UQ Business School hosts or sponsors numerous events each month. Our signature events include:
- Enterprize, UQ Business School's $100,000 business plan competition
- CEO Summit, a unique one day program for c-suite executives
- Top MBA Awards, recognising and celebrating the achievements of our top graduating MBAs each year
We also provide a workshop series featuring new research from visiting academics. For more information on our suite of professional development courses, please visit Executive Education.
2009 Calendar of Events
July
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 6-10 |
Corporate Education |
Leadership for the Not for Profit Sector: 6-10 July 2009 at UQBS Downtown |
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| 9 |
Allan Kleidon |
A Return to 19th Century Banking - with Honorary Professor Allan Kleidon |
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| 17 |
Conference |
The Annual University of Queensland Property Conference |
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| 18-19 |
TSXPO |
Saturday & Sunday at RNA Showgrownds |
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| 20 |
Research Colloquium |
Annual Research Students' Colloquium @ UQ Business School Downtown |
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| 20-24 |
O Week |
Semester 2 |
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| 23-24 |
Engaging Business Conference |
The UQ Business School is proud to host the 2009 Engaging Business Conference. Run over two separate days this event gives students the opportunity to attend "a day at university" and take part in presentations and workshops on the latest issues in the business world today. Student will also be in the running to win the coveted "Engaging Business Award" for most innovative group. |
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| 25 |
PG Assignment Writing |
Postgraduate Student Assignment Writing Skills Workshops - Bookings essential |
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| 25 |
PG Library Skills |
Postgraduate Student Library Skills Workshops - Bookings essential |
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| 26 |
PG Assignment Writing |
Postgraduate Student Assignment Writing Skills Workshops - Bookings essential |
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| 27-31 |
Corporate Education |
The Leadership Challenge: 27-31 July 2009 at UQBS Downtown |
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August
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 1 |
PG Library Skills |
Postgraduate Student Library Skills Workshops - Bookings essential |
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| 6 |
PG Library Skills |
Postgraduate Student Library Skills Workshops - Bookings essential |
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| 6 |
Employment Services |
MBA Career Management Workshop - Thursday 5.30 for 6.00pm start - 9.00pm - Fascinated by Greg Tomlinson from Greg Tomlinson Coaching |
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| 8 |
PG Presentation Skills |
Postgraduate Presentation Skills Workshops - Bookings essential |
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| 9 |
PG Presentation Skills |
Postgraduate Presentation Skills Workshops - Bookings essential |
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| 13 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 1 - Explorations Through Self Assessment, Thursday 5.30 for 6.00pm start - 9.00pm @ UQ Business School Downtown - Trevor Roberts from Edwin Trevor Roberts Associates |
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| 7 |
Workshop Series |
Professor Peter J Danaher, Melbourne Business School - Forecasting television ratings |
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| 14 |
Workshop Series |
Bruce Grundy, Professor of Finance, University of Melbourne - Title TBA |
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| 17-21 |
Corporate Education |
Financial Management at Work: 17-21 August 2009 at UQBS Downtown |
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| 20 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 2 - Career Strategy and Planning, Thursday 5.30 for 6.00pm start - 9.00pm @ UQ Business School Downtown, Trevor Roberts from Edwin Trevor Roberts Associates |
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| 26 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 3 - Managing Your Professional Search Strategy, Wednesday 5.30 for 6.00pm start - 9.00pm @ UQ Business School Downtown, Aaron McEwan from Lee Hecht Harrison |
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| 28 |
Workshop Series |
Felix Tan, Professor of Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology - Title TBA |
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September
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 2 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 4 - CV Development, Wednesday 5.30 for 6.00pm start 9.00pm @ UQ Business School Downtown, Aaron McEwan from Lee Hecht Harrison |
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| 7-11 |
Corporate Education |
Corporate Sustainability: 7-11 September 2009 at UQBS Downtown |
