Academics from the Open University Business School (OUBS) have won more than £151,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to research and analyse the problems facing managers when acquiring and using business knowledge.
Professors John Storey and Graeme Salaman and Dr Richard Holti have recently started work on the three-year project.
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Would-be students across Northern Ireland who are looking to develop their work-place skills are being encouraged to apply for free places on leading business courses.
A total of 25 students will be studying Open University Business School courses later this year thanks to a new initiative that aims to encourage flexibility among workers in the community and voluntary sectors and aims to upgrade their management and leadership skills.
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The Open University Business School has launched a charity appeal to raise money to help a remarkable organisation in South Africa.
Education Africa, which is based in Johannesburg, is tackling the desperate shortage of quality education in South Africa by raising funds and awareness, building schools and colleges and putting education programmes in place. The OUBS has pledged to raise ?5,000 to build a new classroom block at the charity’s flagship school, Masibambane College, south of Soweto.
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The Open University Business School (OUBS) will celebrate the graduation of more than 1,500 MBA (Master of Business Administration) students in 2003.
The students will graduate at ceremonies across the UK and Europe and swell membership of the OUBS MBA Alumni Association to more than 13,000 – one of the largest in the world, outside the United States.
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Newsworthy innovations in learning and teaching in business schools are hard to find. Promoters sometimes run out of steam. Funding fails. Champions withdraw. Yet some survive and prosper - as a new title shows.
Prof Roland Kaye, Dean of the Open University Business School, and Prof David Hawkridge, former Director of the Open University's Institute of Educational Technology, have put together Learning and Teaching for Business: Case Studies of Successful Innovation, published by Kogan Page.
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Top achieving students and graduates have scooped awards presented by the Open University Business School (OUBS) at its inaugural awards ceremony in London last night (Thursday May 22).
The award winners, selected from the School's 30,000 students, included Jacqueline Greenlees and Angela Schultz-Zehden, who have both combined senior management careers, motherhood and studying for an MBA (Master of Business Administration).
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Social entrepreneurs, social enterprise and the social economy are high on the news agenda. That is the view of Rob Paton, Professor of Social Enterprise at the Open University Business School (OUBS). And it will be the subject of his inaugural lecture in London on Tuesday June 24 at the Commonwealth Conference Centre in London.
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Top achieving students and graduates are among the prize winners who will be honoured by the Open University Business School (OUBS) on Thursday May 22 when the School holds its inaugural awards evening.
The awards will celebrate the success and achievement of students and graduates who have all demonstrated their determination to succeed by studying for a qualification by one of the toughest study methods around - supported distance learning.
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Networking is a key factor in the process of introducing e-business activities throughout the SME community across Europe.
That's the conclusion reached by all speakers at a lecture held by the Open University Business School, Europe's largest business school, on April 8 in Brussels.
The lecture, e-business in e-Europe: is small beautiful? was attended by a mix of more than 50 practitioners, guests, OUBS MBA alumni and students.
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The current state of e-business in Europe, and the role that smaller firms are playing, is the theme of the Open University Business School's 2003 Brussels Lecture.
The lecture, E-business in e-Europe: Is small e-beautiful? Policy, research and practice, will draw together leading researchers in the e-commerce field and e-business practitioners to review the current position and explore the future for ordinary small firms and for the dotcom sector as a whole.
The event, at the British Embassy on the evening of April 8, will feature Dr Colin...
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