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Sourcing Value is a boutique consultancy founded five years ago by Partners from top tier strategy firms including McKinsey & Co., The Mitchell Madison Group and Deloitte. Three of the four founders completed their MBA at the AGSM and we interviewed one of them (Brad McBean) to understand how Sourcing Value came to be, what they do, and how the AGSM MBA continues to contribute to their success. ... read more

The achievements of an illustrious and diverse group of Australian School of Business™ alumni and faculty members were recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours List. ... read more

An Australian company is taking supercapacitor technology to the world using an approach borrowed from tenpin bowling ... read more

Avoiding the perils of “groupthink” was a keen consideration when selecting a branch committee to establish AGSM’s Sydney Alumni Branch earlier this year, according to the inaugural president Andrew Mencinsky. ... read more

AGSM has produced some of Australia’s most prominent business leaders, and it has also helped produce its most (mis)leading comedian. ... read more

Six outstanding graduates from AGSM and UNSW Faculty of Commerce and Economics (FCE) recently featured in BRW’s Fast 100 list of Australia’s fastest-growing businesses. ... read more

In modern business, the non-executive director is more likely to be in his or her 40’s or 50’s with a portfolio of jobs than a former chief executive in his 60’s, imparting wisdom in retirement. ... read more

7 AGSM alumni named as Australia’s leading entrepreneurs ... read more

Brad Walsh has had an accomplished career as a research scientist, but says that the scientist in him “doesn’t get a lot of air-time” since he started his own biotechnology venture, Minomic. ... read more

Derek Myers has had several offers to either merge with competitors or sell his company, and while that may make sense from a “pure return perspective” it is his passion for running his own business which prevents him from taking that step. ... read more

Jennifer Cordingley learned her trade in large advertising agencies but the experience also showed her a gap in the market she has successfully filled with her boutique business Brand Marque. ... read more

David Nevell has been a mechanical engineer and has had a career in middle management and now, after doing an MBA (Executive) at AGSM, he has become an entrepreneur. ... read more

AGSM’s Alumni Mentor Program is a unique feature of the School’s MBA (Executive) program. It serves two purposes: first to provide support for learning syndicates that enable final year MBA (Executive) students to direct their own learning and development; and second, to engage alumni to contribute back to AGSM and to the students who follow them. ... read more

Joining a great company or hooking up with a leading brand is no longer the key criterion for the savvy knowledge worker when assessing his or her next career move. ... read more

Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) is in George Lawson’s genes. So it was natural for him to move into that sector as an entrepreneur after completing his MBA. ... read more