The Press - York

Don’t shy away from the new

11:23am Tuesday 14th May 2013

The 'i' word - innovation. Everybody is talking about it, but what does it really mean?

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Spring into action

10:03am Tuesday 9th April 2013

So – spring is here. Hard to believe, I know, with footage in recent weeks of ten-foot snow drifts and reports of the coldest March on record since 1975, but it’s great to see that the tourism industry hasn’t let a few snowflakes prevent a “full steam ahead” march into exciting programmes of spring and summer events.

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Business Briefing: Are you guilty?

12:39pm Tuesday 5th March 2013

The Business School team was out in force at Venturefest last week (with the exception of me, due to illness). I hear it was another fantastic celebration of science, technology and creative enterprise, and I was sorry to miss it.

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Walking the walk in the ‘real world’

10:14am Tuesday 5th February 2013

I always read the Times Higher Education with great interest and was particularly drawn to a recent report on its investigation into UK universities increasingly pushing for academic staff to hold PhDs.

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Looking forward to 2013 challenges

11:06am Tuesday 8th January 2013

January is notoriously the time to reflect on what we have and haven’t ticked off our to-do list, set resolutions (and break them), look ahead and plan (often when the next holiday will be!).

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Extra hands may be best present

10:49am Tuesday 4th December 2012

The Christmas jumper is making a comeback this year, I hear, and will no doubt sit alongside gloves and socks aplenty under our Christmas trees later this month.

Keeping it simple

11:49am Tuesday 4th September 2012

The KISS principle is often cited in business – “keep it short and simple” (or, for some, “keep it simple, stupid”). This month, I saw it in action.

Seize the day

2:43pm Tuesday 3rd July 2012

As many people prepare to head for the sun and escape yet another “glorious” British summer, the Business School team is returning from an overseas trip.

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Focusing on work of Business School

10:48am Tuesday 12th June 2012

Preparing to shoot a video this month that will illustrate some of the ways in which businesses can work with us here at the Business School has focused my mind firmly on the topic of business-university collaboration.

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Plugging the funding gap

9:46am Tuesday 1st May 2012

With reports of a £9.6 billion contraction in business lending in 2011, and missed lending quotas, banks remain under fire for not giving businesses the support they need to survive the economic downturn.

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‘Yorkshire grit’ will see us through

12:06pm Tuesday 3rd April 2012

Last month George Osborne delivered a Budget that he said, “unashamedly backs business”. From the conversations I’ve had with businesses here in York, the feeling on the ground is very much “let’s see”.

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Follow the leader

10:27am Tuesday 6th March 2012

Later this month, York will welcome two shortlisted authors from this year’s Chartered Management Institute Management Book of the Year award to discuss this year’s hot topic: Leadership.

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