Corporate Connections The Bath Advantage

Corporate ConnectionsThe Bath Advantage

Engage with the brightest minds to recruit new talent, develop your managers and improve your business practice.Professor Veronica Hope Hailey Dean of the School of Management

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Corporate Connections

01 Welcome to the Bath Advantage

02 Why choose to partner with Bath?

03 How your organisation can work with us

04 Working with our students

10 Recruiting our students

12 Developing your people

16 Improving your business through our research

18 Our world-leading faculty

20 Corporate Partners Scheme

Welcome to the Bath Advantage

We attract the brightest minds to produce the best business graduates and educate the next generation of leaders. We work with forward thinking organisations around the world to help them attract talented individuals and to develop their high potentials through our executive development programmes.

University of Bath School of Management

Through our world-class research we inspire new ideas. We engage directly with companies to drive innovation and we help develop new tools, models and frameworks to influence and change ways in which people think and work.

Across the School we have an extensive network of organisations covering all industry sectors from banking to FMCG, to charities and public sector bodies. This includes our alumni, many of whom are in senior management roles, and the members of our international advisory board. We hold regular events and forums that provide excellent opportunities to bring together academics and practitioners to exchange ideas and share experiences.

Many companies have already discovered the Bath Advantage. If you have ambitions for your organisation’s future, talk to us about how we can help make those a reality.

Stephen Rangecroft Director of Marketing & External Relations

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Why choose to partner with Bath?


ExperienceThe School of Management is proud to be a part of the University of Bath, one of the UK’s top universities. Both the School and the University have an international reputation for the quality of their teaching and research. Bath has a distinctive approach that emphasises the education of professional practitioners, fosters high achievement and promotes original inquiry and innovation in partnership with business, the professions, public services and the voluntary sector.

With almost 50 years’ experience of delivering high-quality management programmes, the School of Management is one of the oldest-established business schools in the UK. We have achieved top ratings for both our research and teaching. The Bath MBA is among the top programmes in the world in the Financial Times ranking.

Research excellenceWe are a firmly established, leading international centre for management research.

Our research influences government thinking, policy-making and management practice. The knowledge we create through world-class research is disseminated through our network of corporate, government and NGO relationships and influences our teaching.

High-calibre students and graduatesOur students are already high achievers when they join us, having gained high grades in their A levels or equivalent studies, or an excellent first degree. 96% of our BSc in Business Administration students are in professional roles six months after graduating.

The value we place on practical work experience has long underpinned our ethos – for nearly 50 years, our undergraduate students have been working in organisations throughout the world as part of their degree programme. We take our studies beyond the classroom into situated management practice in world-leading organisations.

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How your organisation can work with us


How? Find out more

1) Working with our students • 6and12monthplacements Page05 • Projects–undergraduateandpostgraduate Page07-08 • Sponsorshipofprizesandscholarships Page08 • Guestspeakers Page08 • BigTeamChallenge Page08 • CorporatePartnersScheme Page20

2) Recruiting our students • Employthebestbusinessgraduates Page10-11

3) Developing your people • ExecutiveDevelopment Page12-13 • MBAsponsorship Page14 • ForumsandNetworks Page14-15 • MBAmasterclasses Page15

4) Improving your business • Research-intensiverelationships Page16 through our research • ResearchCentres Page17 • Ourworld-leadingfaculty Page18-19

Work with us in four key ways to develop your business and its capabilities:

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In my opinion, Bath does an excellent job in preparing graduates for work in the commercial world. We are working with the School of Management to push forward opportunities that are mutually beneficial; it is a growing relationship that we are developing all the time.

Jon O’Sullivan, BP Biofuels

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Working with our students

Our students will undertake special project work, provide a fresh perspective, and boost your resources.

