Earlier in the year I was privileged to be asked by the University of Western Australia Business School to present to a group of visiting MBA students from the Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia. The talk had similar content to one given earlier in the year to students from the University of Alberta, however, with a bit more of… Read this post →
Earlier this year I was honoured to present a guest lecture to a group of MBA students from the University of Alberta visiting the University of Western Australia. Both states have major resource industries - oil sands for Alberta and mining and gas for Western Australia - so there was substantial interest in comparing the strategic approaches of both industriues.… Read this post →
I'm really pleased to tell you that a team of University of Western Australia (UWA) MBA students has won a prestigious international competition about applying sustainable development principles to the mining industry - the Schulich International Case Competition, this year with finals in Canada, associated with the PDAC conference. The team consisted of Matthew Horgan, Jessica Harman, Jessica Volich and… Read this post →
This week's Strictly Boardroom column on MiningNewsPremium.net with Allan Trench compared the strategic approaches of the oil and mining industries. A recent visit by a delegation from the University of Alberta, Canada, who were steeped in the state's oil-sands industry, to The University of Western Australia's Business School (a more, but not exclusively, mining-orientated place) facilitated discussion of approaches to… Read this post →
