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Business School has now launched the first phase of its new
website to coincide with the marketing launch of the revised MBA
programme.
Visitors will now be
presented with five different themes when entering the site
- I Want an MBA
- Start a New Career
- Building on Experience
- Fulfilling Professional
Requirements
- Studying for Personal
Interest
Users will be guided through
the themes to help decide which qualification they require to
achieve their aim. At this point the website links the user to
Study at the OU where they can find more in depth information
about the qualifications on offer.
Further developments will be
released in phases over the next four months and will include
a full people and research search facilities, new Alumni and
Centre for Law sections, video content of students covering
the first four themes, and a social media community where
current and prospective students.
To visit the new site: click
here and please forward the link to anyone you think
may benefit from studying with the Business School (http://www8.open.ac.uk/business-school/).
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Revised
MBA programme
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The structure of the Open University Business
School's MBA has been revised and its curriculum updated to reflect the
changes in the international business world. The structure is more flexible
allowing students to complete in 2.5 years or over a longer period if they
prefer. There remains an emphasis on strategic analysis, interdisciplinary
skills, creativity, innovation and leadership. Stage one begins this November.
A brochure is available from www.open.ac.uk/oubs,
If there is someone in your organization that you believe would benefit from
taking the MBA then your recommendation would be valued.
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Have
you experience of Mentoring?
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We are in the process of setting up an online
mentoring service for MBA alumni to mentor new MBA students. If you have
experience of either running a mentoring programme or of mentoring and would
like to get involved please email Christine c.sargent@open.ac.uk
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evening 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. Please
do make an effort to support your local alumni group
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Join the Open
University Business School community on BusinessBecause
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BusinessBecause is a new online community for
business school students, business schools, recruiters and alumni globally.
The Open University has a profile on BusinessBecause and by registering you
will get access to relevant stories, analysis and comment about the business
school world and the job market for business graduates. BusinessBecause have
just launched a Jobs section where they advertise roles suitable for
high-flying business graduates. They are specifically trying to source
interesting vacancies from smaller, high-growth companies - the types of
companies that can offer fascinating careers for MBAs, but aren't big enough
to advertise widely. To register on BusinessBecause please go to BusinessBecause.com
and start following the Open University Business School
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Unleashing
Your Strengths: The Power of Potential
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With Dan Pink & Marcus Buckingham;
September 14th, 2010, Hilton Deansgate, Manchester
Special Discounted Rate for the upcoming
management conference Unleashing Your Strengths - The Power of Potential
featuring two internationally renowned leadership speakers, Daniel Pink and
Marcus Buckingham. The event will take place in Manchester, hosted at the Hilton
Deansgate Hotel on Tuesday 14th September 2010. Alumni will hear inspiring
presentations on improving their performance and effectiveness by identifying
and working to their strengths, understanding their inherent motivators and
tapping into their inbuilt creativity.
Register before Monday 16th August 2010 and
receive a special un-published discounted rate of £695 plus VAT per place. (A
SAVING OF £400 PER DELEGATE PLACE)
How to Register
This conference is organised by Benchmark for Business. You can register:
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Develop
your skills - volunteer for a board
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Board-level volunteering, whether as a charity
trustee, school governor or board member of a public body such as an NHS
Trust, is a great way to develop transferable skills, particularly leadership
skills, that are invaluable in the workplace. Board members have overall
responsibility for these organizations, including, for example, agreeing the
strategy. Employers who encourage staff to volunteer as part of their personal
development and as part of their corporate responsibity programme are more
likely to become employers of choice. As an MBA graduate, you could, by
joining a board, make a very significant contribution to your community and
improve your CV at the same time, as well as preparing yourself for possible
future non-executive director roles. For those who, for whatever reason, are
currently out of the labour market, board-level volunteering provides the
ideal way to maintain their skills and confidence. Board-level volunteering is
also enormously satisfying, and it's fun!
There is a huge variety of charities, as well
as schools and public bodies, so there should be an organization that you can
really feel passionate about. Finding the ideal opportunity can be a
challenge: if you would like help with your search, or you would just like
more information, please contact us at Getting on Board, to access our
opportunities search service.
Sarah Hodgkinson, Chief Executive, Getting on
Board
info@gettingonboard.org,
01449 744166, www.gettingonboard.org
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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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OU
Business School group
3944
members |
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
this link:
https://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/2297/739F3E3270B6/
You will need to use the same e-mail address with Linkedin as the one to which
this e-newsletter is sent. You can add this address
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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is to keep you updated on news about the OU/OUBS and its
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where you will also find the news site, events listings
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