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Turning classrooms into boardrooms - part of innovative new postgraduate module
A business game, in which student teams compete by making strategic decisions about mock companies to gain the highest profit, is part of an innovative new module being piloted to postgraduate students at Kingston Business School. The module in strategic project management is available to students on the Business and Information Technology MSc, Business Information Technology MSc and...12 May 2012Read More
Clock-watchers more likely to 'burn out' than workaholics, according to new study
People who don’t get deeply involved with their work are more likely to suffer ‘burn out’ or emotional exhaustion and have lower levels of well-being, according to a new study. Researchers from Kingston University’s Business School gave 227 British workers, mostly in their 30s, standard tests used to measure engagement and motivation. They found that the 15 per cent who were watching...09 May 2012Read More
Air chief says UK missing out on investment
Growth opportunities in the UK are slowing down and investment is going elsewhere because of ‘misguided and misplaced’ government policy, the head of British Airways’ parent company has said at a speech to mark the opening of Kingston University’s new Business School. The United Kingdom was known as an entrepreneurial economy but the steps being taken by the government were undermining that...23 April 2012Read More
Willie Walsh opens new Kingston Business School building
After delivering a lecture and answering students’ questions, Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group (IAG), performed the official opening ceremony at Kingston Business School’s new £26 million home. The new building boasts a variety of modern teaching rooms, break-out spaces for staff and students to learn together, and many sustainable features. Adorned with dozens of...23 April 2012Read More
Local solutions to global energy issues
Generating energy from renewable sources near home or at our places of work, as well as minimising the amount we use, is key to ensuring that we can withstand a sudden disruption to energy supply, Professor Audley Genus, YTL Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at Kingston Business School, will tell a conference on energy resilience later this week. Professor Genus will tell the ‘...23 April 2012Read More
Kingston’s young entrepreneurs take over Market Place
Kingston's entrepreneurial students took over Market Place last month to showcase and sell their wares. Twenty-two Young Enterprise start-up businesses run by more than 100 students displayed, pitched and sold the innovative products they had created, including a fashion bracelet that carries credit cards and keys for a night out, and a bookmark that holds pens. The fair was not only a big...20 April 2012Read More
Tear up the rule book to deal with climate change now, says new Professor of Innovation
Success in reaching climate change targets requires the rules of the game to be rewritten, according to a leading academic. “There are many impediments, not all of them regulatory, to meeting the enormous challenge of achieving climate change goals,” Professor Audley Genus, the new YTL Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at Kingston University’s Business School, said. “A lot...20 April 2012Read More
Graduate Teaching Assistantship applications now open
Kingston Business School is pleased to invite applications for a number of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTA). The position gives PhD students the opportunity to learn teaching skills. GTAs will carry out up to 6 hours per week of teaching support activities to students on undergraduate programmes and postgraduate masters programmes. The GTA posts available for entry this year (2012) are...13 April 2012Read More
Why Kingston’s turquoise is a good choice
Dr Mandy Lehto is an image consultant with Bravura Coaching and last week she came in to talk to an MA Marketing class as part of the module: Planning your career in marketing and communications. Her advice was both practical and pragmatic: when you are being interviewed, first impressions are strong, quickly made – and lasting. It follows that thinking about how to present yourself, and what...22 March 2012Read More
Kingston team in the Hult Global Challenge - Update
Update - Many thanks to all those of you who have voted and supported our team. They will now represent Kingston University at a global platform. Rachel Scotland, Dasha Brezinova, Holly Phillips and Juliet Koteng from Kingston Business School have now made it to the finals of the Hult Global Case Challenge that will be in New York end of next month. The judges are...08 March 2012Read More
