News and articles
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May 10Simplot – Bringing the Future Forward
For Group Procurement Manager, Stephen Brown, delivering improvement in cost savings, achieving global cost competitiven...
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May 10Financial Times Ranks Mt Eliza As Best Provider of Exec...
According to Professor Paul Kirkbride, Deputy Dean, Mt Eliza Executive Education, achieving number one status in the reg...
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Feb 10What is the value driven consumer doing to retailers?
A key driving force for retailers is the value driven consumer in search of better quality and service for lower prices....
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Feb 10Should you launch a fighter brand?
Long before Aldi’s successful entry into Australia, Woolworth’s knew they were coming. Australia’s leading supermarket b...
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Feb 10A new act for procurement professionals
With the ongoing pressure of global competition and capital constraints, many CEOs are focusing on developing the core c...
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Oct 09MBS and University merger not proceeding
On 30 September 2009, the Melbourne Business School Board announced that the proposed merger between Melbourne Business ...
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Oct 09Are your employees motivated by reward or punishment av...
Employees may be feeling high levels of anxiety, fear and even panic about losing their jobs or having to reduce their h...
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Oct 09Gifts, Corruption and Philanthropy
Should we bother to ask the question whether some gifts and donations could be interpreted as bribes, or is the distinct...
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Oct 09Strategy’s Dirty Little Secrets
It's a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective, scope, and advantage of their business in ...
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Oct 09Two appointments at Melbourne Business School
Melbourne Business School (MBS) today announced that Associate Professor Jenny George has been appointed Dean of MBS and...
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Sep 09Melbourne Business School merger will not proceed
Melbourne Business School (MBS) today announced that the proposed merger with the University of Melbourne's Faculty of E...
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Sep 09Managers need to pay attention
Managers normally have trouble paying attention to reality because their views are distracted and distorted. The financi...
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Aug 09Are your senior marketing and sales executives creating...
In almost all sectors, companies are trying to defend existing market positions with aggressive cost reduction and prici...
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Aug 09Leading people through turbulent times
What a time to be a manager, an executive, a business leader of any sort! Today's business climate is characterised by e...
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Aug 09Why should senior executives undertake executive coachi...
Today's corporate environment is a tough place to grow in as the focus is on people's shortcomings without providing any...
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Aug 09Management education can create a sustainable and equit...
Management education can contribute to the welfare of business as well as the planet and all its inhabitants by adopting...
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Aug 09Is your organisation's executive development high impac...
True blended learning is the effective combination of different types of learning methods or modes of delivery, models o...
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Jul 09Proposed merger
Professor Margaret Abernethy, inaugural Executive Dean and Mr Ron McNeilly, Chair of the MBS Board and the Directors of ...
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Jun 09Building personal and professional resilience
Great success often arises because of difficult circumstances. People and organisations who succeed after experiencing a...
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Jun 09All in the mind
It would be wonderful if, when an organisation introduced change, everyone participated and did what was required. Howev...
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Jun 09Wouldn’t it be wonderful if change was painless?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if, when we think of a change to implement in our organisations, everyone came on board, did wh...
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May 09FT Rankings 2009
In the 2009 Financial Times survey, Melbourne Business School's Mt Eliza Executive Education is ranked the No.1 provider...
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May 09The jigsaw of leadership
Organisations that use a systematic aligned approach are better at talent and leadership development than those that use...
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Apr 09How do you tell a good program design from a poor one?
How do you know if a developmen program is of good or poor program design? What are the tell-tale signs? And how should ...
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Apr 09Is your organisation positioned for above-average perfo...
Over a decade ago, Graham Hubbard, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Adelaide, and Graeme Cocks, Associat...
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Apr 09Are you taking a strategic approach to managing human c...
In Melbourne, we recently held a successful, interactive luncheon on "Creating value through people". Ian O. Williamson,...
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Apr 09Are you helping your managers to 'get going'?
One approach Mt Eliza has used for many years is 'Action Learning', pioneered by Prof. Reg Revens (UK). This powerful pr...
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Mar 09HR Managers can earn their stripes in tough times
The current economic climate presents significant challenges for organisations as well as an equally great stimulus for ...
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Feb 09How do you evaluate customised executive development so...
"Evaluation is not a stand-alone process but a jointly ventured element of the relationship between the client, ourselve...
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Feb 09Moving the needle with customised executive education
"Customised executive education is about 'moving the needle' for organisations in terms of business outcomes." Execut...