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Magazine. This new look presents an interesting mix of news, management practice issues, research news and alumni news.
Our aim is to create a publication that reflects the culture and core themes of the AGSM. This design has been implemented in consultation with Debra Maynard & Associates and the School has retained Debra as editor of the AGSM Magazine with day-to-day responsibility for managing content, production and distribution.
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Magazine report the changing nature of business and the wider AGSM community of alumni and corporate relationships. To this end we seek your feedback on the current design and future development of the AGSM Magazine. Please take time to read your magazine and provide us with feedback via the enclosed form, and feel free to contact Debra or myself to offer your comments or suggestions.
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Michael Walls Managing editor |
AIB heads to AGSMThe Academy of International Business( the world’ s leading global community of international business scholars) will stage its annual conference in Australia for the first time. Its 2001 conference will be hosted by the AGSM at Sheraton On The Park in Sydney from 16 to 19 November. The conference theme,‘ Looking Towards the Future’, turns its attention to the development of the Asian and Pacific Basin economies and the significance and direct impact of those developments on the world. Negotiations to bring the AIB annual conference to Australia were led by Timothy Devinney, director of the AGSM’ s Centre for Corporate Change. The conference offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to showcase the Australian business community and the School to a group that represents the intellectual elite of international business thinking, research and teaching.
The conference will feature a variety of formats including plenary sessions, competitive paper sessions, workshops, panels and poster sessions. Some 500 business scholars from around the world are expected to participate and will include luminaries from universities
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such as Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, Yale and Stanford. Other speakers include Thomas Keneally, Malcolm Turnbull, Michael Knight and a number of leading Aboriginal speakers. The AGSM will also host a gala dinner at Sydney’ s Town Hall on 19 November. The conference is sponsored by BHP, Westpac, SAS Institute, Air New Zealand and Ansett Airlines, Lion Nathan and Austrade.
Managing in Asia executive program
A one-day executive program entitled Managing in Asia will be conducted by the AGSM on 16 November. It will offer participants an opportunity to hear from a number of eminent speakers on the challenges facing managers with responsibilities related to India, China, Japan and Korea. The speakers are: George Yip, London Business School, moderator; Pradeep Khandwalla, director, Indian Institute of Management( India); Eleanor Westney, professor, MIT( Japan); Dong Sung Cho, professor and dean, School of International Management, Seoul National University( Korea); Wilfried Vanhonacker, dean, CEIBS Shanghai( China); and Tim Harcourt, chief economist, Austrade( Australian business perspective). For more information contact Anne Fitzsimmons, business manager for the Centre for Corporate Change, on Tel:( 02) 9931 9502 or e-mail: annefi @ agsm. edu. au. You can also check the Web site at: www. aib. agsm. edu. au.
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ILLUSTRATION: CAROLYN ARTHUR |