Georgia Ames
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The Next Big Thing
5 October, 2015
The breakfast programme resumed after a short summer break with a returning favourite – Christopher Barnatt, Associate Professor of Strategy & Future Studies here at The University of Nottingham’s Business School. The morning’s breakfast presentation was based on ‘The Next Big Thing’ – helping people think big: to remember that the possible can become possible. …
Drive Your Business Forward With Disruptive Thinking
15 July, 2015
This week’s breakfast presentation, delivered by Jonathan Tallant (Head of Philosophy at The University of Nottingham) with guest speaker of Tony Brooks (The Leadership Training Workshop), was based on how philosophy and positive thinking could help your business. Jonathan Tallant started off the morning stating that creativity is hard, but it is essential if a …
Getting the Tax Man to Finance Your Business
3 June, 2015
This breakfast presentation delivered by Bob Berry (Boots Professor of Accounting and Finance) with guest speaker and tax expert, Chris Bond (BDO’s Nottingham Office) highlighted the way in which the UK government uses the tax system to encourage specific types of capital and revenue expenditure, such as R&D spending, which are key elements in determining how …
Nottinghamshire + D2N2 + Business
27 April, 2015
This week’s ingenuity breakfast session took on a different format and considered how changes in the public sector could present opportunities to local businesses. Richard Baker, Deputy Editor of the Nottingham Evening Post, put a range of questions to three representatives from the Council, Local Enterprise Partnerships along with Small and Medium Enterprises. Ingenuity Breakfast …