Why choose our students? • OurBScinBusinessAdministration

is the UK’s no.1 business degree for student satisfaction

• Ourbusinessstudentsaresome of the brightest young minds in the country

• Stringentprogrammerequirementsmean that students arrive with top A Level grades or an excellent first degree for postgraduate programmes

•Withmorethannineapplications per place (at undergraduate level) we are able to choose the very best students

Level Programme Work areas

Undergraduate BusinessAdministration • 6monthworkplacementx2 • FinalYearProject

Undergraduate InternationalManagement • 6or12monthworkplacement(overseas)

Undergraduate Management • 12monthworkplacement

Undergraduate AccountingandFinance • 12monthworkplacement

Undergraduate ManagementwithMarketing • 12monthworkplacement

Undergraduate InternationalManagementand • 6or12monthworkplacement(French,Germanor Modern Languages Spanish-speaking overseas placements)

Postgraduate MScPortfolio • Projectsandbusinessimmersion

Post-experience TheBathMBA • FinalProject/Dissertation

Many of our programmes offer students real business experience, usually in the form of work placements or project work:

To see the full range of programmes that we offer, go to: www.bath.ac.uk/management/courses/

• Employersattesttothehighquality of work that our students deliver

•Weproducehighlyemployablegraduates due to our emphasis on education and training for the real world

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As a part of our internal evaluation process, Michelle was rated at the top in comparison to her intern peers in other finance departments. We’ve also offered her a full-time role at Intel once she completes her university requirements.

MichaelBranch,EMEAChannelFinanceManager,Intel

Work placements We like to think that our students begin their career as soon as they start learning with us. This is because we believe in the practical application of learning: we not only teach our students, we provide opportunities for them to work in real jobs while they’re studying, allowing them to gain vital skills and experience before they’ve even graduated.

The benefits to your organisation include:• Placementslastbetween6and12

months, giving students time to add significant value to your company

• Placementscanbeseenasanextended interview and are a cost-effective way of recruiting – 35% of our students are made a graduate offer as a result of a successful placement

•Accenture•BakerTilly•BGGroup•BMT•BNYMellon•BP•Citi•Crossrail•Danone•EY•EstéeLauder•GEHealthcare•GoldmanSachs•Google

•HoulihanLokey•HSBC•IMSHealth•Intel•JPMorgan•KPMG•LGVCapital•LloydsBankingGroup•L’Oréal•LVMH•M&GInvestments•MorganStanley•Motorola•Nando’s

• Studentscanbringspecialisedknowledge and up-to-date business theory that can provide a fresh approach to projects

•Manystudentsbringvaluableinternational experience with them

• Studentscanbeemployedasaresource to work on a specific project, allowing core staff to continue working where they are most needed

We work with over 200 organisations in the UK and overseas, including blue-chip companies, medium and small organisations, public sector bodies and charities. These include:

•Nestlé•Nomura•PricewaterhouseCoopers•Procter&Gamble•Proxima•PwCHongKong•PropertySolutions•Shopping.com•UBS•Unilever•VirginMedia•Vodafone•Zurich

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The course gave me a very solid foundation, both in terms of theoretical knowledge and practical work experience. I was given responsibility from the start and the very varied tasks enabled me to develop my skills. I started work the day after my course ended, so it was definitely worthwhile.

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MBA ProjectsProviding an MBA project could help your organisation address specific issues within your business for which your permanent staff may lack either the time or the specialist expertise to conduct themselves. They are a cost-effective way of bringing in expertise on a consultancy-style basis.

The three-month consultancy project (usually taking place from June to September) forms the concluding part of the Bath MBA programme; it must handle a real business problem or issue and it represents a significant part of the student’squalification.Yourorganisationwould be closely involved in defining the remit of the consultancy exercise, and would be able to select the student whose experience and skills best reflect your requirements.

The benefits to your organisation include:

• Professional,high-qualityconsultancyand research conducted at a fraction of the cost of a mainstream provider

• Individualsworkingforyouwhohaveahighly international perspective and recent learning from leading academics and practitioners

• Tangibleresults,typicallyaprojectreport and presentation, within a short timescale

• Balancedinputdrawnfromthelatestthinking, theory and practice

• Theopportunitytoobservepotentialfuture recruits

Recent project providers have included:

AgustaWestland, Alliance Boots, BP, Bristol News & Media, BT Innovate, Clarks, Cotswold Outdoor Ltd, GENeco, Heber Ltd, Intel, Knorr-Bremse, Lloyds Banking Group, Moog International, Nationwide, Porsche Cars GB Ltd, Praxair Surface Technologies, Property Solutions, Reach Visual Brand Strategy, Rolls Royce, Rotork Controls, Ubiquisys, Vendigital, Vodafone,WaterAid,WessexWater,XmosSemiconductor,ZurichFinancialServices

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BBA team projectsIn their final year, our BSc Business Administration students carry out a team project which involves working on a real business issue for a company or organisation from October until April.

