Responsible Business
UTS Business School is proud to announce that it will be offering an exciting new subject called Corporate Social Responsibility and Measuring Social Impact in several of its postgraduate programs in...
View ArticleCareers guide by students, for students
It’s not unusual for a university to produce a careers guide but the UTS Business School version is different because it has been produced entirely by the students themselves. The 2013 Careers Guide...
View ArticleVirgin’s takeover ensures Tiger is no longer toothless
Australia is back to having just two airlines, after Virgin’s purchase of a 60 per cent stake in low-cost carrier Tigerair. In the past such a duopoly has meant similar timetables, similar routes and...
View ArticleUTS student Best Presenter in local final of CIMA Global Challenge
UTS Business School accounting student Mathew Pirotta has taken out the title of Best Presenter at the Australian final of this year’s CIMA Global Business Challenge.The UTS team led by Pirotta ...
View ArticleOne down, 319,999 bricks to go on Dr Chau Building
While traditional bricklaying comes with its fair share of challenges, the construction of the new, Frank Gehry-designed building for UTS Business School will be in a league of its own. The complexity...
View ArticleThe Orangutan Project: Just look into their eyes
Asked what it is that's so engaging about orangutans, UTS management lecturer Robyn Johns says it’s simple: “When you watch their mannerisms and look into their eyes it’s not surprising to learn that...
View ArticleThe two of us: change makers
Bachelor of Business and Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning students Heath Oudenryn and Samuel Leak shared a “life changing” trip to Vietnam as volunteers in BUiLD’s Changemakers program. They were...
View ArticleTime to ditch paid ads? Not quite
The way we live, interact and consume has changed dramatically with the shift towards internet and mobile telecommunications technology.And yet large amounts of money are still regularly spent on...
View ArticleWhy BHP needs a ‘single issue’ director
Next month BHP Billiton is set to oppose a bid for a position on its board by former coal executive and now environmental activist Ian Dunlop.BHP chairman Jac Nasser has told shareholders: “The...
View ArticleLife and death finance
Is it okay to torture someone if it’s the only way to save the lives of others? What if that person is your mother? These aren’t the questions you’d normally expect to encounter in a finance degree,...
View ArticleAdvertising agencies make great television
Move over Mad Men – there’s a new group of advertising executives hitting the small screen. The Crazy Ones , a TV series set in a Chicago advertising agency, is currently the top-ranked show in the new...
View ArticleDesign thinking can drive our innovation
Australia needs to get very practical and very real about the way it shapes its future to be competitive – and the nation needs to look at design thinking as a core of its innovation drive. In the...
View ArticleHome loans are rivers of gold -- for now
The current reporting season for Australia’s big banks is now complete, and the results haven’t disappointed. Cash profits have smashed records: ANZ $6.5 billion (up 11%), NAB $5.9 billion (up 9.3%)...
View ArticleAn ‘insanely simple’ conversation with Ken Segall
Apple’s extraordinary success, from near bankruptcy to the most valuable brand on earth in less than 15 years, was largely the result of an obsession with simplicity, according to “former Apple ad guy”...
View ArticleSmall loans, big impact
UTS has become the first Australian business school to join the crowd-funding microfinance platform Kiva, which makes a loan somewhere in the world every 15 seconds to someone trying to work their way...
View ArticleImmigration and innovation -- the connection
Australia needs to not only attract talent from overseas but also turn the brain drain around by retaining the entrepreneurs already in our midst, a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event on Australia’s...
View ArticleCapital markets: how efficient are they, really?
The big stick of regulation should be wielded with care lest it undermine the efficiency of markets, the financial services sector argues. But a Sydney conference has heard there are question marks...
View ArticleAustralia's bad start at Warsaw climate meeting
It’s been embarrassment after embarrassment for Australia at the Warsaw climate change meeting. Former UN Climate Chief, Yvo de Boer, upbraided Australia for its failure to send a Minister. Australia...
View ArticleIs online news a super idea?
In a controversial move, affiliates of the Industry Super Funds network (AustralianSuper, Cbus and Industry Super Holdings) have spent a combined A$3 million of member funds on an online news website,...
View ArticleTo Bangkok, with burritos
Zambrero, a Mexican “quick service” restaurant franchise that started out in Canberra, has enlisted the help of a group of undergraduate students from UTS Business School as it begins its international...
View ArticleUTS professor Australia's top business teacher
Professor Rod O’Donnell of UTS Business School has won this year’s national award for Teaching Excellence in Business.Prof O’Donnell received the award – dressed in his MacDuff tartan kilt – in a...
View ArticleAustralia and Canada seen as climate 'wreckers'
Australia’s and Canada’s extremely unusual action at CHOGM to deny developing nations any further climate funding has had strong negative repercussions here in Warsaw.The other two developed...
View ArticleThe triumph and challenge of longevity: Susan Ryan
The impact of age discrimination should be a priority for universities as Australians come to live increasingly long lives, Age Discrimination Commissioner Susan Ryan says.“It is one of the most...
View ArticleBusiness ethics gets personal
Increased regulation is not the answer to the sorts of ethical issues that were at the deepest roots of the global financial crisis, says AMP Capital CEO Stephen Dunne, who is one of the driving forces...
View ArticleResearch projects receive $1.6 million in funding
Five projects led by UTS Business School researchers will receive funding totalling $1.63 million over three years under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects scheme.This ranks the...
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