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Nursing Identity Conflicts: An uphill climb for the Florence Nightingales How do professionals with multiple job identities handle their different roles? Professors Charlotte Croft, Graeme Currie and Andy Lockett of Warwick Business School examine the case of nurse managers who are expected to be subordinates as well as leaders, revealing how the two identities impact work and emotional well-being.

Nurse Managers and Identity Conflicts: An uphill climb for the Florence Nightingales

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How do professionals with multiple job identities handle their different roles? Profs Charlotte Croft, Graeme Currie & Andy Lockett, Warwick Business school, explore the role of the nurse-manager & how their two identities impact work and emotional well-being.

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Entrepreneurs: Fear of failure and how to overcome it. Fear is something that we all face and in every walk of life. But what about the fears particular to entrepreneurs? How do these hold them back from achieving and what can entrepreneurs do to overcome them? Prof. James Hayton, Warwick Business School, shares his insights from recently published research.

Entrepreneurs: Fear of failure and how to overcome it

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Fear is something that we all face and in every walk of life. But what about the fears particular to entrepreneurs? How do these hold them back from achieving and […]

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In the Green Paradox: Achieving balance in emission reduction strategies. Professor Frederick Dahlmann, Warwick Business School, together with colleagues Stephen Brammer and Jens K. Roehrich of the University of Bath explore the paradox of recent demands for transparency from corporations on their greenhouse gas emissions

The Green Paradox: Achieving balance in emission reduction strategies

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Professor Frederick Dahlmann, Warwick Business School, together with colleagues Stephen Brammer and Jens K. Roehrich of the University of Bath explore the paradox of recent demands for transparency from corporations […]

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Boredom and Employee Engagement: Lessons from Tinder and Bumble

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Anh Luong, Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at Warwick Business School, explores how user boredom while interacting with dating apps can potentially be used to spark workplace creativity and engagement.  […]

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The 3Cs: A pioneering approach to co-creating sustainability education through design thinking. Sustainability is crucial in today’s higher education teaching, but it remains elusive as a concept and often scattered among departments across institutions. Associate Professors Dr. Lory Barile, University of Warwick, and Dr. Bo Kelestyn, Warwick Business School, share their pioneering approach that brought students and stakeholders together to tackle sustainability on-the-ground.

The 3Cs: A pioneering approach to co-creating sustainability education through design thinking

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Profs. Lory Barile and Bo Kelestyn, Warwick University & Business School, share their pioneering work in sustainability via design thinking.

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Why We Think Life Was Better in the ‘Good Old Days’

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Prof. Nick Chater, Warwick Business School, looks behind our rose tinted glasses to explore why we think life was better in the good old days.

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Supply Chains and Climate Impact: The pressing need for companies to become more accountable. How can companies move from isolated and enlightened to collaborative and pragmatic to reduce their carbon emissions? With the upcoming publication of Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and profit for better business, society and planet with publishers Routledge, a spotlight on book contributor Professor Frederik Dahlmann, Warwick Business School, and his research.

Supply Chains and Climate Impact: The pressing need for companies to become more accountable

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Prof. Frederik Dahlmann, Warwick Business School, looks at supply chains, their climate impact and the need for companies to act.

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The Oil Industry and Sustainable Energies: Risky seas ahead, or plain sailing? How are international oil companies facing the pressure to transform to renewables? Professor of Global Energy Michael Bradshaw at Warwick Business School, and Mathieu Blondeel, Professor of Global Energy Governance at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU Amsterdam, explore the map of how they might navigate the potential storm ahead.

The Oil Industry and Sustainable Energies: Risky seas ahead, or plain sailing?

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How is the oil industry facing the pressure to transform to renewables? Profs Michael Bradshaw & Mathieu Blondeel explore the map ahead.

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Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmer rituals in Ghana. When culture and worldviews clash, even a well-planned initiative to transfer knowledge can get bogged down and fail in the key stages of relationship-building and information exchange. Fascinating new research by Professors Anca Metiu, ESSEC Business School, and Mira Slavova, Warwick Business School, draws upon the farming communities of rural Ghana to highlight the role of rituals in effectively facilitating knowledge transfer.

Rituals and Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmers in Ghana

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Profs. Anca Metiu and Mira Slavova, ESSEC and Warwick Business Schools, research farmers’ rituals as a key to unlocking knowledge transfer.

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Playing Out of Sync: What jazz teaches entrepreneurial leaders

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Andy Lockett, Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, together with Deniz Ucbasaran, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School, strike a high note with their research into how business leaders can learn from jazz. 

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