I commonly hear alumni say things like "I wish I could have done that elective but it just never fit into my program" or "I took a lot of Finance electives during my MBA but now I realise I should have taken more Marketing subjects because that's the way my career has evolved". Alumni also ask me whether it's possible for them to take subjects even though it's been many years since they studied here. 

Well it's taken us a little time to find the right way but we are now able to offer our alumni the opportunity to take any of the elective subjects at the School. Electives running in the May - August period are:  Read more

With a pool of some 50 students seeking internships next term and a larger pool of just over 100 full-time students seeking roles from May, there has been much employer activity running side by side with the academic calendar this term.     Over 50 organisations have presented on campus this term in a bid to attract bright talent from the MBS classroom to join their companies.

With finals only a month away, we’re reaching out to our Alumni community to ask for your support to improve the prospects of our candidates seeking graduate roles and internships after May.  Read more

Double-dip downturn, telecommuting and edge cities

Andrew John is an Associate Professor of Economics at Melbourne Business School.  His research interests include coordination games, New Keynesian macroeconomics, pricing strategies and their macroeconomic implications, and consumer boycotts.

Prognostication is a dangerous business, particularly in economics. Indeed, economic and financial theories tend to stress the inherent unpredictability of the economic world: if I could predict with certainty what cash rate the Reserve Bank board will set at its next meeting then I would be writing this from my own personal Caribbean island.  To read more...
 

Your alumni portal is continuing to undergo changes and enhancements to support you and your career.  The Careers section of the portal has been improved to bring you a range of tools in searching for that next role, as well as providing simple-to-follow informaiton if you'd like to book a session with a Career Advisor or an Industry Consultant.

To access career tools in the alumni portal, login here and click the Career Services bar on the left-hand navigation. 

 

Hear from Garry Ridge, President & CEO, WD-40 Company and founder of TheLearningMoment.net as part of the APC Leadership Breakfast Series 2010.

Garry has a passion for learning which has been driven from his personal experience where learning was not encouraged or sought out.  Don't miss out - register now.

 

From Cicero’s ‘Rome is not a place, Rome is an idea, living in the minds of men’ to  Kennedy’s ‘We’re gonna go to the moon’ one can see that behaviour is hugely influenced by what is inside people’s heads – by ideas. Ideas are changeable, they can be more or less clear and distinct; ideas are made and transmitted.

But it is often extremely difficult to develop one’s own ideas. This five-part breakfast series looks at some central strategies of thinking – which are directed at being clear about what one thinks.  That is, about developing ideas from an embryonic or confused beginning to a clearer and more powerful maturity.   Read more and register...