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 …
Graduation – and my favourite uni memories
July 12, 2013
By Tom Barnes (English 2012) For many, graduation is a formality at the end of three years of boozing, library all-nighters and rushed deadlines. That last lecture seems an age away, and that last scrawled exam answer is already long forgotten. But the important bit is that you made it to graduation, collecting your degree …
Starting a New Business using WordPress
July 3, 2013
By Steve Miller (Management Studies 2010) It is hard to imagine there are many businesses that wouldn’t benefit from having a website, even if it is just to provide basic information about yourself or your company. In my own business we have invested heavily in e-commerce websites but we also use WordPress as a blogging …
Windows on Russia and Eastern Europe
June 26, 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 …
Remembering Nottingham – The Manchester Chapter
June 25, 2013
We asked all our alumni who attended the recent alumni reception in Manchester to leave their favourite memories of the university. These will be posted here shortly. In the meantime what were your favourite memories? Please leave these in the comment section below.
Wings in the Portland Ballroom – surely not?
June 19, 2013
Written by Simon Harvey 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 …
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