Monthly Archives: November 2011

Edinburgh Business School Director of Business, Alick Kitchin, Featured in Times Newspaper Supplements
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Recent editions of The Times newspaper have run features on Edinburgh Business School, its distance learning MBA programme and EBS’ Director of Business, Alick Kitchin. An article published in the newspaper, dated November 21st and titled “Fast track life of … Continue reading

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Oil Price Watch November 26th 2011
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Oil prices continued to fall this week (but only marginally) as demand side fears about the European debt crisis and poor US economic data weighed more heaviliy than worries about a possible European ban on oil imports from Iran and a fall in US inventories. This is … Continue reading

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Million Dollar Taxis
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I was in New York in October 2011 and read in the Times that two New York taxi medallions – aluminium plates that grant the right to operate a yellow cab – recently changed hands for $1 million each. This … Continue reading

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Interesting Articles
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A few more articles on the continuing Euro Crisis, all from Economist blogs: A discussion of the end of Silvio Berlusconi can be found here A great interactive graphic on the European economy here A candid assessment of European Central … Continue reading

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Oil Price Watch November 19th 2011
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The Brent oil price fell significantly by more than $7 this week, there is an interesting post by Reuters which illustrates some of the short-term reasons for this, as well as some medium to longer term issues – including crucially Issue … Continue reading

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Edinburgh Business School Sweden Alumni Club Event
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On 9th November, Edinburgh Business School Alumni Club (Sweden) held its annual meeting at Executive Management Institute (ExMI), Danderyd, Sweden. The evening was attended by fifteen Edinburgh Business School graduates and featured an address by Mr Mikael Jensen, CEO of … Continue reading

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