- Coventry University Business School
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Coventry Business School is a business school located in Coventry, United Kingdom and a part of Coventry University. The School is home to a number of departments, including: the Department of Strategy and Applied Management; the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting; the Department of Marketing and Advertising; and the Department of Human Resource Management.[1] The School includes almost 6,000 students on undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma courses.
The School was awarded 22 out of 24 by the QAA in its most recent audit and was awarded 3 Palmes by Eduniversal in its 2008 ratings, which rated it as 'excellent'.[2]
The School is an accredited study centre of The Chartered Institute of Marketing.[3]
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History
Coventry University has taught business for over 40 years, starting in the early 1960s. A Faculty of Business was formed in 1987 and the School was established in 1990.
The School's home, the historic William Morris building, dates from 1916. Car entrepreneur William Morris bought it in 1923 to produce car engines. Acquired by the university in 1992, the building has been extensively renovated and now includes IT labs, lecture theatres and specialist post-graduate teaching facilities.
The School has expanded rapidly in recent years and has attracted a number of academic stars including Professor Simon Chadwick, Professor Jon Billsberry and Professor David Bailey. Chadwick is Chair of both the Academy of Marketing's Sport Marketing Special Interest Group and the European Sport Marketing Network. Billsberry is Program Chair of the MED Division of the Academy of Management and Chair of the British Academy of Management's Organisational Psychology Special Interest Group.[4] Bailey is Chair of the Regional Studies Association and a blogger at the Birmingham Post newspaper.[5][6] Bailey's recent ESRC funded work on the impact of the MG Rover closure has attracted widespread publicity and was featured in the first of the Academy of Social Science's and ESRC's booklets on 'Making the Case for Social Science'.[7]
The School hosted (with the Applied Research Centre in Sustainable Regeneration) the Regional Studies Association's 2009 Policy Conference in December 2009, on the topic of Beyond The Global Credit Crunch: Prospects and Policies for Mature Industrial Regions which featured an impressive line up of speakers including Mark Prisk MP.[8]
Academics
The School includes almost 6,000 students on undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma courses. The School offers MBAs in international business, finance and marketing as well as a general award, taking in some 200 full-time and part-time students. All MBA participants take core modules such as business environment, human resource management and methods of management research. There is also an MBA in sport management.
The School has partnerships with many foreign universities, including Oulu (Finland); Beijing and Guangzhou in China; ESC Clermont, ESC Montpellier and ESC St Etienne in France; and Krakow University of Economics in Poland.
Research
The School is home to the Centre for the International Business of Sport (CIBS), directed by Professor Simon Chadwick.[9] CIBS aims to deliver high quality applied research, training, consultancy and networking outputs across a range of sports and a number of different management disciplines. The centre hosted the 2009 Play the Game International Conference 'Visions for Sports in time of crisis'.[10] In 2010/11 CIBS launched the journal Sport, Business and Management: an International Journal published by Emerald.[11]
Library and The Hub
Coventry University has a new £18 million library.[12]
The University has recently invested £32 million in an informal study and relaxed environment at the heart of the campus. The building has many green credentials and reuses rain water. http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/thehub/Pages/TheHuboverview.aspx
Notable alumni
Notable alumni of the School include: Charles Morgan, Morgan Cars; Gary Kibble, retail trading director, Shop Direct Group;[13] and Gideon Coe, the radio DJ.
References
- ^ "Coventry Business School homepage". Coventry University. http://www.coventry.ac.uk/cu/bes/businessschool.
- ^ http://www.eduniversal.com/business-school-ranking/main/coventry-university-coventry-business-school/984
- ^ http://www.cim.co.uk/tandq/qualifications/studycentres/coventryuniversitybusinessschool.aspx
- ^ http://www.coventry.ac.uk/cu/d/268/a/8933
- ^ http://www.coventry.ac.uk/latestnewsandevents/a/5264
- ^ New professor at Coventry Business School
- ^ http://www.acss.org.uk/docs/Making%20the%20Case/wellbeing_brochure_view.pdf
- ^ http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/2009/dec-coventry/programme.pdf
- ^ http://www.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/d/691
- ^ http://www.playthegame.org/
- ^ http://www.efmd.org/index.php/media-a-network-news/call-for-papers--events/1445-sport-business-and-management-an-international-journal
- ^ "Coventry Business School". The Independent (London). 2008-12-20. http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/business-schools/coventry-university-business-school-1206171.html. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
- ^ "Coventry Business School". The Independent (London). 2008-12-20. http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/business-schools/coventry-university-business-school-1206171.html. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
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