Mr Robert Whyte, Lead Specialist, Investment Promotion Team, Investment Climate Department of the World Bank Group, will be giving a talk on “Marketing Developing Countries for Investment: Information Asymmetries and the Role of Incentives” on Tuesday, November 6 in Strathclyde Business School.
The talk is open to Masters and research students within the business school as well as interested staff members. If anyone would like to attend, please contact Sarah Poulter for further information.
Strathclyde Business School graduate Jonathan MacDonald took part in an internship scheme at Dubai Airshow offered by Emirates Airline, the organisers, as part of his Strathclyde hospitality course. While working there he served in the TAG Aeronautics chalet looking after buyers and sellers of private jets. It was there he met McLaren F1 contacts and was interviewed by Absolute Taste, part of the McLaren Group. This was the start of a four-year career as part of the McLaren team – and part of the path to launching his own catering business. Jonathan was featured in The Herald and the full article can be found here.
Professors Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann presented an invited paper to the Creating Public Value conference at the University of Minnesota September 20-22. The paper – “Public Goods from ‘Above and Beyond’” - argues that in times of austerity there is a need to facilitate the delivery of public value from public-private collaborations that can go above and beyond their core goals (based on examples from real cases in the UK). The paper raised fundamental conceptual issues about the notion of public value in practice.
Dr George Burt and Dr David Mackay from the Department of Management attended the prestigious Strategic Management Society conference in Prague from October 6 - 9. The paper they co-authored, along with Andrew Perchard (also Department of Management) had been nominated for the best practice implications prize. Whilst they didn't win, the paper - introducing the management concept of top management team 'hyperopia' - was very well received. The conference also represented a most useful networking and promotional opportunity for SBS.
Also in attendance was Professor Fran Ackermann of the Department of Management Science who, along with Veronique Ambronsini from Monash University, presented a paper at the Strategic Management Society Conference in Prague.
Emeritus Professor Richard Butler was keynote opening speaker at the 14th Annual Meeting Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Research Symposium and International Forum in Taiwan on October 5, which was held at National Dong Hwa University in Hualein in Taiwan.
His presentation topic was Tourist Destination Development: Linking Lifecycles, Sustainability and Carrying Capacity. On October 8 he gave an invited lecture to the Department of Geography at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, entitled “Island Tourism: Sustainable Perspectives”.
Professor Robert Wright (Economics) has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (TILDA). The Board is composed of international experts in one or more of the domains of the survey (economic, health and social) who have experience with longitudinal studies. This panel of experts provides advice that ensures that TILDA is at the forefront of ageing research at the global level. Other members include Professor Axel Boersch-Supan (Max Planck Institute, Munich), Sir Michael Marmot (UCL), Professor James Smith (Rand Corporation) and Professor David Weir (University of Michigan).
Dr Michael Harker has won a £2000 grant from the Academy of Marketing. The project will investigate teaching and learning strategies and practices in undergraduate marketing programmes at a cross section of UK HEIs.
Mohamed El-Moghazi, a first year PhD student in the Department of Management Science, was a finalist in the video competition held at the recent DySPAN conference in Seattle, October 16-19. DySPAN is one of the key conferences organised by the IEEE Communications Society. Mohamed also presented a paper - World Radiocommunication Conference 12: Implications for the Spectrum Eco-System - at the 40th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference in late September.
Mohamed's research investigates the influence of international spectrum management regulations on the spectrum policy reform process of Arab countries, and is supervised by Dr Jason Whalley (Department of Management Science) and Dr James Irvine (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering).
A team from the MSc Business and Management (MBM) have surpassed themselves on the Google Online Marketing Challenge. This global competition gives competitors a limited budget to create website traffic and sales leads for a client company.
Working with a service company entering two unfamiliar markets, the team created a strategy that delivered over five times the level of expected web traffic. The business owner’s delight was only exceeded by the learning the group gained on how to organise and execute an effective keyword marketing strategy. Congratulations to the “Ullachians”- Anuj Gupta, Jai Khilrani, Sanjay Lal Sathish Menon, Karthik Ramalingam, Parag Rane and Rohit Shukla.
Dr John Ferguson, Department of Accounting and Finance, has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.
He was also invited to present his research at the University of Stirling as part of their Accounting and Finance Division Research Seminar Series. He presented his paper "Justice and Capabilities: A Re-examination of the Radical Reforms of George Goyder".
Dr Peter McInnes of the Department of Management, who chairs BAM’s Special Interest Group in Identity, was delighted to be elected to serve on the British Academy of Management decision making council.
Strathclyde Business School’s Bahrain centre hosted a charity run to commemorate the World Mental Health Day. There was a good response with 85 registrations.
The Scottish Institute for Enterprise is running a competition to look for new business ideas. If you have an idea, then the New Ideas Competition will provide a chance to win a cash prize and in-kind business support to help you develop your idea into a real business venture.
The process is designed to help you develop your business know-how and show you how to turn a good idea into a successful new business. So even if you're not a winner, you will still benefit from SIE's help and be in a position to take the next steps. For more information, please click here and to enter follow the link. The deadline is November 30.
There was a significant presence by SBS Marketing Academics at the Academy of Marketing conference at the University of Southampton, July 2-5. The conference title was “Marketing: catching the technology wave”. Participants included Professor Kevin Ibeh, Dr Stephen Tagg and Kat Duffy, as well as Professor Michael Baker (retired), Professor Stan Paliwoda (retired). Other conferences where papers have been given by marketing academics include at Social Media Week, Future Connections, Consumer Culture Theory, ESRC First year Conference.
The Management Development Programme (MDP), a pioneering part of the SBS Undergraduate curriculum, is involved in a project with Glasgow City Council called the Leadership programme which aims to encourage business leadership skills in Glasgow Secondary School pupils.
This year SBS is piloting it with 16 third year school students from three Glasgow schools who will follow the programme run by Mr Iain Mitchell, development officer at the Innovative Routes to Learning (IRL) in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HaSS).