MBS Media coverage

All hands on deck

HR Monthly, pg 18, 26 August 2009
Whether company culture is good or bad depends on what the organisation is hoping to achieve. MBS Program Director Dr Carol Gill says that for cultures to succeed they need to be strong and they have to adapt to changes in their environment. What makes a culture successful in one environment or against one competitor could be its failing if the market quickly shifts.

Bowen’s ASX reforms fall short, even on supervisory side

Paul Kerin, The Australian, pg 28, 26 August 2009
Financial services Minister Chris Bowen deserves congratulations for announcing yesterday supervision reforms for exchange-traded securities, but brickbats for delaying further the much more important introduction of competition to ASX's monopoly. Read the full article.

Providers should pay no mind to the cap

Joshua Gans, The Age, pg 6, 25 August 2009
Caps on broadband use are holding us back, writes Joshua Gans Read the full article.

Ambition: Nick Smith

The Australian, pg 26, 25 August 2009
Nick Smith has secured the newly crated position of Australian and New Zealand leader at Citrix Online. Smith has lived and worked on four continents. He has an honours degree in history and sports science, an MSc in physiology and biomechanics and an MBA from Melbourne Business School.

Regulatory powers to move

ABC2 News Breakfast, 25 August 2009
Melbourne Business School’s Paul Kerin talks about the Federal Government moving regulatory powers from the Australian Stock Exchange to ASIC. Kerin says it is difficult to prove anything untoward happened under the ASX, but it's important to remove the perception this may happen.

How the Government borrows money

ABC 612 Brisbane , 24 August 2009
Associate Professor Mark Crosby sheds light on how the Federal Government actually borrows money. Mark says governments go out into the bond market, much like corporations and try to borrow money. He notes that the Federal Government's money is managed by the Australian Office of Financial Management and it is their job to secure funds from whoever is willing to lend at the lowest interest rate.

Remaking a tarnished idea

Radio National: The World Today, 24 August 2009
Professor John Armstrong discusses his latest book on civilization and laments the failure of culture to keep up with material prosperity in the West over the last century.

Net surfers ‘unlikely’ to pay for newspapers online

The Canberra Times, pg 12, 23 August 2009
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is unlikely to convince internet users to pay for news, a leading economic commentator says. Melbourne Business School Professor Joshua Gans said that when The New York Times tried charging for its content a few years ago it found it was better off generating more traffic and charging advertisers to buy space.

PetroChina deal

ABC2 News Breakfast, 20 August 2009
Melbourne Business School Associate Professor Mark Crosby talks about yesterday's PetroChina deal. He says that it is important but notes that there will be more deals. He also talks about the Chinese share market.

FEAL Turns 10

Investment and Technology , pg 18, 19 August 2009
The Fund Executives Association Ltd turns 10 this year. This article traces its history and looks at its likely future. The article looks at the formal education programs run in association with educational partners such as Melbourne Business School. Brett Westbrook, a founding director of FEAL talks about his EMBA experience at MBS “I got enormous benefit from it. I felt I personally grew from the experience,” he says. “I thought it would be beneficial for FEAL members to have the opportunity….It was logical for me to contact the Melbourne Business School where I had been working with the leading professors.”

In Search of Civilization

6RTR (Perth) Mornings, 18 August 2009
MBS Philosopher-in-residence John Armstrong talks about his new book In Search of Civilization: Remaking a Tarnished Idea. Armstrong lists four key concepts and notions that people have about civilizations and chats about the need for there to be one key concept and for people to have long lasting relationships with their environment.

Japan turns around

ABC2 News Breakfast, 18 August 2009
Associate Professor Mark Crosby from Melbourne Business School talks about remarks made by Ken Henry. Crosby also talks about Japan's turnaround.

Consumer confidence increasing

ABC2 News Breakfast , 14 August 2009
MBS Fellow Professor Paul Kerin believes that there is an increase in consumer confidence. He notes that there are stimulus payments still sitting in people's bank accounts and suggests that these could act as a buffer in the future.

Not in your best interest

Sydney Morning Herald - Money, pg 1, 12 August 2009
Beware of variable mortgages with hefty exit fees. They may lock you in to a bad deal. Melbourne Business School’s Professor Joshua Gans says part of the reason for the growth in exit fees is that most customers do not factor them in when signing up for a mortgage.

Profile: John Armstrong

The Age - Money, pg 2, 12 August 2009
The meanings of rationality, beauty and liberty are daily issues for Melbourne Business Schools Philosopher-in-residence John Armstrong.

Remaking Civilisation

ABC 936 Hobart Mornings , 11 August 2009
MBS Philosopher-in-Residence John Armstrong talks about his new book In Search of Civilisation: Remaking a Tarnished Idea. He says that civilisation has become linked with exploitation and colonialism. He is trying to use civilization as an ideal and move away from the negative connotations.

The Business of learning to bounce back

Australian Financial Review, pg 29, 10 August 2009
When the pressure mounts it is important to know how to deal with it so that staff don’t feel overwhelmed. Responding to demand, Mt Eliza Executive Education, a part of Melbourne Business School, is launching a program called ‘leading and embracing change” for middle-to-senior-level managers.

Part time work on the rise

ABC2 News Breakfast , 07 August 2009
Melbourne Business School's Professor Mark Crosby notes that job figures are steady and that more people are working part time. An increase in the number of part time jobs indicates that employers are cutting hours rather than positions.

Holding up well

ABC NewsRadio Afternoons, 06 August 2009
Australia's labour market appears to be holding up well in these tough times with the unemployment rate remaining unchanged in July. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that there were more than 32,200 jobs created in the past month. Dr Sam Wylie, Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Business School says this is a good result.

The buck stops here

Super Fund, pg 37, 29 July 2009
Lochiel Crafter was appointed chief executive of the Australian Government’s umbrella superannuation trustee ARIA in May 2008. An MBA from Melbourne Business School in 1987 was a critical career step up out of the quantitative investment box, Crafter says, and he continues to use something from it every day.