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		<title>Caring robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Priest, Teaching Fellow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Organisational Behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[services marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A major and growing concern for much of the developed world is how to ensure that every old person is able to get the care they need. Nurses work tirelessly to give quality care, but increasing demand makes it harder &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://ebsglobalblog.net/caring-robots-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Edinburgh Business School &#8211; Hong Kong Reception, Friday 10th May 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 09:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday 10th May 2013 we were delighted to welcome over 100 alumni, students and guests to an Edinburgh Business School cocktail reception at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong. Another great opportunity for students and alumni in the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://ebsglobalblog.net/edinburgh-business-school-hong-kong-reception-friday-10th-may-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Priest, Teaching Fellow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forecasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interesting articles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[organisational buying behaviour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some articles that I’ve found interesting and would like to share: Ocado suffers a fall in shares as Waitrose challenges the online grocer over its discussions to help Morrisons develop an online service. Is Ocado risking a valuable &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://ebsglobalblog.net/interesting-articles-6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Priest, Teaching Fellow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with changing consumers’ attitudes is that attitudes do not always predict behaviour. Many people like Rolex watches but will never in their lifetime buy one. Many people know that smoking is bad for them but do it anyway. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://ebsglobalblog.net/whats-the-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The student who caught out the Harvard professors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Kay, Professorial Fellow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You are an economics student (Thomas Herndon) who has been asked by your professor to take one well-known paper in economics and replicate its results as homework. You decide to take one of the most famous papers in economics in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://ebsglobalblog.net/the-student-who-caught-out-the-harvard-professors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>QWERTY now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Kay, Professorial Fellow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I described how the English language keyboard format QWERTY had been wrongly maligned as an “accident of history” and was instead a brilliant engineering solution to a particularly tricky technical problem of its day.  But is it also really seriously &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://ebsglobalblog.net/qwerty-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Risky Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dudley Peter Barrett, Approved Tutor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategic Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamaica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategic Risk Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unforeseeable risk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pity the poor strategic manager in Jamaica!   The strategic value of effective risk management is undoubted.   Knowledge of key environmental risks assists in shaping the strategies of the firm.  But what do you do when those risks are “unforeseeable” &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://ebsglobalblog.net/risky-business/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Edinburgh Business School to host Information Sessions in South Africa and Namibia for prospective students</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edinburgh Business School are to hold information session in April, in Namibia and South Africa, where prospective students can discover more about the school and the programmes it offers by distance learning: the MBA, MSc and the DBA programmes, and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://ebsglobalblog.net/edinburgh-business-school-to-host-information-sessions-in-south-africa-and-namibia-for-prospective-students/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Edinburgh Business School featured in Independent news article &#8216;Narrowing the MBA gender gap&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://ebsglobalblog.net/edinburgh-business-school-featured-in-independent-news-article-narrowing-the-mba-gender-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://ebsglobalblog.net/edinburgh-business-school-featured-in-independent-news-article-narrowing-the-mba-gender-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent news article in the Independent newspaper has investigated the reasons why the number of women studying business school programmes is rising. The article, authored by Helena Pozniak, and published on Wednesday 3rd April, 2013, cites figures by several &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://ebsglobalblog.net/edinburgh-business-school-featured-in-independent-news-article-narrowing-the-mba-gender-gap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The QWERTY Problem</title>
		<link>http://ebsglobalblog.net/the-qwerty-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Kay, Professorial Fellow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“The QWERTY problem” has been defined in economics textbooks as “an inferior industry standard that has prevailed possibly because of historical accident”.  QWERTY is not just the first six letters of the standard English language keyboard, today it has also &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://ebsglobalblog.net/the-qwerty-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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