It was such a privilege to catch up with many of you at our Women and Management dinner a few weeks ago. The speaker, Elizabeth Proust AO, gave one of the more entertaining and thought-provoking speeches I have heard and the more than 600 people there had a wonderful night.

It's good to know that there is another opportunity this year to hear from an interesting and influential business person while renewing friendships with your classmates. This year's Annual Alumni Dinner is to be held on the 4th of October at the Melbourne Convention Centre. Read more

Melbourne Business School alumnus Florian Poppe and his wife Claudia have been busy nursing two bundles of joy this year – and not just the infant kind.

In June, the couple launched MuesliMixer, an online customised breakfast store, which allows customers to design their own muesli mix from more than 55 ingredients. Less than three months after the business launch, the couple – who moved from Germany to Australia in 2006 – welcomed baby Julia into their online world of honey toasted oats, mulberries, flaked almonds, and wheat pillows. Read more

More than 600 alumni, students, staff and friends attended the recent MBS Women and Management Dinner at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne on Thursday the 5th of August. "Exceptional Women, outstanding ideas" was a fitting tagline for the Dinner, which boasted an impressive guest list of Australian and international business leaders. 

Over the course of 20 years, the Women and Management Dinner has become one of Melbourne’s leading forums to celebrate the achievement of women in management, and attracts a high profile and influential woman as keynote speaker.Read more

As a part of the MBS internship program, current full-time student Vanessa Landry has taken on an exciting project through the Social Impact stream, supported by MBS and career services. Vanessa is working with hike4hunger, a start-up non-profit aimed at raising awareness of the global food crisis and changing the global mentality behind world hunger.

Brought on to help see hike4hunger continue to grow, Vanessa is helping expand hike4hunger’s reach in the local and international communities while putting long-term processes into place for future years. Read more

Melbourne Business School research has found that excessive self confidence in two or more members of a team can cause a team to self destruct.

According to Professor of Management in Organisational Behaviour, Karen Jehn, it’s good to have self confidence but excessive levels can lead to undeserved entitlement beliefs, characterised by thoughts such as, "I’m better than everyone else just because I’m me." Read more

Each month a MBS faculty member will recommend a book they have read recently. This month Professor Chris Lloyd, Associate Dean of Research recommends Science: A History 1534-2001 by John Gribbin.

In this book, John Gribbin tells the story of the people who made science and the turbulent times they lived in. As well as famous figures such as Copernicus, Darwin and Einstein, there are also the obscure, the eccentric, even the mad. This book gives a detailed history of the developments of science, focusing on biographical background as a means of aquiring a greater understanding of what was happening as the developments were unfolding. The main point of his book, outside of simply being a history of science, is to argue for an "evolutionary" view of the development of science, meaning that science moves forward in a progressive, step-by-step manner rather than by sudden revolutions.

Click here to purchase the book.

Many Alumni are unaware that MBS has bedroom facilities at the Carlton Campus. These rooms are currently used by EMBA students, conference guests and visiting faculty.

MBS is pleased to announce that these facilities, depending on availability, are now also available to Alumni visiting Melbourne on business or pleasure. Read more

Join Jon Burgess, Founder & Director of KWAN, for the second running of his three-part ‘Connect Series,’ which will focus on better understanding the value of your people networks.  Over three consecutive Thursdays in October, commencing on the 14th, Jon will teach you how to further develop and retain authentic relationships with people of like minds so as to support and complement your personal and career aspirations.

Participants will learn the values and value of connecting, be advised on strategies and alternative approaches to enhance your influence, and explore the importance of perspective and brand value. For more information and to register, please click here.