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  • Finding the perfect balance between money, the environment and people

    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.

  • Private sector stakeholders eager to explore collaborative research opportunities

    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.

  • Economics student receives medal for research on renewable energy

    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...

  • Developing careers in supply chain management

    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...

  • EMS launches Entrepreneurship Development Programme

    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.

  • GIBS Centre for Dynamic Markets team wins coveted award

    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.

  • Natural Capital Protocol Workshop set to contribute to business transformation

    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...

  • Contemplating the impact of technology on being a scholar-author

    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.

  • UP’s MPhil in Internal Auditing teaches through collaboration

    Posted on September 04, 2015

    During July 2015, 36 part-time students commenced with their postgraduate studies in internal auditing, presented in UP’s Department of Auditing. These students are mostly senior internal audit practitioners working in the private and public sectors globally and in South Africa. The MPhil...

  • SA’s first MPhil in Internal Auditing flourishes at UP

    Posted on September 04, 2015

    The University of Pretoria is proud to offer the first master’s degree programme in internal auditing in South Africa, aimed at a global audience.

  • EMS honours student part of transformative leadership in Africa

    Posted on September 02, 2015

    Goitse Boikanyo, a BComHons Financial Management student in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, recently attended the third MasterCard Foundation Tertiary Scholars Program Convening in California, USA.

  • Why we need to tread carefully in drawing up human rights rules for business

    Posted on August 31, 2015

    A foundation essay by Prof Danny Bradlow first published on The Conversation.

  • Exposure to customer experience management

    Posted on August 31, 2015

    The Department of Marketing Management hosted Professor Adré Schreuder, CEO of Consulta, founder and chair of the SA Customer Satisfaction Index (SASCI) and extraordinary professor in the Department during August 2015. He presented a customer experience management workshop to MPhil Marketing...

  • Research grant for African project awarded to EMS team

    Posted on August 31, 2015

    Prof Jenny Hoobler of the Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Courtney Masterson, doctoral candidate from the University of Illinois, USA, and Elsabé Buys, MCom Industrial Psychology student were recently awarded the 2014/2015 Emerald...

  • International expert presents MPhil Marketing Research workshop at UP

    Posted on August 26, 2015

    On 31 July and 1August 2015 the Department of Marketing Management hosted Professor Holger Lütters, a professor of International Marketing at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft in Berlin and a leading expert on the topic of online marketing research.

  • Cementing the ‘Pretoria School of Thought’ into PR history

    Posted on August 25, 2015

    Neeltjé du Plessis from the Communication Management Division presented a research paper co-authored by Prof Ronél Rensburg at the International History of Public Relations Conference (IHPRC), held at Bournemouth University, England.

  • Symposium on corporate governance and integrated reporting in SA

    Posted on August 24, 2015

    The University of Pretoria’s Prof Derick de Jongh, from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and Director of the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, was part of a panel of experts at a showcase symposium at the 75th annual meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM).

  • Communication Management lecturer lends SA lustre to Graz International Summer School

    Posted on August 12, 2015

    Ms Olebogeng Selebi, a lecturer and PhD-student in the Faculty of Economic and Management Science’s Communication Management Division, was invited to participate in in a summer school in Austria.

  • UP academic reflects on responsible leadership during a seminar hosted by the JSE

    Posted on August 05, 2015

    On Tuesday 28 July, the University of Pretoria’s Prof Derick de Jongh, Director of the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, was a guest speaker at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).

  • Communication Management alumni excels in the industry

    Posted on August 04, 2015

    Regine le Roux is a corporate reputation specialist by profession, tapping her knowledge from the Communication Management honours degree she completed cum laude at the University of Pretoria in 2001. Admirably, she completed her MCom degree within a year thereafter. Regine’s thesis...

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