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Student and Alumni Award winners 2016-2017

The Open University Business School Awards - Student and Alumni Winners

The Open University Business School’s annual Student and Alumni Awards, held on 21 June 2017, celebrated its highest achieving students and the alumni who have made an outstanding contribution to an organisation or society. 

23rd June 2017

L&D professionals have an important contribution

Learning and development professionals have an important contribution to make in this new and difficult climate, says Eileen Arney.

23rd June 2017
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Is the game up for Theresa May? What leadership theory tells us about her chances of survival

While we wait to find out what it’s really like inside May’s government, pressure is mounting on her. Is she up to the job of leader?

21st June 2017

Resources for SMEs: Leadership

Dr Peter Bloom, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Studies at The Open University Business School shares insights on leadership that will help SMEs grow, in this series of three short videos.

7th June 2017
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But where are the boundaries? The challenge of leading in the modern age

Life is full of boundaries. The walls of a house tell us where we live, the lines on the ground tell us where we should play our sport, the borders of a country tell us where we are and at times where we shouldn’t be. But does the same apply when we talk about innovation?

5th June 2017
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The voluntary sector can learn from the theory of collaborative advantage

It pays to understand why some partnerships don't work, writes Professor Siv Vangen, the Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership.

5th June 2017
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How to settle social care funding once and for all

Branding it a “dementia tax” was inspired – opponents of the Conservative Party’s election manifesto railed against its fundamentally unfair proposals for dealing with the social care costs of increasing numbers of old people with dementia.

31st May 2017
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Preparing for disruptions to work and society: Research into Employment, Empowerment and Futures

The Open University Business School has a new research group that is partnering with The People Space - the first of its kind to focus on the future of empowerment in the age of robotics.

25th May 2017
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Association of MBAs 50th Anniversary Scholarship

To mark the Association of MBAs (AMBA) 50th Anniversary and in their Year of the MBA, AMBA is donating US $50,000 worth of scholarships, to be shared between six talented individuals, about to start an MBA programme at an AMBA-accredited Business School.

24th May 2017

The Ethics of Neoliberalism: The Business of Making Capitalism Moral

During this Breakfast Briefing on 23 May 2017, Dr Peter Bloom, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Studies at The Open University Business School, explained the ideas and theories in his new book "The Ethics of Neoliberalism".

23rd May 2017

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