Social media marketing can lead to major bottom line returns. Yet the vast majority of SA businesses have to date been under-prepared to capitalise on these new marketing possibilities. ...more

Stellenbosch University’s new journalism centre promises to deliver professional, ethical media workers who can tell Africa’s story. “An informed society is an empowered society. We need quality journalism to advance human development in Africa,” says Prof Lizette Rabe, who heads the University's journalism department. ...more

A leading South African researcher and academic in the field of information communication technology (ICT) policy, Dr Alison Gillwald, has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the UCT Graduate School of Business. ...more

Sharp strategy, great coaching and inspirational leadership might sound like a formula for footballing glory but they also make for outstanding organisational leadership, says Janine Everson, director of the Strategic Leadership through Coaching course running at the UCT Graduate School of Business. ...more

Change the way you think, change the world. This is the underlying philosophy of the new Full Colour Thinking positioning of the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) and the platform for a new short-course launching in September which is designed to shake up leadership in SA, create inspiring leaders and boost innovation. ...more

"American psychologist Daniel Goleman has suggested that soft skills – or the combination of competencies that determine an employee’s ability to manage his or herself and work successfully with others – are far more important than IQ or technical (hard) skills in determining career success in similarly qualified individuals,” explains UCT GSB academic Brian Kleinsmith. ...more

Africa Day will be marked with a guest address by Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu on Africa's contribution to the world and a panel discussion on the challenges of Africa's business development. This will be led by the USB’s Prof Wolfgang Thomas, who has lectured extensively on Economics and Doing Business in Africa. and streamed live via the USB website between 14:00 - 18:30.
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The Postgraduate Diploma in Management focusing on Event Management, which is run through Customised Academic Learning (CAL) at the UCT Graduate School of Business, has received a major boost with four new clients signing up for 2010 – the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Westin Grand Hotel, Winchester Mansions Hotel and event technology company AV Alliance, will all send staff on the customised programme this year. ...more

Richard Chivaka, newly appointed as an Associate Professor at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB), says the business school is the perfect place for him to explore his passion for research and teaching on emergent markets. Chivaka's areas of focus are supply chain management and strategic cost management. ...more

The UCT Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) has appointed award-winning Associate Professor Dr Ralph Hamann as its new Research Director. Hamann will add significantly to the GSB’s endeavours to grow research in emergent markets and sustainable business. ...more

Ensuring that employees have the appropriate skills is crucial to the growth and success of a business, but in the context of continued belt-tightening, Return on Investment (ROI) is a major focus for top management. ...more

The UCT Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) shares good news regarding its research for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). ...more

With a view to helping Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) improve their competitiveness, the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) is inviting organisations in or close to the city precincts to participate in their Company Analysis programme. ...more

Milpark Business School (MBS) and the Institute of Bankers in South Africa (IOB) recently renewed the Service Level Agreement (SLA) between them with positive results for MBS. ...more

The UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) has teamed up with Cape Town’s only public arts festival, Infecting the City, to present an event that aims to change minds and lives through the power of knowledge. ...more

Milpark Business School has recently entered into a formal agreement with Harbin Normal University in the People’s Republic of China. The agreement will see the two institutions work continue to work closely together. This will includes students from China coming to South Africa to experience her people and culture first-hand while they improve on their English language abilities. ...more

New global research has revealed that women are increasingly defining the entrepreneurial economy and will create 70 percent of the global growth in income at the household level over the next five years. “Women have a bigger role to play at the level where executive decisions are made,” says Dr Marjolijn Dijksterhuis. ...more

Could a class of full-time MBA students raise R130 000 in three weeks so that they could build a house as part of the Habitat for Humanity project? “Yes we can!” was the message from this year's GSB MBA class. ...more

The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago was an indicator that the communist system is a failure. However we have now also seen the worst that liberal capitalism has to offer. "Is it not now the time to look at business and politics from a different paradigm?” This was the question posed by Professor Walter Baets at the Emergent Market Business Conference. ...more