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In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Hemma visits with Vanessa Hans, the Head of Private Sector at the Basel Institute on Governance in Switzerland, to discuss the Institute's work. Tune in to learn more about the power of collective action in global anti-corruption work, the critical role of the private sector, and the importance of multilateral cooperation. Highlights include Vanessa's global travels as a competitive endurance cyclist The role of the Basel Institute of Governance in Global anti-corruption efforts Ways in which the private sector can get involved in global collective action initiatives  Biography:  Vanessa Hans is the Head of the Private Sector division of the Basel Institute on Governance.   She is an experienced international trade and development professional, skilled in anti-corruption compliance, corporate social responsibility, multi-stakeholder management and project management. Vanessa is also a competitive endurance athlete. She holds a Master of Science in Corporate Social Responsibility from the Nottingham University Business School and a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business from HEC Montreal.  Resources: B20 Collective Action Hub NBIM indicators 1.    Engaging the private sector in Collective Action against corruption: a good example of Basel Institute of Governance's (BIG) engagement with governments. 2.    Local certification through Collective Action: an innovative approach to anti-corruption compliance and due diligence: highlights the SME angle of our work. 3.    Measuring effectiveness of anti-corruption programmes: Indicators for company reporting: developed for Norges Bank Investment Management by BIG 4.    Guidance document for professional accountants which we co-develop with the International Federation of Accountants 5.    Case study on the humanitarian side and disaster response Our research on Collective Action in the ASEAN region Join the Great Women in Compliance community on LinkedIn here.

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS: The liminal space lies between the ‘no longer' and the ‘not yet' - it's a space of ambiguity and uncertainty and, at the same time, of discovery, creativity and exploration.    Different mentors will bring the lens of their own superpower so curate a range of advisors/mentors and be laser-sighted on what piece of advice you want from any given individual.   Like a fruit salad, it's actually the mix which is what really makes it and everyone's mix will be different.   There is just a different mode of life, one that is more free and full of discovery and validation, but just in a very, very different way from a career.     RESOURCES MENTIONED: Changing Gear by Mark Dando; https://www.amazon.co.uk/Changing-Gears-Mark-Dando/dp/1800421907   The Marketing Society - Community: The Marketing Industry Sprintathon 2024 | England https://www.marketingsociety.com/event/community-marketing-industry-sprintathon-2024-england     ABOUT OUR GUEST: Mark is an Executive level marketer of 25 years across Direct Line Group, HSBC and Mars, now pursuing a portfolio career. Mark now combines Executive coaching with a number of non-exec, advisory and Trustee roles with Accenture, the Marketing Society, Saracens Rugby, HMRC, The Institute for Customer Services, The UK Sepsis Trust, Save the Children, Nottingham University Business School, and OnSide Mark founded the “Sprintathon” in 2016 which is a mass-relay marathon charity event that has so far raised £900k for Stand Up To Cancer to beat cancer faster.  Mark was recognised as the Marketing Society Leader of the Year in 2018 and awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2023.  CONNECT WITH MARK EVANS: Email: markevans123456@googlemail.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markevans- Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3zajAP9qA031znCniJnHuV   ABOUT KYM HAMER: Kym Hamer is an international leadership, visibility and impact coach, a personal branding expert and serial entrepreneur, and the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams, and individuals to build visibility and reputational rigor as essential building blocks for delivering sustained business value. In other words, accelerating results by unlocking your greatest asset - YOU! In 2020, just one year after launching her first business, she was nominated by Thinkers360 as one of the Top 100 Women B2B Leadership influencers and is currently in the Top 25 Personal Branding and Top 12 Marketing Influencers in the world. For 4 years running Kym has also been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders on Entrepreneurship and in 2023, was recognised as one of their Top Voices for 2023 globally. Kym is the Founder & CEO of Artemis Futures International, a Founding Board Member of the Customer Experience & Service Association Middle East, and co-founder of CXSA Group Ltd.  She has been part of the faculty with Homeward Bound Projects, a global initiative reaching 1.8 billion people, equipping women and non-binary people with a STEMM background to lead conversations for a sustainable future. She voyaged to Antarctica in 2023 for 19 nights delivering the immersive component of the HB programme for more than 170 women, and is currently Faculty Lead for Homeward Bound's 8th leadership cohort. In between all of these things, you'll find her curled up in a corner with her nose in a book.     Building Brand You™: JOIN the BBY Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingbrandyou SUBSCRIBE to the BBY Podcast on: (Apple) - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/building-brand-you/id1567407273 (Spotify) - https://open.spotify.com/show/4Ho26pAQ5uJ9h0dGNicCIq SIGN UP to The BBY Bookshelf - https://bit.ly/BBYBookshelf   CONNECT WITH KYM HAMER: LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/kymhamer/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kymhamerartemis/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kymhamerartemis/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@kymhamer Thinkers360 - https://bit.ly/thinkers360-kymhamer-BBY Find out about BBY Coaching - https://calendly.com/kymhamer/bbychat/     HOSTED BY: Kym Hamer   DISCLAIMER: The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Building Brand You™ podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved. They do not necessarily represent any other entities, agencies, organisations, or companies. Building Brand You™ is not responsible and does not verify the accuracy of any of the information in the podcast available for listening on this site. The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. This podcast does not constitute legal advice or services.

Series FourThis episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Colin Strong, who is Head of Behavioural Science at Ipsos, and a Professor at Nottingham University Business School. He works with a wide range of organisations (both private and public sector) to design and deliver behavioural change through the use of behavioural science. His new book 'Out of Time: the revolution underway in beliefs about being human' is out now. In it, he seeks to make sense of our current state of liminality, and questions what we wish humans to become from this state. So, we discuss all of the above and along the way, Nietzsche, Descartes, the CIA and the late, great Daniel Kahneman all get a mention, along with many others. I hope you'll enjoy listening to Colin as much as I did!

In today's episode, David Chaviano hosts professor Stephen Lofthouse from Nottingham University Business School on the SAP Learning Insights Podcast to discuss the importance and benefits of pursuing a career in SAP. Steve, with a background that transited from pharmacy to software development and teaching SAP for many years, is passionate about equipping students with SAP skills and connecting them to industry opportunities. SAP knowledge can lead to a global career and the understanding the platform used by numerous businesses makes students an attractive hire. Steve suggests students start by researching companies using SAP, utilizing free learning resources like learning.sap.com and openSAP for skills, and actively engage with the SAP Community to demonstrate their interest and knowledge. He highlights the vast opportunities in technology and SAP, especially as AI and cloud migrations become prevalent, making it an ideal time to enter the field and secure a long-lasting, globally relevant career.

