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The Essex MBA, essex business school

MBA consultancy project Havens Hospices

Chloe Warren, Essex Business School

27 February 2023

How The Essex MBA helped me build networks and strengthen my business

After inheriting the family business, Objective IT, Lara felt like she had gaps in her knowledge to successfully become Managing Director. She embarked on The Essex MBA to help her develop her knowledge and skillset.

Essex Business School

10 June 2022

Building an Essex MBA consultancy project

Sharina Islam, Essex MBA student 2022, took on a mammoth MBA consultancy project as part of her final project for her MBA with charity sector player, Safe Ground. Sharina made the project her own and ultimately delivered real success for Safe Ground.

Essex Business School, Jessica Dawson, Sharina Islam

15 March 2022

The Essex MBA: Finding insights through process mining

"Digital transformation" is a key buzzword in business today, but how do business leaders utilise digital transformation and new technologies to create real value for an organisation and improve customer experience? For many organisations, the ‘precious gems’ of insights are already in their IT systems but are too often hidden among gigabytes of data. Let’s go mining for those precious insights!

Marco Nowinski

17 February 2022

From MBA to Management Trainee, my experience of studying for my MBA during Covid-19

Kooh Kah Ming completed her MBA year during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and has since secured a dream role on a corporate training scheme with global logistics multi-national Expeditors back in her home country of Malaysia. We caught up with her to find out how she managed to maintain her studies and morale through various lockdowns and how she’s getting on now in her new role.

Essex Business School

17 February 2022

Tackling racism through social media innovation in Mexico

José Antonio Aguilar Contreras graduated from The Essex MBA in 2015. Already an established LGBT rights activist and magazine publisher in his native Mexico, after completing his MBA Jose set his sights on tackling racism in his homeland.

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

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

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

Sustainable Operations: An Essex MBA Essential

This blog explains why knowledge of sustainable operations is an essential skill for an MBA and looks at the ways in which online learning can have a positive impact on the student learning experience.

Marco Nowinski

02 March 2021

1-10 of 11 results

1-10 of 11 results

The Essex MBA, essex business school

MBA consultancy project Havens Hospices

How The Essex MBA helped me build networks and strengthen my business

Building an Essex MBA consultancy project

The Essex MBA: Finding insights through process mining

From MBA to Management Trainee, my experience of studying for my MBA during Covid-19

Tackling racism through social media innovation in Mexico

From MBA to Aviation: an entrepreneurial journey

Management is a practice you learn by doing

Fitting The Essex MBA into your work-life balance

Sustainable Operations: An Essex MBA Essential