Toyosi OniAssociate — Frontier / SSA Equity Research, Renaissance Capital Our latest Graduate of Global of Distinction is Toyosi Oni, a very special woman with a prodigious talent and leadership capabilities beyond her years. I first met Toyosi in October 2014 when I mentored her two teams that she led in the Universities Business Challenge…
CII teams up with UEA
The University of East Anglia is the latest higher education provider to team up with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) to help students to kickstart a career in the insurance and personal finance profession. From September 2020 onwards, the Norwich Business School’s undergraduate and postgraduate students in finance will only have to pay an academic…
Top Tips for Interview Success
As graduates of Norwich Business School now turn their attention to job applications and interviews in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we thought we would offer guidance to those graduates and alumni now job hunting within this often more challenging market. If you are wondering how to navigate the challenges of graduate job seeking,…
MBA Alumni – Michelle (Heiu Tung) Fung
My name is Michelle, and I studied the MBA at Norwich Business School in the class of 2018. Before my studies I was a Human Resources Supervisor in MUFG (Hong Kong branch). After graduation I worked with KL Technologies, but I now work at Jumeirah Vittaveli, Maldives. I decided to join the UEA MBA programme…
Strategic Visual Performance Management Research in Hybrid Organisations
Hybrid Organisations are exciting companies to work for as they balance a strong mission with a strong balance sheet. They come in a number of forms including: Housing Associations, Social Enterprises; Arm’s Length Management Organisations (ALMOs) which are commercial entities that manage activities and are wholly owned by the local authority. There are other entities such as…
The Graduate Job Programme
Many of our students find that when they come to study at the University of East Anglia, they enjoy their student experience and extracurricular life so much that they wish to remain in the region. It is no surprise to us as Norwich is a hidden gem and year in year out it is voted…
Pursuing an MSc with Norwich Business School
The summer is a time for undergraduates to celebrate the end of their final assessments, a time for reflection and celebration and a well-earnt rest, but as the dust settles thoughts naturally move to a graduate’s next steps. Pursuing an MSc is considered necessary for career-advancement but what other things should be considered? Specialise and…
Celebrating Universities Business Challenge Success
I am James Rhodes, a final year Business Management student, and this year I decided to compete once again in the IBM Universities Business Challenge (UBC). UBC is a highly prestigious simulation based competition in the UK that is designed to develop employability skills by using realistic business simulations, allowing commercial and financial skills to…
NBS Health Hackathon
MSc Enterprise and Business Creation student, Marta Perez Rodriguez Malo, speaks on the experience of organising a ‘hackathon’, and how they adjusted the event so it could proceed despite the lockdown. Against all odds, the IV edition of the Health Hackathon was celebrated. When a face to face event was off the table, the students…
LEADING THE WORLD IN BRANDING
LEADING THE WORLD IN BRANDING Robert Jones spent more than 30 years as a brand strategist for brand consultancy Wolff Olins and, in this time, realised there is little professional education in brand development and management, so started providing comprehensive in-house training for new staff to bridge the skills gap.He then realised they could address…
MBA Alumni – Alex Watson
I studied my MBA in 2014, completing it in January 2015. Prior to my MBA I was a Project Manager for a steelwork company based in Norfolk. Currently, I am Head of Project Management at a property investment and development company in Norwich. I knew that I wanted to undertake a Masters programme from when I…