Rob Johnson, former Global Purchasing Director, Jaguar Land Rover, and Honorary Professor at Nottingham University Business School, discusses his experience in the automotive industry and the industrial revolution as we move from combustion engines to electrification.

LE BOLLETTE ED I COSTI IMPAZZITI, TRA PROTESTE E PROFITTI Remo Valsecchi, che ha curato per Altreconomia il dossier "Come non funziona il mercato dell'energia e chi lo governa", Davide Zanon, segretario associazione Codici Lombardia IL TAGLIO DELLE TASSE AI RICCHI NON PIACE PIU' NEMMENO AI CAPITALISTI? Con Tommaso Faccio docente di Diritto tributario alla Nottingham University Business School e segretario generale della Commissione per la riforma della tassazione delle multinazionali LE PROSPETTIVE DELLA RIVOLTA IN IRAN Con Paola Rivetti, professoressa associata presso la Dublin City University e si occupa di Medio Oriente e politica. È Associate Editor della rivista Iranian Studies IL DIBATTITO SULLO STADIO DI SAN SIRO

Cosa comporterebbe far pagare a tutti il 15% sui propri redditi? È possibile farlo visto che la Costituzione impone la progressività del sistema tributario?Ne abbiamo parlato con Tommaso Faccio Segretario generale della Commissione indipendente per la riforma della tassazione delle imprese internazionali, ICRICT, docente di Diritto tributario alla Nottingham University Business School e uno dei soci fondatori di Tax Justice Italia.---Musiche: Fugu vibes e Roo Walker

