The Strathclyde Business School blog is here to encourage debate and provide a platform to discuss how business education can help to address global economic issues. It is a platform for students, academia, and the business community to discuss the most pressing issues. We encourage guest writers.
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Death on Everest: is climbing tourism out of control?
By Yana Wengel - Posted on June 19, 2019
The rise in mountain tourism and its increasing commercialism has led to dangers for those participating including increasing deaths. Yana Wengel looks at some of the issues she has found during her research into commercialised mountaineering.The ...
Project overruns: avoiding arbitration
By Susan Howick - Posted on June 13, 2019
Large projects can go wrong and overruns can increase costs. Management Science academic Professor Susan Howick discusses one such case and how ongoing work at Strathclyde aims to help avoid project overruns.Examples of large projects that overrun ...
Engagement matters: Reconnecting with SBS
By Paul Taylor - Posted on June 5, 2019
After graduating 19 years ago, Paul Taylor was keen to reconnect with Strathclyde. Here, he explains his initial motive and why he’s so glad he got back in touch.It has been nineteen years since I left Strathclyde University. To put that into ...
Finding my Purple Ocean with the Growth Advantage Programme
By Nathalie Agnew - Posted on May 30, 2019
Nathalie Agnew took part in the Growth Advantage Programme and is launching a new specialist PR agency as a result of being on the programme. Here, she explains the journey from idea to reality.In 2017 I completed Strathclyde Business School’s ...
Flexibility the key to making the MBA work
By Nicola Aitken - Posted on May 23, 2019
You can still do an MBA if you have lots of home and work commitments - Strathclyde's flexible MBA can offer the ideal solution, says flexible learner Nicola Aitken.I joined my husband's family timber business Gilmour & Aitken in 2015 after ...
