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Eliot Wood and Oliver Bourne, Co-Founders of social media "Friendvertising" app WYSPR and Essex Business School alumni, tell us about their entrepreneurial journey with WYSPR. From coming up with the idea on their placement year to being directors of a successful new venture.

Essex Business School

17 December 2021

From MBA to Aviation: an entrepreneurial journey

The Essex MBA can be the vehicle which drives professional success. We caught up with Mandeep Sandhu, who graduated from The Essex MBA (Essex Business School) in 2015. Mandeep is now the CEO and Founder of AirLuxxis Aviation Services.

Essex Business School

16 December 2021

Du Li, MSc Accounting and Finance graduate, is now working back home in China as a Chief of the Corporate Audit Section for a District Government in China. We caught up with her eleven years on from her graduation in 2010 to reflect on her time at Essex and look to her future as a working professional.

Alumni team, Essex Business School

13 December 2021

Possible dialogues – a view of COP26 from outside the conference hall

Sandra Moog

11 November 2021

Why study MSc Business Analytics at Essex?

Business analytics is rapidly becoming one of the most important functions in a business, we recently launched a January entry point for our MSc Business Analytics, in addition to our existing October option, in response to the growing demand for graduates in this area.

Becca Coster

23 September 2021

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

Blog explaining how review of Victim’s Commissioner powers led to some Victims’ Law policy proposal recommendations

Pamela Cox, Professor Maurice Sunkin

12 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 I could describe my internship at Creative Quills I would describe it as a phenomenal experience. It met my expectations and more. It was great to learn so much about marketing, how to utilise online tools for business and the optimisation of social media. It was a great experience and I learnt so much from it.

Shannon McGuigan

25 June 2021

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WYSPR an entrepreneurial success story

From MBA to Aviation: an entrepreneurial journey

Spotlight on an Auditor

Possible dialogues – a view of COP26 from outside the conference hall

Why study MSc Business Analytics at Essex?

Pandemics weaken the flow of business ideas for seven years

Management is a practice you learn by doing

Towards a Victims’ Law: Influencing revisions to the Victim’s Code

Elijah’s Cave, a poem by Martin Shittu

Intern Story: Content Writer at Creative Quills, Colchester