June 2015
'Corporate Morality' Symposium
Christos Pitelis, Director CIBAM, was delighted to welcome the Pro Vice Chancellor Research and the Dean of the School of Management to what proved to be a very successful Symposium on Corporate Morality attended by over 70 delegates from academia and business.
March 2015
CIBAM Seminar On Responding to Corporate Crisis
January 2015
CIBAM Seminar on 'Internalization theory: An unfinished agenda'
July 2011
Dr Christos Pitelis speaks at WPP conference
November 2014
CIBAM Seminar on Corporate strategy in a challenged Europe
CIBAM Seminar on 'Internalization theory: An unfinished agenda'
October 2014
CIBAM supports Hellenic Entrepreneurs Association Annual Forum
CIBAM 'Big Data and (Big) Business'
March 2014
CIBAM ‘Masterclass’ by Jack Keenan, CEO Grand Cru Consulting Ltd on Developing a Growth Strategy - The Critical Steps
February 2014
CIBAM Seminar by David Roth, The Store WPP, on 'The Future of Retail'
September 2014
CIBAM Events and Activities
October 2012
CIBAM Director Christos Pitelis participates in a high-profile conference in Beijing
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August 2012
Bloomberg Business Week Videos - Pitelis: Germany 'doing the right thing' on Greece
June 2012
Bloomberg TV - Greece decides
April 2012
Wired Magazine - A post-luxe era needs co-op capitalism
January 2012
Tackling the issue of job mismatch and talent shortage
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November 2011
Wired Magazine - Video: Noreena Herz's talk at Wired 2011
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July 2011
The BRICs and beyond
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July 2011
Sky News and Bloomberg TV
July 2011
Paper by Dr Christos Pitelis second most cited in the European Management Review
July 2011
European Management Review award for Dr Christos Pitelis
June 2011
The world order after the crisis
April 2011
Green Business, Green Values and Sustainability
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January 20 2011
China and The Rise of the BRIC's
Distinguished Lecture and Panel
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November 2009
Rethinking the foundations of global corporate success
November 2009
South Eastern Europe after the crunch
Christos Pitelis, Director of CIBAM, was delighted to welcome Dr Deborah Allen, Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility at BAE Systems, to a very stimulating talk. Dr Allen drew on the experience with BAE systems to explain to the audience how reputations are hard won and can easily lost, and how BAE Systems faced and managed to overcame a number of crises in the years 2001 to 2008. The presentation explored what brings a company to crisis and how painstaking and exhaustive the process of turning it around can and indeed needs to be.
Deborah studied natural sciences at Cambridge and progressed to a doctorate in chemical engineering. She specialised in environmental consultancy, working for major industries across the world. In 2001, she joined BAE Systems in the newly created corporate position of Director of Safety, Health and Environment. This role rapidly expanded to include the group responsibility for diversity and ethics. The combination of roles has since been entitled Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility encompassing the many and varied aspects arising from the governance and obligatory issues affecting a defence company in today’s world. She reports directly to the Chief Executive and leads the global CR team, which provides support in embedding aspects of CR throughout the Group.
Christos Pitelis, Director of CIBAM, was delighted to welcome Dr Deborah Allen, Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility at BAE Systems, to a very stimulating talk. Dr Allen drew on the experience with BAE systems to explain to the audience how reputations are hard won and can easily lost, and how BAE Systems faced and managed to overcame a number of crises in the years 2001 to 2008. The presentation explored what brings a company to crisis and how painstaking and exhaustive the process of turning it around can and indeed needs to be.
Deborah studied natural sciences at Cambridge and progressed to a doctorate in chemical engineering. She specialised in environmental consultancy, working for major industries across the world. In 2001, she joined BAE Systems in the newly created corporate position of Director of Safety, Health and Environment. This role rapidly expanded to include the group responsibility for diversity and ethics. The combination of roles has since been entitled Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility encompassing the many and varied aspects arising from the governance and obligatory issues affecting a defence company in today’s world. She reports directly to the Chief Executive and leads the global CR team, which provides support in embedding aspects of CR throughout the Group.
Andrew Morgan, Chair CIBAM Global Advisory Board, drew on 27 years of experience working for Diageo to deliver an engaging Seminar on corporate strategy to an audience of students and academics.
Diageo, a global drinks company, derived around a third of its revenues from Europe prior to the recession of 2008. As a result of the recession, markets in South Europe declined rapidly and materially, leaving the total Diageo Europe performances highly challenged. To deal with this Diageo proactively executed a number of strategic changes to its Europe business. These changes included allocating resources to faster growing geographies, restructuring its organisation model, increasing focus on profitability, providing talent to other parts of the business and building a peerless reputation. The result was to turn downside risk into a number of upside contributions to the global performance and reputation of the company. Diageo’s market capitalisation doubled between 2008 and 2013.
