Peter Buckley, AMBS's 200th Anniversary Chair in International Business, joins us on our Original Thinking Podcast to talk about the challenges, risks, and future of multinationals.By Alliance Manchester Business School

In our latest Original Thinking filmed podcast Beccy Speight, Chief Executive of the RSPB, joined Professor Paulo Quattrone from Alliance Manchester Business School to discuss how businesses must better encompass Nature in their decision-making and also recognise Nature as an active stakeholder.By Alliance Manchester Business School

In this Original Thinking Podcast, Vlad Jiman, Director of Data at NBrown, discusses how to build a data culture within a large organisation with Professor Panos Constantinides from Alliance Manchester Business School.By Alliance Manchester Business School

What role can corporate sustainability play in terms of business transformation? Zara De Belder, a recent MBA graduate from Alliance Manchester Business School and sustainability expert, joins Claire Binns, Senior Impact Manager at Sykes Holiday Cottages, to discuss the subject. Claire also talks first-hand about the recent steps Sykes Cottages has…

Three years on from the height of the pandemic this podcast hosted by Alliance Manchester Business School explores the lessons learnt from Protect, a major UK government study into the transmission of the Covid-19 virus and the wider UK research programme around Covid-19. Debating the findings of the nationwide study are Professor David Fishwick, C…

How do leaders of large organisations and businesses remain agile and nimble when faced with so many day-to-day challenges? Panos Constantinides, Professor of Digital Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School, and Simon Hayward, Managing Director and Global Lead for Leadership and Culture at Accenture, discuss how change takes place across …

What does it mean to be truly sustainable and how should companies and organisations approach their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies? These were just some of the key topics explored by Sacha Sadan, Director of ESG at the Financial Conduct Authority, and Professor Konstantinos Stathopoulos from Alliance Manchester Business Schoo…

German biotech firm BioNTech became world famous for developing the mRNA-based Covid vaccine with Pfizer. One of the key figures behind the success was Chief Business and Commercial Officer Sean Marett, who took his MBA at AMBS. In our latest Original Thinking live podcast, Sean shares the extraordinary story about how the company turned itself on …

Advances in data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics are completely changing the way we think about and do business. In our first podcast of 2023, which was also filmed in our new podcast suite, Professor Richard Allmendinger from AMBS and David Walters from North-West based fund manager River Capital joined Chair Jim Pendrill from AMBS to …

This episode will be hosted by Elvira Uyarra, Professor of Innovation Studies at Alliance Manchester Business School. In recent years, and in response to major societal challenges such as climate change, migration, or food and energy security, innovation policy has both broadened its scope for action and widened the goals it is expected to address.…

Berne Ferry, Head of the National School of Healthcare Science, will deliver this year’s Teddy Chester lecture Into the foreground: The emergence of healthcare science and public consciousness. This annual lecture marks the contribution of Teddy Chester, who was the first professor of social administration at the University of Manchester. From his …

At this Vital Topics event we will explore how Covid-19 has created opportunities for change across both central and local government, while our panel will also share their thoughts on the need for deeper resilience building as life gradually returns to normal in the wake of the pandemic. Much has been written over the past two years about how the …

In this episode we will hear from Jan Iceton, Chair of Smart Works Greater Manchester. Smart Works Greater Manchester is a truly inspiring charity that has helped over 3,500 unemployed, disadvantaged and often vulnerable women get back into employment. Their motto is “get the clothes, get the confidence, get the job”.... and 72% of their clients do…

In this episode, Professor Duncan Shaw explores how Covid-19 has created opportunities for change across both central and local government. He also shares his thoughts on the need for deeper resilience building as life gradually returns to normal in the wake of the pandemic.By Alliance Manchester Business School

This episode will be hosted by Javed Siddiqui, Professor of Accounting, Alliance Manchester Business School. Pressures from various donor agencies (such as the World Bank), combined with the pursuit of legitimacy by governments in many developing countries, have resulted in various western accounting and corporate governance mechanisms to be export…

In this episode we will hear from Miki Shika, founder of Ekhaya Empowerment Community Interest Company and an entrepreneur with a passion for childcare, families and integration. Miki qualified as a Montessori directress (teacher) almost two decades ago and in that time has mastered her skills in childcare and community engagement with a specialise…

