Author: Kent Business School

Kent Business School students benefited from mock interviews with representatives from prestigious multinational companies such as IBM and Enterprise Rent-A-Car, as well as leading investment … Read more

KBS was delighted to recently host renowned American organisational theorist Dr Czinkota, Professor at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University who gave a presentation … Read more

Kent Business School recently welcomed the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), the UK’s independent professional body for logistics, supply chains and transport. As … Read more

Kent Business School is proud to announce that Dr Muthu de Silva, KBS Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation recently achieved the Best Paper Award at … Read more

What the research says Our research shows that there is limited presence of strategy in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Typically half of all SMEs … Read more

As entrepreneurialism is one of the five MBA trends for 2015, with a rising demand for course content that focuses on start-up creation, KBS caught … Read more

A company was born every minute last year, with research from national enterprise campaign StartUp Britain showing that 581,173 businesses were registered with Companies House … Read more

Michael Koch, Lecturer in HRM and Organisational Behaviour was one of the recipients of the Best Career Division Symposium Award at Academy of Management. The … Read more

In September, eleven MBA students from University of Ingolstadt (Germany) arrived for a week-long executive education programme organised by Kent Business School. The well-established programme … Read more

Kent Business School joined campus-wide Alumni Reunion Weekend celebrations this month, welcoming 80 alumni back to the School, including 1960s alumni for part of the … Read more

KBS’s Professor Radu Tunaru jointly organised a one day-workshop “From the Last Financial Crisis to the Next: Looking on the Horizon”, with Esa Jokivuolle from Bank of Finland. … Read more

Professor Warwick Funnell, Professor of Accounting and Finance at KBS, has won the highly regarded Enrique Fernandez Pena Prize for his paper titled “War or … Read more

We are pleased to announce that Professor Moorad Choudhry will deliver the Bank Asset-Liability Risk Management module this academic year. As CEO of Habib Bank … Read more

Kent Business School has become a signatory to the United Nations (UN) PRME initiative, which serves as a global network for leading business schools to … Read more

Dr Jesse O’Hanley, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Systems Management has been awarded the EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA) 2015. The award recognises outstanding accomplishments in … Read more

23-year-old BA International Business graduate Sam Caygill will launch “WhatsOn”, a central tourism information point in Canterbury on 1 August. Originally from Newcastle upon Tyne, … Read more

What makes a good strategic alliance? In fact, let’s not settle for good, what makes a great strategic alliance? Like marriage, strategic alliances require commitment … Read more

KBS has successfully secured two funded Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) to support Kent-based Priority Freight and the Port of Dover. During the 30-month partnership, KBS’ … Read more

For the latest in our series of live radio shows through which we are exploring the characteristics of success in 2015 we focused on ‘The … Read more

Should we just roll the dice, or can we make better choices in the way we identify those individuals and organisations we build relationships with? … Read more