Let the marketing games begin

Posted on February 16, 2015

The journey for the BComHons (Marketing Management) class of 2015 kicked off on 3 February 2015 with a fun, sporting class. The theme of the welcome lecture was “The Marketing Games” and, prior to the first class, students were informed to dress for the welcome lecture representing a...

Make marketing matter

Posted on February 16, 2015

Following the University of Pretoria’s slogan, “Make today matter”, the Department of Marketing Management‘s theme for 2015 is “Make marketing matter”. Mr Thinkwell Ndhlovu, Ms Jade Samuels and Ms Danita Potgieter, lecturers in the Department, inspired the...

Connecting with international colleagues in the French Alps

Posted on February 16, 2015

Prof Yolanda Jordaan, Head of the Department of Marketing Management, and Prof André Jordaan, professor in the Department of Economics, attended the Winter Global Business Conference in Tignes, France from 2 to 6 February 2015. The focus of the conference, hosted by the Innovation Institute...

Integrating natural capital into private sector accounting

Posted on February 13, 2015

The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership(ALCRL) and the African Centre for Technology studies (ACTS) co-published an important working paper which proposes key principles and methodology foundations for an integrated financial natural capital accounting and reporting framework, which...

Benjamin Mbana tops in Ernst & Young Competition

Posted on February 02, 2015

The University of Pretoria delivered the winner as well as the two runners-up of the South African Ernst & Young Young Tax Professional of the Year Competition 2014.

Research on SA economics presented in Greece

Posted on January 27, 2015

Prof Roula Inglesi-Lotz of the Department of Economics visited the University of Macedonia in Greece and presented her current research. The topic of her presentation was “Environmental Kuznets Curve in South Africa: to confirm or not to confirm?”.

Researchers ranked on Brigham Young University Accounting Research Rankings

Posted on January 22, 2015

Prof Jean Myburgh, Acting Head of the Department of Accounting, Prof Stephen Coetzee, Ms Astrid Schmulian, Ms Cecile Janse van Rensburg and Ms Lizette Kotze, staff members in the Department of Accounting at the University of Pretoria, have been ranked on the Brigham Young Accounting Research...

A hive of activity with ‘Gautrain Activations’

Posted on January 16, 2015

For four weeks, the student hub at the Piazza on the Hatfield Campus has been a hive of activity with ‘Gautrain Activations’, as honours students of the Department of Marketing Management ran a promotional campaign to increase awareness for the Gautrain and to promote the Gautrain as...