In Episode 9 of Series 7, Todd is joined again by Ben Lucas, Director of 3DI at the University of Nottingham, funders of this series. Together they reflect on some of the key themes and ideas to emerge from Series 7 of The Rights Track about human rights in a digital world.   Transcript Todd Landman  0:01   Welcome to The Rights Track podcast, which gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing us today. In series seven, we've been discussing human rights in a digital world. I'm Todd Landman. And in the last episode of this fantastic series, I'm delighted to be joined for the second time by Ben Lucas, Managing Director of 3DI at the University of Nottingham, a hub for world class data science research and funders for this series of our podcast. Ben helped kick off series seven at the end of last year talking about some of the challenges and opportunities created in a data driven society and the implications for our human rights. Today, he's here to help us reflect on some of the key themes that have emerged from this series. So welcome, Ben, it's great to have you on this final episode of The Rights Track. Ben Lucas  0:46   Great to be here. Thanks very much. Todd Landman  0:48   So last night, we were at a launch event for INFINITY, which is an inclusive financial technology hub being launched here at the University of Nottingham, we had a bucolic setting at the Trent bridge, cricket ground, which I say was quite historic. But some of the messages I heard coming out of that event last night, really gave me hope for the promise of digital with respect, particularly to helping people who are currently excluded from financial technologies or finance more generally. And the ever, you know, sort of problem of people getting credit ratings getting access to finance, I wondered if you could just reflect on what was shared last night around the the positive story that could be told around using technology to give people access to hard to find finance? Ben Lucas  1:29   Yeah, absolutely. So I think the central issue with financial inaccessibility is really the fact that people get trapped in this really bad cycle, and perhaps don't have savings, and then you lean more on credit options, for example. And then you become more and more dependent, if you like on credit options. Equally, there are also folks who are excluded from accessing credit completely or at an affordable rate. In the first instance, which obviously changes very much the quality of life, let's say that they're able to enjoy the things they're able to purchase, and so on. So really, the mission of projects like INFINITY, which is focusing very much on this idea of inclusive financial technology, is trying to boost accessibility to everything from tools that help people save to tools that help people spend to a breaking that some of these negative cycles that cause people to end up in not so great financial situations. And yeah, it's really leveraging and learning from, you know, all the wonderful developments in, you know, things like analytics and new financial services, products, especially those that are app based, that we use in the rest of the financial services world, but applying them for good, basically, so very much consistent with this data for good message that we've been speaking about in this series. Todd Landman  2:51   Right that's really interesting. So it's a data driven approach to understanding the gaps and inequalities in a modern society that does have the data infrastructure and technological infrastructure to give people access. But really the data driven approach lowers the barriers to entry for those folks. And I was quite struck by that there was a colleague there from Experian, which is a credit rating agency talking about the millions of people who either don't have online bank accounts don't have access to the right kinds of technologies, and don't have the kind of credit rating that gives them access to the lower priced financial products out there, which in sort of ordinary terms means they're paying a much higher interest rate to borrow money than people that do have a credit rating. So one solution was to use data analytics and a data driven approach to understand their position to boost their credit rating in a way that would give them access to cheaper finance. Did I get that right? Ben Lucas  3:40   Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, the central thing in financial services and lending is obviously managing their risk exposure with any individual consumer, but then also across, you know, their entire consumer portfolio. And I think, you know, one of the big opportunities in the inclusive FinTech space slash probably what we're going to see going forward is credit rating agencies and credit rating support products, looking for other variables or indicators that, you know, can really paint a clearer picture of individual consumers, and perhaps even say, well, actually, there's not so much risk with this consumer because there is other factors that the usual you know, bog standard algorithm doesn't pick up on, and maybe we don't have that risk exposure, maybe we can offer them, you know, financial products or lending products at a better rate, you know, that colleagues spoke also about Experian's boost product, for example, and I won't go into an advertisement for that, but yet a really interesting example of how by sort of extending the available data and what we do with that, you know, it's possible to sort of calibrate and tailor solutions that are a win win that reduce the risk for the credit provider, but give additional consumers more accessibility. And I think the other big piece just to detail briefly, within data driven and financial research, you know, some of the work that colleagues in the INFINITY team have been doing around, you know, helping to understand that an aggregate and in a privacy preserving way, where perhaps people are making not so great financial decisions. So being able to, you know, hopefully in the future help flag you know privacy protecting way to consumers when they're not making great decisions, which can be everything from wasteful over the top expenses to things like you know, too much gambling or unhealthy eating, for example. So certainly a very, very exciting space. Todd Landman  5:33   No, it's really fascinating, and it resonates well with many of the themes we've heard in this series of The Rights Track. So I'm going to just think about putting these things into groupings or clutches of perspectives if I may, so that you made reference this idea of data for good and of course, we had some guests on the podcast this series, including Sam Gilbert, who talked about the ability for digital transformation and data driven approaches to unearth previously unknown factors and public health benefits, and it could be social justice benefits and other benefits from leveraging data that don't normally talk to each other in a data analytic way. Wendy Betts told us about using really preserving the chain of evidence using visual imagery, but that date stamp timestamp location stamped and then preserving the metadata that sits behind an image for verification for the investigation of human rights abuse and human rights crimes. Amrit Dhir showed us in the United States how his organisation Recidiviz uses data from prisons to actually bring greater sense of justice to prisoners, as well as parolees. And finally, Diane Coyle, the world famous economist not only reflected on the many economic transformations that have happened with the digital disruption, but also made the case for universal access to online life and being on the grid almost as a basic human right, in the ways that access to information access to health care, access to services need to be provided. And certainly during COVID-19, we've learned that many people were excluded from those services precisely because they didn't have the right internet connection, or at least cannot afford to have the right kind of internet connection. So I just wondered what your general reflections are on that general theme of data for good. And what can you tell us about what you think listening to the guests that we've had during this series? Ben Lucas  7:21   Yeah, I mean, I really liked the way that Sam sort of sets the scene in his book, Good Data; An Optimist's Guide to our Digital Future. I think that nobody, of course likes to have their privacy compromised, at an individual level. But the reality is, when we look at, you know, the things we can do when we have data at scale across, you know, large populations, there's a lot that can be achieved, whether that's in something like inclusive FinTech, whether that's in protecting human rights by combating modern slavery, whether that's to do with health data in a system like the NHS. Yeah, I don't think anybody likes to have their privacy compromised, obviously, at that individual level. But if there's a sort of way to communicate that greater good message, I'm not trying to encourage people to willingly give away their data for free, quite the opposite. But I think that's the sort of big debate the both commercial and academic data scientists, you know, that's really the arena in which we work. Because there are a lot of benefits to be had. When we think about sort of data at scale. Equally, we need to protect, you know, individuals and communities. I think, you know, it's really great in this series to hear about, you know, things like eyeWitness up and Recidiviz and some of these platforms that I think are managing that really well and really getting that good out of the data. Yeah, I think that's been really nice. There's a lot we can say also, on the subject of, I think this is more of a frontier thing. But artificial intelligence in particular, which came up a few times, which I think is going to be the next well already is actually the next big frontier in terms of talking about, you know, transparency and fairness, especially because we're applying these tools to these large datasets. Todd Landman  9:04   Right. And I also came across a very interesting project and another group here at the University of Nottingham. It's within the Nottingham University Business School. And it's a neo-demographic lab or N/Lab, which works on you know, big data science projects around harnessing unknown information from pre existing datasets. And there was a partnership with OLIO, which is an app that allows people to trade food that they're not going to need so surplus food sits in people's houses, other people need food. So this app allows people to share food across the app, and to actually make best use almost the circular economy, if you will, in sharing food. Now, quite apart from the pragmatics and the practicalities of sharing food between households. Of course, the app collects data on who needs food and who has food, and that then allows the geo-mapping of food poverty within particular districts and jurisdictions within the United Kingdom. Can you say a bit more about that project and does this fit within the category of data for good?  Ben Lucas  10:03   Absolutely. I mean, that's an absolutely fantastic piece of work, you know. And obviously, the purpose of that platform and all that work is to look at both combating food inaccessibility and food poverty, on the one hand, and on the other, combating food waste. So really, yeah, absolutely a fantastic example, as far as data for good and also doing the right thing by people in society. I think it is also a great example of this idea that we can, you know, log data from sharing platforms, and really whatever platform in an ethical way, you know, in the work those that colleagues at N/Lab are doing, you know, so it's all privacy preserved data. It's possible to get a, you know, useful enough geotagged picture of how the sharing is taking place, such that it can be understood at a network level, but it's not giving away, you know, exact locations, it has no identifiers of who's linked to it. But even just with that sort of network exchange level data, you know, it really tells a very interesting story about how this system works. And, you know, as you said, I mean, this is very much in the peer to peer sharing economy space, which is a relatively new idea. So it's also from an academic point of view, very important and very useful to be doing research to understand these entirely, relatively new kinds of systems. Todd Landman  11:26   So essentially, because the heat map that that project produced was for a belief Haringey Council in Greater London, and I guess, you know, knowing what I know about data, this could be scaled up for all jurisdictions, the United Kingdom. And beyond that the heat map tells you areas of food poverty, but also could inform government as to where to put resource and where dare I say levelling up funding could be targeted to help those most in need. Ben Lucas  11:53   Yeah, absolutely. I mean, as I understand it, that works, you know, been incredibly useful for the platform and how it's looking to grow and continue to be successful. But yeah, absolutely. That's really another key thing here is the value these platforms have for policymakers for government, indeed. Todd Landman  12:08   Great. So we've had the data for good story, I now turn our attention to the data for bad story, because we had some guests that were very suspicious, sceptical and were critical of this burst and proliferation and digital transformation and the production of data second by second day by day, week, by week, year by year and two of our guests had actually different perspective on this, so Susie Alegre has this fantastic new book out with Atlantic books, she called Freedom of Thought. And what she was really concerned about was not only the history of analogue ways in which