Thursday, 1 November 2007

The following is a list of current and upcoming events....

Boardroom Lunches
Dean, Tracey Horton is currently hosting a series of ‘Boardroom Lunches’ for undergraduate and postgraduate students once a month. These lunches create an opportunity for current students to gain valuable experience of what life at the boardroom level is about. High profile CEO’s and executives offer their time interacting with students over a formal lunch.

Two recent lunches were held at Mermaid Marine, co-hosted by Dr Tony Howarth, Chairman of the Board, and also at Woodside by Mr Don Voelte, Managing Director and CEO.

Shann Memorial Lecture
The UWA Business School and the Economic Society of Australia recently hosted the Shann Memorial Lecture for 2007 “A New Climate Strategy - Beyond 2012”. This lecture was presented by Professor Warwick J. McKibben, Director for the Centre of Applied Macroeconomics Analysis, ANU, President of McKibben Software Group, and Member of the Reserve Bank of Australia Board.

Professor McKibbin is internationally renowned for his contributions to the global debate on how to tackle climate change. He is a leading world expert on greenhouse gas emission trading schemes and carbon taxes.

Professor McKibbins address discussed some of the key problems of the Kyoto Protocol for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also outlined an alternative strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, known as the McKibbin Wilcoxen Blueprint. This model has formed the basis of a new Australian approach to a domestic permit trading system for emissions, proposed by the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Emissions Trading.

Alcoa Visiting Professor Ben Rosen

Professor Rosen was the second Alcoa Visiting Professor to come to the UWA Business School for 2007. He has over 30 years experience in conducting executive education programs and has a strong research portfolio investigating issues of empowerment, virtual teams, career management, and the legal environment for business.

A specialist in virtual teams and strategic human resource management, Professor Ben Rosen delivered two educational seminars during his time at the UWA Business School as the Alcoa Visiting Professor. He worked intensively with Professor John Cordery of the UWA Business School researching evolving forms of virtual organisations.

More than 60 people attended a seminar sundowner on “virtual teams” on 13 September at The University Club. The seminar explored his ground-breaking research on the practical aspects of managing people and productivity in virtual teamwork environments. Participants included representatives from the resource sector, finance, energy and utilities, health care, accounting, law, architecture, recruitment, science and the public sector; all keen to hear about managing virtual global teams.

During his visit Professor Rosen also conducted a full day workshop for Alcoa’s staff operating in virtual teams nationally and globally.

The Alcoa Visiting Professor Program enables the UWA Business School to attract a range of leading academics from Australia and around the globe for select periods of time. This partnership fits with Alcoa’s broader partnership strategy of building community capacity. Each Visiting Professor’s visit incorporates a public program at the University such as corporate events, CEO Forums and public lectures.

The 20th PhD Conference in Economics and Business
The UWA Business School

Over the past twenty years, the annual PhD Conference in Economics and Business has made a major contribution to graduate business training in Australia. It has now evolved into a modern academic tradition in Australia. This year’s event is again the result of a long term partnership between The UWA Business School and The Australian National University’s Centre for Economic Policy Research.

The goal of the 2007 Conference was to help students with their research and give them valuable professional interaction and exposure. All major Australian universities were invited to send their best PhD students and some of Australia’s leading economists will act as discussants of the papers. Senior representatives from business, government and other universities also attended, and many organisations agreed to sponsor the event.

For further information, please see the website
https://www.biz.uwa.edu.au/home/research/research_centres/annual_phd_conference

Upcoming Events

Program Information Evening Schedule
If you are interested in attending one of our information evenings contact postgraduate reception on 6488 3980 or register by visiting https://www.biz.uwa.edu.au/

For time and location details of the following events please view the UWA Business School website at https://www.biz.uwa.edu.au/home/events

For a full list of programs and workshops presented by the AIM-UWA Alliance, please access: https://www.aimuwaalliance.com/calendar.cfm

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