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A major boost to the promotion of entrepreneurship at the University

Friday, January 15, 2021

A landmark memorandum of understanding has been signed between The University of Manchester Students’ Union (UMSU) and the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre (MEC) at Alliance Manchester Business School. >>

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New appointments at Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk

Friday, January 15, 2021

Professor Paolo Quattrone has been appointed as the new Director of The Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk (CAIR) at Alliance MBS. >>

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Observatory features in BBC film

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

The Data Visualisation Observatory has featured in a BBC film where it was used to support a unique experiment on immunity in the fight against Covid-19. >>

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Researching shopping behaviour

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Leading retailers are being given the opportunity to use the Data Visualisation Observatory (DVO) to analyse consumer perceptions and purchase behaviour. >>

Observatory launches platform to track Covid-19 levels in Greater Manchester

Alliance MBS Observatory launches platform to track Covid-19 levels in Greater Manchester

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

The Data Visualisation Observatory (DVO) at Alliance MBS has launched a platform that enables users to track Covid-19 levels across Greater Manchester. >>

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Oil industry engineer sees benefits of DBA

Monday, January 11, 2021

Asked about his job in the oil industry and Scott Wagstaff jokes that he is “an expensive plumber”. But his skills in creating oil wells and providing hardware for oil extraction is one that has taken him all over the world over the past 20 years. >>

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Read the latest issue of Alliance MBS’ Magazine

Thursday, January 7, 2021

The pandemic has cast a strong light on deep social and economic divisions in the UK and we touch on many of these themes in the latest issue of the AMBS Magazine, which has just been published. >>

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Studying the Global Part-time MBA

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Clare Worden joined the Global MBA in July 2018. She shares her insights on the programme, from why she decided to embark on this journey to her best memories and how it impacted her company and career. >>

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Global MBA essay competition explores Covid-19 challenges

Monday, January 4, 2021

The Global MBA programme held a competition for their students to show off their writing skills. The students competed with each other by submitting an essay about the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. >>

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A Concerted Effort to Tackle the Productivity Puzzle During the Post-COVID Era

Friday, December 18, 2020

While the economy should grow again in the next year, it remains to be seen how many businesses survive, and how much unemployment will rise before it begins to fall again. >>

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dying experiments a case study

A Concerted Effort to Tackle the Productivity Puzzle During the Post-COVID Era

Friday, December 18, 2020

While the economy should grow again in the next year, it remains to be seen how many businesses survive, and how much unemployment will rise before it begins to fall again.

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Productivity
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Summer Recovery in Productivity will be Short Lived

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Prof. Bart van Ark, Managing Director, The Productivity Institute, discusses the key observations for the outlook on productivity.

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Productivity, Research
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Alliance MBS hosts new £32m Productivity Institute

Friday, August 21, 2020

Alliance MBS will host a new institute funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to make the UK economy more productive.

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Productivity
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Importance of the Productivity Institute

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Members of AMBS’s new Productivity Institute look at the important role that productivity will play in supporting the UK economy.

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Productivity, Research
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Experts give their views on UK productivity

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Four productivity experts discuss productivity in the UK and how it can be improved post-COVID.

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Productivity
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