people's freedom of thought had been compromised, but also the digital ways in which freedom of thought might be compromised by this digital revolution. And for her, her concern, really is that there are unwitting or witting ways in which people's thought patterns might be manipulated through AI and machine learning. And we use popular examples of consumerism, consumer platforms, such as Amazon and other shopping platforms where not only does one get bombarded by advertisements, but actually gets suggestions for new things to buy based on patterns of spend in the past. And there is cross referencing between platforms. And I think Sam Gilbert also addressed this thing about this micro targeting and cross referencing. So if I search for something on one platform, it shows up on another one, when I'm sort of, you know, at least expecting it to do so. A bought some shoe laces the other day, they came to the house within a day. So I had that lovely customer experience. And yet, when I went on to a CNN website to look at the news headlines, the first ad that popped up was for shoe laces. So can you say a bit more about the unease that people have around these sharing platforms and the worry that our thoughts are being manipulated by this new technology? Ben Lucas  13:45   Yeah, I think this idea of freedom of thought or, you know, illusion of decision freedom is a really important one, when we're talking about the internet, and especially, you know, one can imagine, you know, as was evidenced with the Cambridge Analytical scandal back a few years ago, you know, this becomes especially dangerous when we're talking about political messaging. I think it's important that we, as users of the internet, approach the internet with a healthy degree of scepticism being a bit, you know, cautiously analytical, and occasionally taking a step back and thinking about what the implications of our behaviour online, including simply consuming content consuming information really are. The reality is most of if not all of the online platforms that we use be that social media, ecommerce, or whatever. They are designed to achieve immersion. They're designed to keep you spending more time and if you're spending time in the wrong kind of echo chambers, or if you're getting exposed to messages from bad actors. You hear these stories of people going down all sorts of terrible rabbit holes and things and this is how conspiracy theories and so forth proliferate online. Yeah, but certainly even just for the regular internet user, we all definitely need to be thinking about where is information coming from? Is it from reliable sources? Is the intent good? And do we indeed have that decision making freedom? I think is the really important thing, or is someone trying to play with us? Todd Landman  15:13   Well, it's a really interesting answer. And it links very nicely to our episode with Tom Nichols, because he was saying that there's this tendency towards narcissism. And that's, you know, certainly during COVID, people had more time inside, they had more time to dedicate to being online. But at the same time, the rabbit holes that you're worrying about really raised too high relief. And so that retreat into narcissism, the idea that if you're going to post something, you're only going to post something negative, critical and maybe sowing division by posting those critical comments. But you also in your answer talked about the power of particular individuals. And I guess, I have to address the question of Twitter in two ways. So Tom made this observation of Twitter is this sort of, you know, you have now have 240 characters to, you know, vent your spleen online and criticise others, but also that's powerful platform to mobilise people. And I say this in two ways. The first is that the revelations from the January 6 committee investigating the events that led up to the insurrection against the US Capitol was putting a lot of weight this week on just the number of followers that former President Trump had, and a single tweet in December where he said, you know, come to the Capitol on January 6, it will be wild. And then there were an array of witnesses paraded in front of the committee, from far right groups from the Oathkeepers, and other groups of that nature, who were saying, but actually, we saw this as a call to arms. So there was a nascent organising taking place, but there's almost this call to arms issued by a single tweet to millions of followers that really was, you know, the spark that lit the fire and wonder if you might just reflect on that. Ben Lucas  16:50   Yeah, I think for anyone currently also trying to keep up with slash decipher the story in the news about Elon Musk, putting in an offer to buy Twitter, which has now fallen through, I would use that lens to sort of explore this because one of the goals that I think he was seeking to achieve in taking over Twitter was really opening up its potential for free speech further. But yeah, for anybody sort of observing. That's a really tricky one. Because sometimes when the speech is, well, I mean, that there should be free speech. But people should be saying, you know, hopefully nice things within that freedom, and not denying the rights of others and not weaponizing free speech to stir up trouble. I think it's really, you know, we touched on this in the first episode of the series as well, the really big question with social media is, who's the editor in chief? Is it everybody? Or is it nobody, and which is the better format?  Todd Landman  17:42   Yeah, and we talked about that unmediated expression and unmediated speech and that Martin Scheinin, as well, as Tom Nichols talked about how traditional media organisations have had that mediating function, and the editorial function, which is lost when you have an open platform in the way that Twitter has, even though they did in the end, deplatform the former President. But I want to get back to that. I mean, you know, the task of the January 6 committee is not only to say we think there's a causal link between this tweet and people doing things, but they will also need to demonstrate the intentionality of the tweet in and of itself. And I think that's a major concern, because there's certainly ambiguity in the language saying, you know, come to the Capitol, it's going to be wild doesn't necessarily convert into a mass uprising with weapons and an insurrection. So there's a tall order of, I would say, legal proof, above reasonable doubt that needs to be established, were one to go down that legal route. But if we look at Elon Musk, I mean, here's one person who's exceptionally wealthy in the world who can buy an entire platform. And the concern that many people have is can one individual have that much power to acquire something that powerful, and we don't know if the deals fallen through, because there are some legal wranglings going on at the moment about whether he could actually withdraw at this late stage in the purchase process. But be that as it may, I wonder if you might just reflect on this ability for a very wealthy single individuals take control of a platform as powerful as Twitter. Ben Lucas  19:10   So I think it's a really complicated one, it's really one of the most complicated questions within the social media space, you know, because these platforms are ultimately businesses. There's a founder, there's a CEO, there's a board, there's that leadership, and hopefully accountability and responsibility. It is really a tough one, you know, one wonders about a future where, you know, in the same way, you've got the Open AI Foundation, for example, or you've got, you know, other truly sort of open peer to peer kind of platforms. If we think about how the internet is or technology is trying to decentralise things like finance in the future, wonders if there's sort of an alternative model that could solve some of these problems. I think the narrative so to speak specifically about Elon Musk that he's been putting forward, was really just to open up Twitter even further taking that sort of laissez faire kind of approach and just you know, letting free speech just sort itself out. And again, free speech is and can be a good thing. But sadly, when people engineer these kind of messages to avoid legal accountability, but are implying, you know, some sort of stirring up of trouble, when people engage in narcissistic sort of messaging when people engage in putting forward, you know, campaigns, you know, engineering very, very strong emotions, like fear and anger, obviously, that can get out of control very, very quickly. The reality is, I'm not qualified to come up with the solution. And I, sadly, I don't know who is. Yeah. Todd Landman  20:36   Well, that's interesting, because we have some guests that were suggesting a solution. And if I listened to you speak about the Elon Musk agenda to open up in a laissez faire way, it's almost the invisible hand of the information market, you know, if we go back to economics, and one tenant of economics at least has been that the invisible hand sort of guides markets, and the pricing and equilibrium that comes from supply and demand produces a regulatory outcome that is beneficial for the most people most of the time, it's a somewhat naive view, because there's always winners and losers and economic transactions. So counter to this idea of the invisible hand of the information market, we had quite an interesting set of thoughts from Martin Scheinin, and from Susie Alegre on the need for regulation. And that really does take us back to the beginning of this series of The Rights Track where you made the observation that tech is advancing more quickly than the regulatory frameworks are being promulgated that there's this lag, if you will, between the regulatory environment and the technological environment. So I wonder just for your final reflections, that really what both Martin Scheinin and Susie Alegre are saying that if tech is neutral, we need to go back to ethics, morality law and a human rights framework to give us the acceptable and reasonable boundary conditions with which all this activity needs to be thought about.  Ben Lucas  21:56   Yeah, exactly. I mean, it really does come down to, you know, well constructed regulation, which is obviously complicated, especially when, you know, most major social media platforms have a global footprint. So it's then how to ensure consistency across the markets they operate in. I think a lot of the regulatory frameworks are kind of there for the offline world. And the main thing, yeah, that we were sort of getting at in the first episode of this series is really that because technology moves so fast, because these platforms grew so quickly, you know, there are laws to stop people, no one can just go into the town square and start, you know, hurling obscenities, you know, in public, but for some reason, you know, it happens millions and millions of times a day on social media platforms. So I think, yeah, regulation really is key here. But the other thing is, I would say the people that misuse, the definition and excuse of free speech, should actually really look up the definition of free speech again. Todd Landman  22:57   Well, it's this idea of doing no harm. You know, I think I mentioned this notion of a Hippocratic Oath, if you will, for the digital world that you can engage but do no harm. And what people conceive and perceive as harm, of course, is open to interpretation. But that's a general kind of impulse behind this. And you know, this distinction between the offline world and the online world is also really, really important. So Tom Nichols invites us to maybe get off the grid occasionally go back into our community, say hi to our neighbours, volunteer for things and experience humanity face to face in the offline world a bit more than were experiencing in the online world. And of course, the appeal to morality, ethics, law and the human rights framework is going back to you know, basic philosophy, basic conceptions of rights, basic conceptions of law, to make sure that, you know, our offline world thoughts can be applied to our online world behaviours. So, you know, these are super deep insights. And as the world progresses, as technology progresses, as the interconnections between human beings progress in ways that we've seen over the last several decades, through the medium of digital transformation, and this ever expanding digital world, it does make us pause at this moment to say that actually reflect on human dignity, human value, integrity, and accountability and responsibility for the kinds of things that we do both within the offline world and the online world. And you've given us much to think about here Ben certainly across the many episodes of this series, you kicked us off with this great, you know, offline - online regulation versus tech dichotomy that we all face. We've heard from so many people, evangelising the virtues of the digital world but also raising significant concerns about the harm that can come from that digital world if we allow it to run unchecked. So for now, it's just my job to thank you Ben for coming back on this final episode, giving us a good wrap up set of reflections on what you've heard across the series. And thank you ever so much for joining us today on this episode of The Rights Track. Ben Lucas  25:02   Thanks so much. Christine Garrington  25:04   Thanks for listening to this episode of The Rights track podcast which was presented by Todd Landman and produced by Chris Garrington of Research Podcasts with funding from 3DI. You can find a full transcript of this episode on the website at www.rightstrack.org together with useful links to content mentioned in the discussion. Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts to access future and earlier episodes.  

