WBS news features

In recent months, WBS has appointed six new professors and promoted two existing members of faculty to professor level, bringing the total number of professors at WBS to 45. In this feature, we profile four of these professors - Söhnke Bartram, Gerard Hodgkinson, Duncan Shaw and George Wright, all new to WBS.

WBS Professor of Public Leadership & Management Keith Grint has featured widely in the UK news media recently, reporting on the work of the third Warwick Commission, on the issue of Elected Mayors and City Leadership.

Professor Nick Chater has spearheaded the new Behavioural Science group at WBS. He talks to us about the behavioural science network across the University and how WBS is leading the way with this innovative approach to business.

Whether in the classroom or taking part in competitions, the talent of students at WBS shines through. In this feature, we report on successes which reflect both academic excellence and creative innovative thinking beyond the classroom.

Wednesday 18 January 2012 was a day of celebration for many WBS postgraduate students as they graduated at the Winter Degree ceremonies, held in the Arts Centre on the Warwick campus.

The numbers of press and media 'hits' registered by our behavioural scientists, economists and accountants appear to demonstrate that the world has woken up to the fact that making financial judgements is not simply a matter of doing the maths.

Student competitions and awards provide great opportunities for talented and entrepreneurial students - from undergraduates through to MBAs - to develop and air their skills and to gain well-deserved recognition among their peers and in the corporate world.

WBS Professor Victor Podinovski has been awarded a €236,000 (£205,000) European Union grant for research project Integrated Econometric and Mathematical programming models into an amendable policy and market analysis tool using FADN database.

The first of the new WBS Guest Lecture series took place on Tuesday 25 October at WBS, and featured Professor Andrew Sentance, who has just completed his 5-year term on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. Steering the UK economy through global turbulence was the title of his lecture.

WBS Professor of Public Management Graeme Currie has been awarded a Service Delivery and Organisation grant worth over £308,000 by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

Earlier this month, 22 high level students from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) arrived at Warwick Business School for two weeks, as part of the International Immersion element of their course, the Postgraduate Programme for Executives - a one year full-time Executive MBA.

This summer, 996 WBS graduands became graduates, and a total of 2,092 people, including graduates, their friends and family members, and WBS staff attended the buffet lunches in the Rootes Panorama suites.

Speakers from the world of business and academia recently met with students on the Warwick Global Energy MBA to debate how governments seek to regulate the supply and consumption of energy, and to discuss recent trends in the energy sector.

Some truly excellent nominations were received for the WBS MBA Student of the Year Award, making the final decision on the overall winner a very difficult one. In the end, it was not a single individual chosen as the winner, but a team.

No less than 23 WBS undergraduate students have won awards in this year's University of Warwick Advantage Awards out of a total of 163 awarded.