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theBIZLord Ashcroft International Business School Magazine|issue 10

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Dean’s Welcome Welcome to the 10th edition of The Biz, our staff and student magazine,in which you will read lots of excellent good news stories of both our staffand students. We believe we have a very exciting Business School with aselection of carefully designed courses which are structured to encouragestudents to develop in various ways that will make them attractive topotential employers. I hope you as proud as I am of our striking awardwinning buildings and state of the art facilities in both Cambridge andChelmsford and enjoy being a part of our flourishing community.

I am delighted to report that we are increasing our faculty strength andhave made a number of appointments recently. Most notable is ProfessorSimon Down, who will be joining us in August as Director of ourresearch institute, the Institute for International Management Practice(IIMP).

One of the things we are very keen to do is benchmark our studentsagainst those from other universities. We are delighted to say that whenwe get the chance to test our students via, for example, business gamesand other competitions, they generally do extraordinarily well. In thisedition we feature recent examples of this that I am delighted to sharewith you and which demonstrate that our students compare with thebest. Please enjoy reading about their success. Congratulations to boththe students involved and colleagues who helped to organise thecompetitions.

We are continuing to grow as a business school, not only our on-campusstudents, our corporate work, but also our work through partners. This isa time of unprecedented change for the higher education world, but weare well placed to prosper and thrive in these turbulent times.

I am proud of the success stories you will read here and I hope they willoffer some inspiration so that we can continue to fill future editions withnew good news stories of both our staff and students.

With all best wishes,

Dr Trevor BoltonPro Vice Chancellor and Dean, Lord Ashcroft International Business School

ContentsNEWS

1 South African entrepreneurs visit Anglia Ruskin

2 Entrepreneurs can bid for £35k of funding

2 Multinational student enterprise

3 Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development(CIPD) – Having our say at the national level

3 You’re doing WHAT?

4 Made a Difference 2012 Awards

STUDENT NEWS

5 Jobs Fair for Business School students

5 Digital Copy Services for students

6 Student Services’ new Employability & Careers Teamkeeping students busy!

7 Student Enterprise – The Original Truffles’ Story

SUCCESS STORIES

8 IBM Universities Business Challenge – LAIBS teamwins again!

9 Lecturer selected as Olympic Ambassador

10 Brewery backs students’ new beer idea

10 The Association of Certified Chartered Accountants(ACCA) – Anglia Ruskin is awarded Gold approval

11 FLUX 2012 – Annual inter-university businesscompetition

12 Collaborative Leadership specialist and academicbecomes RSA Fellow

EVENTS

12 Spring Graduate Fair

13 Our University students help organise fossil fuel lecture

13 Guest lecture delivered at new university in Croatia

14 How do you measure your own success?

RESEARCH

14 Dr Emanuele Giovannetti gives keynote address athigh level international forum

15 PhD student combines his research with busy day job

16 Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP)– New appointments for our Research Institute

18 LAIBS helping the police with their enquiries

19 £1m joint ESRC bid submitted

PARTNERSHIP NEWS

19 Students from Amity Global Business School in Indiato visit LAIBS

20 Budapest Business School administrator visits LAIBS

ALUMNI NEWS

21 Practical advice for job seeking students fromsuccessful alumna

22 Alumnus returns to India to help take theirsportspeople into the world arena

EditorialWelcome to The Biz, Lord Ashcroft International Business School’sstaff and student magazine aimed at keeping you abreast ofdevelopments and opportunities in our Faculty. We hope you enjoy reading it.

The magazine is produced four times a year and distributed viaissuu.com. Alternatively you can access copies of this and previousissues on the News and Events page of our website:www.anglia.ac.uk/laibs

Contact us:

Thank you to those of you who have submitted articles for this issue,please keep the good news stories coming. If you would like to offer usyour news or ideas to us please contact christine.durrant@anglia.ac.uk.We look forward to hearing from you.

Topics of interest could include those related to:

o Good news storieso Personal and academic achievementso Eventso Research o International visitso Diary dates, etc.

…… or anything else you think may be of interest to your fellowstudents and/or colleagues.

We would also welcome your feedback on the magazine, particularly onways of improving it.

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South African entrepreneurs visit Anglia Ruskin The Centre for Enterprise Development and Research (CEDAR)at LAIBS, working in collaboration with the South African Micro Enterprise Development Organisation (MEDO) andEnternships.com, will be hosting a group of 15 youngentrepreneurs at Anglia Ruskin University in May, as part of theUK Trade and Investment funded project to promote enterprisein South African townships.

CEDAR has previously worked with MEDO and UK Trade andInvestment during the winter of 2011 when (as reported in theprevious edition of the Biz) they arranged a five-week tour ofthe South African townships to teach enterprise to young, blackentrepreneur-minded people. Two LAIBS students, currently onthe BA Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Management course atAnglia Ruskin University, were invited to join the tour and inputto the teaching. During the tour, individuals signed up for anenterprise development programme and were taken on by the MEDO team for further mentoring. Fifteen of the youngentrepreneurs signed up by the entrepreneurship road show willbe visiting London (hosted by Enternships.com) and Cambridge(hosted by CEDAR) for a week of workshops, seminars,company visits and networking opportunities in order to furthertheir enterprise education, and to promote future trade betweenthese budding young entrepreneurs and UK enterprises.

The promotion of enterprise and entrepreneurialism in SouthAfrica for the black population is very high on the politicalagenda, with 3% of all South African business profits and 3%of any contract with non-South African businesses having to go to helping this cause. Professor Lloyd-Reason, Director ofCEDAR said, “This level of funding is needed, as there are noappropriate entrepreneurial role models for people living in thetownships of South Africa and the barriers potentialentrepreneurs must break through are considerable.”

This project is a fantastic opportunity for everyone involved tomake a real difference to people’s lives and should lead to morecollaborative work between the partners. Having strong linkswith South Africa and the UK Trade & Industry also helps toincrease Anglia Ruskin University’s reputation as aninternational player.

For more information, please contact

Professor Lester Lloyd-Reason, Director of CEDART: 0845 196 2479E: lester.lloyd-reason@anglia.ac.uk

South Africa Project: Some of the South African Entrepreneurs attending a workshop on the MEDO entrepreneurship road show in December

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Multinational Student EnterpriseStudents on the MA/MSc International Business made theirgroup presentations in April-May for Robert Jones’s‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ module. The theme is oftennew business start-up.

Robert is always fascinated with the multi-national nature ofthe teams and had expected five nationalities with the ‘Real

Travel Agency’ team but was delighted to learn that the fivestudents represented eight nationalities!

Kim Anh Le – Norwegian & Vietnamese; Anastasija Baglajeva –Lithuanian & Russian; Ludmila Yavorska – German & Ukranian;Matej Rajkovic – Slovakian; Selin Coskun – Turkish

Entrepreneurs can bid for £35k of funding

Anglia Ruskin’s Enterprise Fellowship Scheme to help Cambridgeshire start-ups

Cambridgeshire entrepreneurs have the opportunity to secureup to £35,000 in start-up funding courtesy of Anglia RuskinUniversity.

Now in its second year, the Enterprise Fellowship Scheme isrun by Anglia Ruskin’s Centre for Enterprise Development andResearch (CEDAR) and is open to anyone in the county whohas a bright business idea and is looking for financial backing.

The initiative is sponsored by a private benefactor andsupported by the Lord Ashcroft International Business School atAnglia Ruskin. Last year’s scheme saw start-up funding sharedby a company producing photography software, a businessselling advertising space on telecommunication boxes, anonline service bringing together investors and installers of greenenergy projects, and a company specialising in nutritionalsupplements.

In addition to a share of the £35,000 of funding, successfulapplicants will also receive mentoring support, specialisttraining and development, legal support and advice, and accessto the StartupLab, the new business incubation centre at AngliaRuskin.

Lester Lloyd-Reason, Professorof International EnterpriseStrategy at Anglia Ruskin, said,“Cambridgeshire is a hotbed ofentrepreneurship – and not justin the traditional technologysector. Here at Anglia Ruskinwe are passionate about drivingenterprise and entrepreneurshipbecause we recognise that it’sthe lifeblood of our economy,and we hope this scheme willhelp more local entrepreneursturn their ideas into reality.

“Last year’s scheme was a great success and wesaw four excellent business ideas receive fundingand support. Someone could bid for the whole£35,000, but it is more likely we would look to split the money between two or three buddingentrepreneurs.”

The first phase, which closes at midnight on Saturday, 30June, involves applicants submitting one page about their ideaand another page about themselves. Successful applicants willget the chance to expand on their ideas in front of the judges,and those who proceed to Phase Three will formally pitch to thepanel in the grand final.

The judging panel consists of Professor Lloyd-Reason, JulieHorne (business leader, coach and consultant), Mark Layton(Chairman and owner of Incomes Data Services), Dr GeoffreyButlin (CEO of TranscenData Europe Ltd), James Barlow(chartered accountant), Ben Mumby-Croft (Senior Lecturer atAnglia Ruskin), Peter Taylor (Managing Director, TTP Group plc),Dr Walter Herriot OBE (Director of the CEDAR Entrepreneur inResidence network) and Roger Mumby-Croft (Professor ofInternational Management Practice at Anglia Ruskin).

To submit an application, or for further details, please contact:Dale CossT: 0845 196 2344E: dale.coss@anglia.ac.uk

The scheme is open to anyone living or working inCambridgeshire, except staff and undergraduate students atAnglia Ruskin.

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Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

Having our say at the national levelDr Jonathan Smith has recently beeninvited to join the National Membershipand Professional DevelopmentCommittee at the Chartered Institute ofPersonnel and Development (CIPD).

The purpose of the committee is:

• to offer informed advice andguidance on the definition, developmentand maintenance of the standards andtheir application to membership,

education, qualifications and continuing professionaldevelopment.

• to provide oversight on behalf of the Board of the CIPD onprofessional capability standards and related activities inaccordance with the overall strategy of the Institute.

Membership of this committee will have great benefits forLAIBS, particularly:

1) Increase LAIBS’ engagement with the CIPD, enabling LAIBSto be more informed of current developments in HR.

2) Enhance LAIBS’ reputation with students and applicants to our HR courses.

3) Give us the ability to influence policy at a National level, and provide the opportunity to feed research that is beingconducted in LAIBS into the CIPD policies. Examples of thiswould be Dr Diane Keeble-Ramsey’s and Dr Andy Armitage’swork on High Performance Working, John Rayment andJonathan Smith’s work on Misleadership, the spiritualdimension of leadership and organisations, and responsibility.

4) It will give greater access to information and examples thatcan be fed into discussions and information on our CIPDand leadership courses.

Jonathan, a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, says, “I am delightedto be offered this position and look forward to working moreclosely with the CIPD. As well as the great opportunities itprovides LAIBS, for me personally I think it will raise my profilein the HR field and enable me to develop my skills in strategicthinking and influencing.”

Dr Jonathan Smith, Senior LecturerT: 0845 196 2069E: jonathan.smith@anglia.ac.uk

You’re doing WHAT?John Rayment (LAIBS Chelmsford) is taking advantage of theuniversity’s VSS (Voluntary Severence Scheme) to... walk thecoast of Britain. Yes, that’s England, Scotland and Wales, about6,000 miles, which he hopes to do at around 15 miles a day.Some may think this a strange move, others that it fits John’spersonality and style (see photo).

In addition to fulfilling a life-long dream, John sees it as apersonal challenge, a chance to test his physical, mental and spiritual fitness á la his Global Fitness Framework, and a great way to raise money for the Parkinson’s charity:

John, John, cheer me onWalking the coast now I’m goneBut follow on Twitter @RaymentJohnAnd http://www.charitygiving.co.uk/johnrayment To make a donation

Starting on 1st August at the Tilbury ferry on the River Thamesand heading clockwise, i.e. through Kent, Dover, Beachy Head,Bournemouth, South West Coast Path, Wales Coast Path(probable winter break before this as he wants to properly enjoy

what the Lonely Planetrates as the best longdistance path in theworld) then Liverpool,Lake District, bonnieScotland (according tothe BBC weather map,that looks quite smallso shouldn’t take long),east coast of Englandand back to the Tilburyferry in time for tea!

If you wish to join him for some, or all, of the walk, let him know your available dates and/or preferred locations(john.rayment@anglia.ac.uk) and he’s sure he can worksomething out. John also needs advice on the best IT solutionsto accessing walking maps of the entire coast of Britain andmeeting all other basic IT needs including access to internet,phone, email, e-books, tweets and blogs, playing his vastmusic collection.

Oh, and if you know of cheap accommodation on route, he needs about 400 nights’ worth.

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Made a Difference 2012 Awards

This year, the Students’ Union with the support of AngliaLearning and Teaching, launched the student led ‘Made aDifference’ Awards. Through this, Anglia Ruskin Universitystudents (current and alumni), including our partnerinstitutions, were able to nominate academic and supportservice staff who have made a difference to them. During thenomination period, they received over 1,000 responses ofwhich 780 nominations were eligible for consideration by thestudent panels. In all, 323 different members of staff werenominated.

I am delighted to report that LAIBS staff/students were therecipients of two awards:

• Dr Paul Saw was one of 12 academic and supportcolleagues who were presented with a ‘Made a Difference’Award.

• Rajit Ramasamy (a final year business student inChelmsford) received an award for being an outstandingstudent representative.

Both awards are richly deserved and I am sure you will join me in offering your congratulations to them both!

Additionally, the following LAIBS’ staff were nominated forawards and each will have received a certificate and mug:

Alana Hanwell, Allison Beaumont, Andrew Brady, BeatrizAcevedo, Ben Mumby-Croft, Cassie Jones, Chris Wilbert,Debbie Brown, Dorothy Hawkins, Hannah Myatt, HelenBenton, Henry Lydiate, Jeremy Vanner, Jonathan Smith,Jonathan Wilson, Katalin Illes, Kevin Roe, Maureen Ayikoru,Meena Singh, Mike Murphy, Nicole Tomlin, Paul Baxter, PaulSaw, Peter MacDonald, Robert Jones, Ross Kemble. SaeedSadighi, Sandra Selmanovic, Simon Evans, Stacey Stokes,Stephanie Russell, Timothy Froggett, Tom Farnsworth, U. Raut-Roy, Naorowat Lewis

One of the nominees, Nicole Tomlin, Receptionist, commented:

“I was touched and surprised to get this nominationand asked what had I done to deserve this and thestudent said something like I had always beenhelpful and kind to her whenever she came to thereception.”

I am also pleased to report that three nominations went to staffemployed within our international partners.

Hasan Miras, FTMS, MalaysiaLim Thean Peng, PTPL MalaysiaLeslie Charles, SAMS, Trinidad

My congratulations and thanks to you all – this is clearrecognition by our student body that they wish to identify and reward the very many excellent colleagues who work to improve their experience.