The Scale-Up Forum is a peer-to-peer network for ambitious scaling up businesses in Greater Manchester. It gives businesses at all stages of the scale up journey the opportunity to share experiences, challenges and lessons learnt for mutual business benefit. Launched in 2018, it provides a platform for businesses in the scale up phase to gain insig…

Audit in the UK is in transition, with major reform and increased regulation being planned by the Government and the Financial Reporting Council. This episode with ICEAW Manchester and Alliance MBS will give the business community the opportunity to feedback to the government and to comment on the proposed reforms. This episode will also look to hi…

In this Original Thinking podcast we will be joined by John List, Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, who will be discussing his book 'The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale'. The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale The premise b…

This event is hosted by Yu-Wang Chen, Professor in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics at Alliance Manchester Business School. Knowledge and Data-Driven Decision Making Data-driven decision making is the practice of using data to support decision making, and it becomes more widely recognised with the development of decision science, data scien…

Placing health and wellbeing at the heart of organisations makes business sense. Key business priorities such as productivity and staff retention have been shown to improve significantly when employers genuinely care about employee wellbeing. Younger workers today are also placing an ever-higher priority than previous generations on wellbeing over …

This event will be hosted by Kieron Flanagan, Professor of Science and Technology Policy at Alliance MBS. What next for UK science and innovation policy? The UK was an industrial and scientific pioneer. Yet for nearly as long, the country has fretted about falling behind industrial and technological competitors. For decades the UK’s not terribly im…

This event will be hosted by Tony Venables CBE, Professor of Economics, Alliance Manchester Business School, and Research Director of The Productivity Institute. Why some places are more prosperous Why are regional disparities so persistent? Why do adjustment mechanisms fail, and what should policy do (and not do)? This lecture will review answers …

This month we will hear from Chaido Doulala-Rigby (Yuli), chair of ICE North West - Institution of Civil Engineers. Yuli is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), a Fellow of the Permanent Way Institution, and a Fellow of the Institution of Royal Engineers. With over 25 years’ in Geotechnics, her work ex…

At this Vital Topics event, we are joined by Andy Haldane, Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Arts, former Chief Economist at the Bank of England, and Honorary Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School. Andy will be exploring levelling up in this Vital Topics lecture. Levelling up - where next? Published in February 2022, the Levelling…

In this episode, we will hear from Heather Waters, Enterprise Manager, Natwest. With over 20 years B2B experience, Heather is now part of the Women In Business team developing and delivering the strategy to support female entrepreneurs across the U.K. In 2019, the Treasury commissioned Alison Rose, the CEO of NatWest, to lead an independent review …

At this Vital Topics event we are joined by Marian Sudbury OBE, Director, Regions, Department for International Trade. The event is facilitated by Mario Kafouros, Professor of International Business & Innovation and Head of the Division of People, Management and Organisations, Alliance Manchester Business School. In her lecture Marian explores why …

Our Original Thinking Lecture series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance MBS. This event is hosted by Sheena Johnson, Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing, Alliance Manchester Business School. In this episode, Sheena details her research into health and wellbeing at work. She outlines her early work into o…

Our Original Thinking Podcast series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance MBS. This event is hosted by Antony Potter, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Alliance MBS. The electric future: Unravelling how automakers collaborate with suppliers to co-develop electric, hybrid, & hydrogen fuel cell…

In this episode, we will hear from Ali Whitefoot, Senior Manager at Deloitte UK. Ali leads organisations to get more value from finance. This can range from working with her clients to re-structure themselves to save costs all the way through to ensuring they are providing the business with insightful information to drive better decisions. She has …

Our Original Thinking Lecture series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance MBS. This event is hosted by Michael Hodson, Professor of Cities, Innovation and Society at the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), at the Innovation, Management and Policy (IMP) division, Alliance Manchester Business School. How are d…

The University of Manchester celebrates women in business by hosting an inspirational event aimed at showcasing the potential of female entrepreneurship and encouraging students to embrace their creativity, spark connections and test out business ideas. Hosted by the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre, this event features a range of insightful talks an…

Our Original Thinking Podcast series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance MBS. This event is hosted by Wing Lam, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Alliance MBS. Does Proactivity Matter at Work? Proactivity continues to be a major research discussion in the field of organisational psychology, with increasi…

The Scale-Up Forum is a peer-to-peer network for ambitious scaling up businesses in Greater Manchester. It gives businesses at all stages of the scale up journey the opportunity to share experiences, challenges and lessons learnt for mutual business benefit. After two years of online-only events we are hosting the first Forum event of 2022 in-perso…

