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26 Mar 2012: Melbourne Business School's Asia Pacific Social Impact Leadership Centre unveils Aboriginal Masterclass series.
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Feb 2012: A new partnership between Australia's oldest independent trustee company, The Trust Company, and Melbourne Business School (MBS) will help maximise the social impact of millions of dollars in charitable bequests. Read more here

Feb 2012: Alumni feedback has propelled MBS into the Financial Times global top 10 for marketing education.  The accolade follows a recent QS report, which rated MBS 16th globally for its marketing specialisation. More here

Feb 2012: Melbourne Business School's full-time MBA has cemented its place in the Financial Times top 50, in the most recent global rankings. More here.

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Melbourne Business School: The Economist’s No. 1 pick for an MBA in Asia

 

Media Coverage

CSR sweet for a handful of MEAs

Joanna Mather, Australian Financial Review, pg 29, 21 May 2012
Profesor Ian Williamson, director of Melbourne Business School's Asia Pacific Social Impact Leadership Centre, says there's little sens in teaching MBA students about corporate social responsibility in the hope that one day, in the distant future, they will be wealthy enough to become philanthropists.

The utter pointlessness of SWOT

Mark Ritson, B & T, 21 May 2012
Mark Ritson suggests two quick and easy ways - that have never let him down - to spot crap marketing plans. There are two particular concepts that, if they appear anywhere in a presentation, immediately signal that a marketing plan is crap and the marketer presenting it is hopeless. Read the full article.

Link gender targets to managers' pay

Georgina Dent, BRW, 17 May 2012
Melbourne Business School Professor Robert Wood says “Let’s take what managers do in every other area of business where they seek change, and set measurable time-bound goals and make executives accountable ... Make them targets with teeth.” Read the full article.