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Caroline Roberts-Cherry Women Leading in Business
In this podcast we hear from Caroline Roberts-Cherry during our latest Women Leading in Business webinar. Caroline runs Saffron Cherry Productions in Manchester, an independent ...
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David Gregson and his Young People’s Wellbeing Programme
In this podcast we are delighted to be joined by businessman and philanthropist David Gregson discusses the Greater Manchester Young People’s Wellbeing Programme. During a ...
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Ethical Vanities: the promise and pitfalls of social responsibility
During this podcast, Professor Timothy Devinney, draws on his expertise to address the question of whether we can have CSR without other forms of social ...
Planning for recovery
Now is the time for businesses to look again at their funding options, says Ian Hardman. Ian is one of our guest speakers at our ...
Community resilience: A new capability for local resilience
As part of its emergency planning efforts, the UK government identifies and develops capabilities and resources that can be deployed in the event of a ...
Addressing global sustainability challenges
Sustainability transitions are not yet unfolding at sufficient scale and speed, says Frank Geels. I recently had the pleasure to contribute to the first Nobel ...
Responding to a changing cyber landscape
As digitisation accelerates it becomes even more essential to ensure information systems are safe, says Richard Allmendinger. As we have all witnessed first-hand, the pandemic ...
Making healthier decisions
Emerging technologies have a key role to play in assessing our future disease risks, says Marzena Nieroda. As an academic I have always been very ...
The rhetoric and reality of data science
Organisations can gain more business value from advanced analytics by recognising and overcoming a number of common obstacles, says Mayur Joshi. Rhetoric around the potential ...
Importance of scale-up companies
Scale-up businesses need to play a vital role in the ‘levelling up’ agenda, says Russell Miller. This government has of course pushed geographic inequalities to ...
Gender and food retailing
Gender segregation is embedded in food retail roles. Abbie Winton looks at how this can change. Supermarket shopping of old has, perhaps, changed forever with demand ...
How COVID-19 has impacted our working lives
Kara Ng and David Holman argue that the pandemic represents an opportunity to make positive changes in the workplace. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone ...