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Professor John Storey has co-authored a report for The King’s Fund that warns of how the coalition Government’s reforms risk reducing accountability in the health system and potentially undermining the performance of key NHS organisations as a result.
The report looks at accountability for commissioners and providers of health care in the NHS currently and under the reforms set out in the Health and Social Care Bill. It concludes that the reforms are likely to meet the government’s aim of reducing centralised control but fail to deliver on its commitment to improve local accountability, a key pledge in the coalition agreement.
The report finds a number of weaknesses in the accountability arrangements set out in...
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Assocation of MBAsGlaxoSmithKline IT Manager and OU Business School Alumni Al Shah talks about why he chose the OU MBA and the benefit of 'practice-based learning' as the way to study in a way that relates directly to your daily work.
This video, shot by ITN Production for the Open University Business School and the Association of MBAs features interviews with Faculty Dean Professor James Fleck, Associate Dean Mike Lucas and Professor Mark Feenton-O'Cleevy.
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European governments need to devise policies that enable financial markets to reward rather than penalise innovation and thereby encourage longer-term investment planning, research coordinated by the Open University warns.
Evidence suggests that companies who engage in riskier and more innovative ventures are being penalised by banks through high interest rates and by governments through tax measures when compared with their less innovative counterparts.
The research highlights how the tendency to penalise innovation is leading to businesses focusing on short-term profits rather than long-term growth, which creates a situation in which the processes that connect the price and fundamental value of an asset fail to...
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Business Nightmares with Evan Davis, made in partnership with The Open University, tells the stories of the world’s most momentous business disasters. The series charts how these disasters came about, the damage caused and the all-important lessons to be learned.
The three-part series examines the nightmares that can engulf a business in three crucial areas. In the first episode, Evan lifts the lid on some of the fundamental errors in product design and manufacture; followed by the mistakes that can be made in marketing and public relations in the second episode with the final episode looking at mistakes in strategic decision-making.
Clever risk-taking is often at the heart of great business triumphs but these...
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Visiting Professor Peet Venter, from the University of South Africa (UNISA), will be presenting a seminar at the Business School entitled: Being human: Implementing market segmentation in a South African ICT services organization.
The seminar takes place between 1pm and 2pm, with lunch at 12.30pm, on Thursday, 5 May, in the Presentation Area of the Michael Young Building.
Abstract:
The micro-practices of market segmentation in the business sales division of a South African ICT services provider are examined.
Our aim was to address the paucity of situated, practice-based research perspectives in market segmentation by adopting a qualitative case study approach. We examined and found clear linkages...
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Do you make financial decisions with your head or with your heart? This is what BBC Lab UK is trying to discover with an online mass experiment called the Big Money Test.
Launched in conjunction with the BBC's Watchdog series, the Test aims to be the biggest-ever UK study of how we deal with money.
It hopes to provide more evidence for the experts' view that our financial behaviour is governed as much by emotions and habits as by knowledge – and ultimately to lead to more effective ways of educating people in money management.
The Test is designed by the Open University Business School's Professor of Organisational Behaviour Mark Fenton-O'Creevy and Professor Adrian Furnham of University College London...
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An international project that targets problems in learning mathematics in order to boost completion rates in US colleges has won a $750,000 award to help pilot its work.
The OU’s Open Learning: Bridge to Success (B2S) project, which offers free and open content to break down barriers to learn, has been awarded the grant through the first wave of the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) programme.
OU staff involved with the project are: Patrick McAndrew, Martin Weller and Gary Elliott-Cirigottis in IET; Andrew Law’s team in OBU, Liz Marr’s team in Centre for Inclusion and Curriculum, and Anne De Roeck's team in MCT supported by Matthew Gorman and Edith Prak from the Development Office.
NGLC is led by...
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The Open University law students beat 32 other universities from across the UK to win the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR) National Mooting Tour Tournament that took place at Gray’s Inn in London on Wednesday 30th March.
A moot is designed to resemble a case heard before a judge in court and originally they were a teaching tool for apprentice barristers in the Inns of Court. The moot judges are looking for persuasive legal argument that is well presented and clearly structured.
The final moot between The Open University and Exeter University was judged by eminent...
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The next Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN) conference, hosted by The Open University Business School, will take place from 10.30 to 16.00 at the Michael Young Building in Milton Keynes on Thursday 19 May 2011.
The broad theme is 'new forms of voluntary action' and the programme will include papers by: Rob Paton, Meta Zimmick and Colin Rochester; Martha Cadell and Rosemarie Mcilwhan; Nick Ockenden, Joanne Stuart and Matthew Hill; Haider Ali, Marylyn Carrigan and Sally Dibb.
If you wish to attend, please complete the booking form on the VSSN website www.vssn.org.uk/events/booking/index.htm before...
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The Open University's Vice-Chancellor Martin Bean has joined the Commonwealth of Leaning (COL) Board of Governors as Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma’s appointment.
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training.
COL and its international network of partner organisations have helped the Commonwealth's 54 member nations and their citizens realise widespread access to quality, current education and training for more than 15 years.
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