Original Thinking Podcast
The official Alliance Manchester Business School podcast.
The sharpest business minds come together to explore today's challenges and future possibilities.
"Trust and credibility are really important in today's world, and I think accountants of the future will be able to turn their skills of judgement and professional scepticism onto this absolutely vital area so that we can actually live in a world where people can prosper as well as companies."
In our latest episode, Jenni Rose, Senior Lecturer in Accounting at AMBS and Richard Karmel, Partner in Audit and Assurance at Forvis Mazars, talk about how companies can provide confidence and credibility to their accounts in terms of respecting human rights.
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Alliance MBS academics and business leaders discuss business challenges across transformation, finance, artificial intelligence, society, and more.
"If you are responsible for a department, for a division, then you need to own the data. And owning the data means also taking care and responsibility for data quality and taking care and responsibility for who can access the data."
Erik Beulen, Professor of Information Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, discusses the challenges around data analytics and digital transformation.
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"You have to start thinking now about the ethical and social implications of what's coming."
Professor Michelle Carter, Professor of Information Systems at Alliance Manchester Business School, asks whether we're doing enough to ensure AI impacts our lives in truly beneficial ways.
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"We've had almost every problem you can think of. But multinationals by and large have sailed through it."
Peter Buckley, AMBS's 200th Anniversary Chair in International Business, joins the podcast to talk about the challenges, risks, and future of multinationals.
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"55% of businesses are either wholly or moderately dependent on natural resources."
Beccy Speight, Chief Executive of the RSPB, joins Professor Paolo Quattrone, Professor of Accounting, Governance & Society at Alliance Manchester Business School on the podcast.
They discuss how businesses must better encompass nature in their decision-making and also recognise Nature as an active stakeholder.
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Three years on from the height of the pandemic, we explore the lessons learnt from Protect, a major UK government study into the transmission of the Covid-19 virus and the wider UK research programme around it.
Debating the findings of the nationwide study in the podcast are:
- Professor David Fishwick, Chief Medical Advisor at Health and Safety Executive GB
- Sheena Johnson, Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing at Alliance Manchester Business School
- Martie Van Tongeren, Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at The University of Manchester.
Watch the episode with David, Sheena and Martie below:
"Change - it takes a long time; you have to be patient particularly when it comes to things like behaviour change."
Zara de Belder, a recent MBA graduate from Alliance Manchester Business School and sustainability consultant, joins Claire Binns, Senior Impact Manager at Sykes Holiday Cottages, to discuss transformation and sustainability.
Claire also talks first-hand about the recent steps Sykes Cottages has taken in terms of its specific approach to measuring and assessing its sustainability credentials.
Watch the episode with Zara and Claire below:
