Your gift at work
How has your gift made a difference? Discover a little more about the students, faculty and programs that have benefited from the generosity of MBS alumni and friends.
What happened to your gift in 2008?
2008 has been another record-breaking year of giving from alumni and friends of the School. Gifts continue to support excellence and opportunity, enabling MBS to make a powerful difference to business, government and community across the globe.
Record gift will fight disadvantage
The EMBA Class of 2003 has given an extraordinary class gift of $500,000. It will support outstanding MBA candidates from disadvantaged communities, provide internships for students to serve in not-for-profit agencies, and immersion experiences for students who want to broaden their understanding of the challenges facing disadvantaged communities throughout the Asia Pacific.
$1.5 Million Grant for Leadership and Social Impact
The newly created Asia-Pacific Centre for Leadership for Social Impact at MBS has attracted a grant of $1.5m for the Helen Macpherson Smith Chair of Not for Profit Leadership.
Tackling crime in emerging markets
A multi-year research project by Associate Professor Catherine de Fontenay will investigate the cost of crime to business and investment in developing countries. Her work is being supported through donations from alumni and friends.
"Education is essential" says NAB Indigenous Scholar
"Indigenous Australians have got the same potential as everyone else – we just need the opportunities to show what we’re capable of.”
Celebrating philanthropy at MBS
Professor John Armstrong – the School's Philosopher-in-Residence – delivered an impassioned plea for business schools to ensure that ambition is sufficiently educated to achieve good and noble outcomes.
Donations nudge $100,000 in history-making telephone campaign
MBS alumni pledged $97,994 during the School’s first telephone fundraising campaign.
Travel scholarship supports MBA mum
Even more students were given the opportunity to take the popular Industry Studies in Asia (ISA) subject this year thanks to travel scholarships supported by the Annual Fund.
Powerful new computer facility boosts faculty research
Faculty and doctoral research at the School has been given a boost with the addition of a powerful new computational facility funded by gifts from alumni and friends.
