Expert Commentary

In the world of business, things are constantly changing. Our expert academics explain and give their views on the latest hot topics from the worlds of law, business, HR, finance, retail and much more.

Thomas Cook Corfu deaths and the reign of lawyers

It is a truism that companies that have lasted 100 years tend to be those built on a foundation of ethical principles. Thomas Cook is one of those. But recently it has declined and is in trouble over its handling of the case of two children dying on one of the holidays it arranged. Why […]

Paid internships project legacy lives on

After over 4 years of assisting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the North West of England by placing students and graduates in companies to carry out short-term paid internships, the highly successful Unite with Business project has now come to an end. Being part of Salford Business School’s business services offer, Unite with Business […]

Digital high street breakfast workshop: getting technology to work for you

  Join us for a free Digital High Street breakfast workshop for local retailers who want to find more about social media and eCommerce. The high street is operating in an ever more challenging economic context. It is important that retail businesses adapt to change in order to maximise their profile and customer base.  This […]

Job search tips: Facing job hunting head-on

As the UK’s number 1 technical recruiter, with 46 years of recruitment and HR experience, Morson Group is proud to be the primary sponsor of the Salford Business School Ball 2015. There is so much conflicting information available regarding job hunting and graduates, but it provides little help to actually doing the daunting task and […]

Symposium for Business PhD Doctorate students

At Salford Business School,  we have a thriving PhD community from a range of fascinating business, management and law students from around the world. A great example of this community coming together is our recent Doctoral Symposium in the world class facility of the ThinkLab. This showcased some of the superb PhD research projects which are currently […]

The importance of Human Resource Management #MrBoss

“Human resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they’re not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.” ― Ken Robinson People are the biggest asset of any organization. However, managing employees in order to maximize them for the […]

Why MBA? #WhyMBA

Why should I undertake an MBA? This question is often asked on twitter #WhyMBA as people contemplate the decision to complete a Master of Business Administration (MBA). To help respond to this question, we carried out research on the current MBA students at Salford Business School to determine what was important to them. One of […]

Salford University Parkour – MSc Accounting and Finance

Salford University Parkour -‘Behind The Scenes’ at Salford Business School. The newly formed Furtherfaster team have devised and developed an innovative and interesting content strategy, using a Parkour expert in a promotional video, aimed at promoting the excellent Masters courses at the award winning, Salford Business School. The #FurtherFaster team from Salford University have worked on the exciting new […]

Alien Sightings: SalfordUniversET on Campus!

Yes! You heard it right we have Alien sightings at the University of Salford, it is confirmed to be particularly prominent amongst MSc International Events Management students. Alien life form has been sighted at the University of Salford; it has been seen walking around Salford Business School helping students find their way to a better […]

Why study Human Resource Management?

Since the dawn of human history we rely on the study of Human Resource Management to help us reach magnificent results. Any achievement carried out successfully needed a considerable amount of organisation and management. The three main resources available in these projects are time, material and most importantly human resources. Let’s just think about the […]