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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Preparing for an innovative career
By Beyza Baran - Posted on July 18, 2019
With an eye to a career in innovation centres, Beyza Baran embarked on the MSc EIT programme to help improve her knowledge and skills. Here she explains what she got out of the programme.I was working at EGE University EBILTEM Technology Transfer ...
Going back to school to improve business
By Ray Karimi - Posted on July 4, 2019
Ray Karimi started his own business but realising he needed some formal entrepreneurial education he applied for the MSc EML programme. Here he discusses the benefits and strengths of doing so.After completing my first degree in Business Management ...
Hey Alexa...why are you so popular?
By Graeme McLean - Posted on June 27, 2019
Dr Graeme McLean, Department of Marketing, looks at the popularity of in-home voice assistants and the factors motivating their increasing use.In-home voice assistants – think Amazon Echo and Google Home - have grown in popularity recently and are ...
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 ...
