Posted on October 20, 2015
The Tourism Management Division hosted Prof Dimitris Koutoulas from the University of Patras in Greece during September 2015.
Posted on October 20, 2015
Prof Roula Inglesi-Lotz, accompanied by her two PhD students Mrs Jessika Bohlmann and Mrs Amandine Nakumuryango, as well as Dr Heinrich Bohlmann, all from the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, attended the South African International Renewable Conference...
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 14, 2015
Judge Bernard Ngoepe from the Office of the Tax Ombud visited the University of Pretoria yesterday (13 October) to talk about the impact of this office on taxpayers and to assess the first full annual report of this Office, which was lodged at Parliament on the same day.
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 13, 2015
UP students walked away with two of the three top prizes at the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) Student Leadership Summit, held at the Standard bank Global Leadership Centre from 1 to 3 October 2015.
Posted on October 12, 2015
The announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences today (12 October) will be celebrated in the Musaion on the UP campus with the hosting of the annual Nobel Lecture Series by National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Swedish Embassy.
Posted on October 06, 2015
The Department of Marketing Management hosted Mr Joe Boniaszczuk, Marketing Sciences Director at GfK South Africa, on 19 September 2015. He presented a lecture on conducting market research in challenging environments to the MPhil Marketing Research students.
Posted on October 06, 2015
Professor Nicola Viegi of the Department of Economics and his PhD student Haakon Kavli received the award for best paper in macroeconomics at the Economic Society of South Africa Conference, held in September 2015.
Posted on October 05, 2015
In a recent study by Prof Berendien Lubbe and her team at UP, researchers set out to determine South Africa's competitiveness as a tourism destination by finding out how the country is performing against its competitors.
Posted on September 29, 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 29, 2015
No less than seven visitors from different universities all over the world visited the Department of Human Resource Management on 14 September 2015. These visitors, all academics in labour relations and labour law from Russia, the Netherlands, Hungary and Poland, were the guests of Dr Paul Smit.,...
Posted on September 23, 2015
Ms Yvonne Reilly, of UP's Department of Auditing, is focussed on using her skills to bring attention to South Africa's multi-layered wildlife industry and to address related concerns.
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
Exceptionally relevant and important research regarding renewable energy in South Africa was recognised on national level when Mr Jaco Weideman received the Economic Society South Africa (ESSA) Founders Medal for Masters Research 2015 at ESSA’s Biennal Conference, held in September 2015 at...
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 11, 2015
The Centre for Dynamic Markets (CDM) at UP’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), has won the coveted Tony Elumelu Foundation Africapitalism Award for the Best Teaching Case Study on Sustainable Business in Africa.
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 September 08, 2015
During a visit to the Department of Marketing Management in July 2015, Professor Julie Ruth from the Rutgers University School of Business in the USA delivered a presentation to the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ staff on the impact of technology on being a scholar-author.
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