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Dr Sarah Dixon

Dean of Bradford University School of Management

Dr Sarah Dixon, Dean of Bradford University School of Management, completed her MBA at Kingston University, subsequently joining them where she held a variety of roles, culminating in director of postgraduate programmes for the Faculty of Business and Law. Gaining a DBA from Henley Business School in the interim, she went on to research activity at the University of Bath taking on the role of head of MSc programmes.

Her business career at Royal Dutch Shell Group included petrochemicals business management in Vienna and Moscow and later positions in strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions in London. She moved into business consulting as director of the strategy consultancy, Albany Dixon Ltd before joining the School in September 2010.
Specialties: Strategy, Organizational change, Dynamic capabilities, Organisational learning



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Bradford Means Business

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Last year Margaret Heffernan, author of the book ‘Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril’, visited Bradford to give a talk in the School of Management’s guest lecture series which are open to local businesses.  The theme of the talk was that managers and businesses fail sometimes to see the most obvious [...]

Posted by Dr Sarah Dixon on Friday, May 11, 2012 at 1:10 pm 
Filed under Business economics , Business ethics , Business strategy · Tagged , , ,

Will Quotas get the right Women on Boards?

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I recently attended a panel discussion on Women on Boards organised by Pinsent Masons in London. The discussion focused on the implications of the Davies Report of 2011 that established there was a long way to go to achieve gender equality on boards – and that the resulting lack of diversity has led to groupthink [...]

Posted by Dr Sarah Dixon on Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 12:45 pm 
Filed under Employability , General , Human resources , Leadership , Management development · Tagged , , , ,

Bradford ‘Management Thinking’ Digest – the latest on business strategy, leadership, finance, innovation and sustainability

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This edition of Bradford University School of Management’s digest of the latest business thinking features

Corporate legacies
What are the key factors for an innovative business?
The Budget 2011
Opportunities for sustainable innovation

Please share your views here and on Twitter @BradManagement
STRATEGY
FT Column: Corporate legacies can harm your future
FT business blogger Andrew Hill wrote a column earlier this month demonstrating [...]

Posted by Dr Sarah Dixon on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 10:00 am 
Filed under Business School , Business strategy , Finance , General , Innovation management , Leadership , Strategy , Sustainability · Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Organisational transformation: 3 key stages for managing change

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In a Dilbert cartoon the eponymous office hero casts his satirical eye over the process of organisational transformation, concluding it is carried out by non-communicative morons.  But are the problems really down to management style and lack of communication or is there a deeper malaise for managers?
A major challenge for managers today is lack of [...]

Posted by Dr Sarah Dixon on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 9:30 am 
Filed under Business strategy , General , General management , Human capital , Human resources , Innovation management , Leadership , Management development , People management · Tagged , , , , ,

The dynamic capabilities lifecycle: 2 vital links in the business chain of success

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As British Airways announced its first profits in two years this autumn, it’s interesting to look at what makes businesses successful and how failing businesses can turn themselves around to re-secure competitive advantage.  Step forward, dynamic capabilities.
Dynamic capabilities have become a hot topic in the strategic management and organisational change arenas since the concept was [...]

Posted by Dr Sarah Dixon on Monday, January 31, 2011 at 10:29 am 
Filed under Business economics , Business strategy , General , General management , Management development · Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

Transformational leadership: why your business can’t grow without it

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It’s often said that business success or failure comes down to successful or unsuccessful leadership. In offering advice, business pundits tend to come down on the side of either transformational leadership or of transactional leadership. But is it really that clear-cut?
Transformational leadership really comes into its own in helping to break an organisation’s administrative [...]

Posted by Dr Sarah Dixon on Monday, January 10, 2011 at 4:10 pm 
Filed under Business strategy , General , General management , Human capital , Human resources , Leadership , People management · Tagged , , , , ,

The route to business success: 5 challenges and a roadblock

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Two years after the collapse of the Lehman’s Brothers investment bank the business outlook is still largely bleak. New  rules in Basel iii aim to regulate the global financial system and thereby, presumably, to inch the rug back under business’s feet from where it was unceremoniously pulled in 2008. But companies continue to face constant [...]

Posted by Dr Sarah Dixon on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 5:37 pm 
Filed under Business strategy , Economic predictions , General · Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Business experience vs academic credentials – Are Business Schools missing a trick?

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I recently spoke at a stimulating seminar on ‘Leveraging a Business Career into Academic Success’ run by the Foundation for Management Education (FME). Being asked to speak  about this was a great opportunity for me right at the beginning of  my new job as Dean of the Bradford School of Management.
I had a story to [...]

Posted by Dr Sarah Dixon on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 12:04 pm 
Filed under Business economics , General , Universities in open innovation · Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

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