Original Thinking Podcast
Original Thinking Podcast
Alliance Manchester Business School
In the Original Thinking Podcast, experts and academic colleagues discuss their latest research and original thinking at Alliance MBS. For a list of our latest webinars, news and useful business content please visit ambs.ac.uk
Managing Trauma in the Workplace
Sir Cary Cooper and Francine Watson discuss a new report from the National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at Work looking at evolving workplace mental health practices around trauma. To read the full report, visit: https://www.alliancembs.manchester.ac.uk/research/health-wellbeing-forum/
Mar 2
16 min
Generative AI: supporting, enhancing or eroding professional judgement?
Join us for the latest Original Thinking Applied podcast where we tackle the challenging topic of generative AI and professional judgement. Leonid Sokolovskyy from Alliance Manchester Business School and Jim Toon from Chartered Accountants Beever and Struthers share their views on this hot topic and how professional industries can make the most of this technology.This podcast was created in collaboration with the Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk: https://www.alliancembs.manchester.ac.uk/research/accounting-and-finance/centre-for-the-analysis-of-investment-risk/
Nov 26, 2025
16 min
Human Rights Assurance with Jenni Rose and Richard Karmel
In this episode of the Original Thinking Podcast, Jenni Rose and Richard Karmel talk to our host, Jim Pendrill, about how companies can provide confidence and credibility to their accounts in terms of respecting human rights.
Feb 18, 2025
35 min
The ethics of AI with Erik Beulen
Erik Beulen, Professor of Information Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, discusses the challenges around data analytics and digital transformation.
Oct 22, 2024
28 min
AI as a force for social good
Professor Michelle Carter, Professor of Information Systems at Alliance Manchester Business School, asks whether we are doing enough to ensure AI impacts our lives in truly beneficial ways.Watch a video of this episode: https://youtu.be/wR6gMBCYWUoIf you're enjoying the Original Thinking Podcast, please leave us a rating or review on whichever platform you're listening on!
Aug 6, 2024
27 min
The Future of Multinationals with Peter Buckley
Peter Buckley, AMBS's 200th Anniversary Chair in International Business, joins us on our Original Thinking Podcast to talk about the challenges, risks, and future of multinationals.
Mar 26, 2024
30 min
Nature on the balance sheet
In our latest Original Thinking filmed podcast Beccy Speight, Chief Executive of the RSPB, joined Professor Paulo Quattrone from Alliance Manchester Business School to discuss how businesses must better encompass Nature in their decision-making and also recognise Nature as an active stakeholder.
Feb 13, 2024
38 min
The opportunities from digital transformation
In this Original Thinking Podcast, Vlad Jiman, Director of Data at NBrown, discusses how to build a data culture within a large organisation with Professor Panos Constantinides from Alliance Manchester Business School.
Sep 19, 2023
32 min
Business transformation and corporate sustainability | Original Thinking Podcast
What role can corporate sustainability play in terms of business transformation? Zara De Belder, a recent MBA graduate from Alliance Manchester Business School and sustainability expert, joins Claire Binns, Senior Impact Manager at Sykes Holiday Cottages, to discuss the subject. Claire also talks first-hand about the recent steps Sykes Cottages has taken in terms of its specific approach to measuring and assessing its sustainability credentials.
Aug 15, 2023
37 min
Lessons from Covid-19 | Original Thinking Podcast
Three years on from the height of the pandemic this podcast hosted by Alliance Manchester Business School explores the lessons learnt from Protect, a major UK government study into the transmission of the Covid-19 virus and the wider UK research programme around Covid-19. Debating the findings of the nationwide study are Professor David Fishwick, Chief Medical Advisor at Health and Safety Executive GB, Sheena Johnson, Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing at Alliance Manchester Business School, and Martie Van Tongeren, Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at The University of Manchester.
Aug 1, 2023
39 min
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