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  • Community engagement project off to a flying start

    Posted on April 10, 2015

    The honours students in the Department of Marketing Management are involved in a community engagement project with the Phyllis Roberson Home as part of their formal degree programme.

  • UP excels in the SAICA January 2015 ITC

    Posted on March 27, 2015

    The Chartered Accountancy students of the University of Pretoria have once again delivered an exceptional performance in the January 2015 Initial Test of Competence (ITC) of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

  • The ins and outs of franchising

    Posted on March 26, 2015

    Mrs Belinda Bradley, a franchise expert from SA Franchise Warehouse, visited the BComHons (Marketing Management) class on 11 March 2015 to share her knowledge and expertise on the franchise industry. Mrs Bradley provided background information on the South African franchise industry and shared...

  • Doctoral students welcomed

    Posted on March 12, 2015

    The Department of Human Resource Management welcomed six new doctoral students at the end of February. This year's doctoral programme will include a year-long classroom seminar series in the literature and theory of organisational behaviour, industrial-organisational psychology and human resource...

  • Dr Johan van Zyl appointed Head of Toyota’s European operations

    Posted on March 11, 2015

    Dr Johan van Zyl, member of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ Advisory Board and CEO of Toyota SA, has been appointed Head of Toyota’s European operations. He will remain in charge of the South African company, as well as of Toyota’s African region.

  • Digital leaders inspire Marketing students at IAB Digital Summit

    Posted on March 09, 2015

    Two UP marketing students and their lecturer were invited to attend the inaugural Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) SA Digital Summit, hosted by IAB SA in association with the BBC.com on 19 February 2015. The summit marked a day of thought-provoking ideas and 11 excellent international...

  • Budget Speech 2015: Electricity levy increase: What are the consequences for the economy?

    Posted on March 06, 2015

    As in every year’s budget speech, the increases in taxes and levies drew the attention of especially consumers and small enterprises that usually get affected more severely.

  • Realism and structured models provide solution to unemployment

    Posted on March 03, 2015

    "Consider a career as entrepreneur or small business person if you can’t find work, it will solve our unemployment problem!"

  • Cultivating sustainable and peaceful communities through tourism

    Posted on March 02, 2015

    The International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) recognised Prof Ernie Heath, from the Department of Business Management, for his role in advancing tourism as a force for peace and socio-economic upliftment in South and southern Africa since the mid-eighties. Prof Heath again shared...

  • Professor emeritus remains productive

    Posted on February 23, 2015

    Prof Chris Thornhill, professor emeritus at the School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA), has retired in 2001, but is still actively engaged in teaching and research.

  • First graduate in MPhil focusing on responsible leadership

    Posted on February 20, 2015

    The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) is proud to announce that Mr Pieter Conradie, the Programme Director for Integrated Reporting became the first graduate of the MPhil in Business Management with the focus on Responsible Leadership. It is a two-year multidisciplinary...

  • What does the future hold for travel management companies?

    Posted on February 19, 2015

    Recent research in the Tourism Management Division scrutinised the use of technology to align the needs of corporate travel managers with the functions of travel management companies.

  • Research on SADC transnational labour relations furthered in Germany

    Posted on February 16, 2015

    Two MCom students from the Department of Human Resource Management will visit the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany from 22 to 29 March 2015. Helena du Preez and Leani van Zyl are both busy with their mini dissertations regarding different aspects of a larger research project on...

  • 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...

  • Tax research brings global award to Africa for the first time

    Posted on February 10, 2015

    Professor Theuns Steyn, Associate Professor in the Department of Taxation, has been awarded the prestigious Australasian CCH/ATTA Doctoral Series 2015 Award.

  • 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?”.

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