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How mentoring helped one of our students secure a graduate role at BDO

We take great pride in creating meaningful connections between our students, donors and alumni. Mentoring plays a key role in this, as it shapes the careers of our students, especially during their transition from university to the workplace. Today, we are excited to share the inspiring success story of Anish, a recent graduate in Business and Finance Management, and his mentor, Keven Parker, Joint Managing Partner at NorthEdge Private Equity.

Ignited: Salford Business School Magazine

Salford Business School Academics show innovation and insight in business thinking. I am delighted to be able to introduce you to the second issue of the Salford Business School (#SalfordBSchool) magazine Ignited. Having recently joined the School I had done my research before I joined as Dean. I knew that Salford has a great reputation […]

The Salford MBA: Lê Tuấn Hùng’s journey

Lê Tuấn Hùng came to Salford Business School from Vietnam to study for The Salford MBA. He had originally studied at the University of Transport and Communications in Hanoi, Vietnam, majoring in Construction Economics and after graduating, worked for a shipping company as a sales executive. “My main job was to search for potential clients […]

10 reasons to attend Creative Entrepreneur 2015 #CreativeEnt

Salford Business School is once again opening its doors to our cutting edge campus at MediaCityUK to you, your friends and colleagues! We are bringing together our centres of Digital Business, Sports Business and Social Business to provide inspiration and education for all, thinking about global opportunity in a connected world. Whether you are a student, young entrepreneur, […]

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 […]

HSBC, Tax Avoidance – and Faith?

The HSBC bank has been criticised for helping its clients to avoid paying tax. Stephen Green, in charge of HSBC at the time, is an ordained Christian priest. Whether or not he knew what was going on, is it right to help the rich avoid paying tax? Is it moral? Is it in line with […]

Sports business introduction: How marketing and social media help sports business?

Have you ever thought about your favourite sports team as a “business”? This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) takes you through some of the key issues of a sports business. In particular, we will focus on: Social implications of sports business Sports business marketing Social Media in sports business Do you know how marketing and […]

Salford Business School visit to Ghana and scholarship winner

The University of Salford and Salford Business School recently featured in two big and very different events in Ghana. The University attended the February UK Higher Education Exhibition and over a two day period advised over 250 students, and then attended a garden party at the Minister’s residence. Staff, students and alumni had a great […]

Social media security

This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) looks at the security issues connected with social media platforms such as  Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+.  This MOOC builds on content from the Information Security modules that is part of the BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology programme. This MOOC covers topics including… Controlling privacy settings Choosing and managing passwords Physical security […]