World renowned opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has become the first Māori woman to receive the Aotearoa New Zealand Māori Business Leader of the Year award for her talent and business acumen over a more than 40-year distinguished international career.

Business celebrities like Sir Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Donald Trump worry about reputation, fame and public face just as much as Hollywood stars, but an upcoming book with Kiwi connections says they are facing the brunt of growing criticism at “prancing about like Big Brother contestants.”

If you feel sad or sick when your favourite television show is cancelled, your local cafe closed or your preferred snack discontinued by its manufacturer in these recessionary times, don’t be alarmed.

New Zealand businesses blaming their financial woes on the global economic downturn should quit falsely attributing their failure to depressed financial times and accept they may have struggled anyway, a visiting expert says.

Up to one-in-ten New Zealand workplaces harbour a psychopathically-oriented worker who functions within normal society yet victimises fellow colleagues and harms businesses with their “dark side,” new University of Auckland research shows.

New Zealanders may reject the idea of nuclear-fuelled energy in the future, but the alternatives may also be uncomfortable, a leading energy academic is warning.

Adventure tourism, a navigation tool for blind people, loyalty customer cards for charities and a revolutionary export mould and fungi killer are just some of the ideas that have made it to the finals of 2009’s Spark $100k Challenge.

One hundred and seventy three staff, students and alumni of The University of Auckland will be waiting with bated breath for tomorrow’s’s announcement of successful qualifiers to be considered for this year’s Spark $100k Challenge.

Elected councillors and local community boards of the upcoming Auckland Supercity should take on a ‘funder arm’ function to control the mayor and council officers in their management and resource use, a University of Auckland study recommends.

New Zealand’s governance bodies are increasingly out of touch with the organisations they are meant to guide, preferring instead to delegate their power to sometimes over-zealous chief executives, according to new University of Auckland research.

A New Zealand-based global accounting expert is calling for a single worldwide set of high quality accepted accounting standards as the only way to eliminate accounting arbitrage.

Internationally renowned experts on small-to-medium-sized businesses will converge on Auckland this month to help owners and operators of small and family businesses survive the global financial crisis.

The $3 million University of Auckland Business School Entrepreneurs’ Challenge has been launched by Prime Minister the Hon John Key, and offers young and promising entrepreneurial companies financial support and mentoring to move ahead.

A gathering this week of retirement and taxation experts at a University of Auckland symposium is expected to create a city-based forum able to assist the Government in considering key tax policy challenges.

The University of Auckland will help tackle some of the major issues facing New Zealand in a forthcoming public policy seminar series.

New Zealand’s newest Fulbright Scholar Manoj Patel is a bit of a conundrum - a medical doctor with a business bent wanting to revolutionise health IT worldwide.

Children with unemployed parents have been tagged by the National Government as needing less support for food, clothing and shelter than those with working parents, a child poverty watchdog says.

An outstanding research culture has ranked The University of Auckland Business School’s Department of Accounting and Finance in the top 50 around the world.

New Zealand could face foreign auditing alienation and a down-graded credit rating for some companies if an independent body overseeing auditors is not established, an accounting expert warns.

Safeguards similar to those across the Tasman should be available to the growing numbers of New Zealanders buying into franchises during the global economic recession, a franchise law reform symposium will debate next month.

Auckland’s new ‘brand’ is a dud that personifies one of the risks of conglomerating local authorities into ‘supercities’, a University of Auckland marketing expert says.

Identical twins Citizen and Wellington Tamatimu from West Auckland have graduated from The University of Auckland’s Business School with the same degree.

New Zealanders in collective denial over the effect of the world economic crisis on their lifestyles are sleep-walking into a trap, an award-winning ex-pat London School of Economics professor is warning.

Global economies bogged down by widespread pessimism over the current financial crisis should use positive thinking to ‘talk themselves out’ of their negative mindset, new research from The University of Auckland Business School says.

A new Auckland mayor should have Prime Minister John Key-like experience in business, finance and politics, with an infrastructure expert warning that incumbent mayors are probably unable to be impartial in any Super City structure.

Scholarship-winning University of Auckland commerce student Tom Elton of Devonport credits his psychological wiring for his outstanding efforts in academia, sport and acting.

Auckland’s imminent ‘super city’ status will ease confusion for tourists and immigrants faced with sub-brands pushed by all four major cities within the region, according to a marketing expert.

Today’s students requiring to think outside the square when it comes to future employment in the current economic turmoil have been urged to consider starting their own companies.

Kevin Roberts - Chief Executive Officer Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, one of the world's leading creative organisations - is adding to his responsibilities by joining The University of Auckland Business School as an Honorary Professor.

Work will begin next month on a predictive risk modelling feasibility study that could eventually provide Auckland District Health Board with early warning signals about spiralling patient numbers.

A unique collaboration between a University of Auckland entrepreneurship expert and an isolated North Island region worried about its post-financial crisis future has seen the creation of a multi-million-dollar investment initiative for local businesses.

New Zealanders may be forced to help bail out some foundering world financial institutions in the year ahead, and should not be surprised if global banks operating in this country have to ultimately be nationalised before being re-privatised, according to an Auckland investment expert.

New Zealand should prepare itself for a jump in entrepreneurial burnout as the recession starts to bite hard on small businesses, a visiting American expert says.

A top-notch array of world universities will be represented at The University of Auckland’s second Champions Trophy case competition kicking off in 11 days.

You’re hot, bothered and totally ticked off by a rip-off retailer who doesn’t want to hear your gripes, won’t address your complaints and has made that post-Christmas shopping trip a nightmare.

What do you do? Well, your next move – according to The University of Auckland Business School marketing lecturer Dr Mike Lee – largely depends on whether you’re an avenger, an altruist or a victim of a condition called consumer rage.