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| 10 |
MBA & Postgrad Expo |
Thursday 12.00n-7.00pm at Brisbane City Hall |
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| 11 |
CEO Summit |
Friday at UQBS Downtown |
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| 11 |
Workshop Series |
Sian Owen, University of New South Wales- Title TBA |
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| 11 |
Workshop Series |
Dr Gail Ridley, University of Tasmania - Title TBA |
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| 16 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 5 - From Interviews to Job Offers, Wednesday 5.30 for 6.00pm start - 9.00pm @ UQ Business School Downtown, McEwan from Lee Hecht Harrison |
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| 16 |
Information Evening |
UQ Business School MBA Information Evening at UQ Business School Downtown |
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| 23 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 6 - How to market Yourself and Your Qualification, Wednesday 5.30 for 6.00pm start - 9.00pm @ UQ Business School Downtown, Aaron McEwan from Lee Hecht Harrison |
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| 28-2 |
Corporate Education |
Strategic Marketing and Communication:28 September-2 October 2009 at UQBS Downtown |
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October
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 5 |
Employment Services |
MBA Career Panel: Speakers TBA, Monday 5.30-8.00pm, Seminar Room West - UQBS Downtown, MBA Career Panel |
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| 9 |
Workshop Series |
David Smith, Monash University - Title TBA |
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| 14 |
UQ PG Advice Night |
Postgraduate Advice Night, Wednesday at Customs House (TBC) |
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| 16 |
Enterprize Pitch Day |
Friday, venue TBC |
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| 19-23 |
Corporate Education |
Negotiation Skills for Today: 19-23 October 2009 at UQBS Downtown |
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| 23 |
Workshop Series |
Andrew Ferguson, Professor, University of Technology, Sydney - Title TBA |
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| 23 |
Workshop Series |
Jacob Sagi, Professor of Finance, Vanderbilt University - Title TBA |
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| 23 |
Workshop Series |
Dr Kai Riemer, University of Sydney - Dynamic awareness theory: Awareness in mediated communication as pools fed by streams of practice |
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November
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 2-6 |
MBA Capstone |
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| 9-13 |
Corporate Education |
Managing People, Managing Projects |
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| 11 |
Information Evening |
UQ Business School MBA Information Evening at UQ Business School Downtown |
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| 27 |
Top MBA Awards |
Friday 6.00-9.00pm at UQ Business School Downtown |
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December
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 21 |
UQ Options |
UQ Options for Undergraduates, Monday at UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
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Past Events from 2009
January
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 14-15 |
MBA Full time cohort |
Orientation on Wednesday & Thursday at St Lucia campus |
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February
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 21 |
MBA Orientation PT |
MBA Orientation for part time cohort on Saturday at St Lucia |
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| 23-27 |
O Week |
O Week Semester 1 |
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| 25 |
UG Welcome |
Undergraduate welcome, Wednesday 2.00-3.00pm at UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
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| 26 |
PG Welcome |
Postgraduate Welcome, Thursday 5.45-7.00pm at UQ Centre Lecture Theatre |
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| 26 |
Workshop Series |
Asst Professor Stefan Thau, London Business School - Treatment quality and harmful employee behaviors: The roles of self-esteem enhancement and uncertainty reduction motives |
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| 27 |
Seminar |
Professor Mats Alvesson - Organizations as rhetoric. Knowledge-intensive firms and the struggle with ambiguity: A retrospective account |
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| 28 |
PG Skills Workshop |
Postgraduate Presentation Skills Workshop on Saturday 9.00am-12.00n at Room 103 Colin Clark Blg No 39. Presenter, Barry O'Sullivan |
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| 28 |
PG Skills Workshop |
Postgraduate Library Skills Workshop on Saturday 1.00-3.00pm at eZone3 Level 2 Duhig Blg No 2. Presenter Dale Drysdale |
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March
