Seminars and events - Business School - The University of Auckland

Forum on Markets and Marketing 2012 (All events, Marketing)

10 December 2012 - 12 December 2012 Academic sessions start in the morning of Monday 10 December- FMM12 concludes in the afternoon of Wednesday 12 December

FMM12 is a two-and-a-half-day event and is targeted at academic faculty and PhD students working in areas related to S-D logic. >>

Free Chinese movie night: Ocean Heaven (All events, Research centres and groups)

16 October 2012 6.30pm- 8.10pm

A single father with terminal cancer struggles to ensure that his autistic son will be well cared for after he is gone in this emotionally-charged family drama starring Jet Li. >>

Free Chinese movie night: Close to the Sun (All events, Research centres and groups)

25 September 2012 6.30pm- 8pm

The film tells the story of a French woman in search of her own Shangri La to spend the rest of her life after she discoverers she's dying of an incurable disease. >>

Free Chinese movie night: City Monkey (All events, Research centres and groups)

7 August 2012 6.30pm- 8.30pm

Beijing, the present day. Parkour-mad He Zhipeng (Sheng Chao), 19, lives in a traditional courtyard house in Dongbiao hutong with his mother, laundry worker Luo Sufang (Lü Liping). >>

Mai Chen’s book launch: The Public Law Toolbox - the business case for working with government (Commercial Law, All events)

7 June 2012 6pm- 8pm

The Public Law Toolbox helps to “level the playing field for businesses dealing with government and makes them more succesful, ultimately benefiting the bottom line”. >>

Symposium: The global financial crisis as a force for regional integration (All events, Research centres and groups)

7 June 2012 11am- 5pm

The global financial crisis (GFC) has reminded countries vividly how integrated the world financial economy is. >>

Inaugural lecture: Strategy and competition: What really matters? (All events, Management and International Business)

5 June 2012 6pm- 8pm

One of the most misused words in the business world has to be “strategy”. Every organisation creates an abundance of strategies. Yet, many continue to face the challenge of survival and pressures to perform. >>

Melbourne alumni networking event (Alumni events, All events)

31 May 2012 6.30pm- 8.30pm

The Dean of the University of Auckland Business School invites you to a networking event for alumni and friends of The University of Auckland. >>

Postgraduate Fair: Session Two (All events, Student events)

30 May 2012 6pm- 8pm

Thinking about postgraduate study in business? The University of Auckland is holding the annual Postgraduate Fair from 30-31 May to showcase our faculties and their coursework and research programmes. >>

Postgraduate Fair: Session One (All events, Student events)

30 May 2012 12pm- 4pm

Thinking about postgraduate study in business? The University of Auckland is holding the annual Postgraduate Fair from 30-31 May to showcase our faculties and their coursework and research programmes. >>

Revolving doors, changing faces of Aotearoa (Alumni events, All events, New Zealand Asia Institute, Student events)

28 May 2012 6pm- 8.30pm

Make way for the new mainstream. This event explores how young professionals are stamping their mark in Auckland and around the world. >>

Do frictions associated with market microstructure explain the ex-dividend day anomaly? (Accounting and Finance, All seminars)

25 May 2012 11am- 12.30pm

A presentation by Dr Andrew Ainsworth (University of Sydney) >>

Inaugural lecture: The international financial system in the age of complexity (Economics, All events)

24 May 2012 6pm- 8pm

International financial manias, panics and crises have raised doubts about the viability of the present international financial system. >>

Free Chinese movie night: Banana in a Nutshell (All events, Research centres and groups)

22 May 2012 6.30pm- 8pm

An intimate portrait of a Chinese-European couple in New Zealand, and their journey to get a blessing for marriage from traditional Chinese parents. >>

2012 Spark Ideas Challenge prize giving (All events, Student events)

22 May 2012 6.15pm- 8pm

Be part of the excitement as we find out who will win a share from the record prize pool of $33,000, what are the top ideas from New Zealand's future leaders, and who has the University's most innovative research ideas? >>

Global real estate investment trusts: Management, people and process (All seminars, Property)

22 May 2012 12pm- 1pm

In this seminar, Professor David Parker will talk about the proposed theoretical property investment decision-making process for REITs. >>

News sentiment, accounting quality and liquidity volatility (Accounting and Finance, All seminars)

18 May 2012 11am- 12.30pm

The purpose of this study is to examine whether the impact of news items on liquidity risk and whether this effect depends on the quality of a firm’s accounting quality. >>

Brand pathologies: "Monstrous" consumer relationships and the media brand Twilight (All seminars, Marketing)

TODAY 12pm- 1pm

The Twilight media brand is a worldwide consumption phenomenon which predominantly speaks to female consumers who enter into fantastic and corporeal relationships with its market manifestations. >>

Symposium: Managing catastrophe - an economist and a lawyer give insights into topical issues arising from the Canterbury earthquakes (Commercial Law, All events, Research centres and groups)

14 May 2012 4pm- 6pm

The purpose of this symposium is to identify legal and commercial issues that commonly arise when a natural disaster strikes. It is hoped that this will lead to collaboration and publication. >>

What happened to Kobe? A reassessment of the impact of the 1995 earthquake in Japan (All seminars, Economics)

11 May 2012 3pm- 4.30pm

The received wisdom is that the devastation wrought by the 1995 Kobe earthquake did not have any long-term impact on the Japanese economy, nor much impact on Kobe itself. >>