Events
UTS and the Business School host a diverse range of professional development, thought leadership and informal events in Sydney and across the globe.
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Upcoming events
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Past events
UTS Ageing Research Collaborative webinar series - Australia’s ailing aged care system and how we can significantly improve the quality of ageing for allTuesday 5 April 2022 Populations are living longer than ever before, with Australia forecasting a doubling of citizens 85 and older, and costs moving from 1.2% of GDP ($23.6 billion per year) to 2.1% of GDP. These trends are increasing the demand for health and personal care, appropriately skilled workforces and ageing-suitable environments – and will have significant social and economic consequences. The delivery of quality, affordable aged care is currently challenged by a series of sector problems that are multi-stakeholder, interdependent, and systemic. Solving this requires transdisciplinary research where collaboration drives integration between users, practitioners, government, and multiple research disciplines. The big question then is – how can this be enabled? UTS has established an Ageing Research Collaborative to do just this. Bringing together academics, research experts, industry leaders, health and aged care providers and government, the collaborative is adopting a holistic approach to solving these complex and fundamental issues in order to significantly improve not only the system, but the ageing experience for ourselves and future generations.
For the first webinar we invite you to join a panel of health industry leaders for a discussion on how collaboration between practice and research will address one of the big societal challenges we currently face – how do we deliver quality aged care in Australia in a financially sustainable way? Panellists:
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UTS Business School - Stanford Australia Foundation Partnership "Anti-corporate Activism and Corporate Social Responsibility" with Stanford Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Sarah SouleThursday 17 February 2022 In this exclusive webinar, Professor Sarah Soule discusses anti-corporate activism, once thought to be mainly spearheaded by people outside of a firm, is increasingly being driven by insiders (e.g., employees, shareholders, and even CEOs). But do these activities actually influence corporate behaviour? From her ground-breaking and diverse research, Professor Soule provides an overview of this question, as well as practical advice to leaders on how to engage activists productively. About the speaker - Professor Sarah Soule Professor Souleis a guest of UTS and his talk is part of a unique partnership between the UTS Business School and the Stanford Australia Foundation. |
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UTS Business School - Stanford Australia Foundation Partnership “Dying for a Paycheck – How modern management harms employee health and company performance – and what we can do about it” with Stanford Professor, Jeffrey PfefferFriday 3 December 2021 Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of 15 books in the fields of organization theory and human resource management and his current research focuses on the effects of work environments on human health and well-being, power and leadership in organizations, evidence-based management, the knowing-doing gap, and how thinking of time like money affects people’s choices about spending time in ways that promote unhappiness. In this webinar and from his 2018 book of the same name, Professor Pfeffer contends that many modern management practices are toxic to employees—hurting engagement, increasing turnover, and destroying their physical and emotional health—and to company performance, as he offers ways to build human sustainability at work. Professor Pfeffer is a guest of UTS and his talk is part of a unique partnership between the UTS Business School and the Stanford Australia Foundation. |
"What Today's Business Leaders Are Expecting From Business Schools"Tuesday 23 November 2021 The challenges facing businesses and business leaders has never been greater. Disruptive changes from the pandemic, technology and economic and social structures mean business leaders are challenged like never before to steer their organisational objectives. From these challenges (and opportunities), how are business schools preparing the next generation of business leaders? Are business schools educating students from Australia and around the world to be career-ready, innovative, technologically savvy, and socially responsible? Hosted by the UTS Business School Dean, Professor Carl Rhodes, the webinar featured a panel of acknowledged Australian business leaders:
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Tenfold Australia and UTS Business School Social Impact and The Role of Business18 June 2021 The expectations on business are undergoing an unprecedented transformation as society demands corporations take greater responsibility for social and environmental challenges. This has led to corporations not only looking to maximise shareholder value, as has been the previous focus, but act in a manner that benefits society by adopting measurements and policies that promote the well-being of society and the environment, while lessening negative impacts on them. As the demand increases on businesses to become more socially conscious, business schools – especially globally - are starting to follow suit and consider the next generation workforce. Panellists:
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UTS Business School - Stanford Australia Foundation Partnership “The First 100 Days of the Biden Presidency” with Stanford Professors A. Michael Spence and David Brady27 April 2021 After his first 100 days in office, how has President Biden fared? Is his administration on track to deliver its campaign promises in responding to the pandemic, healthcare, racial equality and foreign relations? Is it moving to implement rapid and progressive social change or will it follow more cautious and moderate policies? In this exclusive webinar for UTS, Professor David Brady and Professor A. Michael Spence draw from their extensive research and analysis to discuss the Biden Administration’s first 100 days. |
UTS Business School - Stanford Australia Foundation Partnership "The Making of an American President" with Professor David Kennedy (Professor of American Studies, Stanford University)9 February 2021 Professor David Kennedy discusses the evolution of the US Presidency and explore changes in the nature and attributes of the office of the president: its place in American constitutional architecture, its operational functions, and its relation to American political culture. Kennedy argues that a “near-perfect storm of converging forces...has converged to wallop the American political system with cyclonic energy in the first years of the present century”. These include social and economic forces, innovations in mass communication, the decay of traditional institutions, such as freedom of speech, and an emerging culture of distrust that have put significant pressures on the US Presidency to be a different kind of institution from that envisaged by the Constitution. In this exclusive webinar for UTS, Professor Kennedy drew from his extensive interdisciplinary research and analytical insights in American Studies, which combines the fields of history, literature, and economics. |
