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2024: A vintage year

July 2024 Issue Words by Dipika Mummery Our bicentenary isn’t the only anniversary we celebrate this year: we’re also marking the foundation of the medical school and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), as well as the isolation of wonder material graphene. Training doctors for 200 years Manchester has a long

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Making Nature Heard

It is time to recognise Nature as an active stakeholder, says Paolo Quattrone. Increasing pressure to report Environmental, Societal and Governance (ESG) indicators has led to a proliferation of initiatives aimed at defining what needs to be measured, and why, by organisations. However, although the ESG movement is commendable it generates many issues, not least

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Shaping Minds

New head of AMBS Professor Ken McPhail shares his vision for the School. We are living in pivotal times and business schools need to respond to the challenge. What are your priorities for the School? We are living in pivotal times, whether it’s dealing with regional economic disparities, global geopolitical upheaval, climate change, or the

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At the Frontier

Head of AMBS Professor Ken McPhail welcomes you to the latest issue. As I remark in an interview marking my recent appointment as Head of School, it is essential that AMBS makes space for curiosity driven research to help tackle the world’s grand challenges. I can think of few better examples of such curiosity than

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Shaping the Debate

Sir Terry Leahy explains why research into regional productivity inequalities is so vital. It is a privilege for me to give something back for the fantastic university education I received, and I can think of no better cause than to support research into the continued regional economic disparities that we see in the UK today.

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