Dr Trevor BoltonPro Vice Chancellor and Dean, LAIBS

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Jobs Fair for Business School StudentsIn April, Lord Ashcroft International Business School studentshad the opportunity to attend a Jobs Fair organised by theirFaculty Employability Adviser, Sarah White.

Many major employers from the region were in attendanceincluding Marel GB, Informa, Cofunds, Insure and Go andIFDS. Sarah commented, “Despite the challenges that thecurrent economy is placing upon employment opportunities,the organisations who attended our Jobs Fair are all currentlyrecruiting and keen to engage graduates to bring new talent,fresh ideas and energy to move their businesses forward”.

The event was well attended and the employers, professionalbodies and recruitment agencies represented were all verypositive about the benefits to their business of being able toengage directly with students. Tony Dalliday, Branch OperationsManager, Adecco (job recruitment and employment agency)said:

“Thank you for inviting us to your Jobs Fair. BothJacky, my colleague, and I agree that it was verybeneficial for us to meet so many excellentstudents. We have arranged interviews with a majorUK employer on Friday for three students due tograduate shortly and another student has started a part-time job with us today”.

Students and staff – find out more about what theEmployability Team can do for you at:www.anglia.ac.uk/employability

Alumni Sophie Rose and Rachael Patman of Cofunds,Chelmsford

Digital Copy Services for studentsIn addition to providing staff with a wide range of print servicesyou may not be aware that this is also available to students too.Digital Copy Services pride themselves on their speed, qualityof service and excellent customer service.

In addition to printing and photocopying they also offer:

• Production of transparencies • Comb binding • Wiro binding • Book binding• Booklet making • Laminating etc.

Drop into one of their print rooms on either the Cambridge orChelmsford Campus between 09.00–16.00 to find out moreabout their full range of services, or for a Student Price List goto: http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/dcs/priceListJune2011.pdf

Cambridge & ChelmsfordCam mbridge & Ch helmsford

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Student Services’ new Employability & Careers Team keeping students busy! January 2012 saw the newly structured Student ServicesEmployability & Careers Team launch into action deliveringemployability skills and contact with employers for ourstudents.

In early March, Sarah White, Faculty Employability Adviser(FEA), assigned to Lord Ashcroft Business School inChelmsford, took a group of third year students to First DataInternational’s HQ in Basildon for an Open Day arranged toshowcase the organisation’s summer placement scheme for2012. The students heard a presentation about First Data from one of their senior directors, who described theorganisation as “probably the largest company you’ve neverheard of!” With revenue last year of £10bn, First Data are apayment processing company providing services to banks such as Barclays and Lloyds. This session was followed byrefreshments and informal networking to meet the managerswho were recruiting summer placement students for theirteams. Then on to speed interviewing!

Since the visit, LAIBS students have completed telephoneinterviews, delivered presentations and returned to First Datafor personal interviews. This was a very competitive processwith students from many other universities applying for thesummer placements, so it is really good news that we have four offers to LAIBS students confirmed already. One successfulstudent, Lucy Ginty, a second year student studying BA (Hons)Business Management, said:

“My placement is with the Project Delivery team andbegins on the 25th June. I am very excited abouthaving this opportunity and whilst I’m nervous, atthe same time I cannot wait to put the theories Ihave learnt at university into a practical situation.”

Many thanks go to Hannah Myatt, Student ExperienceCoordinator, Chelmsford Campus, for the Business School inChelmsford for arranging the coach travel and supporting thestudents on the day.

Also in March, Student Services’ Faculty Employability Advisers,Amanda Crouch and Sarah White, took a group of mechanicalengineering and business students to visit Ford’s Research andDevelopment Centre at Dunton. The students benefited from theknowledge of a guide who has worked with Ford for over 30years, and who shared the process of bringing new products tomarket, demonstrated some of the latest technology used in themanufacture of prototypes and talked through the financialmanagement of the product development which is so crucial toremaining a leader in their field. David Jeeves, a third year BSc(Hons) Accountancy and Finance student said, “I thought thetour was really good. It was really interesting to get behind the scenes to see the extent of the technology and facilitiesavailable. A lot of people probably don’t realise just how muchdesigning, testing, re-designing and technology goes into theproduction of a car. So it was really interesting to see all of that.”

Students and staff – find out more about what the Employability& Careers Team can do for you at:www.anglia.ac.uk/employability

Some of our students with Hannah Myatt (far left), with their First Data goodie bags, waiting for the coach to takethem back to university.

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Student Enterprise – The Original Truffles’ Story

Student enterprise is high on our University’s current agenda,with an aim for 7% of our graduates leaving us to start theirown business by the year 2014. As such, a number ofinitiatives are currently in place to promote entrepreneurshipamongst our students, and we’re beginning to see morestudent startups on campus.

Laszlo Csiba, a second year LAIBS student on the BA BusinessManagement, tells us about his own start-up experience atAnglia Ruskin, The Original Truffles:

“I had my first truffle as a present. I had never even tasted atruffle before and didn’t know anything about them – I was onlytold that my present was unique and expensive as a diamond.I remember my first day; I just got so excited about it. Aftersome market research, I came to a decision: I will make thiswork. I will be the local truffle supplier – I believe we can allhave bright ideas.

“Alea iacta est (the die has been cast) and the journey hadbegun. It was as simple as that, just a decision. For those ofyou who don’t know, truffles are a unique, edible undergroundmushroom. They have a pungent aroma and taste that canpermeate and enhance many foods such as soups, salads,omelettes, dressings and main meals.

“My sister and best friend joined me to form a strong team, andThe Original Truffles was formed and ready to go… we justdidn’t know how to start! All we did know was that every longjourney starts with one small step.

“For us, the first step turned out to be The Big Pitch –a business start up competition for Anglia Ruskin studentscomprising three stages:

• The Video Pitch• The Mini Business Plan• The Grand Final

“The prize is a share of £30k, plus a year’s free mentoringsupport, business banking, legal advice and more!

“It is all about business. The Big Pitch guides you from whereyou are to where you want to be, and covers all the things youhave to consider if you want to start up a business. On yourjourney you will not be alone; support is available throughoutthe competition in the form of mentoring, seminars and bootcamp.

“It is challenging. The competition requires hard work andpersistency, but put simply, it is a real and valuable experience,therefore a good addition to your academic studies.

“There are also other University facilities there to support youon your start up journey, such as The StartupLab located in theCoslett building, Cambridge. It is a wonderful place to be, so

inspiring and somewhere you can develop your idea with likeminded people.

“My time at University would be far less exciting without thisjourney, therefore I strongly encourage anybody to come upwith a bright idea and MAKE IT HAPPEN!

“Finally, watch out for truffles and be ready for a unique taste.”

The Original Truffles have made it through to the final sevenentrants in The Big Pitch, and will be pitching to a liveaudience and panel of entrepreneurs for their chance to win ashare of £30k at the Grand Final event on Thursday 31st Mayin LAB026 in Cambridge. You can find out more about The BigPitch, see all of the student entries and find out who the 2012winners are by visiting www.thebigpitch.co.uk

For more information about Startup@AngliaRuskin, please visitwww.anglia.ac.uk/startup, or contact Ben Mumby-Croft atCEDAR (ben.mumby-croft@anglia.ac.uk)

If you’d like to contact Laszlo or The Original Truffles team,please email info@theoriginaltruffles.co.uk

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The IBM University Business Challenge offers undergraduates aunique opportunity to improve their knowledge of the businessworld, put theory into practice and develop their team-working,leadership and employability skills. The Challenge givesparticipants the chance to work as a board of directors in aseries of realistic, simulated companies, making all the criticalbusiness decisions that affect the company’s performance.

