School of Business, Management
and Economics

Business and Management

View of London across river to the City area Lecture taking place Man outside Lloyd's building

Welcome to the Department of Business and Management

Business and Management is a young department with ambitious plans for expansion. Our aim is to develop flagship provision with strong industry links in business, finance, executive education and through our MBA.

Professor Carol AlexanderThis is complemented by our broad portfolio encompassing Finance, Accounting and Banking; International Business, Strategy and Entrepreneurship; Operations and Supply Chain Management; and Organisational Behaviour and Marketing. We will create opportunities for staff and students to develop within a world-leading academic community, producing research at an international level of excellence.

Professor Carol Alexander
Head of Department

Prof Ian DavidsonProf Ian Davidson

Prof Ian Davidson wins 2012 Abacus Manuscript Award

Professor Ian Davidson, Professor in Business and Management and Head of the School of Business, Management and Economics, is the joint winner of the 2012 Abacus Manuscript Award.

His paper - The Construction of Asset Pricing Models With Specific Factor Loadings (co-authored with Qian Guo, Xiaojing Song and Mark Tippett) - was chosen by an expert panel of accounting academics and practitioners.

Ian will receive the award, funded by the owner of Abacus, the Accounting Foundation, at the American Accounting Association Conference which takes place 3-7 August 2013 in Anaheim, California, USA.

Jubilee Building: aerial view to BrightonNew MSc in Financial Risk and Investment Analysis (FRIA)

Our new MSc FRIA is the first course of its type to be developed by the Department of Business and Management.

Its highly selective entry and fast-track, intensive study over a 10-month period are designed to educate the next generation of leading financial risk or investment analysts.