Looking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us online for the networking event of the month! Speak to like-minded business women for an amazing online event. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Prepare your digital business cards and ma…

At this event, we are joined by Dr Emma Fitzgerald and Dr Jenny Rodriguez. Professor Fiona Devine, Head of Alliance MBS, will open the discussion. Dr Emma Fitzgerald Emma is a business leader with a passion for building great teams and bringing innovations to market to address the worlds big challenges. Most recently she was CEO of Puma Energy focu…

At this event we will be joined by Emma Sheldon, Non-Executive Director and Business Consultant, Kellie Noon, founder of Onno, and Ian King, Business Presenter for Sky News. Emma Sheldon Over the past 20 years, Emma has built businesses internationally and led cross-functional teams in marketing, sales, operations and research and development. She …

At this event we will be joined by Dr Emma Fitzgerald and Dr Jenny Rodriguez. Professor Fiona Devine, Head of Alliance MBS, will open the discussion. Dr Emma Fitzgerald Emma is a business leader with a passion for building great teams and bringing innovations to market to address the worlds big challenges. Most recently she was CEO of Puma Energy f…

The gender pay gap in the UK and elsewhere in Europe has remained stubbornly high. The EU is proposing a pay transparency directive to provide new impetus to ensuring equal pay for work of equal value. The UK introduced gender pay gap reporting measures in response to earlier EU recommendations to increase pay transparency; if the UK was still an E…

At this event we will be joined by Sola David-Borha, Chairman Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Jennifer Rose, Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Alliance MBS, and Damaris Albarran, Chair of the Advisory Board, AMBS. Sola David-Borha Sola is the Chairman Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, Stanbic Ugand…

Businesses are central in enabling global transitions to Net-Zero carbon energy and land-use systems. Business firms will need to innovate and scale new technologies, goods and services, business models and markets that make this new, more sustainable world become a reality. In the process, business incentives, accountabilities, and legitimacy will…

This month we hear from Delight Mapasure, CEO and Co-Founder at K'S WORS LTD. Delight Mapasure is an award-winning entrepreneur who successfully created a six-figure food brand from her kitchen table to retail shelves The former Dragon’s Den participant co-founded K’s Wors Ltd - a multi-award winning eclectic range of South African Boerewors sausag…

To avert the catastrophic impact of climate change and meet the targets of the Paris Agreement targets, we need to reduce carbon emissions by 50% this decade, a further 50% the next decade, and be net zero by 2050. However, achieving these targets will be no mean feat. Locking the world down in 2020 achieved only a reduction of about 5-7%. So how c…

In this episode, Felicity talks about the evolution of behavioural insights from a phrase coined by a small government team in 2010 to a policy approach that touches the lives of millions of people around the world. She also discusses her current areas of focus and where behavioural insights might be used in the next 10 years. This event was facili…

This month we hear from Amna Abdullatif, councillor for Ardwick, Central Manchester. Amna is a community psychologist who has worked in the voluntary sector for over 15 years, previously leading the work on children and young people for the national domestic abuse charity Women's Aid and currently as assistant director for youth empowerment at the …

Dr Mark Britnell, Vice Chair and Global Health Expert, KPMG UK, and award-winning author, delivers this year’s Teddy Chester lecture, Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare. By 2030, the world will be short of 18 million health workers – a fifth of the total capacity to care. Mark draws on his work in 80 countries to offer solutio…

This month we will hear from Jennie Johnson MBE, CEO and co-founder, My First Five Years Limited. Authentically passionate about improved outcomes for every child, Jennie’s most recent eureka moment in January 2021 led her to founding My First Five Years Ltd, a ground-breaking App to support and empower parents and provide expert knowledge to guide…

This event will be hosted by Anthony Rafferty, Professor of Employment Studies and Managing Director of the Work and Equalities Institute at Alliance MBS. The people management case for workplace equality, diversity and inclusion is often made in terms of ethical or social responsibility reasons, or the benefits to the bottom line of a ‘business ca…

This month we will hear from Kathleen Harrison, Associate Director, Jacobs. With over 20 years’ experience in the construction industry, Kathleen is an Associate Director with Jacobs working as a Framework Manager delivering projects for a local authority in North West England. Having worked in a male dominated environment for her entire career, sh…