The Challenge is a true learning experience for all those whoenter. It helps students to improve their decision-making skills, develop their team-working abilities and increase theirknowledge in key business areas such as marketing, financeand production.

UBC is divided into three phases: Round One – decisions areinput via the internet, Round Two – live semi-finals and RoundThree – live Grand Final. Participants in teams of up to fivepeople are challenged with the task of improving theperformance of a business. They need to take into account notonly the financial performance of the company, but also itsresponsibilities to its various stakeholders, including itssuppliers, its customers and its employees.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School has a long traditionwithin this competition – starting in 2006 when we camesecond, and then winning in 2007–2008. In September 2011 Allison Beaumont and Hannah Myatt invited LAIBSundergraduate students to submit an application explainingwhy their team should be considered to represent LAIBS andbecome part of this tradition, trading then began in earnestwith the commencement of Round 1.

There were 304 Teams and over 1,500 students from 68universities who registered and competed in the first round.Only 80 teams got to go through to round 2 – so we werethrilled to find that five of our eleven teams secured a place inthe IBM UBC semi-finals (round 2). The semi-finals ran liveover one day at regional locations across the country. Five ofour teams made it to the semi-finals as follows:

27th February 2012, Proctor & Gamble WeybridgeOleg Smolanko, Jost Braeckelmann, Marcel Goerlich, Christoph Grunewald, Valentin Raspe, Assen Halatchev,Jekaterina Begmatova, Boris Botev, Vassil Richter, KristinaSkillandat

IBM Universities Business Challenge 2011–2012

LAIBS team wins again!

Left to right: Allison Beaumont, Robert Jones, Stefan Ewald, Matthias Pust, David Gruenbaum, Pia Dewenter, Anna Mowka

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1st March 2012, RBS, LondonDavid Gruenbaum, Matthias Pust, Stefan Ewald, Anna Mowka,Pia Dewenter

2nd March 2012, RSA London Marcus Fornell, Annika Eving, Rob Hilborn, Sarah Sprigg, Yulia Tomashevskaya

5th March 2012, Land Rover WarwickSamuel Tunbridge, Moghees Darr, Samia Ismail, Becky LeungMan Ki, Khalid Al Buenain

Our team, who competed at the RSA, came second and wereentered into the draw for a place at the final but were not luckyenough to be picked. However, our team representing AngliaRuskin / Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht (Berlin School ofEconomics and Law) won its semi-final on Monday 1st Marchat Royal Bank of Scotland in London. BA International Businessstudents David Grunbaum, Pia Dewenter, Stefan Ewald, AnnaMowka and Matthias Pust played a long strategy and kept coolheads through their first two rounds in which they trailed thefield with huge deficits. However, their plan paid off as theymoved into 3rd place in the third round then stormed throughthe 4th round in 1st place, securing a place in the grand final.

With 80 teams, 400 students, taking part at the semi-finalsonly 10 teams remained.

Our team flew in from Berlin on the day before the grand finalon 23rd March and made their way to IBM UK’s headquartersin Southbank, London. They joined nine other teamsrepresenting Abertay, Liverpool (two teams), Hull, ImperialCollege, UCL, Newcastle, London Met and Portsmouth.

There were four closely contested rounds of a businesssimulation in the finals with Hull University’s team leading inthe first three rounds while our Anglia Ruskin / Hochschule fürWirtschaft und Recht team started in 4th place then advancedto 2nd place for the second and third rounds. Our team wonwith a profit of £15,803,610, just £3,000 ahead of Hull.

An important part of this year’s competition has been theemphasis on a wider view of business success than traditionalprofit maximisation. The student teams had two imperatives: tobe the most profitable but to balance this with responsibilities toa wider range of stakeholders – and the scoring took account ofboth objectives. Our team devised a simple plan to invest longterm, with David, Anna, Stefan and Matthias working on theclassic business strategies while Pia worked on the corporatesocial responsibility perspective, modifying the team’s planswhen necessary. This combination of accurate spreadsheetmodelling combined with the social perspective paid off.

Stephen Leonard, Chief Executive IBM UK and Ireland, madethe keynote presentation of IBM’s vision of redefining businessmodels, IBM’s business strategy and its move towards socialbusiness.

Allison Beaumont LAIBS Student Experience Coordinator Cambridge

Hannah Myatt LAIBS Student Experience Coordinator Chelmsford

Robert Jones LAIBS Lecturer

Lecturer selected as Olympic AmbassadorDr Penny Hood of LAIBS has been selected as one of the teamof 8,000 London Ambassadors who will welcome visitors fromall over the UK and the world to London during the 2012Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

Penny will be working at London Stansted Airport, the closest of London’s main airports to the Olympic village in East Londonwhich will be a transport hotspot during the Games. Some38,000 applicants were interviewed and the selection processhas been conducted during the past year.

Training takes place at Stratford and central London and all volunteers will work for six consecutive days during theOlympics.

Penny said of her selection:

“It is a great opportunity to be involved in theOlympics. I look forward to welcoming visitors fromall over the world and in a small way contributing tothe success of this exciting event.”

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The Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA)

Anglia Ruskin is awarded Gold approval Following ACCA’s approval visit to LAIBS on the 18 April 2012,we are delighted to report that Anglia Ruskin University hasbeen awarded Gold approval under the Approved LearningPartner – student tuition programme in recognition of thequality of tuition provision and support for ACCA students

Approval is valid until 31 Mach 2013.

Tim Spencer, Senior Lecturer at LAIBS said:

“The award of Gold Status is recognition of the hardwork of both staff and students on our ACCA course.Continuing to meet the stringent requirementsrequired for the award will provide significant benefitto our students and our reputation as a top classprovider of accountancy tuition.”

Brewery backs students’ new beer idea

Oakham Ales roll out the barrel

Paula Albinana (BA Business Management) and AlenaLinhartova (BA International Business Strategy) won through to the final of the AB Inbev Best Beer Competition in Belgiumon 3rd April but although they didn’t win, they have secured a worthy prize for their concept and brand for a new beer.

Oakham Ales, based in Peterborough, have been so impressedby the concept and recipe for CB that they brewed 25 barrels.The students have already secured distribution deals for thebeer across Cambridge, including with local CAMRA Pub of theYear ‘The Cambridge Blue’.

Production Director at Oakham Ales, JohnBryan, said, “We’re delighted to brew Alenaand Paula’s entry for the Best Beer Competition.We’ve worked closely with them to translate theiridea into a real beer with a distinctive flavour andcharacter.”

CB is a low ABV ale (2.8%) with hints of peachand passion fruit designed specifically to attractyoung female drinkers to the ale category. However, the subtlefruit flavour is achieved by combining specific hops, rather thanany additional flavouring.

Paula, who is from Ontinyent, near Valencia, in Spain, said,“Traditional ale has a masculine image but light, sweet andfruity flavours can be created that are very appealing to women.We’re using a New Zealand hop called Pacific Jade, which onits own tastes a little like Orangina, but when brewed togetherwith a hop from the United States, called Galaxy, it produces apeach and passion fruit flavour.

“We think there’s definitely a gap in the market for this kind of beer, which is a proper real ale but with a very low alcoholcontent. I think it will appeal not only to women but alsostudents who like to have a drink but don’t want to behungover in their lectures the next morning!”

