Superannuation - 2 Dec 2016
Retirement redefined: As super grows up, how is it shaping up?
Just how much is needed to fund a “comfortable” retirement?
Retail - 18 Nov 2016
This is for you: How personalisation could change branding forever
With technology playing an increasingly important part in consumers’ lives, it’s important for brands to think about how they can create trust. One of the ways marketers are doing this is through personalisation.
Leadership - 11 Oct 2016
Prescott Family Foundation lecture series: What does a modern worker look like?
The way we work is in constant flux, turbo-charged by demographic, technological and social changes. What does the present world of work for the modern worker look like? What can younger people today expect from their career? What expectations do they have of their leaders?
Leadership - 22 Sep 2016
Australian nurses and midwives contemplate leaving profession as workloads bite
Australia’s nurses and midwives are overworked, undervalued and in danger of burning out, with 32 per cent considering leaving the profession, according to the bleak findings of a Monash Business School survey of nurses and midwives’ wellbeing.
Leadership - 1 Sep 2016
How neuroscience can help us give and receive critical feedback
Feedback is supposed to help us improve – so why do we hate hearing it so much? It’s all to do with how our brains work.
Sustainability - 13 Apr 2016
The (taxing) problems in the upstream oil and gas industry
The upstream global oil and gas industry is currently in crisis due to “low oil price shock”.
Leadership - 28 Jan 2016
Is social media the new employee voice?
Social media was originally designed for friends to keep in touch but it has morphed into to one of the most powerful communication tools, both inside and outside the workplace.
Retail - 15 Dec 2015
The future of retail
The retail industry has experienced a tumultuous and disruptive few years.
Behavioural economics - 16 Nov 2015
Shared intentions: How and when we learned to collaborate
Shared intentions are part of our everyday life. They range from the banal, such as “we intend to go out to dinner tonight”, to those with more far-reaching consequences like “we intend to form an alliance to defeat our common enemy”.
Economy - 28 Oct 2015
Does consuming make you happier?
Anyone who has splurged on a new pair of shoes or a new gadget can testify to the rush of satisfaction afterwards. And research proves that spending money does make you happier.
Behavioural economics - 22 Oct 2015
The link between childhood obesity and poor learning
Obesity is a global epidemic. The number of obese adults has more than doubled to 600 million worldwide since 1980, according to the World Health Organization.
Economy - 17 Sep 2015
Civil war: the real economic cost
Children exposed to civil war experience significant psychological turmoil but new research by Monash Business School shows that that struggle extends beyond the emotional impact, lowering a person’s future earning potential and damaging economies in the process.