Both England and Norway have recently established national agencies solely focused on addressing safety problems in health care. Could a similar independent, nonpunitive federal agency be the missing piece to finally put the U.S. on a clear path to improved healthcare safety? Join host Karen Wolk Feinstein and guests Dr. Carl Macrae, professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology at Nottingham University Business School in England, and Dr. Siri Wiig, professor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems at the University of Stavanger in Norway, for an inside look into the forces that inspired action on patient safety and the tactics that helped to build broad support for the endeavors. View show notes and a transcript of this episode here.

Both England and Norway have recently established national agencies solely focused on addressing safety problems in health care. Could a similar independent, nonpunitive federal agency be the missing piece to finally put the U.S. on a clear path to improved healthcare safety? Join host Karen Wolk Feinstein and guests Dr. Carl Macrae, professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology at Nottingham University Business School in England, and Dr. Siri Wiig, professor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems at the University of Stavanger in Norway, for an inside look into the forces that inspired action on patient safety and the tactics that helped to build broad support for the endeavors. View show notes and a transcript of this episode here.

On this episode, Sabine VdL interviews David King, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of fast-growing InsurTech startup, Artificial Labs or Artificial.io to discuss the company's strengths and how sport influences David's choices and business outlook. KEY TAKEAWAYS Artificial is very much focused on facilitating algorithmic underwriting within the insurance sector. That means that the Artificial team works with brokers and underwriters to get the data into the right format so that it can be shared between the two and, once it’s been shared... define what the process, pipeline and fundamentals should be to improve decision making and customer experiences and interactions. Insurance is an industry where data AND relationships are really important. We use technology (and algorithms) to help automate the decision making process. The number of variables that a human can take into account in order to make a decision is between 5-7 variables. If you keep on adding more to the decision-making process, then the accuracy of models and algorithms start to decrease. If a business is supported by the right technology, one can make a decision that’s either automated or presented in a detailed and informed assessment of risk. This enables human actors that would make key decisions to make the right commercial risk decisions, even if partly automated. It’s not just about the ability to train a model to assess risks to improve your underwriting performance and make it efficient, it is also about the ability to operate within ecosystems. Part of our secret sauce is that we have a domain-specific programming language that allows us to codify an underwriter’s appetite and to leverage and integrate with any data source or service in order to make a decision. More data are going to be available in future. It is a fact. Are underwriters going to have to be more sophisticated in the way they make decisions? Definitely. Is the market going to become more efficient and therefore does the operational cost ratio need to be lower? Even more... Yes. I think underwriters will need to work closely with portfolio managers, people with more maths skills – I don’t necessarily think that means machine learning/ data scientist type skills will become closer to the underwriting decisions on a day-to-day basis, but I do think that you may have a multi-disciplinary team that understands where the data is coming from and what’s driving true decisions. BEST MOMENTS ‘I’ve always been quite competitive and love "sport." I like team sports probably because my own abilities are quite poor. If you’re a team player you can leverage the abilities of other people and I look to elite sport to understand what cultures drive performance and how people operate too.’ ‘Technology won’t take over and make all the decisions. Still, you’ll have strategies that are set by very data-informed people and you can execute that across a broad spectrum of products, services, and classes.’ ‘The models are only as good as the data you provide to them, but the models don’t exist in isolation, they also exist in a business that needs to be operationally efficient.’ ‘You now need to operate while understanding that you’re not going to have all the components end-to-end, so you need to be able to play nicely with others. This will lead to greater efficiency that provides greater experiences to customers. This also means you keep them longer and can then sell them more things.’ ABOUT THE GUEST David King has worked in digital media and technology since graduating from Nottingham University Business School with a degree in Industrial Economics in 2005. After spending a gap year as Troop Commander in the British Army, King spent time as a Digital Planner for Carat, where he worked with global brands such as Yahoo!, British Gas and Santander. King moved on to become Director at Sure Insurance Services in 2009 where his knowledge of the digital space helped to bring innovative insurance products to market in the medical and health insurance sectors. It was here that his understanding of the insurance market grew, setting the stage for his later foray into space with Artificial Labs. Following his time at Sure, King set up his own digital services company called Data Stripes in 2011. The company delivered highly polished, data-intensive, digital applications for some of the world's biggest brands. In 2013, the success of Data Stripes led King to merge with Johnny Bridges' company ConceptMill, creating Artificial Labs. The company provided high-quality, data-led design to global clients such as BMW, Levi's and Betfair. In 2016, Artificial pivoted into the insurance space, building partnerships with firms such as AXIS and Ambris. King's existing industry experience, combined with Bridges' previous work in insurance companies, meant that the company could take advantage of a growing need for high-quality data and digital platforms amongst insurance companies. Since 2017, King has been steering the commercial ship at Artificial, helping to develop partnerships with global insurance brands such as Convex, Chaucer, Aon and TMHCC. With years of experience in technological innovation now under its belt, the company is prospering as a provider of algorithmic underwriting technology to the London market and beyond. Websites: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malarkeyking/ and https://artificial.io/ ABOUT THE HOST Sabine is a corporate strategist turned entrepreneur. She is the CEO and Managing Partner of Alchemy Crew, a venture lab that accelerates the curation, validation, and commercialization of new tech business models. Sabine is renowned within the insurance sector for building some of the most renowned tech startup accelerators around the world working with over 30 corporate insurers and accelerating over 100 startup ventures. Sabine is the co-editor of the bestseller The INSURTECH Book, a top 50 Women in Tech, a FinTech and InsurTech Influencer, an investor & multi-award winner. Twitter: SabineVdLLinkedIn: Sabine VanderLindenInstagram: sabinevdLofficialFacebook: SabineVdLOfficialTikTok: sabinevdlofficialEmail: podcast@sabinevdl.com Website: www.sabinevdl.com This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Experiencing The Ideal Client Success Programme - With Dr Sam Beatson Sam has just completed Jane's 90 Day Ideal Client Success Accelerator and in this interview we talk about his experience and how it helped him create his exciting programme and offer. Sam Beatson is a PHD qualified Economist, Data Scientist, Consultant, Researcher and Lecturer at The Nottingham University Business School. He advises government and financial institutions; evaluates policy, and designs and advises on advanced projects that require applied data science and financial and economic problem solving. Sam is also the Prosperity Professor, helping aspiring wealth creators and entrepreneurs to discover their propensity for abundance and prosperity in just a few minutes a day. Jane's Ideal Client Success programme is for ambitious service based experts and founders who have a business or revenue stream they want to scale to 6 figures, multiple 6 figures or beyond. They're willing to back themselves to achieve the business and life they desire. They may feel scared or overwhelmed. They may have struggled, or still be struggling. But they won't give up. They're all in - determined not to fail or compromise their dreams. They want a better life for themselves and their loved ones, and they want to make an impact in the world. Do you have online authority assets that help you attract your ideal clients? If not, would you like to get started, like Sam? ABOUT THE HOST: Jane Bayler is a serial entrepreneur, investor, speaker, event host and business scale up expert. She had a 20 year history in global media and advertising, before becoming a serial entrepreneur herself, with multiple businesses in real estate, marketing and education. Having grown and sold a £6M brand identity business to US communications group Interpublic, today she is most passionate about and committed to serving other entrepreneurs – helping them grow their businesses and achieve their best lives.  Enquire about working 1:1 with Jane, book a call here: https://bit.ly/2Z07DML Join Jane's free Masterclass to discover her Triple C HyperGrowth system - to scale up your business and attract your ideal clients, here: https://idealclientsuccess.com/masterclass

