ABS Announces First Companions
Latest press releasesIn celebration of its Fifteenth Anniversary the Association of Business Schools has announced the award of the title of ABS Companion to Professor Howard Thomas, Dean of WBS.
ABS Companionship is a recognition of a significant contribution to:
The leadership of one or more UK Business Schools;
successful promotion of business and management education, development and research at national and international levels;
policy development at regional, national and international levels which has made a positive difference to the UK Business School sector;
and/or outstanding and innovative achievements which have demonstrated distinction and high quality
Professor Michael Osbaldeston, Director of Cranfield School of Management and Chair of the ABS is delighted to be able to recognise the Companions' achievements and said: "For the current member business schools and the Executive of ABS, the Companions represent an impressive pool of experience upon which we can draw in future, as well as a way of celebrating their previous contribution and success. I would like to congratulate them on their achievements and I am pleased that their contributions to the business school world have been formally recognised"
Others recognised were -
Professor Sir George Bain (formerly of London Business School)
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson (Judge Business School, Cambridge)
Professor Peter McKiernan (School of Management, University of St Andrews)
Professor Andrew Pettigrew (School of Management, University of Bath)
Professor Stephen Watson (formerly of Henley Management College); and
Professor Jean Woodall (Oxford Brookes University Business School).
Three of these - George Bain, Peter McKiernan, and Andrew Pettigrew, are former faculty members of WBS.
ABS Companionship is a recognition of a significant contribution to:
The leadership of one or more UK Business Schools;
successful promotion of business and management education, development and research at national and international levels;
policy development at regional, national and international levels which has made a positive difference to the UK Business School sector;
and/or outstanding and innovative achievements which have demonstrated distinction and high quality
Professor Michael Osbaldeston, Director of Cranfield School of Management and Chair of the ABS is delighted to be able to recognise the Companions' achievements and said: "For the current member business schools and the Executive of ABS, the Companions represent an impressive pool of experience upon which we can draw in future, as well as a way of celebrating their previous contribution and success. I would like to congratulate them on their achievements and I am pleased that their contributions to the business school world have been formally recognised"
Others recognised were -
Professor Sir George Bain (formerly of London Business School)
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson (Judge Business School, Cambridge)
Professor Peter McKiernan (School of Management, University of St Andrews)
Professor Andrew Pettigrew (School of Management, University of Bath)
Professor Stephen Watson (formerly of Henley Management College); and
Professor Jean Woodall (Oxford Brookes University Business School).
Three of these - George Bain, Peter McKiernan, and Andrew Pettigrew, are former faculty members of WBS.
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