Tim Froggett, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Anglia Ruskin, said:

“I’m delighted with what Alena and Paula haveachieved because they have taken this from atheoretical competition to an actual product, whichis being brewed and then sold in Cambridge pubs.”Alena Linhartova (left) and Paula Albinana.

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FLUX 2012

Annual inter-university business competition

This year was the fourth consecutive year Lord AshcroftInternational Business School entered a team of six studentsinto the FLUX annual inter-university competition – which isnow in its seventh year. FLUX is run by the Working KnowledgeGroup who partnered with the National Association of Collegeand University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) to organise FLUX 2012.

At the start of March, a team of six students from a mixedcultural background, who had never worked together before,began training for FLUX. Over four weeks, they tackled fourdifferent case studies, whilst balancing academic and workcommitments. They honed their team working, interview andpresentation skills.

On Tuesday 27th March, our team took the train toRavensbourne College, London. Ravensbourne is on theGreenwich peninsula immediately adjacent to the O2Arena/Millennium Dome. The location could not have beenmore perfect, the view from our students ‘office’ window, wasof the Millennium Dome, the Thames and Canary Wharf –a very inspiring view for some of our business students!

When the students were handed their 2012 challenge, it wasno surprise to find out they had been tasked with developingthe waste land also visible from their window. They then spentthe next 36 hours working on their challenge with the help ofbusiness experts and NACUE. Our team were the last to leavethe building when it closed at 23:00 – an amazed NACUErepresentative even tweeted this! Our team then continuedworking in their hotel room until 02:00! Our team were not tobe deterred by their lack of sleep and they were one of the firstteams to arrive back at the college at 08:00 to continueworking on their challenge.

They spent the second day attending ‘interviews’ with industryexperts – the interview sessions are designed for our team todiscuss their ideas and get feedback to develop them furtherbefore the final presentation which took place late afternoon. All six members of our team gave an impeccable five minutepresentation in front of five experts and 40 students andchampions.

Unfortunately our team were beaten in their stream and did notget through to the final presentation round of the day but theyworked incredibly hard and received praise for their attitude,professionalism and hard work.

Our students were given a unique opportunity to work within a team, on a tight deadline, to practice their social networkingskills, interview skills and presentation skills – in front of anunfamiliar audience. It gave them the opportunity to putlearning into practice, make contacts and enhance their CV.

Congratulations to;Alexandre Larose, Alena Linhartova, Jeff Matemba, Pia Thune,Patrick Selby, Jekaterina Panzina

Allison Beaumont, Student Experience Coordinator CambridgeE: allison.beaumont@anglia.ac.ukTel: 0845 196 2084

l–r: Patrick Selby, Alena Linhartova, Alexandre Larose, Pia Thune, Jekaterina Panzina, Jeff Matemba

Bottom left to top right: Jeff Matemba, Patrick Selby, Alena Linhartova, Pia Thune, Jekaterina Panzina, Alexandre Larose, and two experts.

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Collaborative Leadership specialist and academic becomes RSA FellowLAIBS PhD student Rob Worrall has had a broad career thathas given him experience of working across the public andprivate sectors and has held a number of senior positions as a strategic policy adviser at national, regional and local level as well as further afield with China, South Africa and theEuropean Union working in areas as diverse as ContingencyPlanning, to Strategic Relationship Management to facilitatingtransnational Regeneration and Educational DevelopmentProjects.

Rob also has lead on the design, development and delivery of a number of unusual cross sector learning and developmentexperiences from conferences, to seminars, workshops andcollaborative consultancies. More latterly, as a leadership andmanagement development professional as well as being anacademic, he can offer unusual insights and perspectivesparticularly on the benefits and challenges of collaboration andcollaborative leadership focused on achieved improved socialand organisational outcomes. He is also currently completing a Phd in Place-Based Collaborative Leadership Development.

Rob said,

“Becoming an RSA Fellow is a real honour. I amparticularly keen to work collaboratively to facilitateand develop the RSA’s influence within the NorthEast and at the international level”.

The RSA Fellowship is a network of over 27,000 Fellows inover 80 countries and by mobilising the talent and experienceof their Fellows’ ideas are turned into action. The Fellowshipnetwork is a diverse and multidisciplinary group of peopleunited by a desire to positively change the world we live in.Fellows include: scientists, philosophers and environmentalists;leaders in the commercial, voluntary and public sectors;designers and architects; social entrepreneurs; innovativepractitioners of literature, film, dance, and the visual arts;opinion formers and journalists.

Rob WorrallE: rob.worrall@anglia.ac.uk

Spring Graduate FairThe end of March saw the Student Services FacultyEmployability Advisers for Lord Ashcroft International BusinessSchool take students to the Spring Graduate Fair hosted at UCLand organised by WikiJobs and The Careers Group. There wasa strong turnout from students who took the opportunity toengage directly with employers such as Google, IBM,Abercrombie & Fitch, Coras Rail and IBM. The students alsohad the opportunity to attend career talks and network withstudents from other universities.

Vinny Rawley, a final year BA (Hons) Business Managementstudent, told us, “It was extremely useful to visit the GraduateFair at this stage of my university career because in under twomonths, I would have left the university altogether and wouldbe out in the jobs market. The trip was very useful from thepoint of view of providing me with an idea of what type of jobsare currently available and in which locations. The GraduateFair couldn’t have come along at a better time and I am verygrateful that I had the opportunity to go – as well as beingeducational it was also great fun!”

Katie Morris and Sarah White, Faculty Employability Advisersfor Lord Ashcroft International Business School, would like to thank Hannah Myatt and Allison Beaumont, StudentExperience Co-ordinators for LAIBS for their support witharrangements and accompanying us on the trips to support our students.

The Graduate Fair couldn't have come along at abetter time and I am very grateful that I had theopportunity to go – as well as being educational itwas also great fun!”Vinny Rawley, final year BA (Hons) Business Management

Students and staff – find out more about what theEmployability & Careers Team can do for you at:www.anglia.ac.uk/employability

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Our University students help organise fossil fuel lectureOn the 16 March, Charles Perry, Co-founder of SecondNaturewho specialise in transforming organisations to makesustainability second nature, was the principal speaker at ourCambridge Campus hosted by Professor Mike Thorne, ViceChancellor, entitled: Renewables versus fossil fuels: the globalclean energy revolution.

The lecture was organised by a group from the studentSustainability Society, University Chaplaincy, GRLIAmbassadors, the Global Sustainability Institute and DrJonathan Smith, Senior Lecturer in Lord Ashcroft InternationalBusiness School.

Charles has a long track record in sustainability and climatechange, working to transform organizations including Tesco,Barclays, ArjoWiggins, Lafarge, BP, GE, H&M and the UKgovernment in order to “make sustainability second nature”.Charles was selected and trained by Al Gore, former US VicePresident, to present “An Inconvenient Truth”, appointed ajudge for the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards and Adviserto David Cameron’s Quality of Life Policy Review on ClimateChange. His career in sustainability began as PR Manager of BSI, where he launched ISO 14000, moving to Senior

Consultant at URS and then to BP (during John Browne’sleadership) to roll out “beyondpetroleum” and develop BPUltimate “more performance,less pollution” before beingpromoted to Director of BPGreen Energy. In 2006, Charlesleft BP to join New York firmGreenOrder before setting up his own sustainability advisorybusiness. Charles has a BA fromBrown University, Rhode Island,USA and an MBA from CranfieldSchool of Management.

