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School
Awards, 12 June 2009
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From left to right: Dr Chris
Martin (20,000 MBA Graduate), Ian Davies (Foreign &
Commonwealth Office Student of the Year), Dale Gibson
(Certificate in Management Student of the Year), Graham
Robb,Youth Justice Board, collecting the CPLD Award of
most effective use of e-learning in a professional
development, Zoe Charles (BA in Business Studies Student
of the Year), Jennifer Haines (Diploma in Management
Student of the Year), Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Professor
James Fleck, Dean of the Business School, Al Shah (MBA
Alumnus of the Year), Philip R Woolford (Tutor of the
Year), Professor Martin Stephenson, ECOTEC Research and
Consulting Ltd., collecting the CPLD Award for most
innovative use of case studies in e-learning, David
Shelley (Certificate in Accounting Student of the Year),
Christian Thein (MBA Student of the Year)
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Outsmart the Recession and keep ahead of the
game by attending the 2009 alumni residential weekend
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9/11 October 2009 Hartsfield Manor, Betchworth, Surrey.
Key speakers include Janette Rutterford, Professor of Financial Management
talking on the impact of the credit crunch, Sally Dibb OU Professor of Marketing
presenting on Excellent customer understanding and why it matters during
recessionary times and Denise Taylor MBA alumna and author speaking on Managing
your career in times of crisis and much more …
For further information
and to make a booking please click
here >>
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| Coverage of Chris Martin
- the 20,000th OU
Business School MBA in the Independent
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Regional
events:
Guests
welcome, Certificate of attendance available. For more
information or to make a booking, click on the events below or
ring Janet on +44(0)1908 659262
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Global
MBA
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A Global MBA, based on the existing MBA, is
being launched in partnership between the OU and Pearson designed to offer
students in targeted countries an opportunity to study for the Open University
MBA award, via a blend of innovative learning methods. The programme is being
trialled in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Norway and Sweden. The first
presentation will be in November 2009. Students will study in multi-national
learning groups which will be supported by tutors who may be based in the UK or
internationally. Students will also be required to attend a series of
residential schools, named Global Exchange Events to reflect the global nature
of the programme. These five-day residential events will take place in London,
Kuala Lumpur, Dubai and Oslo.
The partnership brings together the academic
programme expertise of The Open University and the commercial capability of
Pearson. The Open University will retain control and ownership of all
educational material. This unrivalled knowledge network will ensure the Open
University Global MBA programme is relevant to students in the targeted
countries.
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NEW! Subscription offer to RHS
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Summer's arrived! Indulge your love of gardens and gardening with RHS
membership. Enjoy a host of RHS member benefits when you join the RHS including:
free visits to RHS Gardens for you and a guest, discounted tickets to RHS Flower
Shows, personal gardening advice, free monthly magazine (worth £51 a year) and
much more!
MBA Alumni save £5 off RHS membership, when
you join by Direct Debit.
Join today for only £43. Call: 0845 130 4646 quoting 2477 (9am to 5pm, Mon to
Fri), www.rhs.org.uk
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T&Cs: Individual Membership is usually £48
and includes a £5 one-off enrolment fee. Offer valid until 31 July 2009. Please allow 28 days to receive your membership card and handbook.
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The Money Programme
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16 June In the second of this Money Programme series looking at different
sectors of Britain's economy in the recession, Newsnight's Paul Mason covers the
moving story of rising unemployment from the shop floor of two struggling
manufacturing companies in the Midlands.
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With remarkable access to two factories as they
try struggle to survive, the film looks at the continuing battle they face to
hold on. Paul charts how they introduce measures to save jobs by cutting costs
and reducing working hours through to seeking support from the banks to avoid
closure and the spectre of laying people off. The situation is heart breaking
for the owners and unsettling for the staff. One company owner has dedicated his
life to creating the jobs, which may now disappear.
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23 June Mary Portas: Save Our Shops For the past 10 years, we've shopped till we
dropped. Now recession is threatening the nation's favourite pastime, and one of
our biggest industries. It's the just latest blow for many of Britain's
beleaguered high streets.
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Now retail Guru Mary Portas wants to discover
why boom towns are becoming bust towns and what can be done to stop the
extraordinary number of shop closures around Britain. Can anything be done to
keep tills ringing and keep high streets alive? Mary takes on her biggest
challenge to date: saving not just a single shop, but the entire town centre of
Tewksbury which is fighting back against the recession with true Blitz spirit.
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Alumni Offer DANIEL GOLEMAN & MALCOLM
GLADWELL 15 September 2009
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The Science of Success: How Exceptional Achievement Comes Through Radical
Approaches to Learning.
A National Management Conference University Place Manchester Alumni Save £300
per place
OUBS Alumni can attend The Science of
Success,
a one day national management conference in Manchester focused on the reasons
behind extraordinary leadership and unparalleled success. Sharing the platform
will be two of the world's most thought-provoking intellectuals, Malcolm
Gladwell and Daniel Goleman, who will consider a redefinition of true success
and explore some of the unconventional and scientific reasons behind exceptional
achievement.
Malcolm Gladwell will ask an intriguing
question: What are the key environmental factors that affect a person's
possibility and opportunity for success? He will also unpack how to apply and
use these observations to bring about success in your own situation.
Dr Daniel Goleman will explore the concept of
Emotional Intelligence and how you can significantly increase the performance of
your organisation by harnessing different facets of your intelligence.
Alumni benefit from a major discount per place
- each ticket is at £595 + VAT per place (a saving of £300). For full details
of the full-day conference including pricing, speakers biographies and booking
visit the conference website at www.benchmarkforbusiness.com/partner
or email team@benchmarkforbusiness.com
or call 01224 636200
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Quick
Links
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My Personalised Alumnus Library
(MyPal)
of online library resources continues to expand in number and
quality.
New databases: Source OECD,
Open Research Online and Best of Biz have been added. Major new
journals including Management Today and the British Journal of
Management will also be accessible. The OU Business School are
financing this package which remains free access to alumni. This
new package continues to put the OU Library in the forefront of
service provision – most universities offer no online resource
access to their alumni. If you don’t use it we might lose it!
Go to the secure Members' area
of the alumni website www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
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Your MBA alumni association has
launched a dedicated OU Business School group on Linkedin. Linkedin
is an online professional networking service, used by over 8 million
professionals worldwide. It allows members to connect with each
other and expand their business contacts. Through this website you
are able to search and view OU Business School group members'
profiles as well as their networks. You see much more than a
name. All connections are controlled by you, this is an opt in
only.
How to join: There is no
charge to join Linkedin, or to join the OU Business School group on Linkedin. You are pre-approved as a member of the OU MBA
alumni association and can join the group immediately by clicking on
this link:
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You will need to use the same e-mail address with Linkedin as the one to which
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additionally to your existing Linkedin profile.
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The OU Business School is an Academic
Institutional Member of Chatham House, Europe's leading
independent international affairs think tank.
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Founded in 1920 in the aftermath
of the First World War. MBA alumni can benefit from a 20% individual
membership discount paying only £205 pa which includes access to more than
100 events a year with speakers ranging from international leaders, UK
politicians, senior diplomats, international business leaders, leading
academics, Chatham House researchers and other experts. Alumni can also access the Chatham House website with its forward events
calendar, archive of speech recordings and transcripts, articles from the
monthly magazine The World Today and bimonthly journal International Affairs,
briefing papers, research reports and other publications.
To join http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/membership/academics/members_list/
click on OU Business School and enter password OUBS
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