"Are women leaders better than men? So, why aren’t there more?" panel discussion28 January 2021 We have more women in paid employment today than ever before. Nevertheless, the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirms that men continue to substantially outnumber women in almost all senior leadership positions across the public and private sectors. Despite the noticeable under representation of women at senior levels in the workforce, some argue women are just as good, if not better, leaders than men? But if they are, why are there not more women leaders? What barriers are there to limit more women becoming successful leaders? What can be done by individuals and organizations to improve the workplace for women (and men)? Join our panel of business leaders to discuss the ongoing issue of gender equity in our workforce and explore if women leaders better than men? Our Panel:
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UTS Business School - Stanford Australia Foundation Partnership Engine of Impact - Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Non-Profit Sector with Bill Meehan15 October 202 In this exclusive webinar for UTS, Bill Meehan drew from his extensive research and analytical insights on non-profit management to help equip leaders to unleash the full potential of organisations in the non-profit sector including the seven essential components of strategic leadership that set high-achieving organisations apart from the rest of the non-profit sector. Together, these components form an “engine of impact”—a system that organisations must build, tune, and fuel if they hope to make a real difference in the world. William F. Meehan III is the Raccoon Partners Lecturer in Strategic Management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company. As a faculty member of the Center for Social Innovation and Public Management Program, he has taught the popular course “Strategic Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations and Social Ventures” for 20 years; developed a pioneering course, “Private Equity in Frontier Markets; ” and continues to teach “Managing Difficult Conversations” and Social Ventures Practicum.” As a Faculty Director, he helped launch the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED). Earlier, he was instrumental in creating the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford GSB. Mr. Meehan was a senior partner for over 30 years at McKinsey & Company, where his focus was working with chief executives on strategy, organisation and leadership, including mentoring many new CEOs in shaping their leadership agendas. In addition to his service to clients, he held many leadership roles with the Firm. This event was brought to you through the UTS Business School - Stanford Australia Foundation partnership. |
Reconnected: A Community Builder's Handbook29 September 2020 Why Australians need social connection and community, and how to create it Friends are good for your health. The strength of your social relationships is a remarkably good predictor of how long you will live. Strong social connections also make communities more resilient – as Australians have discovered during the COVID-19 pandemic. But overall we have fewer close friends and local connections than in the past, and more of us say we have no-one to turn to in tough times. How can we turn this around? Join UTS Business School's Economics Professor Peter Siminski in conversation with Reconnected Authors Andrew Leigh and Nick Terrell as they discuss what works when it comes to community-building, and how Australians are finding new ways to connect in the twenty-first century.
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UTS Alumni Awards (2020) UTS Aluminated with Madhavi Shankar - Using Technology for Social Good15 September 2020 The UTS Aluminated series features our trailblazing 2020 Alumni Award recipients. They offer insights into their professional achievements, challenges they have overcome, and the secrets to their success. Join 2020 UTS Alumni Award (International), Madhavi Shankar (Co-founder and CEO of networking platform SpaceBasic, as she discusses her entrepreneurial journey and the hard lessons she’s learnt along the way, her passion for advancing women’s opportunities and the responsibility of being named one of the top 30 women transforming India today. |
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UTS Alumni Awards (2020) UTS Aluminated with George Savvides AM - A Career in Leadership11 September 2020 The UTS Aluminated series features our trailblazing 2020 Alumni Award recipients. They offer insights into their professional achievements, challenges they have overcome, and the secrets to their success. Join 2020 UTS Business School Alumni Award winner George Savvides AM (MBA 1985) for a discussion on the business of health and his 25-year career leading some of Australia's largest healthcare organisations. |
UTS Business School - Stanford Australia Foundation Partnership “Unstable American Politics and the 2020 Election” with Professor David Brady (Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)29 July 2020 In this exclusive webinar for UTS, Professor Brady drew from his extensive research and analysis on the electoral basis of political instability in the US; its effects on polarization and gridlock in the policy arena; and offer his insights for what we may see from the next US President. This event was brought to you through the UTS Business School - Stanford Australia Foundation partnership. |
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UTS Business School - Stanford Australia Foundation Partnership The World After the Pandemic – Convergence or Divergence? with Professor A. Michael Spence23 June, 2020 In this exclusive webinar for UTS, Professor Spence discussed:
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Indigenous Business in a Post Covid-19 Economy22 June, 2020 In this interactive workshop, we'll explore the impact of Covid-19 on the economy in general, and on Indigenous businesses in particular. We'll look at how each sector has been impacted including domestic and international markets and supply chains, and explore the ways Indigenous businesses have responded and adapted for the short, intermediate and long-term future. Panel:
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Life After Lockdown – Kindness after lockdown17 June 2020 Lockdown has brought out the best and worst of human nature. We’ve seen fights over toilet paper and acts of generosity and kindness in the same day. For some, isolation was an opportunity to enjoy the simple pleasures around home and our community. For others it's caused significant strain and hardship, impacting all parts of life, from finances to mental health. Panel:
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Life After Lockdown – Caring through a crisis11 June 2020 For the 854,300 family and friend informal carers in NSW, the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing measures have resulted in unique challenges, but also unique opportunities, especially in areas such as telehealth and the NDIS. Panel
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Life After Lockdown - Art after lockdown10 June 2020 The arts industry has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, with the April shutdown of galleries, theatres, festivals and venues bringing the sector to a standstill. Artists and creative industries are resourceful and innovative by nature: well-experienced in making much out of little. But will artists and arts organisations be able to survive this new economic challenge? Panel:
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Life After Lockdown - Corporate Purpose2 June 2020 In a post-COVID-19 world, is Corporate Purpose an essential part of building stronger and more inclusive businesses, or is it a luxury business can no longer afford? Panel:
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