Charles outlined the challenges the world faces and some of the ways renewable energy is being addressed. Dr JulianHuppert, MP for Cambridge, then responded, setting out notjust government policy but the wider scientific framework andthe imperatives it implies. This was followed by a lively debatebetween the audience and speakers.

Guest lecture delivered at new university in CroatiaOn 8 May, JonathanGoodacre, an AssociateLecturer in LAIBS, gave alecture at the University ofPula in Croatia after which he was interviewed onregional television and radio.

Jonathan was invited to give the lecture, the subject of which was: DevelopingCultural Projects for theBenefit of Society and theEconomy, and was delivered

for Metamedia at the University of Pula in Croatia. Amongst theaudience were students of cultural tourism and representativesfrom local non-governmental organisations.

Jonathan said, “I very much enjoyed speaking to a wide rangeof people and hearing about their own experiences. Out of 40participants, only one person had ever been to the UK so there

were some interesting exchanges. The topic is an important onefor this geographic region as there are many questions aroundculture, identity and tourism.”

The Juraj Dobrila University of Pula is an entirely integrateduniversity, founded in 2006 and consisting at present of fivedepartments:

Department of Economics and Tourism “Dr Mijo Mirkovi” Department of Humanities Department of Music Department for Studies in the Italian Language Teacher training department

Jonathan works widely in Europe and will be hosting studentsfrom the European Diploma of Cultural Project Management(Association Marcel Hicter) in Cambridge in September. Thiswill include a lecture by renowned theorist Pier Luigi Saccofrom the University of Milan who will be speaking at AngliaRuskin University on Wednesday 26th September. For moredetails contact: jonathan.goodacre@anglia.ac.uk

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How do you measure your own success?That was one of the challenges delegates were left with byProfessor Laszlo Zsolnai at his open lecture in the BusinessSchool at Cambridge on Monday 14th May.

Professor Zsolnai is the Director of the Business Ethics Center,at Corvinus University of Budapest, and Visiting Fellow at theSmith School of Enterprise and the Environment,University of Oxford.

His lecture explored the topic of spirituality in business. He discussed his latest book on spirituality – The Palgrave

Handbook of Spirituality and Business – and identified some of the current issues, thoughts and challenges with regards tospirituality in business.

The lecture was very well attended with our students, staff andmany external visitors present.

More details about Prof Zsolnai and the book can be found athttp://laszlozsolnai.net/ and more details about the lecture andarea of spirituality in business are available fromJonathan.Smith@anglia.ac.uk

Dr Emanuele Giovannetti gives keynote address at high level international forumOn 6–8 April 2012, Dr Emanuele Giovannetti, Reader inEconomics at the Institute for International ManagementPractice (IIMP), was invited as a keynote speaker to the IEEEsponsored conference held in Lushan, China – the 2012Second International Conference on Electric Information andControl Engineering (ICEICE).

The title of the keynote address was entitled, An Economist’sPerspective on the Internet Organization: strategies andpolicies.

Other keynote speakers were: Professor Michael Pecht,University of Maryland, USA, Professor Xiaolong LI, IndianaState University, USA and Prof Tad Foster, Indiana StateUniversity, USA.

The ICEICE conference is a high-level international forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recentadvances, new techniques and applications in the field ofelectric science such as instrument and measurementtechnology, information processing, control and automationengineering, or other closely related fields. More than 400scientists attended the conference.

Emanuele also presented a paper for the session on IT Policyand Business Management entitled, Clustering, Connectivityand Power laws, Useful Tools for Assessing Market Structure of the European Internet?

The Conference papers are published by IEEE, included in IEEEeXplore, and indexed by EI Compendex. An extended version ofthe paper is now being prepared for submission to ABS rankedjournals.

Dr Emanuele Giovannetti, Reader in Economics, IIMPT: 0845 196 2233E: emanuele.giovannetti@anglia.ac.uk

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PhD student combines his research with busy day job Darren Leech is a well published part-timeresearch student at LAIBS. Balancing hisresearch and academic interests with abusy day job as Chief Operating Officer atMilton Keynes Hospital NHS FoundationTrust, Darren’s PhD research is focussedon exploring the impact of marketisationon the leaders of NHS hospitals inEngland.

Darren has been with LAIBS for the last five years andcompleted his ‘confirmation of candidature’ earlier in 2012. He is currently applying for ‘write-up’ status as his practicalresearch and data collection is now complete. The research

involved interviewing the senior leadership team at a DistrictGeneral Hospital in the East of England, followed by an on-linequestionnaire targeted at 60 NHS leaders from over 20hospitals across the country.

The supervisory team Darren works with is led by Dr RobWillis, Director of Research at LAIBS. They agreed early on thatDarren would deliberately set an annual publication (see listbelow) and presentation rate, as a means to developing hiscritical research skills, promoting his work and getting feedbackfrom those ‘in practice’ in both health service provision andacademia. This tactic seems to have worked very well, with aseries of articles published in a mix of academic journals, alongwith others in practice based periodicals and journals too.

Darren has worked with both professional colleagues at workand also fellow students in other faculties. As a result, as wellas being asked in late 2011 to present to a gathering ofGradSoc, he has also been asked to join an editorial panel andbeen listed on the King’s Fund, a UK health charity that shapesNHS policy and practice, recommended reading list!

Darren now plans to scale back on publication, in order tofocus fully on getting his thesis drafted for submission late2012 or early 2013.

Leech D (2007) Squaring up to marketisation Health Service Journal

Leech D, Willis R & Jones C (2007) Market values Journal of the Institute of HealthcareManagement

Leech D, Willis R Leading the way Health Director

Leech D (2007) Bridging the Gap – Leadership qualities in an inreasingly market-based health service

Pharmacy Management

Leech D (2008) Interpreting the new language of leadership British Journal of HealthCare Management

Leech D (2008) Towards marketisation National Health Executive

Leech D & Cox D (2008) Working in and learning from a troubled system

The British Journal of HealthCareManagement

Leech D & Matthews J (2008) Nurse leaders and competition – are the blind leading the blind to market?

The Journal of Nurse Management

Leech D (2009) Face tough times together Health Management, Journal of the Institute of Healthcare Management

Leech D (2009) Increasing competition – the implications for leadership

Global Emerging Leaders Network, European Health Management Association & The King’s Fund

Leech D (2010) Quality improvement and cost reduction Health Service Journal

Leech D (2010) Making the right fit Health & Care Management, Journal of the Institute of Healthcare Management

Leech D, Willis R & Jones C (2011) Competition in a Shrinking NHS market The British Journal of HealthCareManagement

Leech D (2011) The morality of leadership Public Servant

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Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP)

New appointments for our Research InstituteDr Simon Down is joining LAIBS on 1 August 2012 as a Professor of Managementand will be the Director of the Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP).His previous post was as Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, where he has workedfor eight years, following periods working as an academic at Wollongong University,Australia, and Plymouth University. In recent years, he has been the Co-Director of an innovation and enterprise research centre and Co-Subject Group Head.

He began his working life as an entrepreneur in the independent music sector beforeworking for London Underground. In his late twenties, he went to the London Schoolof Economics, studying an undergraduate degree in history, and after living for a yearteaching English in Berlin, completed an MA in Industrial Relations at Warwick.

