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  • Tshwane Enterprise Development Programme (TEDP) makes positive contribution

    Posted on April 03, 2012

    In 2009 the City of Tshwane initiated a programme to enhance entrepreneurship within the city by providing a training and mentorship opportunity to entrepreneurs that operate on different levels within the city, with the University of Pretoria as the serv

  • Conference on Entrepreneurship in the Healthcare Industry

    Posted on March 28, 2012

    The Department of Business Management co-hosted a conference with the Oklahoma State University (OSU) on entrepreneurship in the healthcare industry during the week of 6 March 2012.

  • Guest lecture by a former Prime Minister

    Posted on March 28, 2012

    On Wednesday, 29 February 2012, the former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Professor Jan Peter Balkenende, delivered a guest lecture to the Business Management 359 (International Business) students in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.

  • CIPS SA joins hands with the University of Pretoria

    Posted on February 24, 2012

    The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply Southern Africa (CIPS SA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Pretoria to further professionalise the procurement and supply chain profession.

  • Motivation with a difference

    Posted on February 16, 2012

    The Department of Business Management organised a pre-graduation ceremony for the 2012 first-year students during their orientation week. The purpose of the ceremony was to encourage the students to make a commitment to graduate in the year 2015.

  • A visitor from Georgia State University to the Mamelodi Business Clinic

    Posted on December 12, 2011

    On Thursday, 24 November 2011, Prof Fenwick Huss from Georgia State University (GSU) in the United States of America visited the Mamelodi Business Clinic.

  • Warehousing and materials handling expert visits the Department of Business Management

    Posted on November 18, 2011

    Prof Ren

  • Prof Sander de Leeuw visits the Department of Business Management

    Posted on November 18, 2011

    Professor Sander de Leeuw from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in the Netherlands recently visited the Department of Business Management.

  • Supply Chain Challenge 2011

    Posted on November 18, 2011

    The Department of Business Management hosted the Supply Chain Challenge on 13 and 14 October 2011. This annual event is presented to the honours students in Business Management since 2003.

  • Site visit to the Mercedes-Benz cross dock facility and Caterpillar’s distribution centre

    Posted on September 22, 2011

    The Business Management honours class visited the Mercedes-Benz spare part facility and Caterpillar’s Johannesburg Distribution Centre in Isando recently as part of the module Integrated Logistics Management (GLB 780).

  • Business Clinic opens its doors

    Posted on July 29, 2011

    The Business Clinic of the University of Pretoria was officially launched on the Mamelodi Campus of the University in July 2011.

  • New Large Class Pedagogy

    Posted on February 21, 2011

    Dr Ingrid le Roux, from the Department of Business Management, presented a paper at the 3rd World Conference on Educational Science at the Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, Turkey, during February.

  • Supply Chain Challenge 2010 - A student's perspective

    Posted on November 12, 2010

    "All the students in the BCom Honours in Business Management class of 2010 thought it would be easy to survive the Supply Chain Challenge 2010 as we'd overcome so many challenges during the previous nine months. Little did we know that two days would chan

  • Supply Chain practitioners complete training programme

    Posted on November 05, 2010

    The Mpumalanga Department of Finance recently held a certificate ceremony for delegates who successfully completed the Certificate Programme in Supply Chain Management during 2009/10.

  • BCom Entrepreneurship - Sneaker project

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    As part of their training, BCom (Entrepreneurship) students had to do a project where they used the theoretical background that they receive in class and their own experience to create and make shoes from recycled material. The students worked in groups o

  • UP Business Incubator: NEW START UP!

    Posted on August 04, 2010

    Some really good news out of the office of the UP Business Incubator! One of our top entrepreneurs (incubatees) have launched her business this month. Her name is Maxine Bolt and the company: Student Book Trader.

  • Supply Chain Management & Logistics Career Preparation Seminar

    Posted on August 02, 2010

    The Department of Business Management's Chair in Logistics hosted a career preparation seminar for second and third year BCom option Supply Chain Management and BCom Honours (Business Management) students on Friday 23 July 2010 in the Sanlam Auditorium on

  • Launch of a mentorship programme for BCom option Supply Chain Management students

    Posted on May 24, 2010

    The Department of Business Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences of the University of Pretoria and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport: South Africa (CILTSA) launched a mentorship programme on Monday 17 May 2010. The

  • UP students attended Logistics Achiever Awards Seminar

    Posted on April 28, 2010

    During April 2010, Andrea van Staden, Anna Sivetshe, Zane de Beer and Karen Terblanche, four BCom option Supply Chain Management students had the opportunity to attend the Logistics News - Logistics Achievers Awards (LAA) seminar at Emperors Palace. Durin

  • Supply Chain Management students attend CIPS conference

    Posted on April 28, 2010

    The annual Chartered Institute for Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) conference took place from the during April 2010 at the Emperors Palace convention centre in Johannesburg.

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