Kent Business School’s Business Start Up Awards Final kicks off today at 2pm live on Zoom. The BSUJ is a co-curricular programme of interactive practical … Read more
Month: March 2021
Student Blog: Making Firm Decisions in Times of Uncertainty
Elizabeth Black, KBS’s brand new resident blogger, is a third year student studying a BSc in Management at Kent Business School. In her second blog … Read more
KBS student Nadia Simpson featured in Forbes with her sustainable beauty brand
Kent Business School student and ambassador Nadia Simpson, also known as Ewura-esi who launched her business as part of her selfie year was interviewed for … Read more
How Can We Plug Kent’s SME Digital Skills Gap?
A report published this week from Learning & Work Institute highlighted that there is a worrying, and growing, UK’s digital skills gap. Their findings were … Read more
The Institute of Directors: The Wicked Problem of Doing Business in a Pandemic Event
Be the first to join the Institute of Directors new series of CPD sessions on Wicked Problems for Directors free for all students. ‘Wicked problems’ … Read more
The Challenges of Supplying and Distributing a Vaccine Programme in Ghana
Last month, a flight carrying 600,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in the capital of Ghana, Accra, a ‘momentous’ moment for the global … Read more
Expert View: Four Ways the UK can Keep its Fintech Crown
Financial technology is changing the finance world. Robo-advisors are replacing humans, traders are the computer algorithms, and money is encrypted not printed. The UK has … Read more
Our Diversity in Leadership MBA Guest Lecture Series: A Success
On Friday 18 March, we hosted our first quarterly MBA Guest Lecture Series event on the topic of ‘Diversity in Leadership’. The event welcomed a … Read more
Join Our FinTech and Artificial Intelligence Panel Discussion
Kent Business School and FinAct are co-hosting a free online event that will take place on Sunday 2 May 2021 at 13.00-14.30 (BST) on Zoom. … Read more
Amazon’s Taylor Bogaard delivers masterclass to MSc Marketing students
Taylor Bogaard of Amazon Web Services (AWS), who graduated from Kent Business School, University of Kent in 2017, with an MSc Marketing delivered a captivating … Read more
KBS Announced as Rishi Sunak’s Help to Grow Partner School
Kent Business School will support SMEs in Kent a share of £520million funding offered by Rishi Sunak as part of the government’s Help to Grow … Read more
KBS’s Danielle Marsh and family take to the stage for BBC One’s Comic Relief
KBS’s resident internet star, Danielle Marsh, Research Programmes Coordinator in Education & Student Experience, is taking her rising fame to dizzy heights. On Friday 19 … Read more
From Vegan Food to Bikinis: Our Business Start Up Journey Finalists
The finalists have been chosen for this year’s Business Start-Up Journey competition, with potentially winning pitches including a vegan e-commerce site, swimwear brand, a nutrition … Read more
KBS Wins Funding for a Second Year of Work in Baku, Azerbaijan
Kent Business School and ADA University have won British Council funding for a second year working on developing entrepreneurial programmes in the Azerbaijan capital of … Read more
Keeping Up the Study Pace During a Pandemic
Elizabeth Black, KBS’s brand new resident blogger, is a third year student studying a BSc in Management at Kent Business School. Here she reflects on … Read more
Why we Must Challenge the Gender Inequalities Posed by a Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about change and upheaval to everyone, but were women bearing the biggest brunt of the responsibility? To mark International Women’s … Read more
KBS Learning Technologist Phil Leads the Way with Charitable Work
Kent Business School’s learning technologist Phil Robinson doesn’t just balance working life between KBS and and the Division of Law, Society and Social Justice (LSSJ), … Read more
Expert View: What the Budget Means for Kent’s Businesses
The first budget set out post Brexit and Covid-19 is bound to be a complicated one, but how will it impact the local economy? Dr … Read more
Dr Catherine Robinson Receives Grant for Covid-19 Skills Mismatch Study
Dr Catherine Robinson, Deputy Dean and Senior Lecturer in Applied Economics and Business Statistics at Kent Business School, has been awarded a grant by UK … Read more
Are High Street Retailers Doomed, or Can They Adapt to Online?
Dr Maggie Zeng, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Kent Business School, explains why retailers still have a chance to shift to online… It is no … Read more