Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has replaced US retail group Wal-Mart as the world’s largest company, the latest annual survey by Fortune Magazine says.                                                       BBC News 09 July 2009

John Pedretti, Portfolio manager at Skanska Infrastructure Development, and Anglia Ruskin MBA graduate, kindly volunteered his views on a new product. See AREA for details.

In January 2009, John gave a guest presentation on project management at the Executive MBA UK Residential at Homerton College.

On 23rd June, Robert Jones (Programme Leader Executive MBA Part-time) presented a session on “Building a business that packs a punch” to the Cambridge Businesswomen’s Network. The workshop included ways to beat the recession, rethink and then rebuild your business on sound strategic principles.

The Cambridge Businesswomen’s Network aims to offer regional women in business the opportunity to meet, forge contacts and extend their skills. The monthly events are open to women from all sectors of the business community including the professions, the public sector, large corporations and small businesses and are a great networking opportunity.

The CBN meeting at Newnham College in Cambridge was organized by Dr Berenice Mann of Cambridge-based Proactive Research Organisation. The business women engaged in lively dialogue and left the meeting full of ideas on how to take their businesses forward.

Study for your MBA in Cambridge part-time over two years at the Ashcroft International Business School of Anglia Ruskin University. This programme was established in 1989.

On the two year part-time programme, you attend lectures and seminars on Thursday / Friday / Saturday once a month at the Anglia Ruskin Cambridge campus. The same programme is also offered at Anglia Ruskin’s Chelmsford campus.

Students fly in from jobs in the USA and Germany once a month to follow the part-time programme.

Contact Programme Leader Robert Jones for details:- robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk

You can also study for an MBA full-time at the Cambridge campus.

Or you could study on the Postgraduate Certificate in Management and Postgraduate DMS Diploma in Management Studies programmes.

In July 2006, a team of Anglia Ruskin MBA students won the i10 Innovators competition at the London Eye.

In March 2008, a team of Anglia Ruskin BA Business and Management students won the IBM UBC Universities Business Challenge.

The more famous school in Cambridge is the Judge Business School – part of the University of Cambridge

MBA in Berlin

The Berlin School of Economics (Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft Berlin) has been running its MBA programme since 1992 in conjunction with Anglia Ruskin. Building on many years of experience, the MBA programme is designed to enable the students to obtain a Masters degree from both Anglia Ruskin University and the Berlin School of Economics (FHW).

Our Cambridge-based Executive MBA students joined their counterparts from Anglia Ruskin Chelmsford campus and from the Berlin School of Economics and Law in a study visit to Berlin, 10th – 14th June 2009.

easyJet and Ryanair into Schoenefeld airport were on time and the Ibis Hotel West was comfortable and convenient for the U-Bahn.

The programme in Berlin included a city orientation tour, student syndicate presentations for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation module, visits to the Vivantes Clinic at Neukoelln and to the factory of Bombardier Transportation gmbh at Hennigsdorf, seminars on international business and financial aspects of the Euro and the European Union, and of course enjoying this splendid city and its atmosphere.

Students enjoyed exploring the city using the 5-day U-Bahn travel card. We met two young law student entrepreneurs at the 12 Apostel Restaurant in Charlottenburg who offered an interesting service to our tired students at the MBA dinner.

In April 2009 our Cambridge-based Part-time MBA students joined with their counterparts from the Berlin School of Economics and Law Dual Award MBA to take part in the “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” module.
As part of this action-packed three day block module, Cambridge and Berlin students visited the Marshall Business Aviation Centre at Cambridge Airport to study the innovations and strategy of this fast-growing enterprise.

See the Cambridge AREA website for details of student business competitions later in 2008.

Contact     robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk       for details

The Airbus A380 super-jumbo has completed its first European commercial flight after a plane from Singapore landed at London’s Heathrow airport. Singapore Airlines is the first carrier to operate the new double-decker aircraft on revenue-earning services. Flight SQ308 arrived at Heathrow 15 minutes before its 1505 GMT schedule. British Airways has ordered 12 of the airliners, due to be delivered from 2012, while Virgin Atlantic has ordered six, to arrive from 2013.

The Singapore Airlines flight carries 470 passengers, each of whom will receive a personalised certificate to commemorate the historic first flight to the UK. The carrier has three A380s in service, with 16 more on order, and has been using them on flights between Singapore and Sydney, Australia, since October 2007.

BBC News Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 14:55 GMT

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, British inventor of the World Wide Web, has been on a short visit to Britain from his base at MIT in Boston, during which he met government ministers, academics and major corporations, to promote a new subject, Web Science.

This is a multi-disciplinary effort to study the web and try to guide its future. Sir Tim explained that there were now more web pages than there are neurons in the human brain, yet the shape and growth of the web were still not properly understood.

“We should look out for snags in the future,” he said, pointing to the way email had been swamped by spam as an example of how things could go wrong. “Things can change so fast on the internet.” But he promised that what web scientists would produce over the coming years “will blow our minds”.

The creator of the web has said consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet. Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC News he would change his internet provider if it introduced such a system. Plans by leading internet providers to use Phorm, a company which tracks web activity to create personalised adverts, have sparked controversy. Sir Tim said he did not want his ISP to track which websites he visited.

See video interview at BBC News        Monday, 17 March 2008, 12:26 GMT

Friday 7 March 2008

Anglia Ruskin University students Stefan Muench, Daniel Kunert, Philip Gotter and Felix Richter – have won the finals of the IBM Universities Business Challenge (UBC) at IBM headquarters at Bedfont Lakes, Feltham.

Full story at CambridgeAREA.