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Alumni Residential
weekend – 29 September/1 October
People, Innovation and Change -
are you ready? All inclusive cost of £495 non resi places
available, Woking, Surrey.
Join leading academics including
Professor of Leadership Studies, Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe, James
Fleck, Dean of the OU Business School and Professor of Innovation
Dynamics, business practitioners including Dennis Sherwood of the
Silver Bullet Machine Manufacturing Company Ltd, highly experienced
tutors and alumni colleagues for a weekend update All this plus
plenary sessions, workshops, group work, coffee shop Q&A plus
priceless networking opportunities.
To book a place email oubs-alumni@open.ac.uk
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Your Help Needed!
For the coming programme of alumni
events and workshops we need offers of venues, sponsorship and
volunteers for our various steering groups.
If you can help with any of this,
or have contacts for speakers, please email Christine c.sargent@open.ac.uk
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Regional Events
to make an online booking go to www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
or click on the event
14 June Self-marketing
that helps you get the job Cambridge
21 June Networking meeting Budapest
24 June Summer
Weekend Switzerland
27 June Facilitation
Skills Group, Fareham
8 July Sailing at Ammersee
Germany
10 July Facilitation Skills Group,
Fareham
15 August, Facilitation Skills Group,
Fareham
Diary dates for the autumn
15 September Joint
Workshop with Henley MC – Latest Thinking in
Operation Strategy presented by Dr Marc
Day
20 September China
– Embracing the Business Opportunities Guildford
20 September Creating
the Unlimited Company Manchester
21 September Risk
& Crisis Management London
26 September Are
you Listening? Bristol
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Two Executive Conferences:
One Special Offer for OUBS
Alumni. Michael Porter and Henry Mintzberg – Executive
Management Conferences in London
In rare public appearances, Mintzberg and Porter will each present a full-day
strategy ‘Masterclass’ at London’s QE2 Conference Centre.
Professor Henry Mintzberg: The Art, Craft and Science of Managing
QE2 Conference Centre, London
Date of conference: Monday 6th November 2006
Professor Michael Porter: Brand New Strategy Insights from the
World’s
Leading Business Intellectual,
QE2 Conference Centre, London
Date of conference: Wednesday 24th January 2007
Prior to the public launch of both conferences on 31st July 2006, alumni who
register their places for Henry Mintzberg's London Conference at £895 plus VAT
per place will receive the same number of FREE PLACES for Michael Porter's
London conference.
For further information on this special offer, to register your places or to
request a brochure please contact conference developers, Benchmark for Business,
on 01224 636200 or email team@benchmarkforbusiness.com
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Give the gift of
learning
If you’ve ever felt you’d like to share your
experience of studying with The Open University, now you can.
The OU has launched a Gift Voucher scheme that
allows you to buy a family member, friend or colleague their
choice of an OU short course.
There are currently two gift vouchers available
for a small range of courses including The Life of Mammals,
Introducing Astronomy, Start Writing Family History and
Perspectives on Leonardo da Vinci. The OU is hoping to expand the
voucher scheme to include vouchers for use on any OU course.
For further details, see the website at www.open.ac.uk/vouchers
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Fascinating facts from the alumni database
From a total of 11,907 active members within the UK, the biggest
concentration of MBA graduates is to be found in the South East corner. 53% of
you live in that part of the country (regions 1, 2, 6 & 13), with only 7% of
the same group spread throughout the whole of Scotland (region 11).
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OUBS Alumni Association partnering with
John Wiley & Sons
With over 105 million people using eBay in the
second quarter of 2004 (Bowcott, 2004) wouldn't you like to know
what makes consumers more likely to take part in online bidding?
Predicting and explaining the propensity to bid in
online auctions: a comparison of two action-theoretical models by
Michael Bosnjak, Dirk Obermeier, Tracy L. Tuten is a recent academic
article published in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour (Volume 5,
Issue 2).
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Read the article for FREE to find out which model
the authors believe can predict and explain technology-dependent
consumer behaviour,
Click here to link to the pdf of the article.
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Don't forget that it's not too late to 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
Behavioural
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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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
Free Broadband Forever with
Talk Talk. Available to 70% of UK. See www.getsetup.net/phone
to check availability on your number and to join online.
Get
your own website - ideal for
small businesses and consultancies. Details and enquiry form: www.getsetup.net/oubs
or phone 08700 111 447. Free website counter (quote OUBS).
0845, 0870 and 0707 numbers for
your business. June Offer: get two numbers for £99 (quote
OUBS) - eg similar numbers for phone and fax.. 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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on news about the OU/OUBS and its various products, the alumni
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For all comments and contributions
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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