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Business Week 2011

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Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

No booking required

Monday 27 June - Career Events

In partnership with the Adab foundation and Birkbeck Careers Service.

2pm: Fiona Vander, Business Development Manager T.M. Lewin - Delivering 'Dressing for success' workshop

3pm: David Nevill, Skills Delivery Manager Global Services, UKMEA State Street Corporation - Delivering 'Presentation skills' Workshop

4pm: Steve Smit, Executive Vice President, Head of Global Markets Europe and Investor Services UKMEA StateStreet - Delivering a Masterclass

5pm: Birkbeck Careers Presentation

Tuesday 28 June

12:15 - 14:00: Business Lunch
"How is resilience relevant for careers?"
Kate Mackenzie-Davey; John Arnold; Wendy Hirsch; Jan Dagleish; Zella King; Ann Winter

14:15 - 15:00
"Are bad dealings more important than good dealings in employment relationships?"
Neil Conway

15:00 - 15:45
"The Connected Self: Identity Work and Communication Technologies in the Organization"
Gillian Symon

16:15 - 17:00
"Scumbag millionaires: coping with the moral taint of investment banking"
Liz Stanley

18:15: Alec Rodger Memorial Lecture
"Resilience: People, Organisations and their Communities"
Professor Tom Cox CBE

Wednesday 29 June

12:15 - 14:00: Business Lunch
"Managing the Employment Relationship: Resilience or Erosion?"
John Kelly and Kim Hoque

14:15 - 15:00
"Knowledge and Knowing at work"
Katrina Pritchard

15:00 - 15:45
"Strategy as rhetoric: Institutionalization and the argumentative context in a Cultural Organization"
Chahrazad Abdallah

16:15 - 17:00
"Collaborative planning of lifelong learning - a flexible approach"
Alex Poulovassillis

18:15: Corporate Governance Panel
"Varieties of liberalism: Anglo-Saxon capitalism in crisis?"
Sue Konzelmann and guests

Thursday 30 June

12:15 - 14:00: Business Lunch
"Testing the 'resilience' of the sport business model: managing a sustainable business in a loss-making industry"
Sean Hamil; Geoff Walters & Guests

14:15 - 15:00
"Resilience and change"
Doug West

15:00 - 15:45
"Does the concept of psychological resilience stand up to scrutiny?"
Rob Briner

16:15 - 17:15: Inaugural Lecture
"Regulatory Games"
Sandeep Kapur

18:15: Commodity Finance Centre (CfC) Evening
"Agricultural commodities and global food security: challenges and solutions"
Helyette Geman

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