2024
Articles
15 February 2024
Lifelong learning with Associate Professor Kudzai Kanhutu
A passion for social justice led Associate Professor Kudzai Kanhutu naturally towards medicine. Her desire to pursue even bigger goals was the catalyst to undertake a Global Executive MBA.
14 February 2024
Sydney University's MBA ranks first in Australia
The University of Sydney Business School's MBA is the highest new entrant in the prestigious Financial Times global MBA rankings.
13 February 2024
Football triumphs and financial heightsÂ
From the football field to investment banking, Yanni Plataniotis' journey underscores the power of persistence, passion, and seizing opportunities.
08 February 2024
Smartphones mean we're always available to our bosses. 'Right to disconnect' laws are a necessary fix
Availability creep has led to significant unpaid overtime which "takes workers away from a fair day's work for a fair day's pay", writes Associate Professor Chris F Wright for The Conversation.
05 February 2024
Optimism key to greening the global financial system
The transition away from fossil fuels requires a significant and global shift towards sustainable investment, and institutional investors are key.
05 February 2024
How value adding is AI for strategic transport planning? Is AI Intelligent or simply a descriptive information dump?
Professor David Hensher reflects on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative-AI (G-AI), in strategic transport planning, discussing its adaptability to diverse and unpredictable future scenarios, highlighting concerns about the limitations of G-AI in predicting situations with high divergence and emphasizing the need for utilizing hidden data not captured by AI.
30 January 2024
After a lifetime studying superannuation, here are 5 things I wish I knew earlier
As a person closing in on retirement, I admit I had no idea in my 20s how much my future, and the futures of those close to me, would depend on my superannuation savings, writes Professor Susan Thorp for The Conversation.
29 January 2024
Anti-social media: What can be done to stop platforms from driving democratic societies apart?
Platforms designed to captivate our attention can foster environments where mental health deteriorates, political divides widen, and extremism finds fertile ground, writes Professor Uri Gal for ABC Religion & Ethics.
18 January 2024
Beyond GDP: Mental wealth readies societies for mega-threats
World-leading experts from industry, science, health, technology, and economics gathered in Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss how nations can overcome the global challenges to true prosperity including war and climate change.
08 January 2024
Autonomous Vehicles: Friend or Foe (or both)?
Abdullah Zareh Andaryana, Michael Bell, and Mohsen Ramezani provide an overview and critique of autonomous vehicles.