He is the author of two books: Narratives of Enterprise: Crafting Entrepreneurial Self-identity in a Small Firm (Edward Elgar, 2006), an ethnographic study of a small firmin the UK, and a textbook, Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Small Business (Sage,2010). He has published articles and book chapters on small firm policy,entrepreneurial self-identity, indigenous entrepreneurship, management history andethnographic methodology in journals such as Human Relations, Entrepreneurshipand Regional Development, Organization and the International Small BusinessJournal. He is currently researching how small firms receive and respond to regulationin a longitudinal project funded by the ESRC. For the last few years he has also beenthe Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, a role he is stepping down from when he starts at LAIBS.

Simon says,

“The University is making an enormous investment to develop researchin the Business School. I am excited at the opportunity to build aninternationally respected institute focused on research into themanagerial practices that underpin enterprise and innovation.”

Note: Professor Roger Jeynes will be Acting Director of IIMP until Simon joins us laterin the year.

Professor Magdy Abdel-Kader, Professor of Management Accounting (AshcroftFoundation Chair) at Anglia Ruskin University and the Editor-in-Chief of theInternational Journal of Management Accounting Research (IJMAR), has joined theInstitute for International Management Practice (IIMP) as Professor of ManagementAccounting. Before joining Anglia Ruskin University, he worked at the universities of Exeter, Essex, Brunel and Bedfordshire. He is also a Visiting Fellow at BrunelUniversity and a member of the American, European and British Academic AccountingAssociations. He is the representative of the information systems section of theAmerican Accounting Association in Europe.

Professor Abdel-Kader received his PhD from the University of the West of England,Bristol, in 1997. His articles and commentaries have been published in journals such as Management Accounting Research, British Accounting Review, EuropeanAccounting Review, Financial Management, and Accounting Education. He is theprincipal author of a book on Investment Decision-Making in Advanced ManufacturingTechnology, book on new product development teams, and co-author of books onenterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation and management accounting

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change, Review of Management Accounting Research, non-financial performancemeasurement, and behavioural aspects of auditors’ evidence evaluation.

Magdy commented, “Part of my current role at the Institute for InternationalManagement Practice (IIMP) is to promote and develop my own research profile, tolead the research team in the accounting and finance area and to assist the Institute to achieve international recognition in terms of research excellence and long-termfinancial viability.”

Magdy has extensive experience in research students’ supervision. He is currentlysupervising doctoral candidates within the areas of management accounting;performance measurement and management, risk management, capital investmentdecisions, corporate governance, and sustainability.

Magdy’s current research interest lies within Management Accounting. In particular he is interested in Enterprise Resource Planning, Performance Evaluation andManagement, Capital Investment Decisions, Fuzzy set theory applications intomanagement accounting and Gender and Budgetary Participation.

Dr Emanuele Giovannetti has been made Reader in Economics in IIMP and iscurrently following different research lines, all linked to the economic analysis ofentrepreneurship. The first area of research is on the economic opportunities foroperators in the Internet Sector. Emanuele is currently presenting his work onhierarchical organization of the Internet, in different world conferences, also as akeynote speaker, and is pursuing different publishing opportunities. This theme isessential to understanding the evolution of the market for small and large Internetoperators; as operators’ revenues and their cost conditions also change dramaticallyfollowing a reorganization of the market structure, thus driving the interrelateddynamics of entry exit and growth. Emanuele has just been awarded an IIMP fullyfunded PhD Studentship to supervise a student on a project on entry and exit ofInternet operators in developing countries, in conjunction with Professor Vivarelli.

The second area of research focuses on the economic analysis of public policies, inparticular competition policies aiming at preventing the imposition of vertical pricerestraints by producers and distributors onto retailers. Emanuele influenced theregulatory debate at European level when the new regulations on vertical restraintswere approved, by writing and publishing as an economic advisor to the Office of Fair Trading on their submission to the OECD and the EU. Emanuele is currentlyworking on the empirical evidence collected on the specific vertical restraints cases in relation to the relevant upstream and downstream market conditions.

The third area of current interest is linked to the role that space and economicintegration have on both competition and adoption of technological innovation for the growth process of firms, operating in oligopolistic environment. The implications of this research are of relevance for both regional and infrastructural policies.

While contributing with his economic and competition policy background, developedin many years of active research and advisory experience, Emanuele is looking forwardto the synergies with the new colleagues at the IIMP and to learn and benefit fromother areas of expertise in the Institute, in particular with the strategic managementanalysis that will complement particularly well with Emanuele’s original backgroundin the application of game theory to the analysis of economic strategic interaction.

For more information on the IIMP, visit: www.anglia.ac.uk/laibs/iimp

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LAIBS helping the police with their enquiriesSaifan bin Saifan and Dr Jonathan Smith from LAIBS visitedthe National Police Training Centre for the UK at Bramshill on23rd April. They met with members of the Leadership Facultyand International Faculty there.

Saifan is a Manager for Courses at the Police Science Academy,Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He is doing his PhD with us,researching Strategic Leadership in the UK and UAE Police.

At the meeting Saifan and Jonathan explored the possibility ofLAIBS conducting research with senior leaders in the UK policeservice and observing courses delivered at Bramshill. They alsoexplored the possibility of LAIBS providing leadershipprogrammes and qualifications for the UK police.

A number of other visits to LAIBS from UK police services areplanned over the coming months. Jonathan will be hostingvisits from Essex, Kent and Hertfordshire Police.

There are a large number of people now within LAIBS andAnglia Ruskin University who are involved in some aspect of police research or teaching. Much of the research that iscurrently being done with the police in America and the UK hasmuch wider applicability. As well as offering huge benefits topolicing internationally it can benefit other emergency services,health professionals, leaders, and University staff and students.

Jonathan said,

“There are many changes to the police landscape in the UK taking place at the moment and I believeLAIBS can make a significant and excitingcontribution on the way forward.”

Jonathan has established a VLE site at Anglia Ruskin Universityspecifically for policing in order to provide a forum to share anddiscuss this work. The VLE also provides the opportunity toshare resources and work together. A vital element to grantapplications and bidding for work and research with the police.Anyone wanting to discuss this VLE, or wishing to join it cancontact Jonathan at Jonathan.Smith@anglia.ac.uk

Bramshill House at the National Police Training Centre,Bramshill

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£1 million joint ESRC bid submittedLAIBS have submitted a £1 million ESRC grant application tofund research into responsibility in business, professions andHE. It’s a joint research project in collaboration with theBusiness School at Leeds Met University.

Five professional bodies in the UK are involved in the bid andthe research – Institute of Directors (IoD); Institute of CharteredAccountants, England and Wales (ICAEW); the CharteredInstitute of Personnel and Development (CIPD); CharteredManagement Institute (CMI); and the Chartered Institute ofPublic Relations (CIPR). We have had a number of meetingswith them and they are all keen to be involved in the researchand have signed letters of support for the bid.

Four businesses will also be involved – Adnams (Southwold),Logistik, N.G. Baileys, and Engage Mutual which we havechosen to represent a range of business, from small to mediumto larger. Again they are all keen to be involved and have allwritten letters of support for the bid.

We have also engaged in discussions,and will include the following inconsultation during the researchprocess – Professional Association Research Network (PARN);Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI); UN GlobalCompact; the European Foundation for ManagementDevelopment (EFMD); All Party Parliamentary Group onCorporate Social Responsibility; and Royal Society for theEncouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

We now plan to use the work done in developing thissubstantial bid to submit other related bids to Leverhulme,Rowntree, Carnegie and AHRC.

Thank you to Lynsey McCulloch and Hoi Lei Chan for all yourassistance with this bid – you have both been fantastic!

