Lord Alliance hosted a reception in honour of the Manchester Business School on 30th June 2015 at Spencer House in London. The School, founded in 1965, was one of the first MBA-awarding business schools to be established in the UK and is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year. It has seven global centres in Manchester, Shanghai, Dubai, Miami, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong and Singapore and more than 50,000 alumni in 169 countries.
The Spencer House reception attended by a select group of notable alumni, faculty members and guests heard about the School’s centrality to the emerging Northern Powerhouse concept and the role that it is playing in the commercialisation and development of graphene, the world’s thinnest material which was isolated by Nobel Laureates Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov at the University.
About Lord Alliance
Lord Alliance, one of the North West’s most successful businessmen, founded the international textile group Coats Viyella Plc (now Coats Plc) and currently serves as Non-Executive Director of Manchester-based N Brown Group, one of the UK’s leading internet and catalogue home shopping companies.
Lord Alliance has had a long-standing association with the Business School and the wider University. Prior to the combined University’s Foundation in 2004, Lord Alliance had been a generous supporter of the School of Management at UMIST. He was made an Honorary Fellow of UMIST in 1988 and an Honorary LLD from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1989.
In October 2014, Lord Alliance pledged a landmark donation for the future development of Manchester Business School. The donation of £15m, which will be invested both in the School’s new building and to drive its research agenda forward, marks the biggest transformation of MBS since it was established. In recognition of this support and Lord Alliance’s long-standing relationship with the University and the Business School, the school will be named ‘Alliance Manchester Business School’ (Alliance MBS).
For further information on Graphene visit www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/
For further information about MBS visit www.mbs.ac.uk