The Biz by Christine Durrant

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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 staff and students. We believe we have a very exciting Business School with a selection of carefully designed courses which are structured to encourage students to develop in various ways that will make them attractive to potential employers. I hope you as proud as I am of our striking award winning buildings and state of the art facilities in both Cambridge and Chelmsford and enjoy being a part of our flourishing community.

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I am delighted to report that we are increasing our faculty strength and have made a number of appointments recently. Most notable is Professor Simon Down, who will be joining us in August as Director of our research institute, the Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP). One of the things we are very keen to do is benchmark our students against those from other universities. We are delighted to say that when we get the chance to test our students via, for example, business games and other competitions, they generally do extraordinarily well. In this edition we feature recent examples of this that I am delighted to share with you and which demonstrate that our students compare with the best. Please enjoy reading about their success. Congratulations to both the students involved and colleagues who helped to organise the competitions.

South African entrepreneurs visit Anglia Ruskin

Entrepreneurs can bid for £35k of funding

Multinational student enterprise

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

You’re doing WHAT?

Made a Difference 2012 Awards

STUDENT NEWS 5

Jobs Fair for Business School students

Digital Copy Services for students

Student Services’ new Employability & Careers Team keeping students busy!

Student Enterprise – The Original Truffles’ Story

SUCCESS STORIES 8

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

IBM Universities Business Challenge – LAIBS team wins again!

Lecturer selected as Olympic Ambassador

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

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

10 Brewery backs students’ new beer idea

With all best wishes,

11 FLUX 2012 – Annual inter-university business competition

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

12 Collaborative Leadership specialist and academic becomes RSA Fellow EVENTS

Editorial Welcome to The Biz, Lord Ashcroft International Business School’s staff and student magazine aimed at keeping you abreast of developments and opportunities in our Faculty. We hope you enjoy reading it. The magazine is produced four times a year and distributed via issuu.com. Alternatively you can access copies of this and previous issues 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 us your news or ideas to us please contact christine.durrant@anglia.ac.uk. We look forward to hearing from you.

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 at high 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

Topics of interest could include those related to:

PARTNERSHIP NEWS

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19 Students from Amity Global Business School in India to visit LAIBS

Good news stories Personal and academic achievements Events Research International visits Diary dates, etc.

20 Budapest Business School administrator visits LAIBS ALUMNI NEWS

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

21 Practical advice for job seeking students from successful alumna

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

22 Alumnus returns to India to help take their sportspeople into the world arena

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) and Enternships.com, will be hosting a group of 15 young entrepreneurs at Anglia Ruskin University in May, as part of the UK Trade and Investment funded project to promote enterprise in South African townships.

The promotion of enterprise and entrepreneurialism in South Africa for the black population is very high on the political agenda, 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 of CEDAR said, “This level of funding is needed, as there are no appropriate entrepreneurial role models for people living in the townships of South Africa and the barriers potential entrepreneurs must break through are considerable.”

CEDAR has previously worked with MEDO and UK Trade and Investment during the winter of 2011 when (as reported in the previous edition of the Biz) they arranged a five-week tour of the South African townships to teach enterprise to young, black entrepreneur-minded people. Two LAIBS students, currently on the BA Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Management course at Anglia Ruskin University, were invited to join the tour and input to the teaching. During the tour, individuals signed up for an enterprise development programme and were taken on by the MEDO team for further mentoring. Fifteen of the young entrepreneurs signed up by the entrepreneurship road show will be 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 further their enterprise education, and to promote future trade between these budding young entrepreneurs and UK enterprises.

This project is a fantastic opportunity for everyone involved to make a real difference to people’s lives and should lead to more collaborative work between the partners. Having strong links with South Africa and the UK Trade & Industry also helps to increase Anglia Ruskin University’s reputation as an international player. For more information, please contact Professor Lester Lloyd-Reason, Director of CEDAR T: 0845 196 2479 E: 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

Entrepreneurs can bid for £35k of funding Anglia Ruskin’s Enterprise Fellowship Scheme to help Cambridgeshire start-ups Cambridgeshire entrepreneurs have the opportunity to secure up to £35,000 in start-up funding courtesy of Anglia Ruskin University.

“Last year’s scheme was a great success and we saw four excellent business ideas receive funding and 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 budding entrepreneurs.”

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

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

The initiative is sponsored by a private benefactor and supported by the Lord Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin. Last year’s scheme saw start-up funding shared by a company producing photography software, a business selling advertising space on telecommunication boxes, an online service bringing together investors and installers of green energy projects, and a company specialising in nutritional supplements.

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

In addition to a share of the £35,000 of funding, successful applicants will also receive mentoring support, specialist training and development, legal support and advice, and access to the StartupLab, the new business incubation centre at Anglia Ruskin. Lester Lloyd-Reason, Professor of International Enterprise Strategy at Anglia Ruskin, said, “Cambridgeshire is a hotbed of entrepreneurship – and not just in the traditional technology sector. Here at Anglia Ruskin we are passionate about driving enterprise and entrepreneurship because we recognise that it’s the lifeblood of our economy, and we hope this scheme will help more local entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality.