The latest Seminar hosted by the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), University of Bath School of Management on ‘Business Development & Strategy in the International Defence and Security Market’ was highly successful.
In his address to an audience consisting of 75 academics and students, Dr Llyr Jones Vice-President, Latin America & Canada, BAE Systems, analysed the evolution of the defence and security industry, based on his many years' experience with BAE Systems and other major contractors. He presented the macro-level factors impacting on the sector - namely global shifts of power, non-military events, economic downturns and technology disruptions and cyber and explore their implications. He discussed the shift in the nature of international business in the sector - i.e. from an approach based on the export of finished products to one weighted towards on long-term partnerships with the local industries of emerging markets. Dr Jones focussed on the growth of markets in his own area of responsibility, namely Canada and the Americas, but also highlighted other established and emerging markets. The talk was followed by a fascinating discussion, touching upon major issues and challenges of globalisation and global sectors and business, including the political economy of the defence sector. [more info]
On 7th October 2014, the Hellenic Entrepreneurs Association organised its second Annual Forum on 'The rejuvenation of the Greek economy', with the support of CIBAM . The event was held at the King George Hotel, Athens, and was addressed by Dr Apostolopoulos, President of the Association and Board Member of CIBAM, and by Professor Christos Pitelis, CIBAM Director.
Key note speakers included The Vice President of the Greek Government, Evagelos Venizelos, the Minister of Finance, Gikas Hardouvelis, and the leader of the opposition, Alexis Tsipras. It was attended by circa 250 delegates and was reported widely in the news. The county's number one Channel, Ant1 news, presented both Dr Apostolopoulos and Professor Pitelis in their main news bulletin, the same day providing unique exposure to CIBAM and its new home, the University of Bath. It is anticipated that proposals from the event will be adopted by the Government.
Christos Pitelis, Director CIBAM, was delighted to welcome the Vice Chancellor, Deputy Vice Chancellor and the Dean of the School of Management to what proved to be a very successful event attended by over 90 delegates from academia and business.
The event which took place at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Financial Centre in London was addressed by speakers from Diageo Plc, Accenture, Berkeley Research Group, University College London, University of Cambridge, Kaspersky Laboratories, Kroll, Channel 4, Bath & North East Somerset Council, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, The Store WPP – and of course the University of Bath.
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Jack drew on his extensive experience in business as the CEO of major multinationals and an expert in acquisitions to discuss the critical steps required in order to develop and implement a successful corporate growth strategy. The event attended by students and academics proved to be very interesting and thought provoking for all, giving attendees an insight into the logic of acquisitions and why mergers so often fail.
Speaker Bio
Jack is the founder and CEO of Grand Cru Consulting Ltd. He has been CEO of the business now known as Diageo PLC and Chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods International.
He is currently a non-executive Chairman of Stock Spirits Group PLC (FTSE) and also of Revolymer PLC (AIM). Jack is also a director of National Angels Ltd, a theatre production company (currently a co-producer of “War Horse” in London’s West End).
Jack has served as an executive director of Diageo and Moet Hennessy and as a non-executive on the boards of Marks & Spencer PLC, Tomkins PLC, The Body Shop International PLC and General Mills Inc.
Jack has been patron of the Centre for International Business and Management for 12 years and an executive director for the prior 6 years.
He graduated from Tufts University (Phi Beta Kappa with honours) and has an MBA from Harvard.
He is a resident of the United Kingdom.
Publications:
2004: “Corporate Governance in UK/USA boardrooms”, Corporate Governance International Review 12,172-6.
2011: “Sustainability of Corporate Profits”, Green Business, Green Values and Sustainability, Co-Editor, Routledge.
The recent Seminar hosted by the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), University of Bath School of Management on 'The Future of Retail' was highly successful.
In his address to an audience consisting of around 50 academics and students, David Roth highlighted that retail powers economic growth. He indicated that there would be more retail change in the next 10 years than there has been in the past 50, and that to understand our economic future we need to understand the past and where retail is going. He pinpointed the key drivers creating disruptive change in the retail industry and illustrated what 'The Future of Retail' in a digital world would be and its implications for consumers, brands, advertising, the economy and the universe.
Speaker Bio
David Roth, CEO, The Store WPP, EMEA and Asia
David started his career at the House of Commons working for a member of the UK Parliament. He swapped politics for the cut and thrust of advertising. Joining Bates Dorland, he became main board director for strategy and Managing Director of the consulting and digital divisions. David was the CEO of the worldwide retail and technology centre of excellence.
David joined Kingfisher’s B&Q plc, one of Europe’s largest retailers sitting on the main board of directors as UK and International Marketing Director.
David is now at WPP as the CEO of The Store, EMEA and Asia, the WPP Global Retail Practice. David also leads WPP BrandZ, the world’s largest brand equity study.