Most projects are carried out within the UK but some have also been undertaken on behalf of companies based in the USA, Singapore, Canada, Norway, and Hong Kong.

The benefits to your organisation include:

• High-quality,in-depthresearch• External,objectiveideasandanalysis• Ateamofhigh-calibre,committed

people to work on your project• Acreative,freshapproachtoexamining

a business issue•Multidisciplinaryteamscapableof

examining a business issue or problem from a variety of perspectives

• Carefulmonitoringoftheprojectby an academic specialist

• Visibilityforyourorganisationinacompetitive graduate recruitment marketplace

Prizes and scholarshipsEvery year, successful students from across our programme portfolio are awardedsponsoredprizesfortheirachievements.

TheprizesvaryinnaturefromaBestStudent category through to recognition for excellence in specialist areas like FinanceorStrategy.

Some companies choose to sponsor a scholarship and we welcome proposals for scholarships that support the University’s Widening Participation Scheme.

Guest speakersWe are always looking to connect with people who can provide our students with real insight into business life and share their experiences. If a senior member of your organisation would like to be a guest speaker, please do get in touch.

Big Team ChallengeThe Big Team Challenge is an exciting week-long event, allowing new students and corporate partners to work together as students compete to develop a winning new business idea. As a Corporate Partner, you would spend one full day or half day working with our students, providing your organisation with invaluable exposure. Partners who regularly take part in the BigTeamChallengeincludeL’Oréal,BP,PwCandZurich.

A very professional team who tackled the issues logically and sensibly. Their recommendations were well thought through, backed up by their research, and sensitively presentedtoaYellaudience.

Head of Executive Development and Resourcing,YellGroup

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I have been working closely with the University of Bath School of Management for the last five years and have seen overfiftystudentsundertakeworkfor,orwith,Zurichoverthistime. The calibre of student at the School of Management is truly impressive. They consistently exceed our expectations in terms of the value they add to our business and we are pleased to have so many alumni on our graduate programmes.

James Sutherland HeadofCorporateGovernance,(UKLife&HoldingCompanies),Zurich

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Recruiting our students

Why recruit our students? Our graduates are extremely attractive to employers. Part of the reason for our success in producing highly employable graduates is our emphasis on education and training for the real world. We prepare our students to be work-ready through a combination of excellent teaching by leading academics, a highly successful work placement programme, excellent links with industry, and professional development training throughout their studies, covering elements such as commercial awareness and interview skills.

Bath is well-known for the success of its graduates, even when the employment market is tough. 83.6% of Bath students land graduate-level jobs when they leave us, with only Cambridge and Imperial achieving better results than this (The Good University Guide, 2014).

The Key Information Set (KIS) highlights the success of our graduates, both in terms of employment and starting salaries.

Compared to similar programmes at other top universities, our business and finance graduates often lead in the data.

We combine world-class teaching with corporate exposure and professional development training to produce students who are work-ready and internationally mobile when they graduate.

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P&G actively targets Bath for recruitment. If you look around P&G you can see a number of Bath graduates. We really look for leadership in potential candidates.