To submit an application, or for further details, please contact: Dale Coss T: 0845 196 2344 E: dale.coss@anglia.ac.uk The scheme is open to anyone living or working in Cambridgeshire, except staff and undergraduate students at Anglia Ruskin.

Multinational Student Enterprise Students on the MA/MSc International Business made their group presentations in April-May for Robert Jones’s ‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ module. The theme is often new business start-up.

Travel Agency’ team but was delighted to learn that the five students represented eight nationalities! Kim Anh Le – Norwegian & Vietnamese; Anastasija Baglajeva – Lithuanian & Russian; Ludmila Yavorska – German & Ukranian; Matej Rajkovic – Slovakian; Selin Coskun – Turkish

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

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

Having our say at the national level Dr Jonathan Smith has recently been invited to join the National Membership and Professional Development Committee at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

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 being conducted in LAIBS into the CIPD policies. Examples of this would be Dr Diane Keeble-Ramsey’s and Dr Andy Armitage’s work on High Performance Working, John Rayment and Jonathan Smith’s work on Misleadership, the spiritual dimension of leadership and organisations, and responsibility.

The purpose of the committee is: • to offer informed advice and guidance on the definition, development and maintenance of the standards and their application to membership, education, qualifications and continuing professional development.

4) It will give greater access to information and examples that can be fed into discussions and information on our CIPD and leadership courses. Jonathan, a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, says, “I am delighted to be offered this position and look forward to working more closely with the CIPD. As well as the great opportunities it provides LAIBS, for me personally I think it will raise my profile in the HR field and enable me to develop my skills in strategic thinking and influencing.”

• to provide oversight on behalf of the Board of the CIPD on professional capability standards and related activities in accordance with the overall strategy of the Institute. Membership of this committee will have great benefits for LAIBS, particularly: 1) Increase LAIBS’ engagement with the CIPD, enabling LAIBS to be more informed of current developments in HR.

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

You’re doing WHAT? John Rayment (LAIBS Chelmsford) is taking advantage of the university’s VSS (Voluntary Severence Scheme) to... walk the coast of Britain. Yes, that’s England, Scotland and Wales, about 6,000 miles, which he hopes to do at around 15 miles a day. Some may think this a strange move, others that it fits John’s personality and style (see photo).

what the Lonely Planet rates as the best long distance path in the world) then Liverpool, Lake District, bonnie Scotland (according to the BBC weather map, that looks quite small so shouldn’t take long), east coast of England and back to the Tilbury ferry in time for tea!

In addition to fulfilling a life-long dream, John sees it as a personal 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 on Walking the coast now I’m gone But follow on Twitter @RaymentJohn And http://www.charitygiving.co.uk/johnrayment To make a donation

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 work something out. John also needs advice on the best IT solutions to accessing walking maps of the entire coast of Britain and meeting all other basic IT needs including access to internet, phone, email, e-books, tweets and blogs, playing his vast music collection.

Starting on 1st August at the Tilbury ferry on the River Thames and 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

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

Made a Difference 2012 Awards 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 for awards and each will have received a certificate and mug: Alana Hanwell, Allison Beaumont, Andrew Brady, Beatriz Acevedo, Ben Mumby-Croft, Cassie Jones, Chris Wilbert, Debbie Brown, Dorothy Hawkins, Hannah Myatt, Helen Benton, Henry Lydiate, Jeremy Vanner, Jonathan Smith, Jonathan Wilson, Katalin Illes, Kevin Roe, Maureen Ayikoru, Meena Singh, Mike Murphy, Nicole Tomlin, Paul Baxter, Paul Saw, Peter MacDonald, Robert Jones, Ross Kemble. Saeed Sadighi, 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 nomination and asked what had I done to deserve this and the student said something like I had always been helpful and kind to her whenever she came to the reception.” This year, the Students’ Union with the support of Anglia Learning and Teaching, launched the student led ‘Made a Difference’ Awards. Through this, Anglia Ruskin University students (current and alumni), including our partner institutions, were able to nominate academic and support service staff who have made a difference to them. During the nomination period, they received over 1,000 responses of which 780 nominations were eligible for consideration by the student panels. In all, 323 different members of staff were nominated.

I am also pleased to report that three nominations went to staff employed within our international partners. Hasan Miras, FTMS, Malaysia Lim Thean Peng, PTPL Malaysia Leslie Charles, SAMS, Trinidad My congratulations and thanks to you all – this is clear recognition by our student body that they wish to identify and reward the very many excellent colleagues who work to improve their experience.

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

Dr Trevor Bolton Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean, LAIBS

• Dr Paul Saw was one of 12 academic and support colleagues who were presented with a ‘Made a Difference’ Award. • Rajit Ramasamy (a final year business student in Chelmsford) received an award for being an outstanding student representative.

