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Nottingham Executive MBA graduates are flying high in global rankings

A new ranking to show the world’s top Executive MBA courses has included Nottingham University Business School for the first time. It also shows the majority of the school’s MBA graduates are women, bucking the trend of male dominated courses. In the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) league table for 2018 the NUBS scored particularly highly against …

Many UK boardrooms blind to opportunity, warns report

Boards conditioned to play safe rather than embrace opportunity Efforts to “create certainty” overlook scope to enhance performance Narrow outlook partially fuelled by fear that dissent isn’t welcome Britain’s boardrooms may be impairing the UK’s economic potential by habitually viewing risk only in terms of threats rather than in terms of opportunities, a new report …

Hospital discharge – why does it create such issues? And are there any resolutions?

A Select Committee report published last week found that the incidences of unsafe discharge from NHS hospitals is still unacceptably high. Professor Justin Waring and Dr Simon Bishop from Nottingham University Business School, led on research, (funded by the National Institute for Health Research), which contributed towards the committee’s findings and its recommendations. The Select …

The Panama Papers – an expert reviews the news

Tommaso Faccio,  an expert in accounting and corporate tax, from Nottingham University Business School, has been in the media  a  great deal of late talking about the Panama Papers scandal.   Visit the Business School website. Want to know more about tax avoidance? Read his article published on The Conversation below…. What are ‘tax havens’? …

Walking on the wild side

Environmental historian, Dr Rob Lambert, has been appointed Vice-President of the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust. This honour for Dr Lambert, who lectures at The University of Nottingham on Tourism and the Environment, follows his appointment as one of the national ‘Ambassadors’ for the wider Wildlife Trusts movement in Britain which has over 800,000 members. …