Malvika Johal
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Playing with fire!
October 10, 2013
Over the last 100 years there have been iconic people, places and events associated with The University of Nottingham. Alumni remember them all and many stories about them have been featured in Alumni Exchange Magazine. For the first time the Remembering Nottingham Blog will reproduce some of these articles. Feel free to add your own …
My guide to starting your own business – Part 8
October 4, 2013
Written by: R L (Bob) Hall (BSc, PhD; University of Nottingham) Owner and MD of Top and Jeffries Limited; Co – owner & Chairman of Fuel Additive Science Technologies Limited, Shropshire, UK. The people factors of the business are so important. Businesses are all about people. They are run by, staffed by, supplied by and …
When volunteering is a good idea….
September 27, 2013
Alumna Clare Harvey, Creative Writing 2012, reflects on her involvement this year with the Lakeside Literacy Project which has been supported by the University’s Cascade fund. So, you’re doing a full-time masters, wading through all that reading and writing and meanwhile your husband is on a six-month operational tour of duty in Afghanistan and so …
A Focus on Nature
September 10, 2013
Alumna, naturalist and Creative Director of her own company, Lucy McRobert graduated in 2012 winning prizes for her dissertation and building a platform for a career as an environmental historian. Now, just a year later she’s taken it upon herself to set up a prize in her company’s name to reward academic excellence and to …
Icing on the Cake…
September 4, 2013
Written by Steve Miller, (Management Studies 2010) I wish I could develop a business model and strategy to make money from cliche company motto’s and marketing terms. I’d be as successful as Roman Abramovich. I was on the train, sat opposite a well spoken entrepreneur. He was on his Macbook talking to somebody through the …
My guide to starting your own business – Part 7 “Reputation and Integrity”
August 23, 2013
Written by: R L (Bob) Hall (BSc, PhD; University Of Nottingham ) Owner & MD of Top & Jeffries Limited; Co-owner & Chairman of Fuel Additive Science Technologies Limited, Shropshire, UK It takes forever to get established. Growing a business is a bit like assembling that flat pack furniture we all buy. You are reasonably competent …
Interpreting Grandiose Job Titles
August 14, 2013
By Steve Miller (Management Studies 2010) A recent office discussion sparked an entertaining debate about job titles and their meanings. There was a time when the term ‘Executive’ would have meant a senior managerial role in an business organisation. Now just about anyone can call themselves an executive (for example my window cleaner) and the …
Windows on Russia and Eastern Europe
August 7, 2013
Windows is a collection of individuals’ tales of how the Communist-controlled lands of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe evolved from Stalinism to Gorbachev’s perestroika to the robber baron days of the 1990s and finally to today’s uneasy mix of free markets and semi-authoritarian rule. The stories are those of graduates of Slavonic studies, who chose …
Class of 2013 – Their favourite memories
July 31, 2013
We asked our Class of 2013 to tell us their favourite university memory, what is your favourite memory from your time at Nottingham?
My guide to starting your own business – Part 6 “Setting a pricing strategy”
July 18, 2013
Written by: R L (Bob) Hall (BSc, PhD; University Of Nottingham ) Owner & MD of Top & Jeffries Limited; Co-owner & Chairman of Fuel Additive Science Technologies Limited, Shropshire, UK Welcome to the sixth in the series – “Starting your own business – what I wish someone had told me 25 years ago.” Setting prices …
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