Jobs Fair for Business School Students In April, Lord Ashcroft International Business School students had the opportunity to attend a Jobs Fair organised by their Faculty Employability Adviser, Sarah White. Many major employers from the region were in attendance including Marel GB, Informa, Cofunds, Insure and Go and IFDS. Sarah commented, “Despite the challenges that the current economy is placing upon employment opportunities, the organisations who attended our Jobs Fair are all currently recruiting 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, professional bodies and recruitment agencies represented were all very positive about the benefits to their business of being able to engage directly with students. Tony Dalliday, Branch Operations Manager, Adecco (job recruitment and employment agency) said:

“Thank you for inviting us to your Jobs Fair. Both Jacky, my colleague, and I agree that it was very beneficial for us to meet so many excellent students. We have arranged interviews with a major UK employer on Friday for three students due to graduate shortly and another student has started a part-time job with us today”. Students and staff – find out more about what the Employability Team can do for you at: www.anglia.ac.uk/employability

Alumni Sophie Rose and Rachael Patman of Cofunds, Chelmsford

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

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

In addition to printing and photocopying they also offer: • Production of transparencies • Comb binding • Wiro binding • Book binding • Booklet making • Laminating etc.

Student Services’ new Employability & Careers Team keeping students busy! January 2012 saw the newly structured Student Services Employability & Careers Team launch into action delivering employability skills and contact with employers for our students. In early March, Sarah White, Faculty Employability Adviser (FEA), assigned to Lord Ashcroft Business School in Chelmsford, took a group of third year students to First Data International’s HQ in Basildon for an Open Day arranged to showcase the organisation’s summer placement scheme for 2012. The students heard a presentation about First Data from one of their senior directors, who described the organisation as “probably the largest company you’ve never heard of!” With revenue last year of £10bn, First Data are a payment processing company providing services to banks such as Barclays and Lloyds. This session was followed by refreshments and informal networking to meet the managers who were recruiting summer placement students for their teams. Then on to speed interviewing!

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

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

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

“My placement is with the Project Delivery team and begins on the 25th June. I am very excited about having this opportunity and whilst I’m nervous, at the same time I cannot wait to put the theories I have learnt at university into a practical situation.” Many thanks go to Hannah Myatt, Student Experience Coordinator, Chelmsford Campus, for the Business School in Chelmsford for arranging the coach travel and supporting the students on the day.

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

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 their own business by the year 2014. As such, a number of initiatives are currently in place to promote entrepreneurship amongst our students, and we’re beginning to see more student startups on campus.

inspiring and somewhere you can develop your idea with like minded people. “My time at University would be far less exciting without this journey, therefore I strongly encourage anybody to come up with a bright idea and MAKE IT HAPPEN!

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

“Finally, watch out for truffles and be ready for a unique taste.” The Original Truffles have made it through to the final seven entrants in The Big Pitch, and will be pitching to a live audience and panel of entrepreneurs for their chance to win a share of £30k at the Grand Final event on Thursday 31st May in LAB026 in Cambridge. You can find out more about The Big Pitch, see all of the student entries and find out who the 2012 winners are by visiting www.thebigpitch.co.uk

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

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

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

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

“My sister and best friend joined me to form a strong team, and The Original Truffles was formed and ready to go… we just didn’t know how to start! All we did know was that every long journey 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 students comprising three stages: • The Video Pitch • The Mini Business Plan • The Grand Final “The prize is a share of £30k, plus a year’s free mentoring support, business banking, legal advice and more! “It is all about business. The Big Pitch guides you from where you are to where you want to be, and covers all the things you have to consider if you want to start up a business. On your journey you will not be alone; support is available throughout the competition in the form of mentoring, seminars and boot camp. “It is challenging. The competition requires hard work and persistency, 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 you on your start up journey, such as The StartupLab located in the Coslett building, Cambridge. It is a wonderful place to be, so

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

IBM Universities Business Challenge 2011–2012 LAIBS team wins again! The IBM University Business Challenge offers undergraduates a unique opportunity to improve their knowledge of the business world, put theory into practice and develop their team-working, leadership and employability skills. The Challenge gives participants the chance to work as a board of directors in a series of realistic, simulated companies, making all the critical business decisions that affect the company’s performance.

Lord Ashcroft International Business School has a long tradition within this competition – starting in 2006 when we came second, and then winning in 2007–2008. In September 2011 Allison Beaumont and Hannah Myatt invited LAIBS undergraduate students to submit an application explaining why their team should be considered to represent LAIBS and become part of this tradition, trading then began in earnest with the commencement of Round 1.

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

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

UBC is divided into three phases: Round One – decisions are input via the internet, Round Two – live semi-finals and Round Three – live Grand Final. Participants in teams of up to five people are challenged with the task of improving the performance of a business. They need to take into account not only the financial performance of the company, but also its responsibilities to its various stakeholders, including its suppliers, its customers and its employees.

