Prof Nkomo wins prestigious award

Posted on July 20, 2016

Professor Stella Nkomo, Deputy Dean for Research and Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria, has been awarded the 2016 CEO Lifetime Country Achievement Award for South Africa.

Mining Resilience Research Centre established at the University of Pretoria

Posted on July 19, 2016

The newly established Mining Resilience Research Centre at UP will focus on multi-disciplinary research activities in the mining industry and developing lasting partnerships with leading international role players.

Marketing Management partners with Toyota SA to train the taxi industry

Posted on July 18, 2016

Two high quality, customised skills development programmes have been launched after UP and Toyota SA partnered to realise the shared dream of developing a special programme for the taxi industry. The Ses’fikile Programme on Management Principles and Practices is aimed at the executives in...

Students put knowledge to practice in disability sector

Posted on July 15, 2016

Third-year BAdmin Public Administration students were given the opportunity to make a difference in the disability sector by applying their skills to pre-identified organisations which do not receive government subsidies, lack a variety of skills and have a multitude of needs, as part of their...

GEM selects UP professor as national expert

Posted on July 14, 2016

Prof Alex Antonites, of the Department of Business Management in UP's Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, has been selected to participate as one of the national experts in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) South Africa report 2016.

Optimising the relationship between businesses and SMMEs

Posted on July 01, 2016

Enterprises University of Pretoria's Research Solutions recently hosted a business breakfast that focused on their total value chain service offering to support SMMEs throughout their entire lifecycle.

Multiplying customer value

Posted on June 27, 2016

In the first semester of 2016 the BCom Honours (Marketing Management) group from the University of Pretoria was offered the opportunity to work with Momentum Multiply on a client challenge.

Prof Hoobler invited to serve on prestigious editorial board

Posted on June 21, 2016

Prof Jenny Hoobler, Acting Head of the Department of Human Resource Management, has been invited to join the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal, the top empirical journal in the field of management internationally.