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A team of MBA students are turning their competition-winning idea into a business after leading Warwick Business School to a one-two in a United Nations’ hackathon.

Veterans from the British Armed Forces starting their own business have the chance of a helping hand from Warwick Business School with a 100 per cent bursary for an MBA or Executive Diploma.

Warwick Business School's Core Insights editorial team bring expert advice and knowhow to help organisations cope with the impact of the global pandemic.

AI is infiltrating every industry, but as the tech giants are finding out, if your product is socially unaccpetable it can cause huge problems. Luciano Oviedo and Sotirios Paroutis have devised a tool to measure your AI's social impact.

A pandemic-induced recession will force business leaders to make cuts and ask staff to take on more roles. This will be resisted as professional identities are challenged. Patricia Reay and Yaru Chen's process overcomes this.

More and more organisations have employee wellbeing strategies but they present a dilemma. Marianna Fotaki explores how companies should handle the trade-off between caring for work or caring for workers.

Datafication is happening at most workplaces, where organisations track their workers using data or even algorithims. Sue Newell discovers it is not the 'Big Brother' nightmare after all and can boost performance.

Katherine McNeill, a Distance Learning MBA student, has been at the centre of making sure the tsunami of COVID-19 research data is open and shareable by developing new universal standards and formats.

As the global economy struggles in a pandemic-induced recession will governments invest in a green economy to recover? Michael Bradshaw and Caroline Kuzemko examine the likely scenerios.

Warwick Business School has been given the thumbs up by students with 88 per cent of them satisfied with their course according to the National Student Survey.

Moving the Business in Practice Masters assessment online involved more than 60 staff but has earned rave reviews from students.

The COVID-19 pandemic is set to plunge the world into a deep recession. Hossam Zeitoun unveils new research on the factors that will see some firms well placed to survive the economic storm.

With all graduation ceremonies postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic Warwick Business School is organising an online celebration of its students’ success.

Marianna Fotaki produce the evidence to refute the claim that introducing market forces in some areas of healthcare produces efficiencies.

A nine-year study of Cisco by Sotirios Paroutis and Luciano Oviedo has given them a deep insight into how companies should fight back after being disrupted.

A team of MBA students created a free online platform for people to exchange goods and services to help each other and vulnerable groups during the pandemic.

Ivo Vlaev, Professor of Behavioural Science, has been helping the UK tackle the pandemic as part of the National Health Service’s (NHS) COVID Behaviour Change Unit. 

Sending a text message reminder can lead to more women taking up cervical screening, new research has shown.

Jan Kreuter is celebrating after his research project to improve the marketing analytics of an e-commerce firm earned him a runners-up place in the Operational Research Society’s May Hicks Award.

Warwick Business School has climbed seven places in the QS Executive MBA 2020 Ranking to be in the world’s top 20.

Tributes have been made to Ben Knight, Professor of Practice and Associate Professor of Economics, who has sadly passed away at the age of 78.

Hubris is generally seen as a bad trait for a leader to have, but Hossam Zeitoun details the research that has discovered such over-confidence is needed for leaders at times.

Why does top talent keep leaving your company? David Allen's research has unearthed the top four reasons and he also reveals how firms can mitigate against them.

A Warwick Business School study of twins suggests some people are genetically more likely to take risks when investing, starting their own business, or looking after their health.

A scheme to fit bikes with a device to clean polluted air as people pedal around cities has won the annual WBS For the Future Prize.

Lecturers have taken advantage of the move to online learning by inviting a host of industry experts from around the world to supplement students’ education.

Fellow commissioners appointed by the Centre for Social Justice include Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and former Minister for Disabled People The Rt Hon Mark Harper MP.

The Economist has ranked Warwick Business School’s Executive MBA the best in the UK and sixth in the world.

Graham Loomes calls for the trade-offs the UK Government is having to make between people's health and their livelihoods to be made transparent as it relaxes social distancing rules.

John Colley argues the global pandemic could spell the end of a host of tech firms as investors turn away from the likes of WeWork and Uber.

Design thinking is now becoming part of strategy. Sotirios Paroutis reveals the four devices being used by those leading the charge to integrate the two processes.

Warwick Business School has been ranked in the world’s top 10 business schools by South America’s leading business magazine.

Rhian Silvestro explains how performance topolgy mapping can unearth surprising data on what is delivering profits for your business.

Undergraduate Sarah Jackson has taken on night shifts at Tesco on top of her studies to stay productive and help her community during the coronavirus crisis.

The pandemic has shown the importance of whistleblowers argues Marianna Fotaki, who believes they need more protection so they continue to come forward. 

A statement from Andy Lockett, Dean of Warwick Business School, on the Black Lives Matter movement.

Warwick Business School’s MSc Finance course has been ranked third in the UK and in Europe’s top 10 by the Financial Times.

The Warwick Behavioural Science Summit has been held online after being postponed because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

After empowering herself Fiza Farhan now travels the world advising the UN, Goverenments, charities, development agencies and the private sector on gender equality, green energy, social enterprises and aleviating poverty.

Koen Heimeriks has delved into one of the biggest corporate transformations in history to bring you lessons for your business.

Banking Consultant Marina Antoniou says women need to proactively manage their career to overcome the biases and barriers that persist in business.

Leadership is not a popularity contest, and that is especially the case in a crisis. Keith Grint outlines the different roles needed during the Coronavirus crisis.

Warwick Business School is launching an online Driving Service Performance executive programme for service leaders, managers and specialists, designers and consultants, to advance service strategy within their organisation.

Three MSc Marketing & Strategy students beat more than 100 other teams to reach the semi-finals of L’Oreal’s worldwide Brandstorm competition.

After open innovation we now have open strategy. Christina Wawarta and Sotirios Paroutis went behind the scenes at one US multinational to discover the tools needed for a successful open strategy. 

The big tech firms like Google and Apple have been benefiting for a decade from working with open source communities. Natalia Levina has stepped inside the relationships to reveal how other companies can partner with them as well. 

Companies that don’t do enough to support their workers’ mental health risk seeing their overall productivity drop by a quarter, new research suggests.

Charlotte Croft has swapped the lecture theatre for a hospital theatre after returning to nursing to help the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) fight the COVID-19 pandemic.