VIENNA, Austria—The Peter Drucker Society Europe announced that the 3rd Global Peter Drucker Forum, to be held in Vienna on Nov. 3-4, 2011, will explore how to combine the creation of economic value and social value in business organizations.
“The goal is to move beyond the current notion of ‘corporate social responsibility,’ which has lost so much of its luster in the wake of the recent financial crisis,” said Richard Straub, the president of the Drucker Society Europe, an affiliate of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, which is helping to organize the event.
The Forum, which is titled “A Quest for Legitimacy: How Managers Can Shape the Future,” will be held at the historic Aula der...
Have you set up a home based online business and are willing to share your experiences with Professor Elizabeth Daniel and Dr MariaLaura Di Domenico of the Open University Business School? They would like to hear from individuals who run their own online businesses that are, or were originally, based in the home.
The study adopts a fairly broad definition of on-line businesses. Examples are web developers, selling on-line or on-line communities.
The importance of home-based businesses to the economy is often overlooked and the research is being undertaken to address this.
Anyone who could help should contact Professor Daniel at E.M.Daniel@open.ac.uk by 31st July....
For years, both optimists and pessimists in Britain have shared a powerful myth – that we are no longer an industrial nation. But they’re wrong, argues economist and presenter Evan Davies in a new series which reveals Britain today is still a manufacturing powerhouse, the seventh biggest in the world.
Although we can't compete with China in low-cost production, and haven’t attempted to, we can’t live without manufacturing. Made in Britain shows that manufacturing accounts for around 12 per cent of our modern economy, and is bigger than our financial services sector. Two and a half million people work in manufacturing. Almost half of our exports are manufactured goods – and not just whisky and...
The Open University has launched two new computing and IT degrees that it says will make students ready for business on graduation.
The new courses, 'BSc (Honours) Computing and IT' and the 'BSc (Honours) Computing & IT and a second subject’ have been developed in partnership with sector skills association e-skills UK. They aim to equip graduates with the relevant business skills they need to be prepared for work in the IT industry.
Kevin Streater, Executive Director for IT and Telecoms at The Open University said: “These new degrees are the result of years of industry engagement and tackle two major issues raised by employers. The joint degree programme allows candidates to study IT alongside commercial...
THE BOTTOM LINE is Radio 4’s Thursday evening business discussion programme.
The format is simple: three top business leaders in conversation with Evan Davis from the Today Programme about the issues that matter to them and their customers.
The Bottom Line will be aired on Radio 4 at 20.30 every Thursday from the 2nd June until the 14th July.
The Bottom Line can also be heard on BBC Radio 4 on Saturdays, or via Listen Again2; the same episodes can be seen on the BBC News Channel at weekends and via BBC iPlayer2.
The academic consultant is Dr Leslie Budd, who writes an accompanying blog available on OpenLearn.
Open Learn has extensive content in connection with the programme’s subject areas....
The Open University is recognised internationally as the most important innovation in higher education of the last forty years. Since its foundation in 1969 it has opened the doors of higher education to more than 2 million students around the world and attracts over 200,000 students to its courses and qualifications each year.
The Open University Business School is an outstanding success story, with a truly global population of over 30,000 business, management and law students studying in over 100 countries. Its International Advisory Board is an exciting body which has been providing sound and knowledgeable strategic insight to the Dean, the School Executive Team and the wider University for the last three years. New...
Professor John Storey has co-authored a report for The King’s Fund that warns of how the coalition Government’s reforms risk reducing accountability in the health system and potentially undermining the performance of key NHS organisations as a result.
The report looks at accountability for commissioners and providers of health care in the NHS currently and under the reforms set out in the Health and Social Care Bill. It concludes that the reforms are likely to meet the government’s aim of reducing centralised control but fail to deliver on its commitment to improve local accountability, a key pledge in the coalition agreement.
The report finds a number of weaknesses in the accountability arrangements set out in...
GlaxoSmithKline IT Manager and OU Business School Alumni Al Shah talks about why he chose the OU MBA and the benefit of 'practice-based learning' as the way to study in a way that relates directly to your daily work.
This video, shot by ITN Production for the Open University Business School and the Association of MBAs features interviews with Faculty Dean Professor James Fleck, Associate Dean Mike Lucas and Professor Mark Feenton-O'Cleevy.
European governments need to devise policies that enable financial markets to reward rather than penalise innovation and thereby encourage longer-term investment planning, research coordinated by the Open University warns.
Evidence suggests that companies who engage in riskier and more innovative ventures are being penalised by banks through high interest rates and by governments through tax measures when compared with their less innovative counterparts.
The research highlights how the tendency to penalise innovation is leading to businesses focusing on short-term profits rather than long-term growth, which creates a situation in which the processes that connect the price and fundamental value of an asset fail to...
Business Nightmares with Evan Davis, made in partnership with The Open University, tells the stories of the world’s most momentous business disasters. The series charts how these disasters came about, the damage caused and the all-important lessons to be learned.
The three-part series examines the nightmares that can engulf a business in three crucial areas. In the first episode, Evan lifts the lid on some of the fundamental errors in product design and manufacture; followed by the mistakes that can be made in marketing and public relations in the second episode with the final episode looking at mistakes in strategic decision-making.
Clever risk-taking is often at the heart of great business triumphs but these...
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