The controversy ignited by the Australian National University in October, when it decided to sell its shares in seven resources companies, has raised two important questions about divestment from assets such as fossil fuels.
1 December 2014The world’s biggest iron ore producer, Vale, has announced its intention to expand production despite a falling price. This follows similar announcements by Rio Tinto and BHP.
10 November 2014As part of its program to cut red tape and bureaucracy, the Australian government is set to repeal the 100-member rule.
30 October 2014Miners do much more than extract minerals and make profits. All over the world mining corporations are collaborating with governments, local populations and NGOs. Their logos, mottoes and CEOs seem to pervade the news media, including the social...
30 October 2014The Economist has ranked Õ¬Äе¼º½â€™s Master of Business Administration as the number one MBA program in Australia and the Asia Pacific region for the third year in a row.
10 October 2014Budding entrepreneurs can grow their business ideas from seed, with ilab’s intensive three-month ilab Germinate 6 program, which includes up to $20,000 in funding.
1 October 2014University of Queensland students Christopher Heard and Wayne Chan have won the newly established Matthew McLennan and Richard Howes Outstanding Honours Collaboration Scholarship.
18 September 2014Global food systems can no longer rely on “business as usual”, according to an internationally renowned economist visiting Õ¬Äе¼º½ this week. ...
18 August 2014Queensland start-ups are to benefit from a new $10 million early stage investment fund.
12 August 2014From dating to dieting, from music to sports, economics can be used to explain just about anything, according to award-winning economist Dr Andrew Leigh.
14 July 2014Topics ranging from primary school performance analysis to the effect bad loans have on bank efficiency will be on the agenda at a conference at Õ¬Äе¼º½ from 8 July.
4 July 2014Leading economist and Harvard Professor Dale W. Jorgenson will discuss Australia’s position in the world economy at a public lecture on 8 July.
4 July 2014Future international business leaders will be able to gain a double postgraduate degree – one from Õ¬Äе¼º½ and one from a top European business school – under a newly launched innovative program.
14 May 2014If necessity is the mother of invention, then frustration must be its father because that is what drove entrepreneur and University of Queensland engineering student Paul Knittel to develop a visual on-line tool for website designers.
29 April 2014Queensland's three Brisbane-based universities - QUT, Õ¬Äе¼º½ (Õ¬Äе¼º½), and Griffith University - will host a Global Business Challenge set to become a cornerstone event in the G20 program.
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