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

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

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

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

An important part of this year’s competition has been the emphasis on a wider view of business success than traditional profit maximisation. The student teams had two imperatives: to be the most profitable but to balance this with responsibilities to a wider range of stakeholders – and the scoring took account of both objectives. Our team devised a simple plan to invest long term, with David, Anna, Stefan and Matthias working on the classic business strategies while Pia worked on the corporate social responsibility perspective, modifying the team’s plans when necessary. This combination of accurate spreadsheet modelling combined with the social perspective paid off.

5th March 2012, Land Rover Warwick Samuel Tunbridge, Moghees Darr, Samia Ismail, Becky Leung Man Ki, Khalid Al Buenain Our team, who competed at the RSA, came second and were entered into the draw for a place at the final but were not lucky enough to be picked. However, our team representing Anglia Ruskin / Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht (Berlin School of Economics and Law) won its semi-final on Monday 1st March at Royal Bank of Scotland in London. BA International Business students David Grunbaum, Pia Dewenter, Stefan Ewald, Anna Mowka and Matthias Pust played a long strategy and kept cool heads through their first two rounds in which they trailed the field with huge deficits. However, their plan paid off as they moved into 3rd place in the third round then stormed through the 4th round in 1st place, securing a place in the grand final.

Stephen Leonard, Chief Executive IBM UK and Ireland, made the keynote presentation of IBM’s vision of redefining business models, IBM’s business strategy and its move towards social business. Allison Beaumont LAIBS Student Experience Coordinator Cambridge

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

Hannah Myatt LAIBS Student Experience Coordinator Chelmsford

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

Robert Jones LAIBS Lecturer

Lecturer selected as Olympic Ambassador Dr Penny Hood of LAIBS has been selected as one of the team of 8,000 London Ambassadors who will welcome visitors from all over the UK and the world to London during the 2012 Olympic 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 London which will be a transport hotspot during the Games. Some 38,000 applicants were interviewed and the selection process has been conducted during the past year. Training takes place at Stratford and central London and all volunteers will work for six consecutive days during the Olympics. Penny said of her selection:

“It is a great opportunity to be involved in the Olympics. I look forward to welcoming visitors from all over the world and in a small way contributing to the success of this exciting event.” 9

Brewery backs students’ new beer idea Oakham Ales roll out the barrel Paula Albinana (BA Business Management) and Alena Linhartova (BA International Business Strategy) won through to the final of the AB Inbev Best Beer Competition in Belgium on 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 impressed by the concept and recipe for CB that they brewed 25 barrels. The students have already secured distribution deals for the beer across Cambridge, including with local CAMRA Pub of the Year ‘The Cambridge Blue’.

Production Director at Oakham Ales, John Bryan, said, “We’re delighted to brew Alena and Paula’s entry for the Best Beer Competition. We’ve worked closely with them to translate their idea into a real beer with a distinctive flavour and character.” CB is a low ABV ale (2.8%) with hints of peach and passion fruit designed specifically to attract young female drinkers to the ale category. However, the subtle fruit flavour is achieved by combining specific hops, rather than any additional flavouring. Paula, who is from Ontinyent, near Valencia, in Spain, said, “Traditional ale has a masculine image but light, sweet and fruity flavours can be created that are very appealing to women. We’re using a New Zealand hop called Pacific Jade, which on its own tastes a little like Orangina, but when brewed together with a hop from the United States, called Galaxy, it produces a peach 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 alcohol content. I think it will appeal not only to women but also students who like to have a drink but don’t want to be hungover in their lectures the next morning!” Tim Froggett, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Anglia Ruskin, said:

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

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Alena Linhartova (left) and Paula Albinana.

“I’m delighted with what Alena and Paula have achieved because they have taken this from a theoretical competition to an actual product, which is being brewed and then sold in Cambridge pubs.”

Tim Spencer, Senior Lecturer at LAIBS said:

“The award of Gold Status is recognition of the hard work of both staff and students on our ACCA course. Continuing to meet the stringent requirements required for the award will provide significant benefit to our students and our reputation as a top class provider of accountancy tuition.”

