LUMS in the news: recent media coverage

26/01/16

World-Class MBA programme

Loo Hoey Theen, a student on the dual award Executive MBA at Sunway University which enables graduates to gain the Lancaster EMBA qualification at the same time, talks about why she chose the course.
25/01/16

How smaller universities can punch above their weight

Lancaster Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research Stephen Decent discusses how some disciplines at Lancaster, including the Management School, outperformed larger universities in the research excellence framework. 
25/01/16

Professor Ian Walker talks about the National Lottery

LUMS economist Ian Walker is interviewed on BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester after a winning lottery ticket is believed to have been bought there. 
21/01/16

2015 Was a Warm, Wild Year. What’s Next?

Gail Whiteman from the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business is quoted in this article in National Geographic.
19/01/16

Solving the county cricket fixtures: half human, half computer

Cricket Yorkshire explains how a computer program developed by Professor Mike Wright is used to draw up the county cricket fixtures. 
08/01/16

Italian state lender to set up equity fund for family businesses

Alfredo De Massis questions whether plans for an Italian bank to set up an equity fund for family businesses will help family firms go public.
08/01/16

Still playing the same Lotto numbers? You've made the odds of winning as much as possible in the bumper draw even longer...

Ian Walker's comments about the odds of winning the lottery feature in this article on This Is Money.
08/01/16

Office of the future

In an article about the future of offices and remote working, Karen Dale explains why the office could become more, not less important. 
06/01/16

Fat Cat Tuesday: Huge CEO salaries aren't about greed – their jobs are high pressure and risky

Swarnodeep Homroy argues that CEO salaries are high to compensate for the risk of dismissal in the International Business Times. 
06/01/16

Emotions, psychology or personality – what's your spending trigger?

Kim Kaivanto talks about the link between social networks and spending in an article in The Guardian. 
05/01/16

Wellbeing for flexible workers

Professor Monideepa Tarafdar discusses her research on the dark side of IT in this article in HR Magazine. 
05/01/16

UK employee survey: 48% of staff haven’t talked to HR in the last year

Professor Paul Sparrow from the Centre for Performance-led HR offers his thoughts following a survey carried out by CIPD's People Management magazine.
04/01/16

Wednesday's Lotto jackpot will be a recordbreaking £42M after rollover

The Daily Mail quotes Professor Ian Walker, who predicted that changes to the Lottery would lead to more rollovers. 
04/01/16

UK floods and extreme global weather linked to El Niño and climate change

Gail Whiteman, from the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business, warns that flood defences could become "out of date" as extreme weather increases. 
22/12/15

After MBA, pharmacist brings dose of data analytics to Novartis' healthcare

"Every MBA student would agree that they joined a globally-recognized MBA. The Lancaster MBA is living up well to that challenge," says Vikas Shrivastava.
15/12/15

Social media key to MBA careers as technology revolutionizes networking

MBA student Sharon Loh Meng Shuen is quoted in an article on BusinessBecause. 
11/12/15

Gail Whiteman on Good Morning Britain

Lancaster's Gail Whiteman appeared on ITV to discuss the Cumbria floods and COP21. 
10/12/15

Is climate change to blame for Cumbria floods?

"Thanks to climate change, extreme weather is the new normal," The Pentland Centre's Gail Whiteman tells ITV news.
10/12/15

Storm Desmond: Scale of destruction laid bare with streets transformed into rubbish dumps

"The Cumbria floods are a personal reality check here in Paris," says Professor Gail Whiteman in the Independent.
09/12/15

Mary Robinson: climate change ‘very likely’ to increase radicalisation

The Pentland Centre's Gail Whiteman is one of a team of experts who put their questions to UN special envoy and former Irish president Mary Robinson about the 2015 Paris climate negotiations.
30/11/15

China's new maritime silk road: An opportunity for the revival of Africa?

"China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road could be a game changer for Africa’s development," argue Wei Shen and colleagues in the Business Times. 
30/11/15

Woman in a man's world: Commodities manager leaves Brazil for Lancaster MBA

MBA student Barbara Silveira tells BusinessBecause why she chose Lancaster and how schools can help promote gender diversity in business.
27/11/15

Token women?

Swarnodepp Homroy looks at efforts to increase the number of women on executive boards and ways to avoid "tokenism". 
25/11/15

Ethics in business

The Pentland Centre's Gail Whiteman and Rodney Irwin from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development discuss how businesses can change on BBC Radio Lancashire.