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A room full of graduates looking at a presentation screen that reads 'Congratulations Business Accounting Graduates 2024'

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. >>

Three Alliance MBS Masters students

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. >>

AMBS' Stuart Wells and Renaker's Andy Lofthouse stood in the AMBS foyer

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. >>

Professor Gerard P Hodgkinson

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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Weak regulation of PFI leads to fraud risk

Weak regulation of PFI leads to fraud risk

Monday, July 6, 2015

Weak regulation of PFI (Private Finance Initiative) style contracts for public services is leading to a lack of transparency and a far greater risk of potential fraud.

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Research
In Conversation With Ken McPhail

In Conversation With Ken McPhail

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Ken McPhail is Professor of Accounting at MBS. Among his prize-winning articles are a four volume work on accounting ethics.

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Business and human rights, Research, School
Study finds women more risk-averse in the boardroom

Study finds women more risk-averse in the boardroom

Thursday, July 2, 2015

What role does gender play when it comes to making key company decisions? And what is the attitude to risk among women CEOs?

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Research
New research into motherhood pay gap highlights inequality

New research into motherhood pay gap highlights inequality

Friday, March 6, 2015

A new report released to coincide with International Women’s Day finds that mothers who work face a widening pay gap compared to women without children, which expands even further for every child they go on to have.

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Research, Work and Equalities
Launch of Manchester’s new Synthetic Biology Research Centre

Launch of Manchester’s new Synthetic Biology Research Centre

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

MBS is playing a key role in the launch of a new centre into the study of synthetic biology in Manchester.

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Research
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