Are you struggling to get full time work? Well, you're not alone...

Professor Mark Wooden writes in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand that Australians are finding it harder to find full-time work. So more people are taking second part-time jobs. unimelb.me/3TN4Rpi

🍃 We're dedicated to embedding sustainability principles across our Faculty. From supporting student clubs to pioneering research on gender bias and poverty alleviation, we're progressing towards a more sustainable future 🌍

Read our 2023 PRME report → unimelb.me/3VMQcx2

📸 A picturesque photo of The Spot! Home to The Faculty of Business and Economics University of Melbourne 💙 💙

Our Parkville campus came alive in a burst of colour yesterday for our Holi Festival! We wish all our students, staff, alumni and broader community happiness and prosperity this Holi 💙

We're excited to announce alum Dylan Alcott AO announced the new DAF Scholarship in partnership with FBE University of Melbourne.

His organisation aims to remove barriers and provide equal opportunities for students living with disability.

Read more → unimelb.me/3IC5wED

👏🏼 Congratulations to the 2024 Alumni of Distinction Award winners 🏆 The Awards recognise the achievements of alumni in their chosen profession, and who have made a considerable contribution to University of Melbourne and their communities → unimelb.me/4cuAhJJ

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Do you have a great startup idea or the passion to bring one to life? 🚀 Bring your business idea to life at the Business & Economics UniMelb 2024 UniMelb StartUp Pitch Competition!

👉 No experience needed
👉 Open to #UniMelb students
👉 Register by 17 March → unimelb.me/3wMjXnb

Do you have a great startup idea or the passion to bring one to life? 🚀 Bring your business idea to life at the Business & Economics UniMelb 2024 UniMelb StartUp Pitch Competition!

👉 No experience needed
👉 Open to #UniMelb students
👉 Register by 17 March → unimelb.me/3wMjXnb

New research explores the transformative role of marketing in challenging inequalities and improving healthcare in First Nations communities, highlighting the importance of First Nations voices in guiding strategies for health and wellbeing.

→ unimelb.me/49PrIqQ Dilin Duwa Indigenous Business Leadership

Around the world, women entrepreneurs & fund managers receive a tiny fraction of investment capital despite delivering superior returns. This #IWD2024 underscores the enormous potential ROI from backing women, says Prof Rosemary Addis AM.

Read more → unimelb.me/3uZZmey

Last month, Professor Sandra E. Black (Columbia University University) presented 'Where does wealth come from?' where she discussed the substantial increase in wealth inequality over the recent decades.

Tap through to watch the 2024 Downing Public Lecture → unimelb.me/49wWfK5

Opinion piece: It's time for boards to get serious about impact 🍃

Rosemary Addis says that while many corporate boards see the need to engage with environmental and social issues, they’re falling short on reforms that put people and the planet first → unimelb.me/3UR9xwu

Excited to share our latest publication in HEC Editors. Our findings suggest raising PHI coverage is not an effective strategy in reducing waiting times in public hospitals in 🇦🇺. Full insights here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/he…
Yuting Zhang Business & Economics UniMelb Melbourne Institute

New research by Melbourne Institute and Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) has found that the birth of a first child reduces household income and increases the risk of disadvantage.

What steps as a nation can we take to prevent it?

Tap through to read more → unimelb.me/48qPYOP

With declining full-time job opportunities and cost-of-living going up, young Aussies are living with their parents for longer.

🔗 unimelb.me/498zOul

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Reminder! Join us at 9am CET/7pm AEDT today (Thursday 15 February) for the next in the Bonn-Melbourne Seminar Series in Decision Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry with Vassilis Cutsuridis! Business & Economics UniMelb Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn University of Lincoln, UK
go.unimelb.edu.au/ogj8