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...
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.,...
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