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 1 |
PG Skills Workshop |
Postgraduate Presentation Skills Workshop on Sunday 9.00am-12.00n at Room 103 Colin Clark Blg No 39. Presenter, Barry O'Sullivan |
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| 6 |
Workshop Series |
Kelly Chan, University of Technology Sydney - Accounting-based composite market multiples and equity valuation |
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| 7 |
PG Skills Workshop |
Postgraduate Assignment Writing Skills Workshop on Saturday 9.00am-12.00n at Room 116 Level 1 General Purpose North 4 Blg No 14. Presenter, Bernard McKenna |
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| 7 |
PG Skills Workshop |
Postgraduate Library Skills Workshop on Saturday 1.00-3.00pm at eZone3 Level 2 Duhig Blg No 2. Presenter, Dale Drysdale |
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| 8 |
PG Skills Workshop |
Postgraduate Assignment Writing Skills on Sunday 8 at 9.00am-12.00noon at Room 116 level 1 General Purpose North 4 Building No 14. Presenter, Bernard McKenna |
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| 9 |
PG Skills Workshop |
Postgraduate Library Skills Workshop on Saturday 4.00-6.00pm at eZone3 Level 2 Duhig Blg No 2. Presenter, Dale Drysdale |
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| 10 |
Seminar Series |
Seminar with Mats Alvesson & Jorgen Sandberg - Ways of generating research questions: Gap-spotting or problematization? |
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| 13 |
Workshop Series |
Michael Ryall, Associate Professor, Melbourne School - Causal ambiguity, complexity and capability-based advantage |
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| 20 |
Workshop Series |
Sudipto Dasgupta, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Debt reclassifications under revolving facilities: Determinants and real impact |
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| 20 |
Workshop Series |
Sukanto Bhattacharya, Postdoctoral Fellow, UQ Business School - An artificial neural network-based analytical review procedure for detection of manipulated datasets |
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| 20 |
Workshop Series |
Bob McDonald, Associate Professor, Texas University - Toward competence retention: The role of triangulated isomorphism as a threat to competence efficacy |
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| 27 |
Workshop Series |
Shigero Ono, Professor, Otsuma Gakuin University, Japan - A new aspect of diversification and a strategic action on it |
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| 30-3 |
Corporate Education |
Innovation Leadership 30 March - 3 April 2009 at UQBS Downtown campus |
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April
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 1 |
UQ Careers Fair |
Wednesday 11.00am-4.00pm at UQ Centre |
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| 3 |
Workshop Series |
Dirk Hovorka, Bond University, Gold Coast, Title TBA |
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| 3 |
Workshop Series |
Janet Spitz, Professor, Faculty of Business, College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York - Ideology and Business globalizations: Bounding Free Trade? |
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| 6 |
Workshop Series |
James R Barker, Professor, Waikato Management School, NZ, Journal targeting and paper conversion |
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| 15 |
Alumni Event |
UQBS Alumni Association Private Viewing of Margaret Olley's Life's Journey Exhibition |
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| 17 |
Workshop Series |
Andrew Stephen, Lecturer, Columbia University, USA - Deriving value from social commerce networks |
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| 21 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 1 - Explorations Through Self Assessment, Tuesday 5.30pm at UQ, Trevor Roberts and Associates |
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| 24 |
Brown Bag Presentation |
The Relative Importance of quantitative and qualitative Capital Investment Appraisal Techniques in Hotels: 24 April 2009 |
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| 28 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 2 - Career Strategy and Planning, Tuesday 5.30pm at UQ, Trevor Roberts and Associates |
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| 27-1 |
Corporate Education |
Valuing Human Capital: 27 April - 1 May 2009 at UQBS Downtown |
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| 30 |
Seminar |
Queensland - Emerging Stronger: Chris Rodwell, Qld Director Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) |
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May
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 1 |
Workshop Series |
Sandra Wallace, Lecturer, Department of Accounting & BIS, University of Melbourne - Non-linear influences of price competition on cost accounting system sophistication |
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| 1 |
Workshop Series |
Clive Warren, Associate Professor, UQ Business School - Title TBA |