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Organisations that regularly recruit our students include:

Accenture, Aldi, Andersen, AT&T, Aviva, BAA plc, Bain & Co, Barclays Capital, BNYMellon,BritishAirways,BritishEnergy,BP,BritishSteel,BritishSugar,BritishTelecom,Cazenove,Citigroup,ConocoPhillips,CreditSuisse,Danone,Deloitte,Deutsche,Diageo,DresdnerKleinwortBenson,ElizabethArden,E.ON,EY, FordMotorCompany,Fujitsu,Figleaves.com,GartnerGroup,GeneralElectric,GlaxoSmithKline,Groupon,HSBC,ICL,JPMorgan,KPMG,L’Oréal,LloydsBanking Group, Lloyds of London, Marks & Spencer, Mars, Merrill Lynch, MOD,MorganStanley,Motorola,Nestlé,NewLook,Novell,PAConsulting,PricewaterhouseCoopers, Procter & Gamble, Qedis Consulting, RBS, Red Bull, RollsRoyce,RoverLtd,Saatchi&Saatchi,Seagram,Siemens,Sony,TeachFirst,Thales, Total Gas Marketing, UBS, Unilever Group, WH Smith.

Further informationTo find out more about recruiting our students, contact the Careers Service on 01225 386009 or email [email protected].

Findoutmoreat:www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/employer


Developing your people

Dr Jan Stiles Director of Executive Development Tel: +44 (0)1225 383863Email: [email protected]

Through the expertise of our academics, we can help your organisation solve business challenges and transform futures.

Research with impact Our world-class research influences government thinking, policy-making and management practice.

World class faculty Our leading, international faculty provides the expertise and experience needed to offer exceptional executive education.

Experience We are a leading business school within a top university, with nearly 50 years’ experience of delivering high-quality, highly-ranked programmes.

Our approach to executive development is influenced by the context we operate in. It can be said that in terms of leadership, we live in particularly interesting times, where it’s fair to say there’s a crisis of trust in the leadership of both our public and private sector organisations. Our response to this, our guiding purpose, is to develop experienced managers towards critical thinking, to grow as reflexive leaders of organisational change, and ultimately repair some of the trust that has been lost in recent times.

Central to everything is our desire to facilitate executive development that

makes a real, lasting impact on individuals, organisations and ultimately the wider community.

Customised programmes We begin by developing a full understanding of your organisational learning and development requirements. We will work closely with you to ensure that we offer a tailor-made solution for the challenges you face.

Impact-drivenBased on our underlying passion to make a real difference, our programmes equip executives with the skills to sustain lifelong learning, benefiting organisations beyond the programme and into the future.Forexample:

•Weadoptaholisticapproachtodevelopment that addresses learning at individual, team and organisational levels.

•Weusemethodsthatstimulatelearningat cognitive, affective and behavioural levels to maximise behavioural change.

•Weusetechniquestoincreasethetransfer of learning to the workplace by including activities before, during and after each module, e.g. real time feedback from peers and experts and facilitated reflexive learning sessions.

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CollaborativeWe work closely with key stakeholders of the programme throughout all stages from diagnosing the precise learning needs, designing the content and learning methods, through to evaluating the impact of learning on your organisation.

FlexibleThe programmes are 100% tailored to the needs of your organisation, based on a robust consultation process and collaborative design.

InnovativeWith our collective experience in leadership development in a wide variety of public and private sector organisations, we are able to offer the quality of learning experience you would expect from a business school of our calibre, but also some of the more innovative approaches to learning such as community-based action learning or Open Space methodology.

Open programmes As well as allowing organisations to benefit from the diverse expertise of our faculty on customised programmes, we want to allow individuals to also benefit by providing the opportunity for them to attend short, open programmes.

On these programmes, you have the opportunity to learn in an interactive and stimulating environment about the best ways to tackle strategic issues. This also enables you to meet and share knowledge with people from other sectors and industries, and to benefit from the input not only of our

•3M•MinistryofDefence•BBCWorldwide•Motorola•TheBodyShop•Nationwide•BritishEnergy•NetworkRail•Coca-Cola•NHSPurchasing&SupplyAgency•Devon&CornwallConstabulary•NominetUK•EnvironmentAgency•NorthBristolHealthAuthority

•EPSRC•NortonRoseFulbright•GKN•PwC•HalcrowGroup•QinetiQ•HewlettPackard•WHSmith•HMRC•WilliamHill•Intel•UKSport•LloydsBank•Virgin

Our clientsWe work, or have worked with, a number of organisations across different sectors, including:

We’ve worked closely with the University of Bath over the last year as a key partner in our Operational Management Development Programme. The feedback from colleagues has been excellent, but more importantly these individuals have been able to use their learning to deliver tangible improvements for our customers, colleagues and our business.

