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10.30am - 12.15pm, Saturday 4 February 2012

Dean's Online Forum

Your chance to hear how the School is reviewing its strategy.

Among other topics, we will discuss:

  • What are the key drivers to enhance the School's global reputation?
  • Why is the School focus now on business driven brand values?
  • What we are doing to lead within the context of the wider education market?

3.30 - 4.30pm, Monday 6 February 2012

Social Networks and Business Strategy

Social Networks, due to their dynamic nature, have developed over the past decade to be one of the most powerful communication tools available to business.

Please note that this lecture is for staff, postgraduate students, and alumni.

6.45pm, Tuesday 7 February 2012

Sales Growth through Brand Marketing in a Non-Traditional Sector

Jemima Bird, owner of High Street Brands such as Cafe Rouge, Strada and Bella Italia talks about the application of brand marketing principles into a sector that traditionally hasn't embraced marketing.

1 - 2pm, Wednesday 8 February 2012

Mathew Hughes

Nottingham University Business School

How Does Strategic Entrepreneurship Affect Product Innovation in Young and New Venture Firms? A Model and Test

Few can argue against innovation as a fundamental business strategy that firms should adopt to successfully compete and perform in today's complex business environment. Yet the pursuit of innovation calls for multiple factors to be accounted for, in particular the type of innovation, the sourcing of resources and their allocation, and the entrepreneurship of the firm. We contend that these factors introduce complex, competing, and sometimes contradictory forces that warrant greater attention. Recent developments in entrepreneurship and strategic management

2 - 4pm, Wednesday 8 February 2012

IRRU Seminar - Niall Cullinane

Niall Cullinane, Queen's University Belfast

'Durkheim and the Radical Analysis of 'Disorder' in British Industrial Relations'

2 - 4pm, Wednesday 8 February 2012

Accounting Group (Cancelled)

Art Kraft, Cass Business School

6 - 7pm, Monday 13 February 2012

Sustainable Leadership Webinar

Do you find it hard to manage your work/life balance?
Do you want to transform your leadership style?
Does your role leave you feeling drained?
Do you want to manage your career rather than let it manage you?
Do you want to learn how leading professionals manage their careers successfully?

If you've answered 'yes' to any of these questions then this one hour webinar at the special rate of only £10 will be really valuable for you ...

6.30 - 8.30pm, Monday 13 February 2012

Companies and communities in tough times by Dame Julia Cleverdon, DCVO, CBE

We are delighted to welcome Dame Julia Cleverdon DCVO, CBE to present 'Companies and communities in tough times' to students, staff, alumni and guests of Warwick on Monday 13 Febuary 2012.

Listed by The Times as one of the 50 most influential women in Britain, Dame Julia Cleverdon DCVO, CBE is a renowned speaker on corporate responsibility, leadership and career development for women.

Are you based overseas? We will be live streaming this event via wbsLive so book your online place and join us virtually!

Register your place

10am - 2pm, Friday 17 February 2012

ADS Master Class 1 'Wicked leadership'

Focusing on the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space sectors this unique programme will challenge participant's understanding and advance their learning of key business activities and practises.

2 - 4pm, Friday 17 February 2012

Accounting Group

Stephen Zeff, RICE Univesity

9am - 5.30pm, Saturday 18 February 2012

Your future... Your career...

This event will help you develop:

  • strengths and selling yourself
  • future planning
  • effective networking
  • successful applications

and

  • it will prepare you for your transition

6 - 8pm, Tuesday 21 February 2012

Warwick MBA Information Session (Nairobi)

12 noon, Wednesday 22 February 2012

Forecasting and Optimisation - Revenue Management at Avis Budget EMEA Ltd

Avis Budget EMEA Ltd is a eading car rental company in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Over the last few years the company have invested considerable resources in the bespoke design and development of a Revenue Management (RM) Forecasting and Optimisation system to allow Avis to maximise the revenue generated by its fleet of vehicles.

2 - 4pm, Wednesday 22 February 2012

IRRU Seminar - Virginia Doellgast

Virginia Doellgast, LSE

Institutions and inequality in liberalized markets: A cross-national comparison.

2 - 4pm, Wednesday 22 February 2012

Accounting Group

Chris Chapman, Imperial London

9am - 12.30pm, Thursday 23 February 2012

ŒCreating Entrepreneurial Opportunities

Warwick Executive Updates: ŒCreating Entrepreneurial Opportunities
James Bannerman

Business Enterprise, Innovation, and Creativity are closely connected.
With this in mind, this imaginative, interactive, thought-invoking, and
business-relevant
half-day seminar aims to introduce you to a variety of practical innovative
thinking tools and techniques for helping you to:

1. Identify entrepreneurial opportunities you may not have considered before
2. Discover Œadditional and alternative¹ ideas for growing your business and
creating new value
3. Sharpen your ideas so their entrepreneurial potential can be exploited
more effectively.

2 - 4pm, Thursday 23 February 2012

IKON Seminar Series

IKON Seminar with
Professor Daniel Geiger
Faculty for Business Administration and Economics
Technical University Kaiserslautern

Further details to follow

10am - 2pm, Monday 27 February 2012

ADS Master Class 2 'Power and resistance at work'

Focusing on the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space sectors this unique programme will challenge participant's understanding and advance their learning of key business activities and practises.

2 - 4pm, Monday 27 February 2012

iSM Seminar

Professor van den Hooff will be giving a seminar entitled:

Cracking the core: How core members of electronic Networks of Practice contribute to organisational learning

7 - 9pm, Tuesday 28 February 2012

WBS London Forum welcomes Linda Jackson, MD, Citroën UK

Linda Jackson, Managing Director,Citroën UK Ltd will be speaking at the second 2011/2012 London Forum event.

Book your place now!

The London Fora Series is run with support from Arup.

3 - 5pm, Wednesday 29 February 2012

A Delicate Balance: How the Business of Champagne has Developed and is Managed

The world of champagne offers a fascinating insight into the complexity of modern business management and marketing. Champagne is at the same time a wine, a luxury product and a regional brand - it is tied to the place from which it comes, and can be made nowhere else. It therefore highlights a range of characteristics which make it interesting to the modern business world.