FLUX 2012 Annual inter-university business competition This year was the fourth consecutive year Lord Ashcroft International Business School entered a team of six students into the FLUX annual inter-university competition – which is now in its seventh year. FLUX is run by the Working Knowledge Group who partnered with the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) to organise FLUX 2012. At the start of March, a team of six students from a mixed cultural background, who had never worked together before, began training for FLUX. Over four weeks, they tackled four different case studies, whilst balancing academic and work commitments. They honed their team working, interview and presentation skills. On Tuesday 27th March, our team took the train to Ravensbourne College, London. Ravensbourne is on the Greenwich peninsula immediately adjacent to the O2 Arena/Millennium Dome. The location could not have been more perfect, the view from our students ‘office’ window, was of 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 was no surprise to find out they had been tasked with developing the waste land also visible from their window. They then spent the next 36 hours working on their challenge with the help of business experts and NACUE. Our team were the last to leave the building when it closed at 23:00 – an amazed NACUE representative even tweeted this! Our team then continued working in their hotel room until 02:00! Our team were not to be deterred by their lack of sleep and they were one of the first teams to arrive back at the college at 08:00 to continue working on their challenge.

l–r: Patrick Selby, Alena Linhartova, Alexandre Larose, Pia Thune, Jekaterina Panzina, Jeff Matemba They spent the second day attending ‘interviews’ with industry experts – the interview sessions are designed for our team to discuss their ideas and get feedback to develop them further before the final presentation which took place late afternoon. All six members of our team gave an impeccable five minute presentation in front of five experts and 40 students and champions. Unfortunately our team were beaten in their stream and did not get through to the final presentation round of the day but they worked 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 networking skills, interview skills and presentation skills – in front of an unfamiliar audience. It gave them the opportunity to put learning 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 Cambridge E: allison.beaumont@anglia.ac.uk Tel: 0845 196 2084

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

Collaborative Leadership specialist and academic becomes RSA Fellow LAIBS PhD student Rob Worrall has had a broad career that has given him experience of working across the public and private 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 the European Union working in areas as diverse as Contingency Planning, to Strategic Relationship Management to facilitating transnational Regeneration and Educational Development Projects. Rob also has lead on the design, development and delivery of a number of unusual cross sector learning and development experiences from conferences, to seminars, workshops and collaborative consultancies. More latterly, as a leadership and management development professional as well as being an academic, he can offer unusual insights and perspectives particularly on the benefits and challenges of collaboration and collaborative leadership focused on achieved improved social and 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 am particularly keen to work collaboratively to facilitate and develop the RSA’s influence within the North East and at the international level”. The RSA Fellowship is a network of over 27,000 Fellows in over 80 countries and by mobilising the talent and experience of their Fellows’ ideas are turned into action. The Fellowship network is a diverse and multidisciplinary group of people united 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; innovative practitioners of literature, film, dance, and the visual arts; opinion formers and journalists. Rob Worrall E: rob.worrall@anglia.ac.uk

Spring Graduate Fair The end of March saw the Student Services Faculty Employability Advisers for Lord Ashcroft International Business School take students to the Spring Graduate Fair hosted at UCL and organised by WikiJobs and The Careers Group. There was a strong turnout from students who took the opportunity to engage directly with employers such as Google, IBM, Abercrombie & Fitch, Coras Rail and IBM. The students also had the opportunity to attend career talks and network with students from other universities. Vinny Rawley, a final year BA (Hons) Business Management student, told us, “It was extremely useful to visit the Graduate Fair at this stage of my university career because in under two months, I would have left the university altogether and would be out in the jobs market. The trip was very useful from the point of view of providing me with an idea of what type of jobs are currently available and in which locations. The Graduate Fair couldn’t have come along at a better time and I am very grateful that I had the opportunity to go – as well as being educational it was also great fun!”

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

The Graduate Fair couldn't have come along at a better time and I am very grateful that I had the opportunity to go – as well as being educational it was also great fun!” Vinny Rawley, final year BA (Hons) Business Management Students and staff – find out more about what the Employability & Careers Team can do for you at: www.anglia.ac.uk/employability

Our University students help organise fossil fuel lecture On the 16 March, Charles Perry, Co-founder of SecondNature who specialise in transforming organisations to make sustainability second nature, was the principal speaker at our Cambridge Campus hosted by Professor Mike Thorne, Vice Chancellor, entitled: Renewables versus fossil fuels: the global clean energy revolution. The lecture was organised by a group from the student Sustainability Society, University Chaplaincy, GRLI Ambassadors, the Global Sustainability Institute and Dr Jonathan Smith, Senior Lecturer in Lord Ashcroft International Business School. Charles has a long track record in sustainability and climate change, working to transform organizations including Tesco, Barclays, ArjoWiggins, Lafarge, BP, GE, H&M and the UK government in order to “make sustainability second nature”. Charles was selected and trained by Al Gore, former US Vice President, to present “An Inconvenient Truth”, appointed a judge for the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards and Adviser to David Cameron’s Quality of Life Policy Review on Climate Change. 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’s leadership) to roll out “beyond petroleum” and develop BP Ultimate “more performance, less pollution” before being promoted to Director of BP Green Energy. In 2006, Charles left BP to join New York firm GreenOrder before setting up his own sustainability advisory business. Charles has a BA from Brown University, Rhode Island, USA and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. Charles outlined the challenges the world faces and some of the ways renewable energy is being addressed. Dr Julian Huppert, MP for Cambridge, then responded, setting out not just government policy but the wider scientific framework and the imperatives it implies. This was followed by a lively debate between the audience and speakers.

