Public policy research typically neglects the role of the individual policy actor with most accounts of the policy process instead privileging the role of governmental systems, institutions, processes, organizations; organised interests or networks of multiple actors. The policy design...

The Open Business School recently awarded its first MBAs from a programme first launched in 1989. Over 4,000 part‐time MBA students are ow under its aegis, many of them senior managers. Discusses what motivates them to take on this extra burden, its implications and their aspirations.