Business leaders offer students master classes in management
Posted on 4 December 2009
The business leaders include Jonson Cox, Group Chief Executive of Anglian Water Group and Peter Blackburn CBE, former Chairman and Chief Executive of Nestlé UK and Chairman of Northern Foods as well as Brian Greenwood, who rose to the position of Regional Director for Yorkshire and the Humber at BT.
Working alongside a world-renowned management consultant encourages students to look at the broader global perspectives of management
Professor Steven Toms
The master class series, at the York Management School, is led by management consultant David Dockray whose career included spells as managing partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting and IBM Business Consulting Services.
Professor Steven Toms, Head of the York Management School, said: “The master class series enables students to hear exceptional speakers and gain an understanding of some of the key issues facing business today.
“Working alongside a world-renowned management consultant encourages students to look at the broader global perspectives of management and relate some of the taught theory to practical application.”
Over the course of the programme David Dockray will guide students through a group of in-depth case studies before setting them the task of analysing and proposing turnaround strategies for large global companies.
All the assignments and projects connected to the series give the students the opportunity to learn how to apply models and theories in a critical and creative way to real world business problems.
The series was devised by Philip Warwick, lecturer in the York Management School. He said: “It is vital that higher education has effective links with the world of work so that it can deliver the skills and knowledge to maximise graduates’ understanding of real life business management.
“This programme puts that principle into action by giving students the opportunity to learn directly from leading business figures.”
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Notes to editors:
- The York Management School is founded on research in specialist areas, designed to give students a competitive edge and to inform business practice and public policy. In October 2010 the School will move to new purpose-built facilities located on the University’s Heslington East campus, further integrating teaching and learning with internationally renowned research and its dissemination to the business community.
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