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UPFRONT AND I QUOTE
‘We need a national transformation of our innovation policy. The analysis has been done, the reports are written and we are quite a distance from where we need to be’
Tom Trainor (IEMBA 97), chief executive of the Marketing Institute, Irish Times, 8 October 2010
‘Positivity is the only way forward. Negativity is a real hindrance and in some ways can be an excuse to do nothing. Believers really are achievers in my mind’
Feargal Quinn (BComm 59),
Businessandleadership.com, 14 October 2010
‘As a shopper, I was getting increasingly confused about which products were Irish and which were not. But now it strikes me that Irish food has become extremely sexy’
Jim Power (DipEconSc 88, MEconSc 89), chairman, Love Irish Food; chief economist, Friends First, Sunday Business Post, 3 October 2010
‘Commissioner Rehn has decided to visit Dublin. It’s obviously part of the policy of the commission to now take a closer interest in how member states prepare their budgetary plans’
Joan Burton (BComm 70), Labour Party finance spokeswoman, Irish Times, 27 October 2010
SCHOOL NEWS MBA PROGRAMME’S TOP RANKING AGAIN
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School’s executive MBA programme has been ranked amongst the world’s best by the Financial Times in October. The news- paper’s ranking of the world’s part-time executive MBA programmes placed UCD Smurfit School at 54 in the world and at 20 in Europe. The school is the only Irish busi- ness school listed in the ranking. Salaries for graduates of the executive
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MBA programme increase 64% on average in the three years after graduation according to the survey. The full-time MBA pro- gramme was ranked 31st in the world earlier this month by The Economist. “Ireland needs a world-class business school generating state-of-the-art knowl- edge,” said the school’s Dean, Prof Tom Begley. “These results show that UCD Smurfit School is just this.”
ALUM IN THESPOTLIGHT
ANNE NOLAN NEW IAA CHAIRMAN
Anne Nolan (MBA 93) was appointed this summer as the new chairman of the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) by the Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey TD. Nolan, who was appointed to the IAA’s board in 2006, is currently the chief execu- tive of the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association, and a board member of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries Association and the Association of
the European Self-Medication Industry. She qualified as a pharmacist in 1982 and in recent years completed a number of modules in the Director Development Programme at the Centre for Corporate Governance, UCD. Nolan was a member of the Irish Medicines Board from January 1996 to December 2005 and the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland from October 2003 to March 2007.
ONE TO WATCH
BRIGHT FUTURE FOR NOVAUCD’S BIANCAMED
NovaUCD medical technology company BiancaMed continues to fly the innovation flag, and its SleepMinder won the Product/Service Innovation category for its wireless sensor technology in the inaugural Irish Times All-Island Innovation Awards. Founded in 2003, BiancaMed’s SleepMinder technology was initially developed at UCD's School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering by Professor Conor Heneghan and Dr Philip de Chazal. Testament to BiancaMed’s reputation has been the investment of US$12m by ePlanet Ventures, Seventure Partners, Enterprise Ireland and ResMed. “Nova has been great. You learn a lot from the other companies here and in the early days we could recruit from the campus,” says co-founder and CEO Conor Hanley (pictured).
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