{"id":4190,"date":"2016-03-22T17:19:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2016-04-08T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:05:29","slug":"mba-european-study-trip-to-athens-explored-the-greek-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/03\/mba-european-study-trip-to-athens-explored-the-greek-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA European study trip to Athens explores Greek economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/courses\/mba\/index.html\">Kent MBA<\/a> students recently benefited from the programme\u2019s annual European study trip to Athens to explore the Greece\u2019s economic crisis. During the week, our MBA students visited the European Commission Office, Athens University of Economics and Business, social enterprises and innovative organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the week focussed on creativity and innovation that emerged from the country\u2019s financial crisis, with presentations from leading academics such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aueb.gr\/pages_en\/faculty\/faculty_en_short.php?facid=1326\">Dr Olivia Kyriakidou<\/a> from Athens University of Economics and Business on using design thinking to resolve social issues.<\/p>\n<p>The group also visited leading innovative organisations such as natural cosmetics company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apivita.com\/\">APIVITA<\/a>, a champion of societal, environmental and economic value creation. After a tour of APIVITA\u2019s factory, the company\u2019s founder Mr Nikos Koutsiana shared how social responsibility, tradition and innovation have been instrumental to APIVITA\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>For more information about the Kent MBA or the annual European Study Trip, please contact Dr Pamela Yeow at <a href=\"mailto:P.M.Yeow@kent.ac.uk\">P.M.Yeow@kent.ac.uk<\/a> or 01227 82(3991).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent MBA students recently benefited from the programme\u2019s annual European study trip to Athens to explore the Greece\u2019s economic crisis. During the week, our MBA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/03\/mba-european-study-trip-to-athens-explored-the-greek-economic-crisis\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40044,"featured_media":4191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,9886],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}