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Pandemics weaken the flow of business ideas for seven years

Dr Thanos Verousis

03 August 2021

Management is a practice you learn by doing

“Management is a practice,” says Professor Henry Mintzberg. And he should know, having studied management for 50 years, and having written 20 management books and hundreds of articles and commentaries. This blog by Marco Nowinski, Visiting Lecturer at Essex Business School, showcases a recent Director’s Workshop on peer-coaching and explains how students on The Essex MBA were able to use the session to enhance their own management practice.

Marco Nowinski

22 July 2021

We’ve been talking to our students about the things that helped them through their studies this year. Essex Business School student Martin Shittu shared this personal reflection.

Martin Shittu

07 July 2021

If you want a vision of our green future, imagine a Millennial working a zero-hour contract in a care home, looking after a lonely bed-ridden Boomer – forever. Dr Nicholas Beuret looks at green jobs.

Dr Nicholas Beuret

22 June 2021

Bringing democracy to life through action in the community

Dr Rebecca Warren, Professor Jason Glynos, Jimena Vazquez Garcia, Dr Konstantinos Roussos

14 June 2021

If there is no global coordination to tackle the pandemic, the virus will keep mutating

Dr Reji K Joseph, Professor Thankom Arun

01 June 2021

Fitting The Essex MBA into your work-life balance

The Essex MBA programme has been developed to give part-time students the flexibility to combine their studies with their professional careers – enabling them to instantly put their learning into practice.

Essex Business School

24 May 2021

Climate breakdown risks a supercycle where the price of goods - including food - rises as supply breaks down. So who is going to pay?

Dr Nicholas Beuret

19 May 2021

Vaccine platforms and limited global production capacity

Professor Suma Athreye

14 May 2021

Bringing industry experts into the online classroom

Dr Thanos Verousis talks about the move to online learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and how adapting his teaching methods has contributed positively to student engagement, motivation and employability.

Dr Thanos Verousis

10 May 2021

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Pandemics weaken the flow of business ideas for seven years

Management is a practice you learn by doing

Elijah’s Cave, a poem by Martin Shittu

What green jobs are they talking about?

Bringing democracy to life through action in the community

If there is no global coordination to tackle the pandemic, the virus will keep mutating

Fitting The Essex MBA into your work-life balance

The climate supercycle

Vaccine platforms and limited global production capacity

Bringing industry experts into the online classroom