Terry Kaye, Divisional Director, Nationwide Building Society

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world class academics but also leading practitionersandconsultants.Youleavewith an increased awareness, fresh insights, and a range of practical tools to effect change.

Forourlatestportfolioof programmes, please visit www.bathexecdev.com


Over its 40-year history, the Bath MBA has earned a reputation for excellence. The programme is consistently ranked among the world’s leading MBAs by theFinancial Times and the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Which MBA?

Our reputation stems from listening to our students, alumni and relevant stakeholders to innovate and maintain our competitive edge at the forefront of management education and research.

Designed for candidates with several years’ management experience, the Bath MBA – offered in full time and part time Executive formats – encourages self-awareness, intuition, cross-cultural sensitivity and entrepreneurship skills as well as a socially responsible and ethical approach to business and management.

As an employer, you may wish to sponsor members of your staff as they undertake the Bath MBA programme. An attractive option for ambitious managers and employers alike, both can benefit from better leadership and communication skills, and critical thinking. Our Executive programme, with its ‘pay as you go’ instalment plan continues to appeal to sponsoring organisations as well as self-funding candidates.

Forums and Networks

By working with us, you have the opportunity to take advantage of our extensive range of business networks, including regular events and forums focusing on many different subjects and sectors. Here are some of our key networks:

Change Management ForumTheForumprovidesavenuewhere‘thinking practitioners’ and ‘applied academics’ can come together to exchange ideas and knowledge. The group’s aim is pragmatic, seeking to promote more effective change and leadership at work through dialogue and discussion.

TheForumhasrecentlyhostedanumberof senior speakers from across industry and government, including Justin King, FormerCEOofSainsbury’s(andalumnusof the School of Management), Sir Peter Hendy, Commissioner of Transport for London, Stephen Kelly, CEO, The Sage Group plc, and Melissa Potter, CEO, Clarks International.

CIBAM The Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM) aims to encourage increased dialogue between business and academia.

MBA Sponsorship

Larry BandaMBAalumnus,MBAExecutiveFellow Divisional Director - Nationwide

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Its goal is to deepen the understanding of internationalisation and managing in the semi-global, intangible assets-based economy. It draws upon the expertise of its Global Advisory Board, conducts research, seminars and workshops, distinguished lectures and global business symposia and provides advisory services in the following main areas:

• Internationalbusinessstrategy• Foreigndirectinvestment,strategic

alliances, business ecosystems and clusters

• Nationalcompetition,innovation,industrial and competitiveness strategies

• Strategichumanresourcesandintercultural management

• Transition,emergingandemergenteconomies

Alumni NetworksWe have a thriving global network of over 13,000 former School of Management students. They live in over 100 countries across the world and work in a range of organisations from multinational companies to SMEs and not-for-profit organisations.

MBA MasterclassesOur MBA Masterclasses offer an opportunity to experience the Bath MBA as a student would – sit in on a mini-lecture, meet students, faculty and staff, and network with our alumni.

Sir Christopher Gent MBA Guest Speaker

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Improving your business through our research

Our research challenges conventional wisdom, advances workplace practices, improves profitability, helps to change approaches to management and the delivery of services, creates new products and processes, enhances professional and corporate practice, and supports changes in policy.

The School has long-term, research-intensive relationships with major organisations including; GlaxoSmithKline, EY,T-Mobile,KraftFoods,HRMC,Cabinet Office, NHS.

Through our research we inspire new ideas. We engage directly with companies to drive innovation and we help develop new tools, models and frameworks to influence and change ways in which people think and work. Our research has contributed to changes in attitudes, awareness and behaviour. It has supported increased capabilities and opportunities, improved performance, policy developments, and processes of innovation and understanding.

Our research has impact by driving changes in policy and practice.