Dr Jonathan Smith, Chartered FCIPD, Senior Lecturer,T: 0845 196 2069E: jonathan.smith@anglia.ac.uk

Students from Amity Global Business School in Indiato visit LAIBS In October 2012, LAIBS will be welcoming fourteen studentsfrom the Noida campus of Amity Global Business School inIndia.

The students, who are studying our BA (Hons) BusinessManagement programme in Noida, will visit for a period of twoweeks and will attend the lectures and classes for the modulesthey are taking as part of their usual programme.

The students started their BA (Hons) Business Management inSeptember 2011 and represent the first cohort of students atAmity in Noida, one of our newest international partnerships.In recent years, Amity has established campuses in a numberof locations, including India, Singapore, and London, which allare approved collaborative partners of Anglia Ruskin University.

This is a new experience for LAIBS, although we often havestudents from our international partnerships attend one of ourcampuses for an entire semester. It is an exciting opportunityfor both staff at LAIBS and the students.

Emily Barnard, Senior Administrator for International Partnerships T: 0845 196 6807Email: emily.barnard@anglia.ac.uk

Amity in Noida, India

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Budapest Business School administrator visits LAIBSLAIBS was visited by the course administrator, Melinda Polcz,from Budapest Business School on the 18th and 19th April.Melinda was given the opportunity to visit LAIBS as part of the Erasmus scheme.

LAIBS has been in partnership with Budapest Business School,which was created in 2000 as a result of three differentcolleges merging together, since 2003. These three collegesincluded the College of Commerce, Catering and Tourism, the College of International Management and Business and the College of Finance and Accountancy. Budapest BusinessSchool is now one of the largest higher educational institutes in Hungary with about 20,000 students and currently offerstwo Anglia Ruskin programmes, the BA (Hons) BusinessManagement and the MA International Business.

During her visit, Melinda spent one day at our CambridgeCampus and the other at Chelmsford and was introduced to many members of staff who contribute to ensuring thepartnership works. This included staff from Assessments and Conferments, Registration and Audit, the iCentre andacademic and Faculty Office staff from LAIBS.

Despite the torrential April showers during her visit, Melindaenjoyed her stay and found it very useful to tour both campuses.It was a great opportunity for LAIBS’ International Partnershipteam in Chelmsford to meet an overseas counterpart in personwhen so much communication is normally done by email.

Emily BarnardSenior Administrator for International PartnershipsT: 0845 196 6807E: emily.barnard@anglia.ac.uk

Dr Trevor Bolton, Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of LAIBSwith administrative colleagues on the Chelmsford Campusand Melinda Polzc, Budapest Business School (brown top)

HR Forum: Leadership in times of changeThursday, 21 June, 8:30 – 11:00Corporate Suite (4th Floor), Lord Ashcroft Building, Chelmsford, CM1 1SQ

Prettys and Reed Specialist Recruitment in partnership with Lord Ashcroft International Business School invite you to this breakfastHR Forum. Attendance is free and a light breakfast will be provided.

To reserve your complimentary place please email rsvp@prettys.co.uk by 15 June.

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Practical advice for job seeking students fromsuccessful alumna I attended Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS)from 2005-07 studying for the MA in Human ResourceManagement and whilst at the University I had the opportunityto have the support and guidance of some fantastic tutors aswell as the company of great class mates which made thewhole experience very enjoyable. What I found particularlyappealing was the positive approach taken by LAIBS toeffectively plan and deliver the course so that success wasachievable.

As I reached the end of my studies, it occurred to me that itmay not be particularly easy to gain employment within HRwithout any real job experience. I therefore set myself the taskof applying for as many HR roles as possible whilst completingmy dissertation. What I discovered, which I believe manygraduates in my position find, is that, it’s actually not that easy.

Now as an HR professional, I see clearer why this is the casefor graduates. Firstly, graduates and educational institutionsneed to stop pretending that a degree guarantees a job becauseit doesn’t. What employers like me want to see is raw talent,drive, ambition and practical work experience.

We are operating in an increasingly competitive, fast pacedenvironment where employers don’t always have the time to train people from scratch so need to be confident that thegraduates they are recruiting have the abilities to make them a worthwhile investment. Confidence of an employer doesn’tcome from determining that an individual has a degree, MA,PhD etc.; it comes from how the graduate projects themselvesat interview or assessment days. An employer wants to see thatpreparation has taken place and that the graduate has thecompetencies and confidence to be successful within the role.

My advice would therefore be to any graduates looking for employment, look early, look broadly as within bigorganisations opportunities are continuous, and always be thoroughly prepared for interview.

Leigh Brown, Head of Human ResourcesUK Shared Services, Informa UK Ltd

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Christine DurrantMarketing, Communications & External Liaison

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Alumnus returns to India to help take theirsportspeople into the world arenaWe are happy to report that since returning to India, MrinalChakraborty, MA Human Resource Management student(Cambridge) 2009-2011, has been doing an incredible job for the development of sport in India.

After returning to his country, Mrinal was keen to focus on the improvement of Indian sport. Mrinal emphasises theimportance of the emotional and mental aspects of thesportsperson. All sports people play the game consciously by using their subconscious mind. He also believes thatsuccessful achievement comes from the blending of physical,mental and emotional fitness. Mrinal feels that though a lot ofattention is paid towards physical fitness for athletes in India,very little is done towards the development of their mental andemotional health. Mrinal emphasises that the improvement of the emotional health of athletes and proper motivation has significant positive impact on the performance of asportsperson due to the increased level of commitment towardsthe game. His approaches have been proven successfulespecially in conjunction with his warm, positive and proactiveapproach exhibiting a blend of the “Outside in” and “Inside out”learning style to help athletes get “unstuck” (overcome mentalbarriers). The hurdles that sports people face can be overcomethrough confidence building, the reduction of performanceanxiety, emotional energy management and motivating peoplefor team work.

Recently, he has joined Mohun Bagan Club (The National Clubof India) as a Sports Motivational Advisor. He has 25 years ofsports experience training at the Sports Authority of India, SAI,Kolkata and played hockey for Indian Railways, the IndianPolice and Kolkata Port Trust. He has 12 years experience in the area of motivational training.

In 2011, Mrinal won the 10th Trimo International ResearchAward for his paper about his MA dissertation conducted atAnglia Ruskin University on Performance Management. Hewas the first Indian national as well as the first Anglia RuskinUniversity student to win this award. We are really proud to say that as a result of his work and studies at Lord AshcroftInternational Business School, he has also achieved CharteredMembership status of the CIPD.

He says that his university education has given him moreconfidence to present himself as a “Qualified Sports MotivationalAdvisor”. Recently, he delivered his speech in front of the Indiancoach and doctor (Sports Medicine) of the Sports Authority ofIndia (SAI) Eastern Zone, India. They called him “Magic Mrinal”.His creative visualisation process mesmerised everybody. SportsAuthority of India Academic Department and Sports MedicineDepartment say that, “Mrinal’s training skills may influence thedevelopment of Indian sport”.

Recently, Mrinal went to Bangladesh by invitation from ATNJobs to deliver a speech in front of different universities inBangladesh and is also going to give a talk on 93.5 Red FM toshare his magical tips. Very soon he will share his skills with adifferent Indian sports team to help them achieve their dreams.His only vision and mission in life is to take Indian sport to theworld arena.

Mrinal says “Limitation lives only in our mind, but if we use our imagination, our possibilities become limitless.”

Mrinal ChakrabortyT: +91983 0333323E: mreenalchak@gmail.com