Thought Leadership Forums
A series of globally relevant forums focusing on the latest thinking & research, and contemporary perspectives on today’s key business challenges. Presented by leading presenters from MBS faculty and the business community as well as visiting scholars from around the world.
See the alumni Events Calendar for upcoming Thought Leadership Forums and other alumni events.
Recent Forums:
October 2008
Implications of the current financial crisis
MBS faculty Associate Professor Mark Crosby and Senior Lecturer Ning Gong discussed the world economy and the implications for regulation of financial institutions at this sold out event on Wed 8 October.
September2008
Launch of the MBS Marketing Association - Australia's Marketing Report Card: Measuring our Marketing Effectiveness
The MBS Marketing Association held its first event on 18 September, with a discussion on the importance and practicalities of measuring marketing effectiveness. Senior Fellow in Marketing, Don O’Sullivan, joined with Australian Institute of Marketing Chairman, Roger James, to tackle the issue from the big picture all the way down to the ‘nuts and bolts’ of marketing metrics.
August 2008
Women and Management Dinner
The 2008 WAM dinner was held at the Sofitel Melbourne on Tuesday 5th of August. Key note speakers Laura Hartman, Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business and Associate VP, Academic Affairs, De Paul University and Pera Wells, Secretary General of the World Federation of the United Nations Associations explored the leadership role women can take in guiding the social responsibility agendas in their organisations.
July 2008
Michael Luscombe shares his supermarket success
Michael Luscombe, CEO of Woolworths and MBS alumnus (AMP 1996), began his leadership journey at the check-out of a suburban Safeway and continued to the very top of one of the country's largest retailers, Woolworths Limited.
Speaking at an APC Leadership Series breakfast for students and alumni on July 4, Mr Luscombe told of the rewards and challenges involved in managing a retail giant of 3000 stores and 180,000 employees. He encouraged the audience to consider a career in retail, which had many students lining up for business cards after the presentation.
June 2008
Thought Leadership Forum on Parental Leave presented by Joshua Gans, Professor of Management (Information Economics) and Isabel Metz, Senior Lecturer in Organisations and Innovation.
Listen to Joshua's presentation on YouTube:
June 2008
Macroeconomic Update with Professor Ian Harper and Associate Professor Mark Crosby.
If you missed out on either the Melbourne or Sydney events, you can still see the presentations and hear what the speakers had to say by watching the webcast recording.
May 2008
Peripheral Vision: Detecting the weak signals that can make or break your company - presented by Wharton Professor George S. Day
April 2008
'Choosing Birthdays' Joshua Gans, Professor of Management (Information Economics)
Professor Joshua Gans examined the economic determinants of birth timing in his presentation Choosing Birthdays on April 16. His research also featured in The Melbourne Review.
Archive
June 2007
Macroeconomic Update with Professor Ian Harper & Associate Professor Mark Crosby
March 2007
Innovation Series seminar with guest speaker Dave Curren, ANZ.
November 2006
'Setting Minimum Wages in Australia' with Professor Ian Harper, Chairman of the Australia Fair Pay Commission.
July 2006
'Building High Performance Teams' presented by Olympic gold medal coach Dr Istvan Gorgenyi, and MBS Program Director Edmund King, Thursday 27th July, 2006.
May 2006
'Macroeconomic Update' with Professors Ian Harper & Mark Crosby. Friday 26th May in Melbourne.
April 2006
Associate Professor Catherine de Fontenay presented 'Outsourcing: Which Services and Inputs Should We Produce In-House?” to an audience of MBS and Stern Business School Alumni in New York on Tuesday 11 April.
March 2006
Professor Peter Carnevale from New York University presented "Creative Agreements in Negotiation" at a Thought Leadership Forum on Tuesday 7 March in Melbourne.