Research at the School of Management is structured around five issue-based clusters, which span several functional disciplines:

• Business,ConsumptionandSociety• Organisational:Work,Leadership

and Change• EntrepreneurshipandInternational

Management• Operations,NetworksandInnovation• FinancialMarkets,Informationand

Risk Analysis

Within the School there are also Research Centres and Consortia. These cross-functional areas of expertise help us to focus and formalise our major research initiatives.

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Area of expertise

CBOS is concerned with the relationships between corporations and the societies within which they operate. Research focuses on the strategic implications of the social and environmental impacts of business, and the corporate social and environmental responsibilities that result.

CGR combines expertise from across the social sciences. Its objective is to foster research into the design and implementation of governance and regulatory structures and forms of control that ensure that organisations are run effectively, efficiently, and lawfully.

CHI2 is a multi-disciplinary centre focused on solving the practical challenges of health and social care systems. It leads and explores applied health research projects using a mixed methods approach while adopting a flexible and collaborative outlook to the choice and framing of the research problems and to the research methods and modelling techniques used.

CIBAM identifies links between business practice, academic theory and business and public policy. It aims to deepen the understanding of internationalisation and managing in the semi-global, intangible assets-based economy.

CRiAC explores a broad range of consumption practices that constitute consumer culture in both developed and developing economies, and the role of advertising in the development of brands.

CSRI is a leading international centre of excellence for the conduct, promotion, and dissemination of relevant and high impact research on the management of risks faced by individuals, companies, and the public sector.

ICHEM’s primary objective is to contribute theoretical advances and empirical knowledge to strengthen the innovative capacity of higher education in a global context.

WERC has internationally recognised expertise in human resource management and organisation studies. A central characteristic is its focus on the study of these issues in Professional Services Organisations.

CRiSPS is a world leading centre for research and education in strategic purchasing and supply management. Its research agenda is aimed at developing practical models, methods and tools that may be used by both public and private sector managers to improve their understanding of and expertise in purchasing and supply.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation (E&I) represents a central pathway for economic development and renewal, and social well-being. EIRG research group seeks to inform and shape policy and practice.

LARG’s key objective is to conduct research into design, manufacture and the management of processes and systems, with an emphasis on Lean Production and Agility Best Practice. This research is managed through three industrial-led themes: Automotive, Aerospace, Construction.

MaRIA is home to two, long-standing initiatives, the Change Management Consortium (CMC) andtheChangeManagementForum(CMF).TheCMChasbeenstudyingorganisationalchange over the last decade through collaborative research with some of the UKs most significantinstitutions,includingHMRC,GlaxoSmithKline,andGKN.TheCMFengagesdirectly with practice and has built a strong network of practitioners and academics who attend regular presentations by CEOs, leading change specialists and other senior executives.

Research Centre

Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS)

Centre for Governance and Regulation (CGR)

Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI2 )

Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM)

Centre for Research in Advertising and Consumption (CRiAC)

Centre for Strategic Risk and Insurance (CSRI)

International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM)

Work and Employment Research Centre (WERC)

Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS)

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Group (EIRG)

Lean and Agile Research Group (LARG)

Management Research in Action (MaRIA)

Research Centres

Research Groups and Networks

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Our world-leading faculty

Professor Veronica Hope HaileyDean, School of Management“My research focuses on the link between business strategy, HR strategy and change management. I’m particularly interested in the relationship between organisational change and individual transition. I teach and consult on an international basis and specialise in working with large, mature organisations in collaborative research partnerships.”

Professor Julia BalogunProfessor of Strategic Management“My research centres on strategy- as-practice in strategy development, strategic change and renewal, predominantly within large mature corporations. I have a particular interest in how large corporations can be transformed to retain and regain competitive advantage. I also have a concern for how strategic activity is initiated and championed at multiple levels within organisations, exploring the nature of strategic work for both senior executives and middle managers.”

Professor Rob BrinerProfessor of Organisational Psychology“My research explores the reciprocal relationships between work conditions (e.g. characteristics, events, the psychological contract, contexts) psychologicalwell-being/affect(e.g.emotion, moods, ‘stress’, satisfaction) and behaviours (e.g. pro- and anti-social, withdrawal and withdrawal of effort, engagement, job crafting). My other research areas include ethnicity, absence, work-nonwork relationships and food and organisations. I am also involved in several initiatives around evidence-based management, which seek to identify ways of increasing the use of evidence of various kinds (including academic research) in management practice.”

