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Business Week 2012

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Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

No booking required

2012 is a momentous year for London, and in London's evening university, we have much to celebrate. Our Department of Management is 20 years young, Economics has been taught at Birkbeck for 40 years, and the Department of Organizational Psychology was founded five decades ago. One of the founding fathers of computing, Andrew Booth, was here at Birkbeck some 60 years ago, and his legacy lives on.

Joining our cast of acclaimed Birkbeck academics are some exceptional external guests, notably Professor Andrew Pettigrew who will deliver this year's Alec Rodger Memorial Lecture, and Will Hutton, who will talk to us on Thursday 28 June.

All events are free to attend, but Registration is required.

Business Week is a great opportunity for prospective and current students to meet alumni and some of the School's business partners. New this year is a PhD conference. So, if you are curious about progressing your course of study to doctoral level do join us.

Prof Philip Powell
Executive Dean, School of Business, Economics and Informatics

Business Week 2012's Media Partner:

LondonlovesBusiness.com is the new digital newspaper for established entrepreneurs and executives of London’s mid-market companies. We aim to further the ambitions of London’s businesses, celebrate good business and success, and bring you frank debate about the issues facing London businesses. We are fast becoming the must-read website for London’s business community through our mix of the latest business news across all sectors, profiles of London’s greatest entrepreneurs, features exploring the trends you can capitalise on, and the best of London lifestyle.

Programme:

Monday 25th June 2012

10:00 - 17:00
PhD Conference

Business Week starts with some of the freshest and innovative talks. PhD students from the Department of Organizational Psychology are organising, for the first time, an open-access conference. There will be posters from those who have just started, and talks and discussions from those who have already collected data.

This conference is a unique opportunity to have a glimpse of what doing a PhD entails. Come along, have some lunch, and hear some of Birkbeck’s finest.

18:15 - 20:00
Where do you keep your Booth multipliers? The story of Birkbeck’s Computer Science Department

Dr Roger Johnson, Fellow of Birkbeck and Emeritus Reader in Computer Science.

Tuesday 26th June 2012

12:00 - 17:00
Department of Organizational Psychology Seminars

12:00 Lunch
13:00 Why do Employee Induction Procedures Matter? - Dr Caroline Kamau
14:00 Perceptions of Pay Secrecy - Dr Julie Dickinson
15:00 Perspectives on Employee Engagement - Richard Williams
16:00 Decision-making at Work - Dr Chris Dewberry

18:15 - 21:00
Alec Rodger Memorial Lecture: Scholarship with Impact
Prof Andrew Pettigrew (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27th June 2012

18:00
Volatility of Commodity Prices: the Case of Crude Oil and Gold
Part One: Metals Inventories and Price Volatility
Prof Hélyette Geman

Part Two: Roundtable on Financial Markets, Commodity Markets and Regulation
Pedro Vergel, George Tsapouris, Lovjit Thukral, Matthias Scheiber, Oliwia Kozlowska

Followed by a drinks reception.

Thursday 28th June 2012

16:00 - 18:00
Enterprising London: entrepreneurship and innovation in the UK’s Capital
Helen Lawton Smith, Saverio Romeo, Hasan Siber & Pierre Nadeau

This panel discussion will showcase London’s entrepreneurial culture. It will highlight key issues relating to starting, growing and managing successful business in London, from incubation to operating some of the world’s leading companies. Academic speakers will be drawn from Birkbeck’s Centre for Innovation Management Research (CIMR) to provide a brief introduction to the entrepreneurship agenda. Entrepreneurs will speak on their experiences.

6:30pm
“It was bad capitalism that got us into this crisis - good capitalism that will get us out”
Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford College, Oxford University and Chair of the Big Innovation Centre at The Work Foundation
(followed by a drinks reception)

 

Professor Jonathan Michie will Chair and Discussant for this talk. Jonathan Michie is Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange at Oxford, where he is Director of the Department for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg – one of the largest and most international graduate colleges.

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