Breadcrumbs List.
Business and economy
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Auckland students help firms crack Japan
6 September 2018
MBA students are working with New Zealand SMEs to crack the Japanese market.
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Cherry-picking undermines sustainability reporting
27 August 2018
Companies may be cherry-picking sustainability measures that make them look good, while huge variation in what’s reported makes meaningful comparisons across firms impossible, a new international study shows.
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VR takes property students places
13 August 2018
Virtual reality (VR) field trips are now being used to teach students about construction and leaky homes.
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Biopesticides a 'massive opportunity' for kiwifruit
31 July 2018
As consumer demand for residue-free produce rises, New Zealand’s kiwifruit industry would benefit from fast-tracking its shift towards biopesticides, a University of Auckland researcher says.
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Working for Families perversely misunderstood
16 July 2018
Honorary Associate Professor Susan St John (Economics) says Working for Families was seriously eroded by the last government and we must do better for NZ children.
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Agile at Spark a 'recipe for disaster'?
28 June 2018
Opinion: In this Newsroom opinion piece, Associate Professor Daniel Vidal (Graduate School of Management) asks if Spark's notice to staff to agree to a new "Agile" way of working is a recipe for disaster.
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Time to tackle welfare system with both hands
26 June 2018
Opinion: The Welfare Expert Advisory Group has an opportunity to turn around the harmful and ill-informed changes made to our welfare system in recent years, writes Mike O'Brien (Education and Social Work).
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How to prepare yourself for the future of work
22 May 2018
Opinion: Vaughan Yarwood (Business School) reports on issues around AI and the changing workplace highlighted in a video featuring Professor Rod McNaughton on Newsroom.
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Budget 2018: our experts react
18 May 2018
Wide-ranging comment and analysis on the 2018 budget from University of Auckland academics.
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Two degrees for sailing champion
15 May 2018
Competing on the international yachting circuit while completing two degrees at the University of Auckland wasn't all plain sailing for George Anyon.
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Student job with a difference
9 May 2018
Oliver Scott-Mackie is supporting his studies not by making coffees or labouring, but by crewing multi-million dollar boats on the international yachting circuit.
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Outstanding Māori business leaders recognised in University Awards
7 May 2018
Heading the internationally recognised Whale Watch Kaikōura, creating an online Māori warrior wahine to harness the power of gaming, and developing a financial literacy tool used by tens of thousands of students are just some of the local smarts that have been recognised among the winners of this year's University of Auckland Aotearoa Māori Business Leaders Awards.