Original Thinking Podcast

In the latest of our series of podcasts (in partnership with The International Emergency Managers Society – TIEMS, and Capacity Building International - CBI) our speakers will explore more of the key lessons and themes that have emerged from the Covid-19 crisis, concentrating on the perspectives of strengthening resilience planning and the implications for the emergency management profession going...

In April 2020, at the height of the first wave of COVID-19 across Europe, academics at Alliance Manchester Business School and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester launched The Manchester Briefing, a UK funded research project influencing global and local recovery and renewal strategies. A year on from when the crisis first struck, this special podcast i...

Hosted by Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lurig Change & Development Looking to make new connections and meet other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and come join us for the networking event of the month! Meet like-minded business women for an amazing event in Manchester. Discuss your ideas, share your knowledge and your expertise. Bring along your business cards a...

This episode will be hosted by  Mark Healey , Professor of Strategic Management at Alliance MBS. His research focuses on cognition in organisations, particularly applied to strategic decision making and the wider strategic management process. What does it take to think and act strategically? Strategic thinking is one of the most coveted skills in business but it remains poorly understood. In this...

During COVID-19, we have witnessed community responses on a scale and diversity that was previously unthinkable with invisible acts of good neighbourliness, donations by businesses of all sizes, and the creation of thousands of mutual aid groups, all in addition to the work of the voluntary sector. We now need to galvanise the progress made, identify and remove barriers for communities to flourish...

In April 2020, at the height of the first wave of COVID-19 across Europe, academics at Alliance Manchester Business School and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute launched The Manchester Briefing – a fortnightly document that brings together international lessons for local and national government recovery and renewal in the wake of the pandemic. The Briefing, which has been successful...

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 busines...

Today’s podcast was recorded at the Women in Business MBA Student Council event held on International Women’s Day. Joining us on the panel were Professor Fiona Devine OBE, Head of Alliance Manchester Business School, Damaris Albarran, Chair of Alliance Manchester Business School Advisory Board and former Vice President at Bank of New York Mellon, Katie Clinton, a member of Alliance Manchester Busi...

This podcast continues the interdisciplinary discussion of critical issues confronting human labour under COVID-19.  Conflicting Covid narratives: The value of supermarket work and implications for the future Abbie Winton is a final year doctoral researcher at the Work and Equalities Institute. Her research explores retail work and sociotechnical change, with a current focus on the crisis and the...

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 busines...

This episode will be hosted by  Panos Constantinides , Professor of Digital Innovation and Digital Learning Lead for Executive Education at Alliance MBS, who will be discussing artificial intelligence systems. Research into Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems has increasingly moved out of the lab and into organizational and social settings where they affect how people live and behave. This resear...

As we look ahead, one thing is clear. The old style of innovation isn’t working. With evolving technologies playing a vital role, and the pace of change not set to slow, now is the time for legacy organisations to be their own catalysts for change and to tap into the wealth of resources that will allow them to compete in the innovation game. What has stopped companies unleashing their potential to...

The belief that corporations have social charter to operate goes back many decades. This has, for better or worse, been encapsulated in more recent discussions of the social responsibility of corporations and can be seen operationalised in the environmental and social positioning of companies. However, despite the promise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) the evidence that it ‘matters’ mate...

In today's podcast we are delighted to be joined by businessman and philanthropist David Gregson who is here to discuss the Greater Manchester Young People's Wellbeing Programme. During a distinguished corporate career David has sat on the boards of some 30 companies and charities while also co-founding a leading private equity firm. He is also an alumnus of the University of Manchester and sits o...

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 busines...

This episode will be hosted by  Elinor O'Connor , Professor of Occupational Psychology at Alliance MBS, who discusses how Psychology can help us to understand and manage the impact of a range of work demands on workers’ performance and well-being. Elinor is currently the Director of Teaching and Learning at AMBS, and is a member of the School's Senior Leadership Team. Her interests in the field of...

This podcast presents an interdisciplinary discussion of critical issues confronting human labour under COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on work and working lives. This has ignited an important debate on the value of human labour, which has increased awareness of the criticality of a wide range of jobs, many of which have been traditionally undervalued, both politically...

In the last decade we’ve experienced an influx of FinTech start-ups challenging traditional financial institutions and attempting to disrupt the market through new and innovative product propositions. This 'new' FinTech phenomenon brought about a wave of change in financial services which resulted in altered competitive dynamics and shifting industry architecture. In this podcast,  Markos Zacharia...

Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu will explore how, despite traumatic experiences in her childhood during the 1950s, she managed to overcome them and achieve success in her adult life. She will reflect on both positive and negative aspects of living in a Children’s Home until the age of 9, followed by being subject to physical abuse at the hands of her stepfather due to her being mixed-race. The re...

Juergen Maier, former CEO of Siemens UK, discusses his views on the impact of COVID-19 on UK productivity and talks about how industry now needs to work closer than ever before with policymakers and other stakeholders to create a much more focused industrial strategy and address the UK’s productivity puzzle.  Juergen was joined by Gurpreet Narwan, economics correspondent at The Times, who facilita...

How do we connect with others around us and build strong working relationships? How do we boost morale and motivation or stimulate people to fight for social justice? Karen’s event was so engaging that we ran out of time during the event for her to answer the many questions posed to her, so she kindly agreed to follow up on these after the event. This allowed her to delve even deeper into the subj...

How do we connect with others around us and build strong working relationships? How do we boost morale and motivation or stimulate people to fight for social justice? In this podcast, Karen Niven , Professor of Organisational Psychology at Alliance MBS, will argue that the key to achieving these goals is shaping other people’s feelings. She will provide an overview of her research programme on thi...

How would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fails? Would you react differently to acts of discrimination performed by a machine or a human?  Honorary Professor at Alliance MBS César A. Hidalgo discusses the findings from his latest book  How Humans Judge Machines  in a discussion facilitated by  Dr Kieron Flanagan , Senior Lecturer in Science and Te...

On this joint podcast from  MICRA  and Alliance Manchester Business School a panel of experts will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on older workers. Speakers: Dr Sheena Johnson , Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing. Sheena will give some brief background to how older workers are potentially disproportionately affected given their increased risk to Covid19, and consider what support employers...

Hear from Capita, BT and experts from Alliance Manchester Business School as they discuss how 5G has the power to change the way we communicate, support economic growth and kick-start the next industrial revolution. Industries across the UK are looking at 5G as the backbone of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Industrial-grade wireless offers an opportunity to transform industry and healthcare; su...