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A decade of women supporting women in business
30 October 2020
The Business School’s Women’s Mentoring Programme celebrated its ten-year anniversary this month with an enthusiastic gathering of past and current mentors and mentees, and a new name.
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Serious scientific fun a winner at Velocity
29 October 2020
A clever and fun piece of technology that allows children to take scientific measurements of the world around them has won the Social Entrepreneurship Category of the Velocity $100k Challenge.
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Healthcare-centric rostering service wins Velocity $100k Challenge
22 October 2020
A software platform called RosterLab, designed to produce the perfect hospital staffing roster, has been named overall winner at the 2020 Velocity $100k Challenge.
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Kiwis need safe credit under Covid
19 October 2020
Opinion: In a time of increasing economic hardship we need to talk about debt and let people know predatory loan sharks are not the only option, writes Claire Dale.
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Looking to the stars with your feet on the ground
15 October 2020
Opinion: The space sector is one where technological marvels are widely celebrated. This creativity is inspiring, but it also has drawbacks, writes Nicholas Borroz.
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Are Covid lockdowns dictatorships by stealth?
15 October 2020
Opinion: Australia and New Zealand have shown that democracies can be just as successful as the most autocratic regimes in combating Covid-19, writes Gehan Gunasekara.
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Heart Healer app a winner
9 October 2020
A group of students who created an online tool for employees struggling during the work-from-home lockdown, have placed top in New Zealand, in this year’s MYOB IT Challenge.
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Marketing students get hands-on with HubSpot
7 October 2020
Marketing students at the Business School are getting skills-based and industry relevant learning thanks to a partnership with HubSpot Academy.
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Business School student sails into top spot in Blues Awards
30 September 2020
Bachelor of Commerce student Brianna Reynolds-Smith has been named Sportswoman of the Year in the 2020 Blues Awards for her achievements in sailing in an announcement today.
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Take care, it’s daylight saving time
26 September 2020
The biannual routine of changing your clock by one hour can induce yawns - both physical and metaphorical - and negatively impacts on accident rates according to research from the University of Auckland.
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What the pandemic means for our SMEs
24 September 2020
Opinion: One silver lining to the Covid pandemic is that small and medium-sized firms are now effectively 'on notice' as to risk. Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor explains.
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Are we facing a digital dystopia? Nobel Laureate Jean Tirole sounds a warning
24 September 2020
How transparent should our life be to others? Modern societies are struggling with this issue as connected devices, social networks, ratings, artificial intelligence, facial recognition, cheap computer power and various other innovations make it increasingly easy to collect, store and analyse personal data.
