The fifth edition of Professor George Wright (Department of Strategy and Organisation) and Paul Goodwin's "Decision Analysis for Management Judgment" was released by John Wiley and Sons on April 24. Professor George Wright, Department of Strategy and Organisation, and Dr Ron Bradfield (Strategy and Organisation, and Director of the Business School's campuses in the UAE) are the tutors behind a new offering from the Centre for Corporate Connections. They have launched two new short courses on scenario thinking, offered as one day and three day courses.
Scenario thinking offers a way for individuals and groups to face up to the threats and opportunities of the future, and to their potential impact upon the organisation or community.
For further information, please visit the website.
The fifth edition of Professor George Wright (Department of Strategy and Organisation) and Paul Goodwin's "Decision Analysis for Management Judgment" was released by John Wiley and Sons on April 24.
The new edition of this best-selling text book - it has sold over 50,000 copies - contains new case-study material on scenario thinking, an evaluation of "anti-fragile" approaches to decision making, practical guidelines for use of the Delphi technique, and an evaluation of Tversky and Kahneman's "prospect theory" of decision making
The fourth annual Local Counsellor of the Year Award was presented to Lu Yen Ng, MBA local counsellor for 'Making Strategy' in Malaysia since 2010. This year, a total of six nominations were put forward by MBA subject co-ordinators and international partners. Input on each of the nominations was sought, in a '360-degree' fashion, from student evaluations, subject co-ordinators, the subject's teaching team, international partners and administrators. The reports from these sources served to evaluate the nominations against the Award's main criteria: consistently positive student evaluations, engagement with the Strathclyde lecturer, and quality and timeliness of assignment feedback.
Lu Yen, seen in the centre of the photograph, received the Award in Kuala Lumpur, in the presence of this year's 'Making Strategy' students, from Soon Thiam Lam and Cristina Magat, respectively Chief Executive and Marketing Manager of CDC Management Development (Strathclyde's partner in Malaysia) and SBS's Dr Marie-Aimée Tourres (Academic Manager, Asia) and Dr Catherine Demangeot (Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Chair of the LC Community of Practice).
Dr Dimitris Andriosopoulos from Accounting and Finance has had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Banking and Finance.
The paper, "The market valuation of share repurchases in Europe", is co-authored with M. Lasfer from Cass Business School, City University.
Dr Jennifer Morgan, who graduated with a PhD from the department of Management Science in 2013, was recently awarded the annual student prize by the UK Chapter of the System Dynamics Society for her research ‘Exploring frameworks for mixing discrete event simulation and system dynamics methods in theory and practice’. Her work explored how two popular business simulation methods could be used to complement one another.
As part of her research, Jennifer carried out a project for the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre where she supported senior medical and administrative staff in thinking through both day-to-day and strategic issues. Jennifer now works at Cardiff University as a Research Associate.
Dr Julia A Smith, Reader in Accounting & Finance, has recently negotiated an extension of the accreditation awarded to the MSc International Accounting and Finance, MSc Finance, MSc International Banking and Finance, and MSc Investment and Finance programmes, by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
This means that students graduating in 2015-2019, including on our overseas MSc in Finance in Tanzania, will all receive some exemptions from CIMA's professional examinations. CIMA is the world's largest professional body of management accountants, so this accreditation is particularly pertinent to our international body of students.
Renzo Cordina, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Accounting and Finance, has recently defended successfully his thesis on 'Intangibles in a Venture Capital Setting'. Renzo has been supervised by Dr Julia Smith, on a Strathclyde PhD studentship. His external examiner was Professor Falconer Mitchell, professor of management accounting at Edinburgh University and Chairman of CIMA's research board. The internal examiner was Professor Jonathan Fletcher. Renzo is delighted also to have secured a tenure-track lectureship in management accounting at Dundee University from May 2014. In May, he will travel to the annual meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA) to present a paper co-authored with his supervisor, Julia Smith, on 'Reporting of Intangible Assets: views from Venture Capitalists'.
Also, Dr Smith and Renzo have recently had a paper accepted for publication in the British Accounting Review. The paper, on ‘The role of accounting in high-technology investments’ is based partly on work funded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS). The full paper is now available online.
Laura Cameron who studied accounting and finance at Strathclyde Business School has achieved the highest marks in the world in the latest Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) exams.
Laura, who lives in Glasgow, and is currently working on the finance graduate scheme at BSkyB received a score of 82% in her enterprise strategy test. That put the 27-year-old ahead of the other 5000 students who were also sitting the paper.
Dominic Chalmers, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, has had his paper, "Missing the Point? Finding Contextual Detail in Entrepreneurship and Small Firm Scholarship" selected for a best paper award at this year’s Academy of Management Meeting which takes place in Philadelphia.
MITS student Rugile Bazyte has co-authored a paper which was published in the Economics journal of Vilnius University in Lithuania, Ekonomika. You can read the paper here.
Second year Accounting & Finance undergraduate Michael Jordan was on BBC's Pointless on Friday, April 4 - and won! If you missed it, the episode can be viewed here.