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Help to Grow: Show your business some love on Valentine’s Day

Business leaders should show staff they are valued this Valentine’s Day to boost business performance, is the advice from management experts.   A healthy, happy and valued workforce is key to supercharging your business growth, explains Vincent Traynor, who specialises in leadership and engagement and helped develop the government’s new Help to Grow: Management business course, …

Help to Grow Management: An executive leadership and management course designed to help SME leaders grow their businesses

Modern university business schools are interesting places to work, there’s such a range of things to get involved with. As a university, knowledge is at the heart of what we do and we can make use of this in various ways, for instance conducting research to address current problems, engaging with external stakeholders to collaborate …

How do we reduce domestic servitude risk in the developed world?

For Human Rights Day 2021, Dr Caroline Emberson asks: How do we reduce domestic servitude risk in the developed world? According to estimates from the Global Slavery Index, 3.84 million domestic workers worldwide find themselves forced to work against their will in domestic servitude. In this study, the first of its kind, I have been …

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Are Human Rights the Business of Business?

To mark Human Rights Day 2021, Dr Lara Bianchi and Professor Rob Caruana ask: Are human rights the business of business? Today the world celebrates Human Rights Day 2021. A few weeks ago, the Financial Times published an article on “Human Rights climb the business school curriculum”, citing NYU Stern and AMBS as pioneers on …

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Foodprint – Meet the students fighting food waste in the heart of Nottingham

Ahead of Social Enterprise Day on Thursday, we’re shining a spotlight on Foodprint, a community initiative ran by University of Nottingham students. Foodprint is Nottingham’s first social supermarket and a food redistribution network, established in 2017 by a group of students from Enactus Nottingham at the university. Their aim is to tackle food waste and …

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Business School announces Generation Next partnership

Nottingham University Business School is delighted to be partnering with East Midlands Chamber’s Generation Next, continuing our work supporting young professionals and the next generation of business leaders in the region. Generation Next is a membership service run by the Chamber, aiming to connect business owners and employees aged between 18 and 35 with like-minded …

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Research Spotlight: Responding to the Crisis

Here at Nottingham University Business School, we pride ourselves on addressing global challenges in our research, tackling issues faced by local communities and marginalised groups across the world. Over the past year, there has been no greater global challenge than the Covid-19 pandemic – and as well as presenting many challenges, the crisis has led …

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Diversity in Innovation – Dr Lorna Treanor

The Haydn Green Institute’s Dr Lorna Treanor’s work with the Women’s Enterprise Policy Group has previously highlighted the impact of Government policy upon women entrepreneurs, and her new State of the Art Review focuses on Diversity in Innovation, as she writes below. International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate women’s achievements and to highlight the …

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Tri-Campus Global Leadership Webinar: Resilience and Re-energised Directions for 2021

On 21 January, the Nottingham University Business Schools in China, Malaysia and the UK came together in an online event to explore the challenges facing global leaders and decision makers in these increasingly challenging times. The Leadership: Resilience and Re-energised Directions for 2021 webinar was opened by University of Nottingham Vice Chancellor, Professor Shearer West, …

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