Gender quotas across public life continue to fuel debate in the UK, but what happened when the Norwegian Government required boards at publicly listed companies to appoint a minimum of 40% women?
Fifteen years on Thorhild Widvey, then cabinet minister for Oil and Energy, joins us to reflect on the legacy of this policy, and asks how we can extend participation of women into areas of leadership across private companies and senior positions in organisations.
The event will be followed by a networking drinks reception.
About the speaker:
Widvey is currently Chair of the Board at Statkraft, a leading hydropower company in the world and the largest renewable power generator in Europe. In 2013 she was appointed Minister of Culture for the Norwegian Government; she had previously served as Minster of Petroleum and Energy (2004 – 2005), State Secretary for Foreign Affairs (2003 – 2005), State Secretary for Fisheries (2002 – 2003). Widvey has served on more than 50 boards of companies, in private and public sectors, including Hitec Vision AS (2006 to 2015); ENI Norway AS (2007 to 2015), Aker Drilling ASA (2006 to 2005), Oslo Havn KF (2012 to 2015), Aker Philadelphia Shipyard AS (2011 to 2015) and Sjømannskirken (Norwegian Church Abroad) (2006 to 2015).
Event details:
Venue: University of Edinburgh Business School
Date: Wednesday 11 October, 2017
Time: 18:00 – 19:00, followed by a networking drinks reception
Cost: FREE
Contact: 0131 651 5326 or events@business-school.ed.ac.uk
Reserve your place here: https://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/event/beyond-business-thorhild-widvey
Come and meet University of Edinburgh Business School students and critique their business insights on 1st November
Each year our first year undergraduates carry out a team-based project to analyse a business, using tools that will be familiar to many in business such as Strategic Groups and SWOT analysis. The output is an event in our Playfair Library, on 1st November, where the teams display their analysis in the form of a poster.
We welcome members of the business community to take part in this event by coming along to discuss the posters with their student teams and provide informal feedback and advice. This event is part of the student’s ‘Introduction to Business’ module.
The poster session runs throughout the day but you could simply come along to all or some of the morning or afternoon session (each session will have around 25 teams of five students).
If you are interested, please contact Aidan Hetherington, Corporate Engagement Manager, on aidan.hetherington@ed.ac.uk to receive further details.
Public guest speaker event on 17 October at 6.30pm, at the University of Edinburgh Business School
The Business School’s Entrepreneurship Club invites you to find out about how entrepreneurs can most effectively promote themselves on a limited budget.
This event is free and open to all. Michelle Brown of Michelle Brown PR makes a welcome return to the Eclub to draw upon her 20+ years of experience in the PR industry to give insights into how entrepreneurs can make the most of PR.
In her presentation, Michelle will cover the following points including, how to create a PR story and stand out from the crowd, how the media works and how to maximise exposure across all media platforms, on a limited budget. She will also illustrate her talk with case studies and will answer questions from the floor.
Michelle will be joined by Ali Wyllie, Founder of Run the Sights who will provide examples of a good PR story.
To register for this, and any other free event at the Business school please visit https://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/events
Everyone that engages with a business forms an opinion based on their experience. Their opinion is the brand, and in this highly connected and communicative world, reputation is in their hands.
The University of Edinburgh Business School and Emperor are hosting an event on the 10th of October exploring how to craft, launch and sustain a successful employer brand.
With speakers from AG Barr, RBS and the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), this event specifically examines the role of the employer brand in attracting and retaining the right candidates, making good hiring decisions and delivering a candidate experience to positively impact brand reputation. Leadership, HR and communications professionals, will benefit from key learnings taken from new market research, real world case studies, insightful presentations and the opportunity to engage with peers.
This is a complimentary event but places are limited so please register to secure a place at https://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/event/developing-a-sustainable-employer-brand
Event details:
Tuesday 10 October 2017
17.30 – 20.15 (tea, coffee and networking from 17.00)
University of Edinburgh Business School
29 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9JS
The University of Edinburgh Business School runs a postgraduate programme in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
As part of the course the students work as a team of consultants to tackle the real-world challenges faced by organisations to consider approaches to managing innovation. The host organisation can be any size, private/public or third sector.
The students are tasked with identifying opportunities for innovation, selecting those that can be pursued, implementing these ideas into new products, services, processes and activities, technologies or business models, and designing a way to generate and capture value.
The projects are supervised by our academic colleagues. Past company hosts often find it a novel way to have some free consultancy done, looking at challenges from a slightly different perspective.
If this is something your organisation could be interested in, please contact Aidan Hetherington, Corporate Engagement Manager, on Aidan.Hetherington@ed.ac.uk or 0131 650 9841 for an initial chat.
A message from the University of Edinburgh Business School;
We are always very interested in reaching out to organisations to engage with them. Engaging with organisations means we are able to get students working on real-life challenges whilst offering the organisations themselves the opportunity to utilise the talent that the university has to offer.
How to Engage
If you would like more detail on any of the information above or indeed, any other engagement you might be interested in then please don’t hesitate to get in touch: Tom Parnell (tom.parnell@ed.ac.uk)
