’s leading MBA schools, Global MBA Rankings 2010, the Bath MBA is ranked 4th in the world for levels of employment at three months post-graduation. It is ranked 18th in the world for value for money.
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11 January 2010: Christine Harland on the mismanagement of public funds - Independent
8 January 2010: Adam Joinson discusses the downside of social networking - The Telegraph
4 January 2010: MBA and MSc graduates celebrate in style at Bath's Guildhall
Following their formal graduation award ceremony on December 15th 2009, MBA and Master’s graduates enjoyed bubbly and canapés with family, friends and School of Management staff and alumni in Bath’s historic Guildhall Banqueting Room.
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