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‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry
Society, Politics & Law

‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry

...money for the company. I was on a par with the beer they sold or the crisps and nuts they stocked: my body was property, something which was commonplace across the so-called ‘hospitality industry’ and other sectors – another mechanism to increase profits. Sometimes I had to do a two-hour shift on my own – completely solo. This was because it was quiet in the early...
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The Harrison Centre for Social Mobility
Education & Development

The Harrison Centre for Social Mobility

...Business School to create a dedicated centre of excellence in financial education. The Harrison Centre opened its first dedicated learning facility in 2018, based at the Beacon of Light sports and education centre in Sunderland. The Harrison Centre works with hundreds of young people annually across Wearside and the surrounding areas, providing the tuition and training...
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Can you harness intrapreneurship?
Money & Business

Can you harness intrapreneurship?

...business instead?...These questions are discussed in the Intrapreneurship Series – a series of four webinars from The Open University (OU), hosted by innovation advisor and engineer, Josh Valman. The four sessions look at the what intrapreneurs are and how the right culture can be created to allow them to solve problems in the same fashion as an entrepreneur and...
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How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...business model. We all know that Facebook makes most of its money from data that it sells to advertisers. Part of what makes this data so valuable and powerful in the global data economy is that it seems, in large part, to be tied to “real” people. Since Facebook cannot actually verify the identities of all of its users, it instead exercises a combination of machine...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race 2018
Science, Maths & Technology

Golden Globe Ocean Race 2018

...money for a scholarship fund to help others obtain education and collecting research samples for The Open University academics. Follow his journey around the world and check out insights from our OU academics along each step of his journey. Here is Antoine Cousot’s boat in build... [Antoine's old boat] The old boat [Antoine's boat at Falmouth] The new boat Two of our...
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Saving capitalists from themselves?
Society, Politics & Law

Saving capitalists from themselves?

...money” in approving a €400 million payout of taxpayers’ money to controversial French businessman Bernard Tapie, acting against the advice of experts. Within hours of the court’s decision, the IMF executive board convened a special meeting which gave Lagarde its full support. And on 1 January its was revealed that the president of the European commission,...
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What are Mintzberg’s five components of an organisation? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What are Mintzberg’s five components of an organisation? The one-minute guide

...Business and Management degrees a The Open University [Some people doing vaguely business-related things] These are clearly stock image people. What would it take to make them an organisation? Henry Mintzberg, writing in The Structure of Organizations, came up with this diagram as a way of explaining what makes an organisation: [Mintzberg’s five components of...
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Negotiating trade deals
Money & Business

Negotiating trade deals

...business and increased environmental protection. These issues have come to the forefront in light of Brexit where the UK’s decision to leave the EU has meant that it now has to independently negotiate new trade agreements. Christopher Grey discusses this in his article for The Conversation “How would post-Brexit trade deals actually work?” There are also larger...
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