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Introduction
The Said Business School
This event was held at The Said Business
School, Oxford University, established in 1996,
and currently Europe’s fastest growing Business
School. It combines the highest standards of academic
rigour with a practical understanding of
business and wealth creation. Its faculty are
engaged in research on key management issues,
in dialogue with the wider intellectual community
and with practitioners.
As part of one of the world’s greatest universities,
it is uniquely able to draw on Oxford’s
strengths across a range of subjects, including
sociology, economics, law, psychology, politics
and international relations. Working at the interface
of disciplines, and collaborating actively
with faculty from other disciplines, faculty and
researchers transcend the traditional functional
divisions of a business school and reflect the
complex realities of business and society in our
contemporary global economy. The school has
already generated outstanding research in many
areas and all faculty are at firmly at the forefront
of their fields, regularly providing important
intellectual leadership for institutions such as the
European Commission, the European Corporate
Governance Institute and the World Bank.
The Leiden-Oxford Programme
‘Restructuring Corporate Governance’ was
organized under the auspices of the Leiden-
Oxford Programme. This was created in order to
link two of Europe’s finest historic universities
and offer a variety of programmes in the form of
symposia, taught modules, short courses and
workshops, based mainly around the twin
themes of European Business and Culture.
Its special focus is to bridge the two cultures
of academia and business. The programmes are
aimed primarily at private sector and public sector
management-level staff, in Europe or elsewhere.
Programmes are seen as a special opportunity
to ‘return to the university world to deepen
knowledge of the cultures and historical backgrounds’
of Europe.
A series of symposia were held in 2004-5:
Europe, Shaping the Future (2004, Leiden),
Turkey, Risk or Opportunity (2004, Leiden),
and Restructuring Corporate Governance (2005,
Oxford). Another series of symposia on the
Future for Europe planned for 2006-7. The programme,
linked to the Europaeum, is supervised
by an Advisory Board.
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