Posted on December 02, 2015
Three BCom Internal Auditing honours students and their lecturer Mr Rudrik du Bruyn, who is also IAEP coordinator for the Centre of Excellence in Internal Auditing, attended the 9th Annual Internal Audit Educational Partnership (IAEP) Program Networking Retreat and Educator Forum in Florida, USA...
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 27, 2015
The Faculty of Economic Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria is responding to the country’s need to transform the finance and accountancy sector.
Posted on November 26, 2015
How can Marketing students make a difference? This was the challenge given to the Marketing Management honours students, who were tasked with developing a fundraising strategy in support of Phyllis Robertson Home (PRH) in Pretoria as part of the curriculum of one of their practical modules.
Posted on November 20, 2015
The honours students in Strategic Marketing Management partnered with the Unlimited Titans cricket franchise during 2015 for a practical exam project. The students were challenged to increase in-stadia support at SuperSport Park in Centurion, and to create brand awareness for the Unlimited Titans.
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 11, 2015
Prof Karel Stanz, Head of the Department of Human Resource Management, was elected as board member of the South African Board for People Practice (SABPP) for the period 2016 to 2018.
Posted on November 10, 2015
Tax@Tuks, the official society for Taxation students at the University of Pretoria, received four prestigious awards at the Commercii year-end function in.
Posted on November 10, 2015
The Department of Marketing Management hosted Ms Ineke Prinsloo, National Head of Strategy and Customer Insight at, international short-term insurance company Zurich, on 17 October 2015. Ms Prinsloo has 18 years of experience in the financial services industry. She has been a director on the...
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 November 06, 2015
Ms Danielle Carrick, an information designer from GfK Consumer Experiences North America in New York, presented a lecture to the MPhil Marketing Research students while she was hosted by the Department of Marketing Management on 16 and 17 October 2015.
Posted on November 06, 2015
The year has come to an end for the third-year BCom Marketing Management students who have worked on a practical integrated marketing project for Potatoes South Africa (PSA). A prize-giving function was held on 29 October 2015, where the top three groups were rewarded for their PSA projects. PSA...
Posted on November 04, 2015
The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL), in association with the British High Commission (Pretoria), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Old Mutual plc and the Institute for Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), recently hosted a roundtable event at PwC's Business...
Posted on November 02, 2015
As honours students in Marketing Management at UP in 2015, Mieke Bruins and Stephan du Plessis have been working on an integrated marketing communication strategy for the Gautrain Management Agency throughout the year. They share their experience of the brand and the high standards it adheres to,...
Posted on October 28, 2015
Mr Otto de Vries, CEO of the Association of South African Travel Agents (Asata), recently presented a guest lecture to the BCom Honours students in Tourism Management. His lecture focused on the future of business and retail travel agents, and he assured students that there is indeed still a role...
Posted on October 20, 2015
Innovative thinking by leaders and up-and-coming talent in the tax field was celebrated and recognised at the national Tax Thesis Competition awards function that was held at Norton Rose Fulbright's Office in Sandton on 8 October 2015. Lara Theron, a student in UP's Department of Taxation, won...
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