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AMBS Advisory Board appoints business leader

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

We are delighted to announce that Alison Rodwell has been appointed to the Alliance Manchester Business School Advisory Board. Alison is currently the Director of Impact the Future Ltd, which works to promote good governance, and a Non-Executive Director at Sellafield in the nuclear industry, both based in the North West. >>

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AMBS retains leading position in QS Rankings for Masters programmes

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Alliance Manchester Business School has retained its position as one of the UK's leading business schools in the QS Global MBA Rankings 2026 and the Business Master's Rankings 2026. >>

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Professor Gerard Hodgkinson receives lifetime achievement award from British Academy of Management

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Gerard P. Hodgkinson, Professor of Strategic Management and Behavioural Science at AMBS, has been awarded the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Academy of Management (BAM) in recognition of his various contributions to the field and management research. >>

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Asahi and AMBS Launch Innovative VR Training Collaboration

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Japanese beverage company Asahi has begun a major research project with the Data Visualisation Observatory at AMBS to explore the potential of using Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) systems to help train staff. >>

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Professor Timothy Devinney elected as a Fellow of the British Academy

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Chair of International Business at Alliance Manchester Business School Professor Timothy Michael Devinney has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, the UK’s leading national body for the humanities and social sciences. >>

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Alliance MBS chosen to deliver the NHS MBA programme

Alliance MBS one of seven chosen to deliver the NHS MBA programme

Friday, August 11, 2017

The NHS Leadership Academy has appointed Alliance Manchester Business School as one of seven higher education institutions (HEIs) to deliver the NHS Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme.

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Full-time MBA, School
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‘Mad for Manchester’: Chemistry graduate starts fourth UoM degree at Alliance MBS

Friday, August 4, 2017

Paul Wood, Executive Principal at YK Pao School Secondary Division in Shanghai, recently started his fourth University of Manchester degree at Alliance MBS.

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Global Part-time MBA
Silent witnesses to bullying

Silent witnesses to bullying

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Why is it that employees who witness bullying in the workplace are often reluctant to intervene? And what role could they actually play in helping to improve the wider culture of a business? These are among the key questions that a team of academics from Alliance MBS are investigating as part of a project into the role that third parties play in workplace bullying.

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Research, Work and Equalities
Globalisation leading to a new age of “permanent austerity”

Globalisation leading to a new age of “permanent austerity”

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Austerity is not just a consequence of the global financial crisis but is here to stay as states grapple with the wider impacts of globalisation and the difficulty of increasing state spending. These are among the key messages from an ongoing multi-national academic study into the ‘foundational economy’ – namely those parts of the economy which provide the very basic goods and services that are at the foundation of civilised life.

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Research
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