Otago MBA Blog

• Guest Speaker: Dave Butler-Peck from Trade Aid

  Students from Otago MBA 35 got a taste of Trade Aid's history, vision and famous milk chocolate at yesterday evening's presentation by Dave Butler-Peck – a man who has worked with the organisation for the last 3 years and has a strong belief in Trade Aid's mission. Everyone in the audience was inspired by the story of Vi and Richard Cot...
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• High Praise for Marketing Faculty

  Otago MBA Marketing Lecturer, Associate Professor David Ballantyne, and colleagues Dr John Williams and Dr Rob Aitken, from the Department of Marketing were special issue editors of the Industrial Marketing Management (IMM) special issue, which contains the revised versions of papers presented at Otago Forum 2 hosted by the University of Otago Scho...
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• NBR Audacious 2011 Launch

  The NBR Online Audacious competition is back for another year. Its official launch party is this Thursday, 31 March at 5.30pm in the School of Business Atrium. To kick-off this year‟s competition Hamish Pinkham, founder of Rhythm and Vines, will be the guest speaker at Thursday night‟s event, letting you in on the secrets of how to tak...
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• Dunedin Young Professionals Business Breakfast

  Dunedin Young Professionals (DYP) are hosting a Business Breakfast on March 31 in association with Otago MBA. At the event, Dunedin Mayor, Dave Cull, will speak about the challenges and opportunities facing Dunedin. DYP is an incorporated society set up to create professional networks and a circle of friends for people who have chosen to start the...
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• Cruising on the Otago Harbour

  10 March 2011 Otago MBA 35 recently took time out from Term One studies to get on the water for a cruise on the local Dunedin tourist vessel, the Monarch. The evening cruise around Otago Harbour provided a great opportunity to see the beauty of the Dunedin's natural landscape as well as some well relaxation from hectic Term One studies.  Stu...
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• ALUMNI 2011: Leveraging experience

  MOVING FORWARD At the start of 2010 we undertook to contact as many Otago MBA alumni as possible. As a result, we produced this plan to develop the alumni network now and into the future. This is what alumni have told us they want to see: Protection and development of the Otago MBA brand Being kept up to date with cutting edge thinking and de...
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• Mentor Programme Launch 2011

  The Otago MBA Mentor Programme was launched for 2011 at the School of Business on Thursday 24 February.  The event was attended by students, their mentors, staff, alumni and guests from the Dunedin Business Community in the foyer of the department of Executive Programmes. Organiser of the Mentor Programme, MBA Business Networks Manager, Tris...
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• Pacific Fibre names MBA 26 Alum as CFO - charged with chasing $US350m

  Pacific Fibre has appointed its first CFO: Otago MBA 26 Alum, Michael Gleissner. Company co-founder Lance Wiggs told the National Business Review that Mr Gleissner would be "responsible for driving the process to raise the estimated US$350 million required to build the cable." Mr Gleissner comes to Pacific Fibre from Sealord Group,...
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