Text of talk given to the Fellows of IEMA event 7th December 2017. With acknowledgements and thanks to Lee Matthews for his contribution to the ideas in the talk. Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s my honour to be invited here to make a contribution to the discussion this evening. As the Head of a Business School […]
Building Better Boards: Case of the UK HE Sector
Text of my talk to the IOD India Global Convention, London 25th October 2017 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Higher Education sector in the UK I think offers an interesting lens through which to view our topic of building better Boards. In recent times, despite the UK HE sector generally being regarded as world leading, and, […]
Noemi’s story – a tale of the morality of management practice
When Noemi decided to leave the European office of the company I worked for and follow her fiancé to Japan, I had mixed emotions, as her senior manager. It was typical of her to follow her heart, and head off to a relatively unknown country with her partner, someone she hadn’t known for much more than 12 […]
India Immersion: Building a platform for success
The University has tried for several years to recruit Indian students, without notable success. Doing business in India more than anywhere else in the world requires long term thinking, the nurturing of important contacts, and partnerships offering mutual benefit. So we’ve decided to adopt a different approach to open up the market. Shashi Balain, a good […]
Notes from the Far East
It’s easy for an ‘internationalist’ to enjoy a few days travelling round the Far East, but the hospitality I received, and the new acquaintances I developed, made it a particularly memorable first trip abroad on behalf of the University. Thanks to the hard work already done and the years already spent cultivating our academic links […]
Moving online…
Kudos to our e-developers Chris and Ben for putting on an entertaining video production session yesterday at our Teaching and Learning away day. As well as revealing some impressive acting skills from our faculty (and some that may diplomatically be called ‘needing development’), it demonstrated what’s now possible with little more than a smart phone. The […]