19 April 2018
Louisa Osmond, Assistant Professor
The marketing community has been rocked by yet another scandal, this time concerning the ethics of data profiling and a consumer’s right to privacy.
09 April 2018
Gerry Reilly, Senior Teaching Fellow
With the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), President Xi Jinping plans to link China to Europe via investments in rail, roads, ports, dams, bridges, gas pipelines and...
27 March 2018
Robert Hartnett, Senior Teaching Fellow
... discontent? Perhaps, but the recent FT-ICSA Boardroom Bellwether Winter 2017 survey of FTSE 350 companies saw some early signs of improvement - at least economically.
12 March 2018
Colin Garvie, Assistant Professor
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26 February 2018
Louisa Osmond, Assistant Professor
In the UK KFC has run out of chicken. For a food outlet specialising in deep-fried poultry this is something of a disaster! It has recently changed suppliers and the...
19 February 2018
Professor Steve Carter, Professor of Marketing
Ten years or so ago, academics were extolling the techniques of market segmentation and target marketing (not to mention the third leg of the triumvirate, '...
14 February 2018
Professor Laura Galloway, Professor of Business & Enterprise
According to the UK government, people, not products are the key to scaling businesses. They refer to a report by Innovate UK last year in which personality...
12 February 2018
Colin Garvie, Assistant Professor
In the first two blogs in this series, using the example of an entrepreneur's expenditure on building a prototype and applying for a patent, I discussed firstly...
05 February 2018
Shai Davidov, Senior Teaching Fellow
Hint: it rhymes with “Aragon”, “Babylon” and even “Bourguignonne”. But there are others to point at as well…
Lately, I hear...