Original Thinking Podcast

In this episode, Felicity talks about the evolution of behavioural insights from a phrase coined by a small government team in 2010 to a policy approach that touches the lives of millions of people around the world. She also discusses her current areas of focus and where behavioural insights might be used in the next 10 years. This event was facilitated by Liz Richardson, Professor of Public Admin...

This month we hear from Amna Abdullatif, councillor for Ardwick, Central Manchester. Amna is a community psychologist who has worked in the voluntary sector for over 15 years, previously leading the work on children and young people for the national domestic abuse charity Women's Aid and currently as assistant director for youth empowerment at the Anne Frank Trust.  She completed her masters in co...

Dr Mark Britnell, Vice Chair and Global Health Expert, KPMG UK, and award-winning author, delivers this year’s Teddy Chester lecture,  Human: Solving the global workforce crisis in healthcare . By 2030, the world will be short of 18 million health workers – a fifth of the total capacity to care. Mark draws on his work in 80 countries to offer solutions to this growing crisis and presents unique in...

This month we will hear from Jennie Johnson MBE, CEO and co-founder, My First Five Years Limited. Authentically passionate about improved outcomes for every child, Jennie’s most recent eureka moment in January 2021 led her to founding My First Five Years Ltd, a ground-breaking App to support and empower parents and provide expert knowledge to guide their child(ren) through the unique journey of th...

This event will be hosted by  Anthony Rafferty , Professor of Employment Studies and Managing Director of the Work and Equalities Institute at Alliance MBS. The people management case for workplace equality, diversity and inclusion is often made in terms of ethical or social responsibility reasons, or the benefits to the bottom line of a ‘business case.’ In this Original Thinking lecture, Anthony...

This month we will hear from Kathleen Harrison, Associate Director, Jacobs. With over 20 years’ experience in the construction industry, Kathleen is an Associate Director with Jacobs working as a Framework Manager delivering projects for a local authority in North West England. Having worked in a male dominated environment for her entire career, she is passionate about promoting gender equality, i...

This episode will be hosted by  Julia Handl , Professor in Decision Sciences at Alliance MBS. Her expertise lies in the areas of optimisation, data-mining and machine learning and she has a keen interest in the development and use of these techniques in challenging application areas. We all face and make decisions on an ongoing basis, whether at work or in our private lives. The vast majority of t...

The response and recovery to COVID-19 has been a whole-of-society effort where every community has played a crucial role. To maintain this outpouring of goodwill, local government and voluntary organisations have been discussing how to renew their efforts on community resilience to ensure that a positive legacy of the pandemic is a more cohesive, risk-aware, and prepared society that can work with...

The UK has a profound problem of regional disparities in productivity performance, with second tier cities that underperform compared to expectations based on their size, and deindustrialised towns and urban areas that have failed to find productive new economic roles. The distribution of research and development investment in the UK – especially in the public sector – is also highly skewed to the...

This episode is hosted by  Bart van Ark , Professor of Productivity Studies & Director of the Productivity Institute at Alliance MBS, a UK-wide organisation which aims to lay the foundations for an era of sustained and inclusive productivity growth by bringing together academic research, policy studies and business engagement. After several decades of work on productivity issues, Bart will tak...

This episode will be hosted by  Emma Banister , Professor of Consumption and Society at Alliance MBS. It is well-established that products and brands serve as social tools, providing means of communication between individuals and their social worlds. However, one of Emma’s key research interests lies in what consumers resist, what they shy away from, and how these more negative or rejected aspects...

To celebrate the launch of Organising care around patients Manchester University Press and Alliance Manchester Business School are hosting a live panel discussion, asking how care can be better organised around the needs of patients. Joining authors Naomi Chambers, Professor of Healthcare Management at AMBS, and Jeremy Taylor, Director for Public Voice at the National Institute for Health Research...

This podcast will be hosted by Dr Simon Hayward, Honorary Professor of Leadership at Alliance MBS, CEO of Cirrus, and Managing Director and global lead on leadership and culture at Accenture. Drawing on his extensive experience consulting with leading UK and international organisations, Simon will describe his and others’ research into the leadership attributes needed in this post-pandemic world,...

As the economy shows promising signs of recovery, Tony Danker, the CBI’s Director General, will set out why the choices we make now will define the decade to come, in this latest Vital Topics event from Alliance Manchester Business School. Building on the CBI’s ‘Seize the Moment’ economic strategy for the UK, he will argue that the economic rebound could well be temporary; that private sector inve...

In the unique and challenging world of a global pandemic, the resilience of local services and businesses has been critical to maintaining successful operations for response organisations, providers of essential local services, and critical infrastructure.   In this, the third in a three-part series of podcasts co-produced with the British Standards Institution (BSI), we examine the human aspects...

Hosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lurig Change & Development. Looking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us online for the networking event of the month! Speak to like-minded business women for an amazing online event. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Prepare your digital busine...

In the unique and challenging world of a global pandemic, the continuity of local services and businesses has been critical to maintaining successful operations for response organisations, providers of essential local services, and critical infrastructure. In this, the second in a three-part series of podcasts co-produced with the British Standards Institute (BSI), we examine the contribution of s...

Recent corporate scandals and the response of some corporations to the pandemic have brought attention back to the role of auditing in restoring trust to business. The government has submitted  proposals  aiming at strengthening corporate governance for major UK companies and reforming the way they are audited. The expressed key objectives of the proposed reforms are to restore public trust to bus...

Covid-19’s duration, and the intensity of measures taken in responding to it, have brought major disruptions with lasting consequences. Health precautions have redefined our relationship to mortality and death, not least by disrupting the rituals that enable societies to overcome major trauma. Those not directly affected by mourning are often affected by isolation, by difficult or unbearable livin...

Knowledge-intensive startups are well known to be a source of novel technological innovations and economic growth. Yet, such startups face significant challenges when trying to grow and become large global technological leaders and many of them fail. In this talk,  Niron Hashai , visiting Professor of International Business at Alliance MBS, goes over 20 years of his own work on the topic and addre...

Today’s podcast was recorded at a special Women Leading in Business webinar in partnership with WIN Manchester. Opened by Alliance MBS’s Head of School, Fiona Devine, and hosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, we hear from three keynote speakers - Kristin Engvig , CEO & Founder of WIN & the WIN Conference, Lucy Danger, CEO of EMERGE and Nazir Afzal OBE , International Adviser on Rule of Law &amp...

In this annual Grigor McClelland podcast, we will explore how current business practices are encouraging short-termism, ignoring nature and harming customers. The sense that capitalism needs to change, post-pandemic, reflects widespread concerns about the way business operates. In particular, many sectors of the economy are increasingly dominated by big companies, and this has been accompanied by...

In the unique and challenging world of a global pandemic, the continuity of services and organisational resilience has been critical to maintaining successful operations for both response organisations, providers of essential local services and critical infrastructure (including travel). In this, the first in a three-part series of podcasts co-produced with the British Standards Institute (BSI), w...

Looking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us online for the networking event of the month! Speak to like-minded business women for an amazing online event. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Prepare your digital business cards and make new connections in an informal setting.  This m...

Sponsored by DWF and Capita, Vital Topics is Alliance MBS' series of prestigious business lectures, bringing powerful ideas and original thinking to audiences from the Manchester city-region and beyond. The next Vital Topics event takes an in-depth look at how industry and academia are working increasingly closely to tackle the huge challenges – technical, economic, and social - around cyber secur...