MBS Media coverage

Best and worst of 2011

Mark Ritson, Professional Marketing , pg 16, 01 February 2012
Associate Professor of Marketing, Mark Ritson, examines how Coles, Qantas, Gerry Harvey and Australian fashion brands fared in 2011.

Risky Business: the human cost of outsourcing drug production

Catherine de Fontenay, The Conversation, 31 January 2012
The pressures leading to outsourcing in pharmaceutical manufacture are similar to those that reshaped the automobile industry several decades ago – and just as unlikely to disappear, writes Melbourne Business School economist Associate Professor Catherine de Fontenay. Read the full article.

How your MBA stacks up

Rachel Lebihan, Australian Financial Review, 30 January 2012
Australia’s Melbourne Business School has entered the ranks of the top 50 MBA programs in the world for the first time, according to the 2012 Financial Times MBA rankings. Read the full article.

Family Business

Emma Jacobs, Financial Times, 30 January 2012
Professor Paul Dainty of Melbourne Business School, author of The MBA Companion, talks about how MBA students need to put some serious planning into easing the impact of their studies on family and friends. Read the full article.

The thread of knowledge

Leora Moldofsky, Financial Times, 16 January 2012
Melbourne Business School's Mt Eliza Executive Education arm takes the 70:20:10 model to new places, with the launch this month of its "digital learning ecosystem", Thread. Interview with design manager Matt Williams. Read the full article.

22 arts leaders selected for Emerging Leaders Development Program

Australia Council for the Arts, 11 January 2012
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Port Douglas focus

Cairns Post, pg 14, 11 January 2012
THIRTY mature-aged students from the prestigious Melbourne Business School will visit Port Douglas in early February to assess local business. They will observe operations and make recommendations to the town’s business community. Read the full article.

Setting the record straight on women's leadership

Gabrielle Murphy, Voice (University of Melbourne), 09 January 2012
Professor Amanda Sinclair tells the Women Democracy and Leadership Conference that women's contributions to community and public life have been only rarely acknowledged as examples of leadership. Read the full article.

Time to skill up for 2012

Joanna Mather, Australian Financial Review, pg 9, 06 January 2012
Looking for a career boost in 2012? Reporter Joanna Mather talks to Mt Eliza Executive Education director of Open Programs, Jayne Jennings, about the skills that will be the most highly sought by employers. Read the full article.

Managers urged to go back to school

Rachel Lebihan, Australain Financial Review, pg 7, 05 January 2012
Melbourne Business School Dean Professor Zeger Degraeve tells the AFR's Education Editor Rachel Lebihan that management education needs to be academic and experiential as well as focus on personal skills and effectiveness.The comments come as the Australian Business Deans Council embarks on a major review of management education in Australia. Read the full article.

Girls will be girls: the batle for our children's hearts and minds this Christmas

Katy Guest, The Independent, 18 December 2011
Gifts for him, gifts for her... children's environments are relentlessly gendered, says Associate Professor Cordelia Fine from the MBS Centre for Ethical Leadership. Read the full article.

DON’T GIVE BIG BANKS FIRST BITE OF THE BOND CHERRY

Sam Wylie, Australian Financial Review, pg 55, 15 December 2011
The measures proposed by Treasurer Wayne Swan to increase competition between banks have some good points - reducing the costs of switching, making permanent the insurance of deposits, and not being hasty to guarantee securitisation bonds. However, big banks should not get covered bonds until after portable bank accounts have been implemented. (Sam Wylie is a principal fellow of the Melbourne Business School.)

Our MBA schools have a lot to learn

Peter Roberts, Australian Financial Review, pg 47, 12 December 2011
The QS Global 200 Business School review found that Melbourne Business School had our top-ranked master of business administration (MBA) course, but most of our other graduate business schools come nowhere near Harvard or Stanford for experience.

Green Business Impact

Giselle Weybrecht, Times of India/ Myeducationtimes.com, 09 December 2011
The world's challenges are also business challenges, writes Giselle Weybrecht, author of The Sustainable MBA. Both Melbourne Business School and Harvard Business school have signed up to the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education. Both institutions have active Net Impact student clubs tacklign business and sustainability issues. Read the full article.

Melbourne Business School leads the locals: new MBA ranking

Stephen Matchett, The Australian, 06 December 2011
INTERNATIONAL employers consider the Melbourne Business School the best in Australia according to today's new QS ranking. Read the full article.

Work starts on revitalising Port Douglas

The Newsport: Port Douglas and Mossman, 06 December 2011
MBA graduates from Melbourne Business School have begun work on an action plan to revitalise the Far North Queensland tourist town of Port Douglas, working with the chamber of commerce and local businesses. Read the full article.

Australian business schools highly placed in QS rankings

Myriam Robin, Meld Magazine, 05 December 2011
THE largest ever survey of MBA employers ranked the Melbourne Business School the third most preferred in Asia. Read the full article.

Britain prepares for worst, but liquidity will be key to stabilising Europe

Sam Wylie, The Conversation, 02 December 2011
The US Federal Reserve and most of the world’s other major central banks have moved to lower the cost of credit for banks by cutting the interest rate on US-dollar denominated debt. Melbourne Business School Professorial Fellow Sam Wylie examines the likely impact of the measure and the next step forward for the world’s political and economic leaders. Read the full article.

A new take on philanthropic partnerships

Simon Lewis, Turst Company, Pro Bono News, 01 December 2011
The Trust Company is working with Melbourne Business School's Asia Pacific Social Impact Leadership Centre to develop a methodology of social impact over time for its discretionary portfolio. MBS will also assist The Trust Company to facilitate the collaboration within each program area and to coordinate biannual workshops between its strategic partners. Read the full article.

American airlines forced down by high costs

Andrew Robertson, ABC Lateline Business, 30 November 2011
Associate Professor in Business Strategy Doug Dow says American Airlines' decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reflects a tough US domestic aviation market - quite the opposite to Qantas' dilemma, which lies in its overseas operations. Read the full article.