Joe, le taxeur. Così la settimana scorsa titolava il quotidiano francese Liberation. Joe Biden, l'esattore. Secondo il quotidiano di sinistra francese è l'uomo delle tasse del momento. All'interno degli Stati Uniti ha aumentato le tasse sulle imprese dal 21 al 28%; all'estero ha premuto sui G7 per la tassa minima sulle multinazionali. La Casa Bianca di Biden sta cercando a tutti i costi di recuperare dal passato almeno l'immaginario del New Deal rooseveltiano o della Great Society di Lyndon Johnson. Riforme e politiche fiscali redistributive verso il basso. E così di equità, tasse sui ricchi, redistribuzione fiscale si torna a parlare dopo un quarantennio di tabula rasa neoliberista. E' solo un'operazione cosmetica, di “fiscalwashing”? Oppure si vuole mettere mano alle diseguaglianze crescenti nelle nostre società? In questo caso basta la leva fiscale per ricomporre divari e disuguaglianze? Memos ha ospitato oggi Tommaso Faccio, docente di diritto tributario alla Nottingham University Business School e segretario generale della Commissione per la riforma della tassazione delle multinazionali (ICRICT). Insieme a lui, Elena Granaglia, docente di Scienza delle Finanze all'università di Roma Tre, che fa parte del Coordinamento del Forum Disuguaglianze Diversità.

Joe, le taxeur. Così la settimana scorsa titolava il quotidiano francese Liberation. Joe Biden, l'esattore. Secondo il quotidiano di sinistra francese è l'uomo delle tasse del momento. All'interno degli Stati Uniti ha aumentato le tasse sulle imprese dal 21 al 28%; all'estero ha premuto sui G7 per la tassa minima sulle multinazionali. La Casa Bianca di Biden sta cercando a tutti i costi di recuperare dal passato almeno l'immaginario del New Deal rooseveltiano o della Great Society di Lyndon Johnson. Riforme e politiche fiscali redistributive verso il basso. E così di equità, tasse sui ricchi, redistribuzione fiscale si torna a parlare dopo un quarantennio di tabula rasa neoliberista. E' solo un'operazione cosmetica, di “fiscalwashing”? Oppure si vuole mettere mano alle diseguaglianze crescenti nelle nostre società? In questo caso basta la leva fiscale per ricomporre divari e disuguaglianze? Memos ha ospitato oggi Tommaso Faccio, docente di diritto tributario alla Nottingham University Business School e segretario generale della Commissione per la riforma della tassazione delle multinazionali (ICRICT). Insieme a lui, Elena Granaglia, docente di Scienza delle Finanze all'università di Roma Tre, che fa parte del Coordinamento del Forum Disuguaglianze Diversità.

Innovation is most commonly associated with the development and use of new and emerging technologies. But what about the role of standards? Do they enable or constrain the development of these innovations?In this episode Matthew and Alan speak to Peter Swann, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School, about the important relationship between standards and innovation.#bsiedpod. education@bsigroup.com. bsigroup.com/education.

Episode 9. Innovation is most commonly associated with the development and use of new and emerging technologies. But what about the role of standards? Do they enable or constrain the development of these innovations? In this episode we hear from Peter Swann, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School, to explore the important relationship between standards and innovation. The BSI EDUCATION PODCAST is hosted by Matthew Chiles - Educational Development Manager at BSI, and Alan Sellers - Senior Compliance Manager at Dyson and Chair of BSI’s Young Professionals Advisory Panel. For more information on the themes raised in this episode go to: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/people/lizpgs.html https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/about-bsi/uk-national-standards-body/about-standards/Innovation/ https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/about-bsi/uk-national-standards-body/about-standards/Innovation/Fast/ https://www.bsigroup.com/getinvolved And for more information on BSI Education go to: www.bsigroup.com/education. Get in touch with the podcast at education@bsigroup.com and share us on social media using #bsiedpod.

