Media releases

Business School masters students Sian Coleman and Daniel Cullum are off to Rio de Janeiro with their mentor Dr Ross McDonald after beating 20 teams from around the world in a United Nations competition.  >>

Most of the world's easy oil may already be tapped, but new production techniques and the rise of natural gas as a fuel look likely to extend the reign of hydrocarbons for a while yet.  >>

A better understanding of the geology at the heart of hydraulic fracturing – or “fracking” – would set people's minds at ease over the controversial technique.  >>

There is a reason why Google barons and Hollywood director James Cameron are investing in a new venture to mine asteroids.  >>

New Zealand has the natural resources and technical capabilities to be at the forefront of the development of marine energy globally.  >>

More than 40 of New Zealand’s brightest university students spent an intensive week learning about energy economics at the Business School during their summer holidays.  >>

When engineer Trevor Nash tried to improve a wind turbine design as a final-year student project in the 1980s, he felt strangely at home.  >>

New Zealanders face a dilemma. We must generate economic growth to build and sustain the sort of society we want, but how can we do this without threatening some of the very qualities of life that we value most?  >>

Could New Zealand become a global leadership laboratory? Will encouraging “over-confident” entrepreneurs do more harm than good?  >>

Four of New Zealand’s best energy management and renewable energy “stars” are lined up in a tight contest for the public sector category of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority’s annual awards.  >>

Earlier this month we celebrated the Autumn Graduation, which involved 1,454 Business School graduands, 74% of whom graduated in person, the remainder in absentia.  >>

We have a copy of The New Zealand Economy: An Introduction to give away, courtesy of Auckland University Press.  >>

Since breaking away from other continents 80 million years ago, New Zealand had the longest isolation of any non-polar region.  >>

Welcome to the second edition of the Postgraduate Newsletter! I hope your semester or quarter has gone well and congratulations to all our postgraduate students who graduated this month.  >>

The Business Librarians have come to the rescue of beleaguered researchers with a specially designed Business Information Skills Online.  >>

The Business School ASB Careers Centre is holding a boot camp on Wednesday 6 June to show PhD students how to pitch themselves to the global recruitment market.  >>

Several PhD students are in the thick of the Centre for Supply Chain Management’s (CSCM) efforts to uncover supply chain issues and best practice in the industry.  >>

Management and International Business PhD student Parizad Mulla went to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in February to present her research at the 18th Annual Organisation Science Winter Conference.  >>

Dara Kelly arrived from Canada in January 2009 with her sights set on studying indigenous leadership in business.  >>

PhD students Farhaan Mirza, Lily Chen and Yuri Seo are back from the United States, where they rubbed shoulders with researchers from all over the world.  >>