In the past month support for the SPS business schools initiative has grown considerably. Saïd Business School and Oxford Brookes have both become corporate members of SPS and nominated faculty members. Duncan Angwin of Oxford Brookes and Richard Whittington of Saїd were instrumental in building the relationship with SPS and now plan to collaborate to establish an SPS Strategy Club open to students of both schools.
Explaining his reasons for supporting the initiative, Whittington called the SPS initiative “a great way of bringing students closer to the world of practice. We look forward to welcoming SPS members into our classrooms.”
In the past month Strathclyde Business School has also become a corporate member nominating over a dozen members of the faculty. Now plans are afoot to run the first SPS Strategy Club event there on 9 February. Mark Anderson, President of Strategy and Business Development at Pearson International and author of The Leadership Book, will talk on the subject of strategic leadership. Discounted copies of the book are available to SPS members.
A long standing corporate member of SPS, Newport Business School have just renewed their membership and are also keen to establish an SPS Strategy Club, with first event being planned for February 2012.
The recent additions mean that over a dozen UK business schools are now in the process of establishing SPS Strategy Clubs, and we are getting expressions of interest from business schools abroad. All understand the benefits of introducing practitioner perspectives to support academic learning, and of working with SPS to increase engagement with the business community.