Professor Dimo DimovProfessor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship“My work focuses on understanding the entrepreneurial process, from initial idea to viable venture or well intentioned abandonment. An evolving entrepreneurial opportunity is central in this process: obvious in retrospect, but uncertain, nebulous, and ambiguous in prospect. I am interested in how potential entrepreneurs and investors think, act, and interact in the face of such uncertainty and how these interactions give rise to exciting new phenomena.”

The School of Management has more than 100 teaching and research staff. Here are just some of the faculty members your organisation could be working with to address the challenges you face.

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Professor Mike LewisProfessor of Operations and Supply Management “I have worked nationally and internationally as a teacher and consultant with many organisations including BMW, Rolls-Royce, IBM, John Lewis Partnership, Volvo and Intel. My current research interests include thetransformationofprofessional/knowledge-intensive work, procuring complex performance and functional strategy practice.”

Professor Brian Squire Professor of Operations and Supply Management “My research is broadly concerned with the design and management of supply chains for resilience, innovation and sustainability. I am engaged in the design and delivery of executive workshops and bespoke research projects for public and private sector organisations, including BP,Zurich,BAESystems,PZCussons,UK Trade and Industry, and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.”

Professor Juani SwartProfessor of Human Resource Management and Director of WERC“I specialise in knowledge management and the management of knowledge workers. I am known for my work on the transfer of human capital into intellectual capital, thereby linking the intellectual capital, HRM and performance debates. My current research is focused on the links between employee attitudes (commitment) and behaviours such as knowledge sharing, creative engagement and innovation.”

Professor Russ VinceProfessor of Leadership and Change“My research has investigated the emotional and political dynamics of organising, as well as the impact of these dynamics on management learning, management development, change and leadership. I have many years’ experience of working with senior management teams in both public and private sector organisations. I was an Associate Consultant with the International Institute for Organisational Change (IOC), Geneva, and have run leadership development activities in international companies such as Hyder plc,ElectricitédeFrance/GazdeFrance,Hewlett-Packard, Glaxo and Ericsson.”

Dr Iain DaviesSenior Lecturer in Marketing“I lecture, consult and research in the areas of sales, key account management and marketing ethics. Prior to my academic career I held a number of posts in B2B Marketing including Strategic Consultant with Accenture, Legal Policy Advisor in the Banking Sector for HMCE and working in sales and marketing in the fair trade industry. I specialise in coaching business-to-business marketing – particularly account management and sales performance – and marketing ethics – where I focus on social entrepreneurship and ethical brand management.”

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Corporate Partners Scheme

One of our goals is to establish long-term, multi-layered relationships which optimise the wide range of services that we can provide. Once we understand more about your organisation, its challenges and what it is looking to achieve, we can design a bespoke partnership scheme to suit you.

Often the desired outcomes are greater brand awareness on campus, connections to our academic research, and improved access to our students. We can also help with talent development through our executive education capability, and networking opportunities via the various forums and events that we operate.

Our current partners include: BP, BMW, L’Oréal,BMT,PwC,PropertySolutions,Proxima,ZurichandJ.P.Morgan.

We take a flexible approach to designingthe scheme including how long it may last, the services it covers and the associated financial costs.

Youcanreadaboutsomeoftheserelationships and what benefits they have delivered on our website. www.bathconnectsyou.com

The benefits to your organisation might include:

• Presentationsoncampus• Guestspeakerappearancesfor

senior managers• Programmecontributionsthrough

case studies and business games• Sponsoredstudentprizesand

scholarships

• ExposureontheSchool’swebsitewithin a dedicated Corporate Partner section

•MembershipoftheChangeManagementForumandinvitations to Masterclasses and executive development workshops.

The concept has quickly spawned many ideas, exceeding our expectations of what the Partnership could offer us.

Hannah Betts, HR Business Partner, Intel EMEA

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