As the Dean of the University of Wolverhampton Business School I would personally like to invite you and any guests to join us in our presentation of the state of Black Country Business in 2012.
Since the start of the year the University of Wolverhampton Business School has been working with the Express and Star and the Black Country Observatory to build up a data base of the leading companies headquartered in the Black Country. This will form part of a major Express and Star Supplement published on Tuesday June 19th.
This linked event will give business people and opinion formers in the Black Country an opportunity learn how the region is developing, the prospects for the future, and the opportunity to network with regional business leaders.
The event commences at 4.00pm and will be introduced by Sarah Middleton, Chief Executive of the Black Country Consortium
The event will take place:
Monday 25 June 4.00-7.00pm
University of Wolverhampton, Millennium Building MC001
I look forward to seeing you on June 25th.
Yours sincerely
Dr Anthea Gregory
Dean, University of Wolverhampton Business School
Time
Event
Welcome Darren Griffin Express and Star
16.05 - 16.30
The Black Country Economy
Sarah Middleton, Chief Executive Black Country Observatory
16.30 - 16.50
Tracking the Development of the Black Country Professor Mike Haynes and Zahra Zitouni.
Questions
17.00 - 17.10
Comfort Break
17.10 - 17.30
Black CountryWomen Directors and the Role of Corporate Governance Dr. Silke Machold
17.30 - 17.50
Foreign Direct Investment in the West Midlands and the Black Country Dr. Mark Cook
18.00 – 19.00
Wine and Refreshments Millennium Building hospitality suite
As places are limited, please would you confirm your attendance, and that of your guests, along with names, either e-mail at MRCAdmin@wlv.ac.uk or by faxing back the information form by Friday June 23rd.
Mark Cook, PhD, is Reader in International Buisness. He has published on regional patterns of foreign direct investment in the UK regions and is an established writer and contributor to some of the leading textbooks in economics, business and international economics with leading publishers like the Financial Times/ Prentice Hall.
Mike Haynes, PhD serves as the Co-Director of the University of Wolverhampton Business School’s Management Research Centre. He is a Professor of International Political Economy has written widely in aspects of the global economy as well as the UK economic system past and present. He edits the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy.
Silke Machold, PhD, is Reader in Governance and Ethics at the University of Wolverhampton Business School, UK, where she also serves as the Co-Director of the Management Research Centre. She is the founding associate editor of the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, and serves as the co-chair of the Special Interest Group on Corporate Governance at the European Academy of Management.
Zarah Zitouni Ma International Business is the main researcher for the Black Country Best Companies research. Before coming to the UK Zahra studied at the Université Paris - Val-de-Marne (Paris XII) and the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises.
