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New Alumni
Congratulations and welcome to our 518 new MBA
alumni - we hope you will be active members of the association -
remember to go to the alumni website www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
click on new graduates to complete your registration. Please do
support your local alumni groups and now you have all that spare
time how about volunteering to be a steering group member?
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Joint Alumni Workshops with Henley
Management College All on the theme of The
Latest Thinking In… taking place on Friday mornings followed
by lunch at Henley MC £125 inclusive
3 March - The Latest Thinking in Social
Marketing: the New Frontier, presented by Gerard Hastings,
Professor of Social Marketing, founder/director of the Institute
of Social Marketing and the Centre for Tobacco Control Research.
(10am registration for 10.30am start)
Social marketing’s understanding of both the
commercial and social sectors puts it in a unique position to
provide realistic critiques, and identify intelligent solutions.
This session will begin to unpick its potential to make a
contribution to the workings of a modern capitalist society.
10 March (a few places remaining as this has
had to be postponed from 13 January due to the ill health of the
presenter)
The Latest Thinking in Strategic Management and
International Strategy, presented by Professor Susan Segal-Horn
(9am registration for 9.30am start)
The purpose of this Strategy Workshop is to
provide delegates with insight into some of these more recent
developments in the field of strategic management. The main topics
covered will include the following: dynamic capabilities &
knowledge; ethics, governance & corporate social
responsibility (CSR) and the future of globalisation &
regionalization
To make a booking visit the alumni web site
at http://www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni,
click on events or ring the alumni office on 01908 652097
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New On-line Library Service from the Open
University especially for MBA Alumni
Access ebooks, journals and recommended business
websites from one place. You can pick and choose your own set of
Library resources from those on offer and customise the MyPAL
interface to suit your needs. This is a trial service until August
2006 so that we can gauge demand. Please use the Feedback facility
to tell us what you think. A major new database, ABI/INFORM
Trade & Industry will be added soon. This will give electronic
access to the full text of over 700 journals covering world
business, trade and industry journals such as: Builder, The Grocer,
Engineer, Oil & Gas Journal and many others. It also includes
some leading international business journals like Fortune,
Management Today, Asiamoney and World Trade.
You will find this new service in the members area
of the alumni website www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
and will need your username and password to access this secure site.
If you cannot remember your password you may need to get a new one.
To arrange a password reset, you need to go to http://www.open.ac.uk/students/
and click on Change your password. Alternatively, you can contact
the LTS computing helpdesk, telephone number 0044 (0) 1908-653972.
While you are the secure area check your details
in the membership directory and if you aren't there or need to
change something email oubs-alumni@open.ac.uk
or go to Update Your Details on the home page.
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Regional events:
to make an online booking go to www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
or click on the event
19 January Getting
Marketing Back in the Boardroom, presented by Professor Malcolm
McDonald, Milton Keynes
26 January What
have you said before you open your mouth?, Bristol
27 January Net
Works, Zurich
15 February Leadership
Theory and Practice, presented by Professor Malcolm Higgs and
John Madejski, Chairman of Reading Football Club, Henley MC
16 February Networking
dinner, Madrid
21 February Career
Management, Milton Keynes
28 February Social
Phobic or Reluctant Networker?, Manchester
Forthcoming dates - booking now
2 March Corporate
Governance and Business Ethics, IoD, London
7 March Leadership
in Adversity, presented by John Peters, Edinburgh
22 March Managing
to Collaborate, Belfast
25 March Ski
Weekend, Switzerland
28 March Tao
of Everest, presented by Ian Woodall, Cambridge
4 April Freedom from Command and Control,
presented by John Seddon, Bristol/Bath (tbc)
4 April How
to get a Job you'll love, Manchester
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Happy New Year from Wiley!
“True success is not just getting what you
want in life – it’s liking what you get.”
Douglas T. Hall and Dawn E. Chandler, Psychological Success: When
the Career is a calling (Journal of Organizational Behavior,
Vol 26, issue 2)
New Year – new career? The New Year is
traditionally a time to reflect on past achievements and assess
goals and aspirations in all areas of one’s life. When faced with
the January blues, often one’s thoughts turn to ideas of a
different or more rewarding career. Douglas T. Hall and Dawn E.
Chandler’s article ‘Psychological Success: When the Career is
a calling’ published in the Journal of
Organizational Behavior examines the relationship between
subjective and objective careers, and explores the added presence of
a sense of calling within a career that deepens an individual’s fulfilment.
Read this article free! Click here to link
to the pdf of the article on the OUBS website.
Don’t forget that you can take advantage of a
20% discount on a personal subscription to one or more of the
following Wiley Business journals in 2006:Strategic Management
Journal
Knowledge and Process Management
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Behavioral Decision Making
Journal of Consumer Behaviour
Strategic Change
For more information on these featured journals, visit http://www.wiley.interscience.com/
and go to the individual journal homepages. Why not sign up to
receive the table of contents from your favourite journals as new
issues publish? Click on Set E-mail Alert from the journal homepage
to activate.
To subscribe, contact John Wiley & Sons Ltd,
Journals Fulfilment Department, 1 Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis, West
Sussex, PO22 9SA. Tel: +44 (0) 1243 843335 Fax: +44 (0) 1243 843232
email: cs-journals@wiley.co.uk,
quoting promotion code JAAMJ.
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Fascinating facts from the alumni database
10,077 of our MBAs have provided us with their
work details but, of these, only 9,391 have provided a code (from
our list) for the industry they work in. 686 of you have not yet
done this. If you would like to see your company details listed on
the online directory, simply send your update via the website www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
and please don’t forget to provide your name and PI number, or
date of birth, when submitting those company details.
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Alumni
Offers
OUBS Courses. Discount vouchers are available to graduates who wish to take
a further
course (one per annum). Contact us for
your personalised voucher. Contact: oubs-alumni@open.ac.uk
Save on your home phone bill with
Talk Talk. Guaranteed savings versus BT,
cheaper line rental too plus you earn
Nectar points. See www.getsetup.net/phone
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Get
your own website - ideal for
small businesses and consultancies. Details and enquiry form: www.getsetup.net/oubs
or phone 08700 111 447
0845, 0870 and 0707 numbers for
your business. Project a professional image for
£99 per year (quote OUBS). See www.getsetup.net/numbers
or phone 08700 111 447
No charge sign up to Pay As You Use Call-handling
service. Get your calls answered by your named PA in your
company name and your administration sorted. No minimum or monthly fees,
simply pay as you go, set up in minutes. Call 08451 30 00 30 or register
on line at www.corebusinessnetwork.com
and quote OUAO.
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please contact:
Christine Sargent (c.sargent@open.ac.uk)
Alumni Relations Manager
OUBS Alumni Office,
Michael Young Building,
Walton Hall,
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
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