ON July 20, 5,000 citizens from New York and surrounds gathered in Manhattan to consider six concept plans for the rebuilding of Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan, following the terrorist attacks of September 11 last year.
DESPITE recent speculation, news of WA media celebrity Basil Zempilas’s departure from radio station 6PR may have been exaggerated.He hosts 6PR’s Baz and Barra breakfast show with fellow Channel 7 personality Adrian Barich.
RECENTLY released statistics from the Australian Tax Office show that companies account for only 5 per cent of the total number of taxpayers, but more than three-quarters of total income.
AS long as Australia persists with the current unfair dismissal laws, unemployment is likely to remain high, according to a recent report by the Centre of Independent Studies.
CORPORATE collapses and the fairly new buzzword of triple bottom line accountability are changing the face of MBA programs.The fallout from the collapses in Australia and abroad has raised the question of responsibility.
MURDOCH University MBA students have beaten other WA universities to win the WA round of the Boston Consulting Group Business Strategy Competition for the second consecutive year.
UNIVERSITY of WA Master of Business Administration graduates still command the highest completion salary, according to data from the Good University Guide to MBA and Graduate Management Programs in 2003.
THE combination of new legislation and a broad advertising campaign has put the Australian Defence Forces onto the front foot in many Australian workplaces.
A REVIEW of the Commercial Tenancy Agreements Act (1985) foreshadowed by the State Government is threatening to negatively affect the value of retail property in WA.
DEVELOPMENT is scheduled to re-start at Port Kennedy south of Perth following the assignment of the project rights to Western Australia Beach and Golf Resort (WABGR).
PUTTING a sense of history into a new brand helped build Dome Coffees’ franchising success.The coffee seller was created with the idea of going to a franchise and had developed its operating systems accordingly.
THE benefits of a strong, recognisable brand go beyond just the immediate sales bonuses it brings to a company.One way to increase the brand’s value comes through extending its use into other product lines.
FINDING an attractive way to get your message across is becoming easier by the week.An increasing number of corporate communications professionals are setting up as ‘one-man-shows’, although that description is not actually very appropriate.
THE latest trend in kitchen design, the open-kitchen, is bridging the gap between consumers and chefs by effectively making the traditional back-of-house area an integral part of the front-of-house design.
IN the midst of the company reporting season and with the wreckage of major listed companies still fresh in their memory, shareholders are calling for greater corporate disclosure.
THE growing popularity of master funds and wrap accounts has been one of the main themes of the managed funds industry over recent years.Westpac CEO David Morgan acknowledged as much when he announced the purchase of BT Financial Group last month.
INSURANCE companies must bring profitability back into their core business or risk facing the wall, delegates at an insurance industry conference in Perth were told last week.
INEFFICENT government taxes are adding to the high premiums already paid by policy holders, effectively discouraging many people from taking out insurance, according to Royal & SunAlliance managing director Michael Wilkins.