Guest lecture delivered at new university in Croatia On 8 May, Jonathan Goodacre, an Associate Lecturer in LAIBS, gave a lecture at the University of Pula in Croatia after which he was interviewed on regional television and radio. Jonathan was invited to give the lecture, the subject of which was: Developing Cultural Projects for the Benefit of Society and the Economy, and was delivered for Metamedia at the University of Pula in Croatia. Amongst the audience were students of cultural tourism and representatives from local non-governmental organisations. Jonathan said, “I very much enjoyed speaking to a wide range of people and hearing about their own experiences. Out of 40 participants, only one person had ever been to the UK so there

were some interesting exchanges. The topic is an important one for this geographic region as there are many questions around culture, identity and tourism.” The Juraj Dobrila University of Pula is an entirely integrated university, founded in 2006 and consisting at present of five departments: 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 students from the European Diploma of Cultural Project Management (Association Marcel Hicter) in Cambridge in September. This will include a lecture by renowned theorist Pier Luigi Sacco from the University of Milan who will be speaking at Anglia Ruskin University on Wednesday 26th September. For more details contact: jonathan.goodacre@anglia.ac.uk

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

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

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

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

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

More details about Prof Zsolnai and the book can be found at http://laszlozsolnai.net/ and more details about the lecture and area of spirituality in business are available from Jonathan.Smith@anglia.ac.uk

Dr Emanuele Giovannetti gives keynote address at high level international forum On 6–8 April 2012, Dr Emanuele Giovannetti, Reader in Economics at the Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP), was invited as a keynote speaker to the IEEE sponsored conference held in Lushan, China – the 2012 Second International Conference on Electric Information and Control Engineering (ICEICE). The title of the keynote address was entitled, An Economist’s Perspective on the Internet Organization: strategies and policies. Other keynote speakers were: Professor Michael Pecht, University of Maryland, USA, Professor Xiaolong LI, Indiana State University, USA and Prof Tad Foster, Indiana State University, USA. The ICEICE conference is a high-level international forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances, new techniques and applications in the field of electric science such as instrument and measurement technology, information processing, control and automation engineering, or other closely related fields. More than 400 scientists attended the conference. Emanuele also presented a paper for the session on IT Policy and Business Management entitled, Clustering, Connectivity and Power laws, Useful Tools for Assessing Market Structure of the European Internet? The Conference papers are published by IEEE, included in IEEE eXplore, and indexed by EI Compendex. An extended version of the paper is now being prepared for submission to ABS ranked journals.

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

PhD student combines his research with busy day job Darren Leech is a well published part-time research student at LAIBS. Balancing his research and academic interests with a busy day job as Chief Operating Officer at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Darren’s PhD research is focussed on exploring the impact of marketisation on the leaders of NHS hospitals in England.

involved interviewing the senior leadership team at a District General Hospital in the East of England, followed by an on-line questionnaire targeted at 60 NHS leaders from over 20 hospitals across the country. The supervisory team Darren works with is led by Dr Rob Willis, Director of Research at LAIBS. They agreed early on that Darren would deliberately set an annual publication (see list below) and presentation rate, as a means to developing his critical research skills, promoting his work and getting feedback from those ‘in practice’ in both health service provision and academia. This tactic seems to have worked very well, with a series of articles published in a mix of academic journals, along with others in practice based periodicals and journals too.

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

Leech D (2007)

Squaring up to marketisation

Health Service Journal

Leech D, Willis R & Jones C (2007)

Market values

Journal of the Institute of Healthcare Management

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 HealthCare Management

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 HealthCare Management

Leech D (2011)

The morality of leadership

Public Servant

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

Darren now plans to scale back on publication, in order to focus fully on getting his thesis drafted for submission late 2012 or early 2013.

Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP)

New appointments for our Research Institute Dr Simon Down is joining LAIBS on 1 August 2012 as a Professor of Management and 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 worked for 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 before working for London Underground. In his late twenties, he went to the London School of Economics, studying an undergraduate degree in history, and after living for a year teaching English in Berlin, completed an MA in Industrial Relations at Warwick. He is the author of two books: Narratives of Enterprise: Crafting Entrepreneurial Selfidentity in a Small Firm (Edward Elgar, 2006), an ethnographic study of a small firm in 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 and ethnographic methodology in journals such as Human Relations, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Organization and the International Small Business Journal. He is currently researching how small firms receive and respond to regulation in a longitudinal project funded by the ESRC. For the last few years he has also been the Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, a role he is stepping down from when he starts at LAIBS. Simon says,

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The University is making an enormous investment to develop research in the Business School. I am excited at the opportunity to build an internationally respected institute focused on research into the managerial practices that underpin enterprise and innovation.â&#x20AC;? Note: Professor Roger Jeynes will be Acting Director of IIMP until Simon joins us later in the year.

