MBS Media releases
Early childhood a 'sound investment'
22 November 2007
Business is not normally concerned with education and childcare. But childhood experts Frank Oberklaid and Tim Moore argue in the latest issue of The Melbourne Review that early childhood childcare and education builds social capital and economic prosperity.
Re-think needed on teaching and early childhood
22 November 2007
Australia needs to invest smarter in quality teaching and early childhood for a clever and fair society, according to experts just published.
MBS Mt Eliza redefines executive education
12 November 2007
MBS Mt Eliza executive education is redefining executive education and it all starts with listening to the current challenges clients face.
Community banks lead in social responsibility
8 November 2007
Community banks are seen to be more socially responsible than traditional banks, a new study reveals.
Federal Government Baby Bonus Again Causes Birth Disruptions
8 November 2007
A new study by Melbourne Business School and the Australian National University researchers found that, once again, expectant mothers are shifting or delaying the birth date of their unborn child to qualify for the Federal Government’s ‘Baby Bonus’.
Melbourne Business School in FT Global Top 50 EMBA Rankings
22 October 2007
Today, The Financial Times released its 2007 survey of business schools offering Executive MBAs. Melbourne Business School’s EMBA is ranked in the global top 50.
Professor Joshua Gans awarded prestigious Young Economist Award
8 October 2007
Professor Joshua Gans from the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, is the inaugural recipient of the 2007 Young Economist Award presented by the Economic Society of Australia.
Improving women’s negotiating skills for social and economic advantage
6 September 2007
As gender wage gaps and stereotypes continue to be a problem for women in all occupations, Melbourne Business School is helping women to improve their negotiating skills through a series of workshops.
A branding blind spot: why Australia can’t build strong global brands
4 September 2007
Mark Ritson, Associate Professor at the Melbourne Business School, says that as global competition intensifies Australian firms need to ‘invest more time, effort and money into the branding mission’.
MBA students build global connections through overseas exchange program
20 August 2007
MBA students from Melbourne Business School will enhance their global perspective of business with overseas study for one term at a prestigious international business school.
Duke man heads to Melbourne
12 July 2007
Melbourne Business School has appointed Dr. Paul S. Kirkbride, PhD, as Associate Dean, Executive Education.
Calls for Australia to take kids more seriously
21 June 2007
Child development is economic development, according to speakers at an early childhood seminar last night at Melbourne Business School, June 20, 2007, who also called on government and corporate Australia to take a more active interest and leadership role in nurturing children.
Melbourne Business School MBA and EMBA enrolments enjoying a resurgence
30 May 2007
Australian media reports continue to state that business schools around Australia are struggling to attract MBA enrolments.
Unusual days in births and deaths
29 May 2007
‘With the rise of birth inducements, Caesarean section procedures and medical intervention at the end of life, medical professionals and patients now have more control than ever over the timing of births and deaths’, according to Joshua Gans, Professor of Management at the Melbourne Business School and Andrew Leigh, an economist with the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU.
Addressing the Regulatory Cost vs. Benefit Trade-off
17 May 2007
For more than two decades, financial deregulation has helped spur efficiency gains and underpinned massive growth in financial services. Primarily, deregulation has occurred in the area of economic regulation. There has in fact been a compensating increase in other forms of regulation targeted at system stability and contractual integrity such that an ever growing cost of doing business is regulatory compliance. In 2006, the Federal Government responded with its Regulation Review Task Force.
anaesthesiaTODAY wins Melbourne University Entrepreneurs Challenge (MUEC)
14 May 2007
An innovative new business venture which sets to help rural and regional Australia with the long term supply of anaesthetists, known as anaesthesiaTODAY, was awarded first prize in the prestigious Melbourne University Entrepreneurs Challenge (MUEC) earlier this week.
Melbourne Business School to offer China’s first international Master of Marketing degree
7 March 2007
Melbourne Business School (MBS) is the first overseas business school to offer an international Master of Marketing degree in Beijing with one of China’s top universities, Beihang University.
