Business Management

Purpose Beyond Profit – An Interview with Maurice Rosenstein

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MSc Business Management student, Maurice Rosenstein, won second prize at the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) annual writing competition 2021, for his ground-breaking essay on “Purpose Beyond Profit”. According to the organisers, the contest – organised for the past…
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B prepared for change

Edinburgh Napier prides itself on being an applied university, where research and teaching are focused on making a direct impact on communities. Tommaso Cattaneo took this to heart; his dissertation achieved an international impact even before he graduated in the…
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Placements can offer any business a real benefit in tough times

Despite the uncertainty of recent months, 100 undergraduates from Business Management, Marketing Management and Hospitality, Tourism and Events programmes have had the opportunity to apply the knowledge they had acquired at university into a work placement. The results have been…
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An MBA to cultivate the leadership skills demanded by Industry 4.0

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Valued by leading employers internationally, our MBA programmes are designed to help professionals cultivate the leadership skills that modern managers need across sectors.

Dynamic Supply Chains in Uncertain Times

While supply chain disruption and volatility is not new, it appears to have hit home with the general public due to the current impact on people’s daily lives. In the past, some lessons have been learnt from disruption of key…
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Volunteer Tourism and Coronavirus

As workplaces close around the world, we are beginning to question the repercussions for those who are losing their income as a result. But in few places could the impact be so detrimental as within the volunteer tourism sector. We…
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We are thinking small, and that’s not a bad thing

I write this on a glorious Saturday afternoon, within earshot of Tynecastle Park and Murrayfield. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has replaced the usual atmosphere of excitement and anticipation (or despondency if you are an Aberdeen fan) with an eerie, anxious…
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League Reconstruction – Short-term Fix or Long-term Solution?

Arrigo Sacchi famously suggested that football was the most important of the least important things in life. We see this played out in the midst of a global pandemic, as football continues to hold a disproportionate position in the national…
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Working from home is a positive – some thoughts for business

Enforced isolation and the associated loneliness being experienced by many home workers mean that proportionally more workers are likely to find themselves affected by the behavioural response known as learned helplessness.

Pilot project highlights opportunities for the future redesign of Health and Social Care services

An initiative to introduce Augmented Care into the local community has succeeded in assisting patients with recovery and re-ablement, according to research conducted by academics from Edinburgh Napier University and the University of Dundee*. The project was based on action…
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