The University of Queensland Business School's Master of Business Administration has been ranked 14th in the world in The Economist's 2013 MBA rankings.
MBA students from The University of Queensland Business School have been helping to build links with one of the world’s fastest-growing markets on a pioneering trip to India.
Dr Rand Low, a Finance Tutor at UQ Business School, has received a highly-competitive Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from The University of Queensland for 2014.
School of Tourism researcher Dr Jan Packer was one of just eight researchers across The University of Queensland to receive a 2013 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award during this year’s Research Week.
Since the Australian Crime Commission report into Organised Crime and Drugs in Sport was released in February the issue of drugs in sport has been at the forefront of Australian Media and the subject of much public debate.
Recently James Packer commented that the Chinese middle class is going to change the world and that Australia’s flagging tourism industry can be saved by large casinos. He warned that Australia can’t rely on its natural beauty alone and a lot of Chinese tourists like man-made attractions as well as natural attractions.
With the cost of living and petrol prices increasing dramatically over the past decade, the idea of saving as much money as possible at the bowser is of huge importance. However with increased competition and the introduction of discount dockets by major chains the true best value is often unclear.
Nearly two-thirds (62%) of Brisbane businesses surveyed in the 2012 Brisbane Innovation Scorecard have made at least one significant innovation in the past three years.
In 1946, Charles Bean, Australia’s official WWI historian, wrote of the ANZAC spirit that “Anzac stood and still stands for reckless valour in a good cause, for resourcefulness, enterprise, fidelity, comradeship and endurance that will never own defeat”.
Only three per cent of CEOs of top Australian companies are women, making it one of the lowest rates in the Western world. But surprising data uncovered by UQ Business School’s Dr Terrance Fitzsimmons about what it really takes for a woman to become a CEO, offer clues as to what needs to be done to raise the numbers of women at the top.
Happiness levels over a lifetime in Australia, Britain and Germany. People are at their happiest at retirement age and their most miserable in their geriatric years, a new study has found.
A report by the Education and Health Standing Committee of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly has identified Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) as the leading cause of non-genetic, intellectual disability in Australia and the Western World.
Online commerce is booming, but the evolving nature and application of new technologies presents numerous challenges for the courts, businesses and law makers. UQ Law academic Dr Alan Davidson is helping Australia to take the lead in adopting a law which will change the way the world does business.
Dr Jan Packer is on a mission to capture the elusive ‘visitor experience’, pioneering a new tool that will enable researchers to quantify experiences at cultural sites and events.
Banning biker gangs and criminalising membership of outlaw motorcycle groups will not be an effective way to combat organised crime says legal expert Dr Andreas Schloenhardt of UQ's TC Beirne School of Law.