MBS is delighted to announce that Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, widely recognised for his leadership of the fledgling Timor-Leste nation, will launch the School’s Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership for Social Impact on Wednesday 27 August 2008. Limited places are available for MBS alumni. Full story

Sofitel on Collins, Melbourne - Tuesday 5 August 2008
Two influential women speakers, lectured, cajoled, argued and touted one message, many examples and calls to action at the annual Melbourne Business School Women and Management dinner last week. Their message? "When people suffer we cannot remain indifferent." Post your thoughts on this message online and view photos taken of the night. Full story

The MBS Marketing Association is a network drawing together industry leaders, faculty, students and alumni to facilitate knowledge transfer and professional networking. It will be launched on Thursday, 18 September with a discussion by MBS Senior Fellow, Don O'Sullivan and Australian Marketing and Institute Chairman, Roger James. Read more

Welcome to the full-time and part-time award students commencing in our September intake. Collectively there are 111 students from 20 countries, bringing professional experience from more than 20 different industries

Parentonomics: An economist dad's parenting experiences
Melbourne Business School Professor Joshua Gans wonders what it would be like to apply key economic principles to raising his own three children. Can incentives and rewards prompt them to do things like sleep through the night, eat healthy meals, clean up their rooms, do their homework? Can economics help the smart, caring, well-adjusted, high-achieving little person that we know is in there to emerge?  The theories and the results - some instant successes, some dismal failures - are revealed in his new book, Parentonomics, and you are invited to celebrate it's release on Sunday August 31 at 12.00pm at ACMI, Federation Square as part of the Melbourne Writers' Festival.   Read more

Mt Eliza Executive Education programs are designed to reinvent organisations through the transformation of people. Upcoming programs include:

• Strategic Thinking & Action: Sept 1-4
• Finance in Five Days: A Toolkit for Non-financial Managers: Sept 8-12
• High Performance Managers Program: Sept 15-19
• Leadership Development Program: Sept 15-19

Visit the 2008 Program Calendar for a full list of programs.

Kirsten McMahon-Cook credits the Mt Eliza Senior Leadership Program with being one of the most confronting and insightful experiences of her professional development to date. The program had such a profound impact, she says, it helped her to reach a recent life-changing decision to temporarily exit corporate life and complete her Executive MBA full-time at MBS. Full story

Visiting Gourlay Professor of Ethics, Professor Laura Hartman
Professor Ian Harper, Executive Director of the Centre for Business and Public Policy at MBS, chaired a recent lecture focussing on the alleviation of global poverty through profitable corporate partnerships.  The lecture was presented by visiting Gourlay Professor Laura Hartman who gave examples of key partnership initiatives which were sustainable because they were in the best interests of both the communities who benefited and the corporations who drove them. A lively question-time discussion followed. Full story

Friday 12 September, Graduate House, 220 Leicester Street
One-day course presented by Fiona Rotstein, Julia Adams and Michael Wolnizer.
IPRIA (Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia) is a joint venture between MBS, The University of Melbourne Law School and Faculty of Economics and Commerce. This one-day course on Mastering the Trade Mark System will provide participants with a sound working knowledge of the law and the practice of the trade mark system, both nationally and internationally.

For more information, download a flyer and registration form from the IPRIA website at http://www.ipria.org/

Abigail Edwards-Hart - Report from an intern with the Nossal Institute
Two weeks after I graduated with my Melbourne MBA, I went to Hanoi on a not-for-profit internship funded by Melbourne Business School and The Centre for International Mental Health. My role was to interview representatives of the National Taskforce for Community Health to gain an understanding of the demands and constraints surrounding the development of the Taskforce.  Full story

Drew Ginn, Program Facilitator at Mt Eliza Executive Education at MBS, has won the men's pairs gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic rowing competition. Ginn and his rowing partner, Duncan Free, both Australian World Champions, won the event in a time of 6 minutes 37.44 seconds - over two seconds ahead of silver medalists, Canada.

The win complements the men's pairs gold Ginn won in Athens with former rowing partner James Tomkins and the gold he won in Atlanta in 1996 as a member of the ‘Oarsome Foursome'.

"Drew's win is the result of focus, hard work, strategic goal setting and a dedication to team success. The Mt. Eliza community congratulates Drew and Duncan on an amazing result," said Mt Eliza Program Director Edmund King. Full story