Professor Magdy Abdel-Kader, Professor of Management Accounting (Ashcroft Foundation Chair) at Anglia Ruskin University and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Management Accounting Research (IJMAR), has joined the Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP) as Professor of Management Accounting. Before joining Anglia Ruskin University, he worked at the universities of Exeter, Essex, Brunel and Bedfordshire. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Brunel University and a member of the American, European and British Academic Accounting Associations. He is the representative of the information systems section of the American 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, European Accounting Review, Financial Management, and Accounting Education. He is the principal author of a book on Investment Decision-Making in Advanced Manufacturing Technology, book on new product development teams, and co-author of books on enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation and management accounting

change, Review of Management Accounting Research, non-financial performance measurement, and behavioural aspects of auditors’ evidence evaluation. Magdy commented, “Part of my current role at the Institute for International Management Practice (IIMP) is to promote and develop my own research profile, to lead 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-term financial viability.” Magdy has extensive experience in research students’ supervision. He is currently supervising doctoral candidates within the areas of management accounting; performance measurement and management, risk management, capital investment decisions, corporate governance, and sustainability. Magdy’s current research interest lies within Management Accounting. In particular he is interested in Enterprise Resource Planning, Performance Evaluation and Management, Capital Investment Decisions, Fuzzy set theory applications into management accounting and Gender and Budgetary Participation.

Dr Emanuele Giovannetti has been made Reader in Economics in IIMP and is currently following different research lines, all linked to the economic analysis of entrepreneurship. The first area of research is on the economic opportunities for operators in the Internet Sector. Emanuele is currently presenting his work on hierarchical organization of the Internet, in different world conferences, also as a keynote speaker, and is pursuing different publishing opportunities. This theme is essential to understanding the evolution of the market for small and large Internet operators; as operators’ revenues and their cost conditions also change dramatically following a reorganization of the market structure, thus driving the interrelated dynamics of entry exit and growth. Emanuele has just been awarded an IIMP fully funded PhD Studentship to supervise a student on a project on entry and exit of Internet operators in developing countries, in conjunction with Professor Vivarelli. The second area of research focuses on the economic analysis of public policies, in particular competition policies aiming at preventing the imposition of vertical price restraints by producers and distributors onto retailers. Emanuele influenced the regulatory debate at European level when the new regulations on vertical restraints were 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 currently working 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 economic integration 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, developed in many years of active research and advisory experience, Emanuele is looking forward to the synergies with the new colleagues at the IIMP and to learn and benefit from other areas of expertise in the Institute, in particular with the strategic management analysis that will complement particularly well with Emanuele’s original background in 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

LAIBS helping the police with their enquiries Saifan bin Saifan and Dr Jonathan Smith from LAIBS visited the National Police Training Centre for the UK at Bramshill on 23rd April. They met with members of the Leadership Faculty and 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 of LAIBS conducting research with senior leaders in the UK police service and observing courses delivered at Bramshill. They also explored the possibility of LAIBS providing leadership programmes and qualifications for the UK police. A number of other visits to LAIBS from UK police services are planned over the coming months. Jonathan will be hosting visits from Essex, Kent and Hertfordshire Police. There are a large number of people now within LAIBS and Anglia Ruskin University who are involved in some aspect of police research or teaching. Much of the research that is currently being done with the police in America and the UK has much wider applicability. As well as offering huge benefits to policing internationally it can benefit other emergency services, health professionals, leaders, and University staff and students. Jonathan said,

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are many changes to the police landscape in the UK taking place at the moment and I believe LAIBS can make a significant and exciting contribution on the way forward.â&#x20AC;?

Bramshill House at the National Police Training Centre, Bramshill

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

£1 million joint ESRC bid submitted LAIBS have submitted a £1 million ESRC grant application to fund research into responsibility in business, professions and HE. It’s a joint research project in collaboration with the Business School at Leeds Met University. Five professional bodies in the UK are involved in the bid and the research – Institute of Directors (IoD); Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales (ICAEW); the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD); Chartered Management Institute (CMI); and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). We have had a number of meetings with them and they are all keen to be involved in the research and 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 have chosen to represent a range of business, from small to medium to larger. Again they are all keen to be involved and have all written letters of support for the bid.

We have also engaged in discussions, and will include the following in consultation during the research process – Professional Association Research Network (PARN); Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI); UN Global Compact; the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD); All Party Parliamentary Group on Corporate Social Responsibility; and Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). We now plan to use the work done in developing this substantial bid to submit other related bids to Leverhulme, Rowntree, Carnegie and AHRC. Thank you to Lynsey McCulloch and Hoi Lei Chan for all your assistance with this bid – you have both been fantastic! Dr Jonathan Smith, Chartered FCIPD, Senior Lecturer, T: 0845 196 2069 E: jonathan.smith@anglia.ac.uk

Students from Amity Global Business School in India to visit LAIBS In October 2012, LAIBS will be welcoming fourteen students from the Noida campus of Amity Global Business School in India. The students, who are studying our BA (Hons) Business Management programme in Noida, will visit for a period of two weeks and will attend the lectures and classes for the modules they are taking as part of their usual programme. The students started their BA (Hons) Business Management in September 2011 and represent the first cohort of students at Amity in Noida, one of our newest international partnerships. In recent years, Amity has established campuses in a number of locations, including India, Singapore, and London, which all are approved collaborative partners of Anglia Ruskin University.

