School of Management
Life in Fruit Towers – working with Innocent Drinks on my Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc thesis
Time flies! It’s been a while since my last blog, which I wrote when we were on our study tour, and now it's the time of the year for our thesis project! As logistics and ...
Memories of Cranfield – from playing on the building site of the School of Management to an MBA…
My earliest memory of Cranfield University is moving into the newly built number 9 Handley Page Close and then taking the bus to Aspley Guise to go to junior school there. I can also recall ...
Putting theory into practice: the Master’s in Management three-month internship…
What is the organisational culture like? The organisational culture in Skanska is rather relaxed, which I absolutely love. I think it comes from Sweden’s rather easy-going approach to life and that is reflected in the ...
Playing games at work? Why business simulations can help you to run your business without wasting money or resources
What can help you to run a business without wasting money or resources? Thirty two years ago in 1985, an article appeared in the Financial Times crowning the latest winners of the UK’s National Management ...
What’s in a name? Doing business responsibly and sustainably…
You might be familiar with the classic definition of sustainable development as formulated by the Brundtland Commission in 1987: “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet ...
My three month internship with Skanska UK
What is the organisational culture like? In general, it is very open and consensus oriented, you can see it is quite non-hierarchical in terms of treatment of people. I really like that, even though it ...