The Open University Business School
MBA Alumni Newsletter
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A happy and healthy new year to you and congratulations to our
420 new MBA graduates. Welcome to a worldwide community and we hope you will play an active part in your alumni association. Do update your
contact and employment details at the alumni website www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni.
Also take a look at our regional events, this week's Careers workshop and the March
Strategy in Action residential weekend and book online.
Alumni Residential Weekend 18/20 March 2011 - Strategy in Action:Challenge
and Engage
Join fellow alumni at this unique workshop-based weekend.
Designed for
MBA graduates who wish to engage with fresh thinking, who are looking to be
Inspired and challenged and to network with like-minded individuals. The weekend
will provide you with the opportunity to refresh and update on strategic
frameworks and test them with a live case study. Given these highly
uncertain, volatile and certainly challenging times, it is important to gauge
when and whether these frameworks can still be useful. Particular attention will
be paid to scenario planning as a key strategic tool and how it helps us
deal with the high degrees of uncertainly around economic growth, political
change and technological change, as well as their bottom line implications. Info
and booking>>
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January 2011
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Half day professional development workshop - How to get the Job you Want,
specifically tailored to MBA graduates.
21 January 9am - 9.30am registration, 9.30am start 12:30pm finish
Venue: De Vere, 17 Portland Place, London, W1B 1PU Cost £105 guests welcome,
certificate of attendance available.
This practical and informative workshop provides participants with a structured
and systematic approach to career planning.
Content includes:
- Career Assessment Process including the workbook
- Job searching tools including Workmaze information products
- How to get interviews, including networking and direct contact
- What recruiters really want?
The workshop draws on our presenter's experience as both industry recruiter
and as a career coaches, with insights and examples. There will be two exercises
in the workshop. To make a booking please visit our website.
Please note that we now have online booking facilities, when you visit our
website, scroll down to the 'Book Now' button. Alternatively, please call Janet
on +44(0)1908 659262, or email j.e.barker@open.ac.uk
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Regional events (click on title to jump to website)
21 January London Careers Workshop
22 January Paris Round Table on Innovation
1 February Bristol First Tuesday informal networking
2 February Edinburgh Social Networking - is it enough to let your fingers
do the walking?
8 February London Second Tuesday informal networking
8 February Manchester LinkedIn - what is all the fuss about?
10 February Dublin Reaching out through Social Media
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Business School Essay Competition - please forward to anyone who is
currently studying or considering studying
The Open University Business School is proud to announce its first MBA Essay
Competition.
The competition is open to existing Open University students (of all
disciplines) as well as prospective students.
Applicants will be required to write an essay in response to a question posed by
the MBA academic panel within the Business School. All essays received will then
be assessed by the panel and the winner announced. The prize for the successful
applicant will be full sponsorship for Stage One of the MBA (B716).
To apply for entry into the competition and to receive details of the essay
question click on
www8.open.ac.uk/business-school/study/mba/essay-competition-2011
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Dragons Den - entrepreneurs needed!
Dragons' Den is a challenging place to pitch, but
it's also a genuine business opportunity to secure investment. In the most
recent series, 17 entrepreneurs accepted offers of investment in the Den, with
plenty more achieving success after taking on board the Dragons' advice.
Entrepreneurs wanting to apply can do so by downloading and completing the application
form and emailing it to dragonsden@bbc.co.uk or by visiting the BBC
website: www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden
- filming will take place in the spring so
application forms need to be submitted by March.
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The Open University Business School is currently
running a pilot mentoring scheme to provide up 50 new MBA students (B716) with
an informal point of contact and external support during their first year of
study on the MBA programme. The purpose of the online scheme is to add value to
the student journey by giving students access to a mentor who has already
successfully completed an MBA, who has had the experience of balancing work,
study and personal life and who can advise, guide and support the student mentee
during their first year. The second presentation of B716 will run from May 2011
to April 2012.
If you have experience of mentoring and would like to get involved then please
email Christine c.sargent@open.ac.uk
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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
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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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News
QuickLinks
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
Your MBA alumni association has launched a dedicated OU Business School
group on Linkedin.
Linkedin is an online professional networking service, used by over 10
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 the Linkedin
Logo above.
You will need to use the same e-mail address with Linkedin as the one to which
this e-newsletter is sent. You can easily add this address to your existing
Linkedin profile.
The OU Business School is an Academic Institutional Member of Chatham House, Europe's leading independent international affairs think tank.
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 click the Chatham House logo above and enter password: OUBS
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details or opted into the membership directory please do so now and keep
connected to this thriving international network.
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About this newsletter
This
newsletter's purpose is to keep you updated on news about the OU/OUBS and its
various products, the alumni association, offers and affinity deals, alumni
events and just about anything else that you request. Offers have been selected
as appropriate for our readership. The companies and people offering them are
not necessarily connected to or endorsed by the OUBS. We would also like to receive news from you (with web links) that we can
circulate to the rest of the association. You will see that many of the items
link you back to the alumni web site at www.open.ac.uk/oubs-alumni
where you will also find the news site, events listings as well as the on-line
membership directory. If you are not there it is probably because you have not
opted in and we need your permission and signature for data protections reasons.
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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
Tel +44 (0)1908 652874 Fax +44 (0)1908 655102
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