Posted on February 15, 2016
A very successful 2nd Annual Southern Africa Women in Tourism Conference with the theme ‘Creating opportunities for inclusive development and social transformation’ was held in Lilongwe, Malawi. During the conference, which was hosted by the Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern...
Posted on February 04, 2016
The Director of the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, Prof Derick de Jongh was invited by the South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB) to give a presentation on the topic 'Wicked problems and responsible leadership'.
Posted on December 15, 2015
The Mandela Rhodes Foundation recently announced the names of the 12th cohort of Mandela Rhodes scholars, who will make up the ‘Class of 2016’. Three students from the University of Pretoria are among those selected to be part of this elite group of students.
Posted on December 01, 2015
Dr Joël Houdet Senior Research Fellow at the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, co-facilitated a Natural Capital Protocol workshop with the Natural Capital Coalition and Conservation International on 8 November 2015.
Posted on November 30, 2015
The Department of Environmental Affairs, in collaboration with the National Biodiversity and Business Network (NBBN), conducted a preliminary baseline assessment with the aim of assessing current approaches and practices of South African businesses to mainstream biodiversity. As an expert on the...
Posted on November 30, 2015
Ms Natasha Ashley, a BCom Business Management student, has been awarded a Mandela Rhodes Scholarship for 2016 to complete her master’s degree in business management. She completed her honours degree with distinction this year.
Posted on November 30, 2015
The final-year students in Supply Chain Management partnered with Lefa Cooperative during the second semester of 2015 for a practical consulting project. Lefa Co-op is a primary cooperative focused on empowering communities with online and mobile application services that enable smarter learning,...
Posted on November 20, 2015
Dr Joël Houdet, Senior Research Fellow at the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, lead the session on natural capital accounting and co-hosted the extractive industries session at the first Pan-African Business and Biodiversity Forum that took place in Ghana in October 2015.
Posted on November 16, 2015
The events of the past few weeks in the area of tertiary education caused considerable upheaval, but according to Prof Jurie van Vuuren, Coordinator of the Chair in Entrepreneurship in the Department of Business Management at the University of Pretoria (UP), a few of the fundamental assumptions...
Posted on November 06, 2015
Prof Ernie Heath, from the Department of Business Management at UP, was the facilitator of the Tourism Commission, at the inaugural Small Towns Conference with the theme, 'Small towns, new futures' that was held in Bloemfontein from 22 to 23 October 2015.
Posted on October 15, 2015
Prof Jenny Hoobler of the Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences was recently invited to serve as a consulting editor (CE) on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP).
Posted on October 13, 2015
Current research investigating whether and why communication management professionals are on occasion lying to the media to protect their organisations, clients or CEO’s, is causing a stir in the public relations and corporate communication environments.
Posted on October 05, 2015
Dominique Pröbstl, a Communication Management master’s degree student in UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, was involved in one of South Africa’s most ambitious corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects.
Posted on September 22, 2015
Prof Ernie Heath from the Department of Business Management co-presented a paper and chaired two sessions at the 2015 ATLAS Africa Conference, with the theme ‘Tourism and inclusive growth in developing economies’, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Posted on September 18, 2015
The Department of Business Management recently hosted its annual supply chain career day at the UP Conference Centre. Various industry role players, such as PWC, Unilever, UTi, DHL, Adcock Ingram and Proctor & Gamble, presented their career opportunities to the under- and postgraduate...
Posted on September 16, 2015
A new and exciting entrepreneurship programme will be offered for the first time in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ Department of Business Management in 2016.
Posted on September 10, 2015
The Natural Capital Coalition, in partnership with several organisations including the national Department of Environmental Affairs, the African Centre for Technology Studies and the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pretoria (UP), is organising a Natural...
Posted on August 25, 2015
Neeltjé du Plessis from the Communication Management Division presented a research paper co-authored by Prof Ronél Rensburg at the International History of Public Relations Conference (IHPRC), held at Bournemouth University, England.
Posted on August 24, 2015
The University of Pretoria’s Prof Derick de Jongh, from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and Director of the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, was part of a panel of experts at a showcase symposium at the 75th annual meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM).
Posted on August 12, 2015
Ms Olebogeng Selebi, a lecturer and PhD-student in the Faculty of Economic and Management Science’s Communication Management Division, was invited to participate in in a summer school in Austria.
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