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First cohort of business accounting 'Flying starts' join PwC

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Our first BSc Business Accounting cohort graduated this summer on 19 July and will begin their careers at PwC this month. >>

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Alliance MBS takes its world-class programmes on tour

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) will be bringing our globally recognised range of master’s programmes directly to talented students across Latin America, Canada, Europe and South East Asia. >>

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Alliance Manchester Business School partners with Renaker for global lecture series

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

AMBS' key event series Vital Topics is being taken to four international centres in this partnership with the city's leading property developer, Renaker. >>

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Manchester accountants’ fund broadens support to AMBS students

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

MSCA Legacy have awarded the David Illingworth Memorial Prize, named in honour of the late former MSCA and ICAEW national president, to Eve Moores, who graduated from AMBS this summer with a BA Econ in Accounting and Finance. The award was made in recognition of her dissertation analysing the challenges facing the UK’s rail operating companies, and the market in which they operate. >>

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Professor Gerard P Hodgkinson named as the 2024 Distinguished Scholar by the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Gerard P Hodgkinson, Professor of Strategic Management and Behavioural Science at AMBS, is to be recognised for his exceptional contribution to research by the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM). >>

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£1.5m gift from Sir Terry Leahy to boost research into regional inequality

Thursday, May 16, 2024

The University of Manchester has received a £1.5 million donation from business leader and alumnus Sir Terry Leahy to fund research into regional economic disparities and the impact of policies aimed at rejuvenating and rebalancing the productivity and prosperity of the UK’s cities and regions.

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Research, Productivity
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Renowned experts appointed as Honorary Professors on Productivity by Alliance MBS and The Productivity Institute

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) at The University of Manchester is proud to announce the appointment of three new Honorary Professors to support the University’s research and engagement activities on productivity, innovation, business performance and economic growth.

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Research, Productivity, School
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AMBS academics contribute to major report on UK productivity

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

The Productivity Agenda was launched this week in Westminster as part of National Productivity Week, a week-long awareness campaign to highlight the importance of productivity organised by The Productivity Institute (TPI), which is based at Alliance Manchester Business School.

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Productivity
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Alliance Manchester Business School supports National Productivity Week

Monday, November 20, 2023

The North West Regional Productivity Forum, led by Alliance Manchester Business School, is taking part next week in National Productivity Week, a series of events, seminars, conferences and panel discussions addressing the UK’s productivity challenges.

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Research, Productivity
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Gender and productivity

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Integrating equality into the productivity agenda is essential for a medium to long-term strategy for raising productivity that aims at improving well-being for all, according to a major new report.

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Productivity, Research, Work and Equalities
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