Today's strategic leaders face increasing pressures in trying to generate trust within their organisations and with key stakeholders in an increasingly complex world, Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burridge told an audience of business leaders and entrepreneurs.
Speaking at the Open University Business School's Annual Lecture 2003, ACM Burridge - who commanded UK forces in Iraq earlier this year - said that trust could be achieved through effective leadership.
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Management students and staff are to celebrate the tenth anniversary of an academic partnership that helped to pioneer business education in Romania.
They will be celebrating the anniversary of the partnership between the Open University Business School (OUBS) and the University of Bucharest, which brought management education to a new generation of managers.
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More than 75 businesspeople from across Berkshire met to get creative with their thinking at an event organised by the Open University Business School.
The event also marked the launch of the Open Thames Valley Network, a group of local MBA graduates.
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Patients are increasingly using the internet to either self-diagnose or to check up on their doctors. Preliminary research by staff at the Open University Business School and Strathclyde Business School shows that patients are searching for information over the internet about illness and arriving at GPs' surgeries with printouts of advice and details of drugs they want prescribed.
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Rare insights into leadership during conflicts will be put in the spotlight when Air Chief Marshal Brian Burridge reflects on his experience while commanding UK forces in Iraq to present this year's Open University Business School Annual Lecture.
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New agendas for leadership and its development form the core themes of this new title by Prof John Storey of the Open University Business School.
For Leadership in Organisations: Current Issues and Key Trends, Prof Storey has drawn together an array of contributors who are among the main recognised authorities in the field.
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The Open University is ranked in the top five of UK universities for the quality of teaching, according to a newly-published national table.
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A new course, Winning Resources and Support, from the Open University Business School offers fundraising professionals the opportunity to update their skills without taking time away from work.
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The Open University Business School has announced plans to enable managers to achieve their OUBS MBA in just two-and-a-half years instead of three years.
Changes in the study format mean that students can take a new third compulsory course at the same time as two six-month elective courses. Previously students had to take three consecutive electives over 18 months so the new system offer students the chance to reduce the study time needed to acquire their MBA by six months.
Dr Mark Fenton-O'Creevy believes the changes will lead to a more integrated approach to...
The changing nature of consumer expectations of the professionals they use in the public and private sector are the themes of two new Open University research projects.
The projects will consider how parts of the public sector are reacting to pressures to become more consumer-oriented, and how consumers are using the internet to be better informed before appointments with, for example, GPs, lawyers and personal financial advisers. Both projects, one led by Professor Angus Laing (right), are funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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