Amity in Noida, India

This is a new experience for LAIBS, although we often have students from our international partnerships attend one of our campuses for an entire semester. It is an exciting opportunity for both staff at LAIBS and the students. Emily Barnard, Senior Administrator for International Partnerships T: 0845 196 6807 Email: emily.barnard@anglia.ac.uk

Budapest Business School administrator visits LAIBS LAIBS 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 different colleges merging together, since 2003. These three colleges included the College of Commerce, Catering and Tourism, the College of International Management and Business and the College of Finance and Accountancy. Budapest Business School is now one of the largest higher educational institutes in Hungary with about 20,000 students and currently offers two Anglia Ruskin programmes, the BA (Hons) Business Management and the MA International Business. During her visit, Melinda spent one day at our Cambridge Campus and the other at Chelmsford and was introduced to many members of staff who contribute to ensuring the partnership works. This included staff from Assessments and Conferments, Registration and Audit, the iCentre and academic and Faculty Office staff from LAIBS. Despite the torrential April showers during her visit, Melinda enjoyed her stay and found it very useful to tour both campuses. It was a great opportunity for LAIBSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; International Partnership team in Chelmsford to meet an overseas counterpart in person when so much communication is normally done by email. Dr Trevor Bolton, Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of LAIBS with administrative colleagues on the Chelmsford Campus and Melinda Polzc, Budapest Business School (brown top)

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

HR Forum: Leadership in times of change Thursday, 21 June, 8:30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:00 Corporate 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 breakfast HR 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.

Practical advice for job seeking students from successful alumna I attended Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS) from 2005-07 studying for the MA in Human Resource Management and whilst at the University I had the opportunity to have the support and guidance of some fantastic tutors as well as the company of great class mates which made the whole experience very enjoyable. What I found particularly appealing was the positive approach taken by LAIBS to effectively plan and deliver the course so that success was achievable. As I reached the end of my studies, it occurred to me that it may not be particularly easy to gain employment within HR without any real job experience. I therefore set myself the task of applying for as many HR roles as possible whilst completing my dissertation. What I discovered, which I believe many graduates in my position find, is that, it’s actually not that easy. Now as an HR professional, I see clearer why this is the case for graduates. Firstly, graduates and educational institutions need to stop pretending that a degree guarantees a job because it 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 paced environment where employers don’t always have the time to train people from scratch so need to be confident that the graduates they are recruiting have the abilities to make them a worthwhile investment. Confidence of an employer doesn’t come from determining that an individual has a degree, MA, PhD etc.; it comes from how the graduate projects themselves at interview or assessment days. An employer wants to see that preparation has taken place and that the graduate has the competencies 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 big organisations opportunities are continuous, and always be thoroughly prepared for interview. Leigh Brown, Head of Human Resources UK Shared Services, Informa UK Ltd

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

Recently, he has joined Mohun Bagan Club (The National Club of India) as a Sports Motivational Advisor. He has 25 years of sports experience training at the Sports Authority of India, SAI, Kolkata and played hockey for Indian Railways, the Indian Police and Kolkata Port Trust. He has 12 years experience in the area of motivational training. In 2011, Mrinal won the 10th Trimo International Research Award for his paper about his MA dissertation conducted at Anglia Ruskin University on Performance Management. He was the first Indian national as well as the first Anglia Ruskin University student to win this award. We are really proud to say that as a result of his work and studies at Lord Ashcroft International Business School, he has also achieved Chartered Membership status of the CIPD.

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He says that his university education has given him more confidence to present himself as a “Qualified Sports Motivational Advisor”. Recently, he delivered his speech in front of the Indian coach and doctor (Sports Medicine) of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Eastern Zone, India. They called him “Magic Mrinal”. His creative visualisation process mesmerised everybody. Sports Authority of India Academic Department and Sports Medicine Department say that, “Mrinal’s training skills may influence the development of Indian sport”. Recently, Mrinal went to Bangladesh by invitation from ATN Jobs to deliver a speech in front of different universities in Bangladesh and is also going to give a talk on 93.5 Red FM to share his magical tips. Very soon he will share his skills with a different Indian sports team to help them achieve their dreams. His only vision and mission in life is to take Indian sport to the world arena. Mrinal says “Limitation lives only in our mind, but if we use our imagination, our possibilities become limitless.” Mrinal Chakraborty T: +91983 0333323 E: mreenalchak@gmail.com

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