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UWA Business School
The year 2009 has been an incredible one for the UWA Business School.  We celebrated the opening of our new, award-winning building, and we are now focussing resources on building strength and capacity above and beyond our reputation.

We are blessed with a strong foundation as one of the premier business schools in Australia and the wider region, and the secret of this strong foundation lies in three core and interdependent pillars - our students and graduates, our academic and professional staff and our external partners.

Creating a legacy

The Business School successfully raised and invested $25 million in building new physical and intellectual infrastructure to benefit current and future generations of business leaders.

Establishing connections

The Business School convened its inaugural Ambassadorial Council of prominent Western Australian alumni to build reputation and increase our competitiveness in the global education market.

Building partnerships

The Business School launched its Centre for Social Impact as part of a joint venture with the national Centre for Social Impact at the University of New South Wales.

Validating excellence

The Business School is the only school in Western Australia to have received accreditation from EQUIS, the European Quality Improvement System, and continues to actively pursue accreditation by AACSB, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Rewarding brilliance

The Business School's distinguished academic staff were recognised in numerous external and internal awards in 2009, including the Australian Learning and Teaching Citations, the Aherns Early Career Awards and the Faculty Teaching Awards, which were received by 13 faculty members during the year.

Offering solutions

The Business School has a robust research program designed to reflect and address many local, national and internationally relevant public policy issues.  From expertise in the fields of natural resource and energy economics, to wider international issues like regional food security, to issues of great community significance such as childhood nutrition, our researchers demonstrate collective strength in their ability to address the policy challenges of today and the future.

Attracting global expertise

The Business School has been privileged to host a number of distinguished international scholars through the Stan and Jean Perron and Alcoa Visiting Professor programs.  Attracting some of the world's best and brightest minds to Perth to share new ideas with our faculty, students and wider community has been an extremely exciting component of our annual activities.

Forging international alliances

The Business School is expanding its horizons beyond Western Australia and into our dynamic international region, recently entering into a cooperative partnership with the School of Management at the prestigious Zhejiang University in China.

The School already has strong links with a number of leading business schools in Europe and North America and is working to strengthen these ties. Partnerships with leading business schools around the globe help to strengthen the School's international competency.

Rising to challenge

The Business School's talented and resourceful students regularly demonstrate their ability to compete with the world's best.  From winning the inaugural Google Online Marketing Challenge in 2008 to being the national winners of the Students in Free Enterprise competition in both 2008 and 2009, our students are hard to beat.

Providing thought leadership

The Business School invests significantly in The University's mission to be a creative and intellectual resource to the wider Western Australian community.  Through a stimulating program of public lectures, debates and networking opportunities, the Business School has introduced some of its leading thinkers and business leaders to the wider community.