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  • International visitors to the Tourism Management Division

    Posted on December 10, 2014

    The Tourism Management Division in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences recently hosted two international visitors. Prof Jarkko Saarinen from the University of Oulu in Finland and Dr Alessandro Inversini from the University of Bournemouth in the UK shared their expertise with the...

  • Three PhD oral defences for the Tourism Management Division

    Posted on December 03, 2014

    The Tourism Management Division successfully hosted three PhD (Tourism Management) oral defences in October 2014.

  • Physical evidence of service on campus

    Posted on December 03, 2014

    Marketing Management students had the opportunity to examine two excellent examples of physical evidence, one of the so called 7 Ps of marketing, on the University of Pretoria’s Hatfield Campus. The evidence was found in none other than buildings on the campus.

  • Best Professor in Human Resource Management

    Posted on November 14, 2014

    Recommendations regarding suitable candidates for the awards are made by experts from across the world. The criteria are based on personal information, students’ perception, graduated students’ opinion and the positions that candidates occupy in their organisation.

  • Allan Gray awards top academic achievers

    Posted on October 31, 2014

    Allan Gray hosted an Academic Achievement Awards Function at the University of Pretoria to award academic excellence in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and to interact with the top academic achievers.

  • The building industry: It’s a matter of taking responsibility

    Posted on October 29, 2014

    Green building brings together a vast array of practices, techniques, and skills to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impacts of buildings on the environment and human health. There is big interest all over the world from the construction industry, architects and quantity surveyors to design...

  • The power of ‘like’ – social networks analysis

    Posted on October 29, 2014

    International researcher Prof Holger Lütters, a professor from the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft in Berlin, Germany, presented an insightful guest lecture to the Marketing Management honours class on ‘The power of “like” – social networks analysis’.

  • Faculty gets a new leader for teaching and learning

    Posted on October 01, 2014

    Prof Johan Oberholster, currently the CA Programme Manager, has been appointed as the new Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, with effect from 1 October 2014 to 31 December 2016. Prof Oberholster will continue in his position as CA Programme...

  • Conventional thinking versus integrated thinking: A duel!

    Posted on September 19, 2014

    The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) hosted a roundtable discussion with the theme “Conventional Thinking vs. Integrated Thinking: A duel!”. Mr Paul Druckman, CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council, and Judge Mervyn King was part of the...

  • Research Focus: Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives: Profit by non-financial motivators

    Posted on April 14, 2014

  • Research Focus: Elections 2014: Wake up to sociological reality

    Posted on April 07, 2014

    It would be a mistake to draw conclusions about prospective election outcomes without considering the political-economic realities

  • Research Focus: Three reasons to question Earnings Per Share

    Posted on March 19, 2014

    Prof Johannes de Wet, Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria, says analysts and other users of financial statements should be wary of the pitfalls of reported Earnings Per Share (EPS) performance.

  • Research Focus: Reap the fruits of mega-events

    Posted on March 10, 2014

    Long-term competitiveness is not a given when a tourism destination is offered the once-off opportunity to host a major international event. However, when the mega-event is driven by a broader event strategy, managed by an appropriate and able leadersh

  • Research Focus: Personality Across Ethnocultural Groups in South Africa: So similar yet different.

    Posted on March 04, 2014

    So similar yet different! This is the conclusion of a research team representative of five local and foreign universities published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

  • Research Focus: Send in the Perfect Business Rescue Practitioner

    Posted on February 25, 2014

  • The GRULAC group of countries visit the Faculty

    Posted on November 26, 2013

    A two day conference, with participants from several Southern American countries, took place at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences during October 2013. The event was between the Group of Latin American and Caribbean (GRULAC) countries and the

  • Research that pulls the rug from under our feet

    Posted on July 25, 2013

    Prof Stella Nkomo, Deputy Dean Research and Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and Prof Jenny Hoobler, Associate Professor of Management in the Department of Managerial Studies, College of Business Administration, at t

  • Staff and students join hands in the Winter Warmer blanket drive

    Posted on June 27, 2013

    The staff and students of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences once again joined the Winter Warmer blanket drive in 2013.

  • An Acting Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning appointed in the Faculty

    Posted on June 25, 2013

    Prof Niek Schoeman, a former staff member of the Department of Economics, has been appointed as Acting Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning with effect from 1 July 2013 for a period of six months.

  • G20 Youth Forum 2013

    Posted on April 09, 2013

    Representatives of the University of Pretoria will take part in the G20 Youth Forum 2013. The G20 Youth Forum, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 17 to 21 April 2013, is the largest international civil society event organised for young leaders in 201

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