Business School News 2005

Each year The University of Auckland celebrates general staff excellence with an awards ceremony. These annual awards recognise excellence in managerial, administrative and technical activities and encourage and reward such excellence.

The University of Auckland is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Robert Kirkpatrick to the position of Executive Director, with responsibility for operation of the Energy Centre and liaison with industry and government.

A study into differences among the generations seriously questions a widely-held view that generations are inherently different from one another.

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Retail customers are more satisfied with their banks than they were two years ago (the last time they were surveyed), according to The University of Auckland Business School Retail Bank Customer Survey for 2005.

Sacrificing a month of Sundays to prepare for international competition has paid off for four University of Auckland Business School students. The four recently capped a successful “season” for Business School teams with a second place in the final of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Citigroup International Case Competition.

The University of Auckland has been rated the world's 52nd-best university in The Times Higher Education Supplement's 2005 World University Rankings, up from last year's ranking of 67.

The Dean of The University of Auckland Business School, Professor Barry Spicer, yesterday announced more scholarship opportunities for postgraduate study at the Business School.

Lawrence Johnstone, Director of The Auckland MBA™, has great pleasure in inviting you to The Auckland MBA™ Alumni Reunion. The event promises to be a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with your class and your university.

The University of Auckland continued its fine record at the 2005 Boston Consulting Group Case competition. 

An expatriate New Zealand fashion designer whose clientele include some of the most influential and wealthy women from the Middle East has been named Outstanding Maori Business Leader for 2005 by The University of Auckland Business School.

A university-based business developing a fully autonomous robotic driver has sped away with the top prize in Spark The University of Auckland $40K Entrepreneurship Challenge.

The University of Auckland Business School Short Courses programme is celebrating 20,000 attendees, highlighting its value to the business community.

A new book using real-life case studies should help New Zealand businesses facing critical challenges such as growth, innovation, leadership and governance, says the editor, Associate Professor Marie Wilson of The University of Auckland Business School.

We invite postgraduate students to participate in the 2005 Business School Postgraduate poster competition. The closing date for the competition is 19 September 2005.

The Short Street premises of the Graduate School of Business took on a decidedly “United Nations” feel this week with more than 50 government officials from 13 countries attending an executive course on public sector reform.

A looming IT staff shortage caused by accelerating retirement rates and fewer graduates coming into the IT profession is being forecast by technology consultants, Forrester.

One of the world’s leading researchers on high performing workplaces is in New Zealand this week and next at the invitation of The University of Auckland Business School. Professor Eileen Appelbaum from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and a former Director at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC, is the keynote speaker at a mini-conference to be held on Thursday July 28, hosted by the Tamaki Division of The University of Auckland Business School. Media and the public are welcome to attend.

The University of Auckland has changed the structure of its academic qualifications. From 1 January 2006, a full time student will enrol in courses carrying a total value of 120 points per year. This will apply to new and current students. New students will enrol under new qualification regulations.

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Rarely have the worlds of art and commerce co-existed as thoroughly as they do in the work of Auckland painter Kristin Brown. Kristin, who next week opens her new exhibition, Visual Equations for the year Ended..., always thought she would be an accountant and suppress her artistic side.

If there is a worldwide downturn in the information technology sector, it seems New Zealand employers haven't heard about it. The MIS Top 100, which profiles New Zealand's biggest IT users by screen count, shows that more than half our big IT users, and therefore IT employers, are struggling to find staff.

The University of Auckland Business School’s international standing has been enhanced by the appointments of three Faculty members to the editorial boards of leading international academic journals.

Recently, Professor Rod Brodie and Professor Peter Danaher have been appointed to the new editorial board of the Journal of Marketing which is the leading international research journal in marketing. This is Peter Danaher's second term on the Board.

A couple of well-known marketing professors will be visiting this department shortly. Professor John Lastovicka from Arizona State University will be here from 10 July to 3 August. He’ll be teaching in MKTG 706 and working on publications with Dr. Karen Fernandez and other colleagues.

The University of Auckland Business School has won the New Zealand postgraduate section of the Boston Consulting Group Business Strategy Competition.

A virtual reality spaceship and tractor-driving robots are among the latest crop of bright ideas from the 2005 edition of Spark: The University of Auckland Entrepreneurship Challenge. The ventures are among 11 qualifiers announced last night [June 30] in Spark’s $40K Challenge, aimed at turning first class ideas into world class businesses.

Suresh has joined the Tamaki Business School Academic Staff as a Lecturer and will be teaching Accounting 393 at both Tamaki and North Shore campuses in the second semester. Brian has a MSc from the University of Southern Denmark.  He arrived at Auckland University in 2004 and he has been working for the International Department for the past year.

In the undergraduate Division Auckland will be competing against Otago, Victoria, Massey and AUT.  In the postgraduate division Auckland will be competing against Otago, Canterbury and Massey. 

The first mini-conference to be held by Tamaki Division, 'The High Performing Workplace: Insights from leading edge research & experience', will take place on Thursday 28 July.

The knowledge economy and the knowledge society have lately become buzzwords as governments try and move agricultural and industrial economies into the global economy, where knowledge has become the key to competitive advantage and possibly national survival.

The planned Master of Management Conference has been cancelled for 2005.

Asia business strategist Professor Peter Williamson concluded The University of Auckland Business School’s New Hemisphere Speaker Series for 2005 with an insider’s view on what it will take for New Zealand companies to succeed in the new Asia.

Start to plan your enrolment for the Second Semester 2005 now before classes are full.

Wendell Dunn, Foundation Professor of Entrepreneurship and Head of the Graduate School of Business, has been appointed to the Government’s Growth and Innovation Advisory Board.

One of the world’s leading technology forecasters, a lateral-thinking entrepreneur who has been likened to Richard Branson, and an Asian expert advocating a fresh strategy for New Zealand business comprise the lineup for the 2005 New Hemisphere Speaker Series. The series, which is open to the public, begins next Tuesday (May 3).

A University of Auckland Business School team has created history by winning for the second time the Global Business Challenge. The 2005 edition of the annual undergraduate international case competition, hosted by the University of Washington in Seattle and attended by some of the world’s top business schools, saw the Business School defeat 15 international counterparts.

A machine that monitors the exercise schedules of physiotherapy patients, a landfill cap which helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and a novel treatment for stroke victims are among the winning ideas in The University of Auckland’s Inaugural Chiasma I-Volve Challenge.

Frans Samyn, Belgium-based Chief Executive Officer of BDO International is coming to New Zealand in April to talk about the new ‘global accounting language’ – the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). IFRS is the latest buzzword in accounting circles.

Spark CEO Manoj Patel says Spark, now in its third year, keeps getting bigger and better, so much so that the Spark team has added to the existing $10K and $40K Challenges, and increased total prizes to the value of $60,000.

Building on the highly successful growth programmes run by The ICEHOUSE and The University of Auckland Business School in the North Island, the organisations have signed a memorandum of understanding to implement similar programmes in the South Island.

The University of Auckland Business School’s drive to create a world-class business school in New Zealand has had a major boost through a large contribution from expatriate New Zealand entrepreneur, Owen G Glenn.

An expert on the Japanese economy, who is leading research into international trade and finance in the Japanese context, will present at a seminar, open to the public at The University of Auckland this week. Hosted by the New Zealand Asia Institute, Professor Yoshiyasu Ono fromOsaka University’s Institute of Social and Economic Research will talk about Japan's long-run stagnation and economic policy at the University at 12pm on Wednesday February 16.