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MANG1017: Guest Speakers from Grant Thornton

Hi all! Welcome back to Southampton for the start of what I'm sure will be good productive term (how many of you have heard that in the past couple days I wonder...?). For MANG1017 students, and others who may be interested, this week is a particularly exciting one, as the University welcomes two key figures from Grant Thornton, one of the world's largest professional services network, centred around accountancy and consultancy. Continue reading →

Emotional Intelligence: MANG1017 Lecture Review

Emotional Intelligence “the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others.” (Psychology Today, 2016) EI Models: Five models proposed as a means of better defining EI: the Ability Model, the Trait Model, the Mixed Model, the Bar-On model, and the Genos model. Within the lecture, we focused mainly on the Mixed Model and The Ability Model. Continue reading →

Class and Inequality – MANG1021 Lecture Review

In the first of what we hope will become a regular feature, we are sharing lecture review notes from MANG1021 Week 4. If you have any lecture notes you wish to share, please to get in touch. Continue reading →

How Students Help Businesses

Hi all! Today's post is an especially exciting one, as it is our first Guest Post. This comes from Fish On Toast President Xavier Parkhouse-Parker, who has written an article focusing on How Students Help Businesses. We hope you enjoy reading this one, as we certainly did, and make sure to leave your thoughts! Tom Davidson ***** I was recently asked to do a talk on how students help businesses. I was to represent “Fish on Toast”, Southampton University’s entrepreneurial society. Continue reading →

Financial Times Access: Free!

Hi all! We have recently been informed of free access to a important resource: The Financial Times! This has been funded by the library and the Business School, and will be very useful for you to access material for your assignments and general interest. Continue reading →

Book Review: Economics; The User’s Guide

Economics: The User's Guide, By Ha- Joon Chang. London: Pelican, 2014. Reviewed by: Sotiroula Ioannou, BSc Business Management The book ‘Economics: The User’s Guide’ by Ha- Joon Chang was first published by Pelican books in 2014 and is his latest book. Chang is part of the research group of University of Cambridge and he is working on alternative approaches to economics, history of economic thought and methodology. Continue reading →

Budget 2016

Many of you will have noticed that today George Osbourne carried his little red box all the way to Westminster, to give a highly anticipated budget. Being the last one before the EU referendum, this budget carried an sense of importance over the others given in this government. Unfortunately, while important, budgets are often not as riveting viewing as, say, Breaking Bad. So, we kindly provided a live-tweeting service this morning, managed by Zak Rakrouki. Continue reading →

Book Review: Social Class in the 21st Century

Social Class in the 21st Century, By Mike Savage. London: Penguin, 2010. Reviewed by: Yanyan Pineda, BSc Business Entrepreneurship At first glance, social class can seem to be a mondegreen subject most would have opinions on, derived from however they grew up hearing about the latter. Savage’s take on how society’s divisions came to be and how they stand today render a close look at Britain’s progressions and current situation. Continue reading →

There’s no business, like show business!

25th February Key Skills lecture This week, our Avenue lecture was based on the concept of feedback, the appropriate way to speak to our colleges, employees and employers. With much help from Leigh Johnstone from the Fluid Motion Theatre Company, we were able to develop these much difficult skills using innovative and engaging activities such as freeze frames and forum theatre. Continue reading →

Women In Business

Hi all! Just a short post here today, wondering how many of you have heard of, or may even be members of Southampton's Women in Business Society? They have done some great work over the years, and it is very much encouraged that you get involved with them! To make this even easier, we have reached out to the society on your behalf, and got some more details, which I will include below. Continue reading →

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