Chief medical and scientific officers Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance have warned the country of what could happen if Covid cases continue to rise but are they just scaring us into complying with their guidelines? There's response from political columnist at The Sun Trevor Kavanagh and Professor David Paton Chair of Industrial Economics, Nottingham University Business School, signatory on a new letter calling for the government to handle the pandemic differently. We also hear from Founder and Chairman of Wetherspoons Tim Martin who responds to the scoop that pubs may be forced to close at 10pm. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Recorded at the Consumer Uncertainty Conference, Dr. Samanthika Gallage shared research about consumer decision-making and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced consumers to change their consumption behaviours swiftly. More than 200 countries are on lockdown and consumers are living and consuming in their own confined spaces. They deal with anxiety and stress in their day-to-day lives. Are they using consumption to cope with the situation? If so, what do they consume to deal with the situation? How have they changed their consumption habits? As marketers, are we supporting them enough? What is our role in this? The session will provide some insights into these questions. Dr. Samanthika Gallage is an expert in consumer behaviour especially in the areas of ethical and sustainable aspects of consumption. She completed her doctoral degree from the Nottingham University Business School, UK, and currently works as a lecturer in Marketing at Staffordshire Business School, UK. Her research interest is in the area of Transformative Consumer Research (TCR) and she has been working on projects focusing on subsistence communities, vulnerable consumer groups, coping consumption, and social marketing. Prior to joining academia, she has been working as a brand manager in the FMCG industry. She has presented her work in various international conferences and published in high quality refereed journals. Recorded: May 2020 Connect with Dr. Samanthika Gallage via LinkedIn Watch the full presentation via Clicksights

Chief Political Correspondent at The Financial Times, Jim Pickard speaks to Nick about the impact on the economy when the 4th of July re-openings which are due to be announced tomorrow. Plus what amendments need to be made to the 2M rule considering the planned re-opening next month? Nick is joined by Professor David Paton who is Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School, former government adviser at HMRC and at the Department of Trade and Industry and Gabriel Scally who is President of Epidemiology & Public Health at the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the Independent SAGE group

Health Secretary Matt Hancock joins Nick to launch the new track and trace system. Nick also discusses the possibility of reducing the two metre social distancing rule. HE is joined by tow leading Professors, Sally Jane Cutler, Professor in Medical Microbiology at the University of East London and Professor David Paton, Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School, former government adviser at HMRC and at the Department of Trade and Industry

This podcast was recorded following the Business and Corporations session at our Resilient Communities conference. It features Mark Gordon, Director of Communications and Partnerships at Power to Change, Helen Carroll, Director of Community Strategy & Activation at The Co-Operative Group, and Professor Mihaela Kelemen, Chair in Business and Society at Nottingham University Business School. The podcast is chaired by Cumberland Lodge Scholar Aida Maaz. The conference aimed to examine how to foster social cohesion in ways that make communities more resilient to disruptive events and developments, and help fractured communities to reconfigure more effectively in their aftermath. This conference is hosted in partnership with The Young Foundation, a leading independent centre for that aims to help communities thrive, through research, community-led innovation, and social innovation, ventures and investment.

If you're a "twitcher" in the UK, Stephen Moss is a familiar household name, and a beloved birding celebrity. He was the original producer of the BAFTA award-winning TV series Springwatch, worked with the TV shows Big Cat Diary, Birds Brittania, and Birding with Bill Oddie, and has authored no less than forty books on birds and British wildlife. Stephen writes a monthly Birdwatch column for The Guardian, is president of the Somerset Wildlife Trust, is an honorary professor at Nottingham University Business School, and currently leads courses and lectures at Bath Spa University in MA Travel & Nature Writing. As a close friend of both Bill Thompson III and Wendy Clark, Stephen and his family have hosted them many times at their lovely home in Somerset UK. This podcast was recorded in August, 2019 as Wendy and Stephen chatted on the Moss family patio in butterfly garden. Learn more about Stephen's expansive career, his passion for birds, conservation, and education, and take a stroll down memory lane as Stephen and Wendy share fond memories of the late Bill Thompson III.

This is the third and final episode from our Chinaccelerator 8x8 Speakers Series. Twice a year, we invite some of the most accomplished and thoughtful members of the China startup ecosystem to share key lessons for startups in eight minutes or less.Our theme for this episode is partnerships and relationships in the startup world. We have three fantastic speakers who will talk about this theme from different angles: Jill Tang, Shameen Prashantham, and Catherine Kang.Show Notes:[1:55] Jill Tang, Building Community-Based Startups[9:55] Shameen Prashantham, "Dancing With Gorillas": How Startups and Large Companies Work Together[18:29] Catherine Kang, How to Choose a Co-FounderJill Tang is a serial entrepreneur, community builder, and business KOL. She is the co-founder of Ladies Who Tech, China's first and largest community dedicated to promoting gender diversity and inclusion in STEM. She is also the co-founder and managing partner of Cosmic Venture, which combines lean methodology and proprietary algorithm to assess brands with real time market validation.Dr. Shameen Prashantham is an Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. He previously taught at Nottingham University Business School and Glasgow University Business School, after earning his PhD from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, UK. His research focuses on how new ventures and large multinationals partner with each other.Catherine is a leading professional in the Health and Beauty, Luxury Goods, High-end Service and Retail industry with more than 20 years of experience in Sales, Marketing and General Management. She is now the founder and CEO of PHISKIN, a leading brand on female anti-aging therapy, functional cosmetics, beauty cosmetology and plastic surgery.Many thanks to our host Oscar Ramos; our guests Jill, Shameen, and Catherine; editors David and Geep; producers Eva Shi and Matthew Wu; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsors People Squared and Himalaya. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.comIf you like us, please give us a review and share with your friends!Follow us on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/Email us: team@chinastartuppulse.com

