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Master of Business Administration (MBA) alumna and PhD student Claire Cunningham shares the firsthand insights she gained during her trip as part of The University of Queensland (UQ) MBA Global Immersion Tour program, and why she’d recommend the program to others.

The latest celebrity-chef-linked wage-theft scandal, with the high-end restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in Melbourne allegedly underpaying its staff by A$4 million, is the tip of the iceberg for wage exploitation in the hospitality industry.

Online shopping, extended trading hours and supermarkets – despite all the odds, our family-run corner stores are showing good service will always be in demand.

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A lengthening list of celebrities are helping to shine a spotlight on Australia’s bushfires, but there’s also a downside. If that interest is superficial and fleeting, it may actually hinder recovery efforts in disaster-ravaged regions.

Conservationists don’t always agree about the best ways to reinforce the protection of nature. Debates about it can become confrontational. But at the heart of the issue is how to include more people in conservation efforts.

Valley-goers looking for a quick meat-free bite will have another option on Brunswick Street, with the northern expansion of a well-known franchise, Lord of the Fries.

There are numerous research studies that show unequivocally that students in single-sex schools benefit academically from a learning environment free from gender stereotyping, unconscious bias and social pressure.

The initial cohort of a first-of-its-kind program at The University of Queensland has celebrated its graduation as a tight-knit unit.

As we move through The Fourth Industrial Revolution, robots could soon be able to socialise, communicate and empathise with humans.

We already know there is more pressure on women than men to look a certain way in many workplaces. Often it involves spending more time getting ready in the morning, and more money on hair, clothes and make-up. It's a gender bias that some women understandably conform to — largely research tell us looking good helps us get ahead at work.

A national education campaign like the widely successful “Slip, Slop, Slap” sunsmart movement is needed to reverse old-fashioned sexism in Australian households, with young girls still doing traditional ‘women’s work’ like cooking and cleaning.

Australians heading overseas are ignoring potential health risks out of a desire to escape reality through travel, according to University of Queensland-led research

After an extensive and competitive process which saw The University of Queensland (UQ) receive 42 applications from around the world, three PhD candidates have now been awarded scholarships to begin research into some of the most pressing issues facing Australia’s ecotourism industry.

For the first time since the extraordinary boom of the 90s Japanese travellers are flocking to Queensland in a renaissance worth almost half a billion dollars to the state’s tourism industry.

The need for research to have an application that meaningfully impacts business or community was on the agenda recently for a workshop hosted at The University of Queensland (UQ) Business School.

Most Australians want both sides of politics to commit to a good policy-making process, even though parties clash on values and goals. However,  the overwhelming majority of federal and state legislation examined failed to answer many if not most of such “Right to Know” information.

Marketing technology (MarTech) has radically changed the way that we interact, track, engage and learn about customers. A new generation of marketing software is using machine learning and AI to drive marketing automatically with minimal configuration, just like a self-driving car.

Professor Mark Dodgson and Professor David Gann discuss the importance of needing strong strategic leadership at universities for them to flourish in their latest blog on the The World Economic Forum.

Could the secret to setting effective goals and achieving them be to think about sailing? Learn how setting your sails can help you stay the course to success.