Business Basics Podcast by Kieran Maguire

Kieran Maguire attended Manchester University, reading Economics, before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Grant Thornton in 1986, specialising in corporate recovery. Kieran later worked as a professional exam trainer for accounting qualification. He joined MMUBS in 2003 and specialises in undergraduate and postgraduate corporate levels. A two-time recipient of the Innovation in Teaching and Learning Prize and the inaugural Most Inspiring Lecturer Award in 2007, Kieran was recently named the best PQ UK Public Sector Accounting Lecturer in 2011. Kieran has pioneered the use of video podcast technology to help students understand the vagaries of accounting via his website, which he runs from his kitchen, as well integrating the podcasts into iTunes so that interested parties can now view them on their electronic devices. Away from MMU, he is a devoted fan of Brighton and Hove Albion, plays cricket and listens to loud music.

 

Defining Social Enterprise Podcast by Mike Bull

Mike Bull’s podcast outlines the concept of social enterprise. Drawing on the key characteristics, legal structures, definitions and the differences of identity from an EU and US perspective a conceptual picture of what social enterprise is in a UK context is captured. Mike Bull is a research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, is co-author of Understand Social Enterprise: Theory and Practice, published by Sage (2011). Mike is teaching a final year unit on Social Enterprise and is involved in research in the Centre for Enterprise.

 

 

Business Development Podcast by Clare Schofield

Dr. Schofield’s podcast covers three key areas that are useful to consider when planning to launch a new product or service in a new business or existing business.  The first area focuses on the idea itself and asks what makes an idea a viable business idea.  The second area is the market and you are asked to consider the potential of your idea to make a profit.  The third area is business planning and you are asked to consider the common mistakes that prevent the creation of a good quality business plan.

Dr. Clare Schofield is the MMU Enterprise Programme Leader and is based in the Centre for Enterprise in the Business School at Manchester Metropolitan University.  Clare has a decade of experience developing and growing businesses, their people and their leaders.  She has a PhD is Management and has designed and delivered a number of successful leadership and management programmes for the owners of SMEs.  Clare also leads the NW higher Education Enterprise Champions initiative at MMU that aims to increase the number of new ventures and businesses started by graduates across the university campus.  She is an IEEP Fellow and an HEA Fellow.