Business and Management Management MSc Postgraduate Research

Innovation Management Training for Red Cross Innovation Pioneers

CENTRIM – the Centre for Research in Innovation Management – has been asked by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent to help with the training of their Innovation pioneers in the concepts and practice of innovation management. To that end, Professor Howard Rush flew to Madrid to work with twenty-five of…

MBA Marketing Masterclass: the benefits of using the case study method

Dr Véronique Boulocher-Passet, Senior Lecturer in Marketing In teaching marketing to the MBA students, my choice naturally heads towards using the case method, which has endured as an effective teaching tool in business education for more than a century. A case study, or case, describes an actual situation and involves a decision, a challenge, an opportunity,…

Kunlasab on Public Services Management at Brighton

We recently caught up with Kunlasab Sailabada, who graduated from our MSc Management (Public Services) in 2014. Why did you choose to do a Masters at Brighton? “I had been working as a Human Resource Management officer in the Ministry of Finance in Thailand. I won a scholarship to do a Masters degree. I searched a lot…

MSc Management Students presenting at Dragon's Den

Dragon’s Den: Advising local businesses and developing pitching skills

Each year Masters students have the opportunity to take part in Dragon’s Den-style competitions. Last night eight teams from Brighton Business School recently competed in a Dragons’ Den-style competition, pitching ideas to local business men and women. Students are given case studies and local organisations to work with to develop proposals for expansion into new…

Institute of Directors Membership event

On 22 November, we hosted the Institute of Directors (IoD) membership launch event for over 200 of our students, supported by a number of student ambassadors. “Attending Brighton Business School events as a volunteer gives me great opportunities to increase my professional network by meeting business experts.” Each year we offer to pay for a year’s IoD membership for MBA…

How sci fi-inspired innovation treads a fine line between dystopia and utopia

Paul Levy, University of Brighton The race is on to bring a jetpack to market. New Zealand-based Martin Aircraft has a jetpack which is due to go on sale this year and US-based JetPack Aviation is working on a more streamlined offering. So aviation junkies with the cash to spare will soon be able to…

European learning

University of Brighton Business School MSc Management students recently experienced first-hand international management learning, taking them out of the classroom to visit companies and institutions in Europe. The group led by Barry Lee-Scherer, Principal Lecturer at the Business School, attended a session at the European Parliament and met with an elected member of the parliament,…