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Monday, January 15, 2018
The collapse of construction giant Carillion, which threatens thousands of jobs, was an accident waiting to happen says Professor Karel Williams from Alliance Manchester Business School.
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Monday, December 18, 2017
The potential of technology to generate more “fractured and distant” relationships in the workplace is examined in a report from the Work and Equalities Institute at Alliance MBS.
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Monday, December 18, 2017
The powers of sovereign currencies will diminish as cryptocurrencies are increasingly used by financial markets, says a leading academic in the field. Ser-Huang Poon, Professor of Finance at Alliance MBS, says there are “clear benefits” for the financial services industry of using Blockchain or other distributed ledger systems in order to make efficiencies and cut costs.
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Thursday, December 14, 2017
The opportunity to advance the development and prevalence of alternatively-fuelled vehicles (AFVs) has never been greater than it is now. Though technologies such as electrically-powered vehicles are not necessarily new, this is the first time that AFVs have received such a great deal of support across the board.
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Changes in board leadership and governance in acute hospitals in England since 2013
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
New report finds that hospital leadership has generally changed for the better since the Francis Inquiry. There are, however, worrying signs that current high levels of demand, and the financial, workforce and regulatory pressures in the NHS, are putting recent gains in providing safer and kinder care to patients at risk.