Academic departments
Find out more about each of the Business School's academic departments.
Accounting and Finance
One of the leading departments in Accounting and Finance in the Asia-Pacific region, the Department of Accounting is renowned for its research excellence and innovative teaching. The department is divided into three areas: Financial Accounting, Management Accounting and Finance. The department provides courses primarily for the BCom, BCom(Hons), BBIM and MCom programmes.
Head of Department: Professor Prasanna Gai
Commercial Law
As one of the largest commercial law departments in Australasia, our expertise spans all areas of commercial law, including: corporate, intellectual property and information technology, governance, insolvency, international trade, securities markets, finance, insurance, and taxation. The department runs the Master of Taxation Studies programme (MTaxS) and its popular Honours programme in taxation and commercial law.
Head of Department: Professor Tana Pistorius
Economics
The Department of Economics is one of the largest in New Zealand and ranks among the top research and teaching departments in Australasia. Staff have PhDs from some of the best universities in the world and are among the top-ranked researchers in New Zealand. They are active nationally and internationally in conferences and journal publications of their research.
Head of Department: Professor Prasanna Gai
Information Systems and Operations Management
ISOM is one of the leading departments in the Asia-Pacific region and has strong links with industry partners such as Microsoft, SAP and Oracle and many others. Our information systems and supply chain graduates are sought after by leading international and New Zealand firms. The department developed the world’s first web-based computer-supported learning system, CECIL, which is now the enterprise learning management system for the University.
Head of Department: Professor Kenneth Husted
View the Information Systems and Operations Management webpage.
Management and International Business
The Department of Management and International Business (MIB) brings together management, international business, strategy, leadership, human resource management, innovation, entrepreneurship and business growth, Māori enterprise, as well as the study of employment relations, work and organisations, and business and society.
Head of Department: Professor Kenneth Husted
Marketing
The Department of Marketing is recognised for its unique combination of breadth in knowledge, varied international research perspectives, and diverse industry experience. Known as one of the leading marketing departments in the Asia-Pacific region, it attracts world-class researchers and marketing experts, with five staff members inducted in the New Zealand Marketing Hall of Fame since its inception in 2003.
Head of Department: Professor Kenneth Husted
Property
The Department of Property draws on international expertise for its teaching and maintains strong industry links to prepare students for an exciting and challenging career in any branch of the property profession in New Zealand or abroad. Students can specialise in investment management, valuation, property management, property consultancy, property development, commercial and residential real estate, property finance and investment and market research.
Head of Department: Professor Prasanna Gai
Graduate School of Management
From a two-day short course to a two-year executive MBA degree, the Graduate School of Management is the place for aspiring and practising managers to get business-ready, performance-ready and leadership-ready. The school encompasses Executive Education, the Business Masters programmes, professsional postgraduate programmes and the MBA programme.
Director: Andrew Eberhard