WBS news in brief

WBS Associate Professor Sukanya Sen Gupta's co-authored paper in the International Small Business Journal has been awarded Best Paper Overall by the consulting editors of this journal.

Dr Nick Wake, WBS Senior Teaching Fellow, recently gave a workshop in the University's Teaching Grid to demonstrate his new mobile app iTutor.

Steve Jobs, WBS salutes your creative spirit, your passion for business, and your legacy of a far more beautiful world.

WBS Professor Jean Hartley is guest editor of this month's issue of Public Money & Management.

The first IKON newsletter has just been produced to provide a single source of up-to-date information for all the various stakeholders and collaborators, both corporate and academic, involved in IKON's activities.

Maybe the drizzling weather was a sign of things to come for the WBS Yacht Club's participation in the 2011 Cranfield Regatta.

Last September saw the launch of the new corporate identity and new logo for WBS. Now our biggest building on campus has been given the branding treatment.

WBS Professors Nigel Slack and Bob Johnston, together with WBS alumnus Dr Alistair Brandon-Jones at the School of Management, University of Bath, have produced a new concise version, Essentials of Operations Management.

The Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE) are given annually to faculty across the whole of the University. Each year, five members of staff are given an Award, with a further five commended. Grier Palmer, Assistant Dean, Teaching and Learning and Principal Teaching Fellow is one of this year's Award winners.

Nigel Piercy, Associate Dean for Masters Programmes, and Professor of Marketing & Strategy at WBS, has been awarded the Outstanding Paper Award for 2011 by the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing for his paper Evolution of Strategic Sales Organizations in Business-to-Business Marketing.

WBS Professor Simon Collinson has been appointed as a member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) by David Willetts, the Minister for Universities and Science.

On Tuesday 15 March a number of students from Warwick Business School as well as the University's Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics and Engineering attended the annual IBM Student Recognition event at the Arts Centre.

A team of WBS full-time MBA students entered the 2011 Hult Global Case Challenge, with the initial rounds held across 5 global locations - Shanghai, Dubai, London, Boston and San Francisco.

Simon Collinson, WBS Professor of International Business & Innovation, has been appointed 'Chair Professor' at Zhejiang University by Xiaobo Wu, Executive Dean of the School of Management and Director of the National Institute for Innovation Management at Zhejiang University, China.

Professor Paul Marginson, director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU), was recently invited to present on a webinar organised by the UK's CIPD and Unilever.