Välkomna to the Swedish marketing students from Halmstad University!
After a long flight from Sweden, the 14 Halmstad University students finally arrived in Auckland on the 8th February 2011. After a briefing about their work placements from Denisa Hebblethwaite they enjoyed a lunch with the DoMM staff. The students will be performing a 3 month internship in several interesting companies such as Pure SEO, […]
Thanks to the staff of the DoMM
With this message Elodie and I will say thank you to all the staff of the Department of Management and Marketing Unitec for the warm welcome they gave us. We want to thank especially Associate Professor Robert Davis for accepting us into the department and the trust he has put in us. It is a […]
Welcome to Elodie and Pierre from Belgium, 2011.
Elodie Viaene from IESN and Pierre Jones from EPHEC are our Summer Interns. They started last week and are already a key part of our department. Elodie says “the people in the department are very nice and welcoming.” She does note though how serious the department is about its teaching, research and other activities with […]
How can entrepreneurship education drive inclusive growth and job creation?
How can entrepreneurship education drive inclusive growth and job creation?
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. […]
On Shelly Eden: DoMM Lecturer – Employment Law and Legislation
From one of our students on Shelly Eden: DoMM Lecturer – Employment Law and Legislation (with permission): “I just want to thank you for being a full on and a very good lecturer for our class in the last semester. I can say that I wish all the lecturers are like you. You are so […]
Tony Falkenstein (Chief Executive|Just Water International Limited) on Entrepreneurship
Where did your idea for a business come from? Originally I saw a high growth market, being fax machines (1987), and nobody was specialising in ‘rentals’. I followed the original Xerox rental model. Two years later I was looking for an office product to rent, and decided that water coolers’ had potential…now we have 65,000 units around Australia and […]
Merry Christmas Everyone 2010: Ngakau Mahaki (Respect)
May we reside in unity (Te Noho Kotahitanga) with respect (Ngakau Mahaki)
It's all about collaboration
Being able to collaborate better than the competition is gold in today’s globally competitive market: the most valuable differentiator; the greatest competitive advantage a firm can have; hard to copy or replicate. But such collaboration is pretty well impossible for conventional firms to achieve because the essential behaviours and attitudes are culturally alien; beyond the […]
Interesting article
Click on the link below if you want to read an interesting article. http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/
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