This is the third and final episode from our Chinaccelerator 8x8 Speakers Series. Twice a year, we invite some of the most accomplished and thoughtful members of the China startup ecosystem to share key lessons for startups in eight minutes or less.Our theme for this episode is partnerships and relationships in the startup world. We have three fantastic speakers who will talk about this theme from different angles: Jill Tang, Shameen Prashantham, and Catherine Kang.[1:55] Jill Tang, Building Community-Based Startups[9:55] Shameen Prashantham, "Dancing With Gorillas": How Startups and Large Companies Work Together[18:29] Catherine Kang, How to Choose a Co-FounderJill Tang is a serial entrepreneur, community builder, and business KOL. She is the co-founder of Ladies Who Tech, China's first and largest community dedicated to promoting gender diversity and inclusion in STEM. She is also the co-founder and managing partner of Cosmic Venture, which combines lean methodology and proprietary algorithm to assess brands with real time market validation.Dr. Shameen Prashantham is an Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. He previously taught at Nottingham University Business School and Glasgow University Business School, after earning his PhD from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, UK. His research focuses on how new ventures and large multinationals partner with each other.Catherine is a leading professional in the Health and Beauty, Luxury Goods, High-end Service and Retail industry with more than 20 years of experience in Sales, Marketing and General Management. She is now the founder and CEO of PHISKIN, a leading brand on female anti-aging therapy, functional cosmetics, beauty cosmetology and plastic surgery. Many thanks to our host Oscar Ramos; our guests Jill, Shameen, and Catherine; editors David and Geep; producers Eva Shi and Matthew Wu; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsors People Squared and Himalaya. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.comIf you like us, please give us a review and share with your friends!Follow us on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/the-china-startup-pulse/Email us: team@chinastartuppulse.com

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) comprise 99% of nonfinancial businesses in the euro area and employ 67% of the total labor force. In Asia, they account for almost 98% of all businesses and employ about 66% of the workforce. These businesses are vital to a country's economy. To survive, most SMEs need external funding. The most important direct sources are credit lines, bank loans, and leasing. Funds are essential—but where are they? What can be done to help SMEs? Danilo Mascia of Nottingham University Business School investigates. Read the transcript https://bit.ly/2QlSLEL Read the working paper https://www.adb.org/publications/young-enterprises-and-bank-credit-denials About the author Danilo Mascia is an assistant professor in banking at Nottingham University Business School, United Kingdom. Know more about ADBI's work https://bit.ly/2P4vpiv https://bit.ly/2QiA5G9

Factory music:the role that popular music plays in workers' culture. Marek Korczynski, Chair in Sociology of Work at the Nottingham University Business School, talks to Laurie Taylor about his study of a British factory that manufactures window blinds, revealing how pop music can enliven monotonous work, providing a sense of community as well as moments of resistance to the tyranny of the workplace. Also, volunteering in 'hard times': James Laurence ESRC Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, examines how the 2008-9 recession has affected peoples' willingness to do formal voluntary work as well as informal helping. Producer:Jayne Egerton.

Dawna Jones talks to Wendy Chapple, deputy director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School, about a different approach to executive education and why the school has launched an MSc in sustainability.

Harvard Business School: Laurie Taylor takes a journey through the complex moral world of what many call the West Point of American Capitalism. Michel Anteby, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, describes his research into the inner workings, mores and rituals of this highly influential institution.They're joined by Professor Ken Starkey from the Nottingham University Business School. Also, a cultural history of pain with Dr Louise Hide, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck. University of London. Producer: Jayne Egerton.

Christopher Barnatt is the author of 3D Printing: The Next Industrial Revolution. He is a professional futurist and videographer and for 24 years has lectured in computing and future studies at Nottingham University Business School.    Visit Christopher's website at ExplainingTheFuture.com

Stuart Ross hails from Nottingham, England as head of the High Growth Academy and top selling author. Stuart’s successfully consulted with over 500 firms to produce over £3bn in company revenue in the UK alone. He’s here to break down the nine habits to reaching high growth personally as a leader and reveals the five aspects for a company to reach the true and rare high growth pace.Join us for this very clear and practical interview.Stuart Ross is the founder of the High Growth www.high-growth.co.uk He works with the ambitious directors of fast-growing businesses who recognize that, to achieve and sustain high growth they need cutting edge skills and the proven strategies to stay ahead of their competitors.  Having successfully launched businesses for Alliance Boots and consulted over 500 high growth businesses in Europe, the US and Asia, he developed High Growth after recognizing the lack of quality support offered.As a keynote speaker, his style is challenging, honest and goading. Free of business school hyperbole and rhetoric, he makes his audience think and offers practical solutions. With over 20 years’ international business experience, his broad expertise covers business strategy, marketing, sales, international business, ecommerce, acquisitions, new product development and human resource management. Stuart has personally conceived, developed and implemented new products and services that have generated sales within the UK of over £3bn and received prestigious awards in the UK and Japan. Meanwhile, his “groundbreaking” e-book Secrets of High Growth Companies is a business best seller.High Growth provides an integrated approach to supporting fast growing businesses through coaching, training and an online academy. The academy is a high growth online community, which shares the secrets of success with all businesses. For a one-off fee, it offers organizations access to the same cutting edge training videos, skills and tools used by the fastest growing businesses in the world at the time they need it. Alongside his numerous speaking engagements, regular contribution to the BBC and business press and lecturing at Nottingham University Business School, Stuart also is coach to a number of business leaders in the UK.“Textbook theories are inappropriate for growing businesses.” – Stuart Ross.

The recent financial crisis2019s and ethical breaches challenge business and business schools to rethink their role in society along with how leaders both develop and adapt. Professor Ken Starkey, Head of the Management Division for the Management and Organisational Learning at Nottingham University Business School explores why we are stuck on short term thinking, and what role business schools and business leaders can play to return to restore 2018humanomics2019 and care in what we do and how we do it as a basic part of business sustainability. Will business schools accept responsibility for their part in short term-ism? Will they step up to a role as agents of change? Ken Starkey2019s current research, teaching and consulting interests include: leadership, management education, sustainable strategic management, and organization and the art of design. He has published articles in leading journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization Studies, Human Relations and Journal of Management Studies. His most recent book is The Business School and the Bottom Line (Cambridge University Press, with Nick Tiratsoo) and a contribution to the Harvard Business School Handbook of Leadership Teaching edited by Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana (Sage Publications).

Dr Robert Lambert, lecturer in Tourism and the Environment at Nottingham University Business School,introduces us to the Short-eared Owl.

Are Premier League football teams too trigger happy when it comes to their managers? Does a longer tenure mean greater success? Applying a variety of business management theories and models, academics from Nottingham University Business School, Loughborough, Sheffield and UWE in Bristol, try to get to the bottom of the issue. In this interview Dr Matthew Hughes, co-researcher and lead author on the project from the Nottingham University Business School, lays out the ideas and some of the su

Former Dragons' Den star and high-profile entrepreneur, Rachel Elnaugh, speaks to the UON podcast between her popular talks to first year students in the Nottingham University Business School. Rachel speaks candidly about her book "Business Nightmares", and what these 800 first-year students on the Entrepreneurship and Business programme can expect in the future. We also hear from Professor Martin Binks, Director of the Institute for Enterprise and Innovation at the University's Business Sc