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| 5 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 3 - Managing Your Professional Search Strategy, Tuesday 5.30pm, UQ, Zanetti Recruitment Consultants (ZRC) |
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| 7 |
Corporate Education Info-Evening |
Invitation to Corporate Education Information Evening on Thursday 7 May 2009 from 6pm - 8pm at UQ Business School Downtown, Level 19 Central Plaza One, 345 Queen Street, Brisbane. |
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| 8 |
Workshop Series |
Mark Borman, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, A multi-dimensional framework to assist in the design of successful shared service centres |
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| 12 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 4 - CV Development, Tuesday 5.30pm, UQ, Zanetti Recruitment Consultants (ZRC) |
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| 12-14 |
CeBIT Australia |
UQ Business School is proud to sponsor CeBIT's premiere networking event Innovation Nation. |
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| 15 |
Workshop Series |
Professor Joey George, College of Business, Florida State University - Treatment quality and harmful employee behaviors: The roles of self-esteem enhancement and uncertainty reduction motives |
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| 15 |
Workshop Series |
Nicolae Garleanu, University of California, Berkeley, USA - The demographics of innovation and asset returns |
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| 18-22 |
Corporate Education |
Strategy in Action: 18-22 May 2009 |
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| 19 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 5 - From Interviews to Job Offers - MacGillivrays Solicitors |
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| 22 |
Workshop Series |
Jeff Coulton, University of New South Wales, Corporate payout policy in Australia and a test of the life cycle theory |
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| 26 |
Employment Services |
PG Career Management Workshop Series - Session 6 - How to market your qualifications to the business community - Rio Tinto |
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| 27 |
Corporate Education |
Industry Breakfast with Professor Mark Dodgson "Understanding Innovation" at UQ Business School Downtown, Level 19 Central Plaza One, 345 Queen Street, Brisbane. |
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| 28 |
Information Evening |
UQ Business School Postgraduate Information Evening |
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| 29 |
Workshop Series |
Ed O'donnell, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, USA - Increasing consistency in audit risk assessments: An intervention for remediating contrast bias |
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| 29 |
Workshop Series |
Kevin Voges, Associate Professor, University of Canterbury, NZ - Rough clustering of destination image data using an evolutionary algorithm |
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| 29 |
Workshop Series |
Ray Zammuto, Professor, UQ Business School - Untangling the effects of cultural content, strength and hierarchical subcultures on change implementation |
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June
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Link |
| 4 |
Corporate Education Event |
Enhanced Supply Network Management Summit - UQ Business School Downtown. Registration required. |
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| 4 |
Supply Network Management
Summit |
UQ Business School presents a one-day supply network management summit to debate issues confronting senior executives managing domestic and international supply networks. Participants will learn how to align their business models to achieve optimum performance and how to prepare for the future in an environment characterised by uncertainty. |
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| 5 |
Workshop Series |
Michael Turner - WORKSHOP CANCELLED |
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| 5 |
Workshop Series |
Neal Stoughton, Professor University of New South Wales - Intermediated investment management |
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| 10 |
Buzz with Business Conference |
This conference is an initiative of Education Qld, Business Educators Association of Queensland and the UQ Business School. The conference is open to all year 10s not just those currently studying business. |
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| 15-19 |
Corporate Education |
Women Executive Leaders: 15-19 June 2009 at UQBS Downtown |
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| 16 |
Business Plan Writing Workshop |
FREE Business Plan Writing Workshop, Tuesday 16 June 2009 4pm-5.30pm in Joyce Ackroyd Boardroom (37-430) |
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| 30-3 |
Asia FA Conference |
Asia FA International Conference, Tuesday 30 June - Friday 3 July 2009 at St Lucia campus |
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