David is an acknowledge expert on China. He has been travelling to China for almost two decades and advises retailers, manufacturers and brand owners in many sectors on China market entry strategies and the changing Chinese consumers.
David is the author of the ‘Retailing in a Recession’ playbook series, books on China ‘Brand China’ and ‘The Thoughts of Chairman Now’ and ‘The History of Retail in 100 Objects’. A frequent speaker at international events, David is a non executive director of TFT an NGO dedicated to sustainable production.
www.davidroth.com
2013 has been a busy year so far for the Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM) - in addition to organising and hosting activities that included a Distinguished Panel event in February and a series of Seminars and Guest Lectures, 2013 also saw the migration of CIBAM and its Director Christos Pitelis from the University of Cambridge to the University of Bath School of Management.
CIBAM was established in 1995 with the aim of encouraging dialogue between business and academia, and celebrated 18 successful years in 2013.
Read the latest issue of the CIBAM Newsletter ‘Gloquacious’ to learn more about the Distinguished Panel event on ‘Global Automotive Industry’, and the various Seminars which included topics such as Private Equity investing in Russia, India and China; Business Development & Strategy in the International Defence and Security Market; Growth within Jaguar Land Rover since 2008 and Russia and the World Trade Organisation. The Newsletter also gives updates on some of the CIBAM Members, and a pictorial summary of some of the events held over the last 18 years
The conference, organised by UNCTAD, the WTO and the OECD, was titled 'Global Value Chain in the 21st Century: Policy Implications on Trade, Investment, Statistics and Developing Countries'. Dr Pitelis's presentation focused on the cross-border operations of transnational corporations (TNCs), global value chains (GVCs) and developmental industrial policies (DIPs).
Christos Pitelis, a don at Cambridge Judge Business School, discusses the outlook for the Greek economy. He spoke on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse" on August 20
Dr Christos Pitelis talks to Bloomberg about Greece's need for a unity government and why the bailout fails to address the question - how can Europe and Greece achieve growth?
"The world desperately needs a new form of capitalism ... one that would trump the version we are living with which I have named 'Gucci capitalism'," writes Noreena Hertz, Associate Director of the Centre for International Business & Management.
With the current economic downturn generating a wide spread sense of doom and gloom, Cambridge Judge Business School's Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM) is hosting a Distinguished Panel to discuss the topical issue of "Job Mismatch and the Pursuit of Talent"..
What direction is the Dow Jones going to move in? Who's going to win the next election? When will public disorder break out? These are the questions that Noreena Herz, a social scientist and Professor at Cambridge University and Judge Business School, wants to answer.
On 8 July CIBAM's latest Global Business Symposium will explore the emergence and rising power of the BRICs and, more recently, a group of newcomers variously described as "CIVETS" or "Next-11".
Dr Christos Pitelis is interviewed on Sky News and Bloomberg TV about the ongoing political and economic unrest in Greece.
Dr Christos Pitelis' paper "The (new) nature and essence of the firm" named as European Management Review's (EMR) second most cited article.
Dr Christos Pitelis was a special guest speaker at the launch of WPP's BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Brazilian Brands in São Paulo, Brazil which took place on 13 May 2011.
Dr Christos Pitelis awarded the European Management Review (EMR) 2010 Best Paper Award for his joint paper with Peter G. Klein, Joseph T. Mahoney and Anita M. McGahan, "Toward a theory of public entrepreneurship".
The latest Global Business Symposium, on "The World Order after the Crisis", took place on Friday 25 June 2010 at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Chapter 1 from the book 'Green Business, Green Values, and Sustainability' published by Routledge in 2011, entitled "CIBAM and the Symposium on 'Green Business and Green Values'", introduces the reader to the nature and philosophy of the Centre for Internal Business and Management (CIBAM) and outlines some of the challenges and opportunities that such centres face. The chapter also summarises the proceedings from the homonymous Symposium.
A CIBAM Distinguished Lecture and Panel was given by Professor Alain Verbeke on "Rethinking the Foundations of Global Corporate Success" and discussed by a panel of leading specialists in the topic.
The second 2009 Global Business Symposium, with keynote speaker Professor Louka T. Katseli, took place on 28 November at the Athens Medical Group headquarters in Kefalari, Athens, on the topic "South Eastern Europe after the Crunch".
Report from the CIBAM Global Business Symposium on Global Finance
The Report from the CIBAM Global Business Symposium on Global Finance exemplifies the CIBAM experience.
At the Board Meeting of February 2007, CIBAM Global Advisory Board member Jonathan Garner (Morgan Stanley), suggested that we hold an event on Global Finance. At the time the financial sector was still booming but Jonathan was sensing that things were about to turn sour. The event was held in February 2008, by which time the still current today global financial crisis had erupted.
The proceedings of the paper were published in academic journal Contributions to Political Economy.
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