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Professor Davis and Dr Gruen discuss Australia's financial system at #mef2014

The Bennelong Foundation provides a scholarship to study the BCom. Designed to relieve the financial pressure of attending University, its inaugural recipient Claire Zheng talks about its benefit.

Laura Good at the Centre for Workplace Leadership discusses her research which shows many people who work in the retail industry generally refuse to report sexual harassment from customers.

Melbourne Business School student Alda Prawitera was recently named as the recipient of the Deputy Dean's Award in Leadership and Excellence. This is a recording of her acceptance speech. #MBS #graduation #unimelb #busecomelb #leadership

Prof Samson spoke to the BBC about the Economic and Social Outlook Conference hosted by the Melbourne Institute and The Australian this week.

The Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne speaks about the contribution of the Melbourne Institute to Australia over the past 50 years.

After completing the final exams of the Master of International Business, University of Melbourne student Archit Chanana decided not to launch headlong into the graduate job application process. Instead, he travelled to Africa where he worked with ambitious Kenyan entrepreneurs, helping them grow businesses that make a positive social impact. #socialentrepreneurship #socialentreprise #socialchange

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Melbourne Institute research looks at what educational penalty's there are for smoking cannabis

The advertising and marketing industry uses seven tactics to garner legitimacy for its industry and its creative work, research at the Faculty reveals.

Roger Wilkins, Associate Professor at the Melbourne Institute speaks about the research on Australia's disability payment scheme that is contained in the September edition of the Australian Economic Review

Recently awarded the prestigious IZA prize in Labour Economics, Professor Hamermesh sat down with B&E to outline why academics should speak to the media

Australia spends $4.6 billion a year on private health rebates. Dr Terence Cheng discusses his policy brief on the options for Australian policymakers. Log onto melbourneinstitute.com for more from the Policy Brief series

Associate Professor Chris Ryan discusses flaws in the Gonski report. This is the second publication in the Melbourne Institute Policy Briefs Series, benews.unimleb.edu.au for more research and news from the Institute

First in the Family scholarship recipient Emad Zarghami relates the journey he and his family have been on.

Twice named on the Forbes Top 30 under 30 list, founder of a company that has created an entirely new marketplace with a client list that ranges from NASA to Allstate, Melburnian, FBE alum and Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom speaks to B&E.

Dr Heilke Buddelmeyer & Kyle Peyton discuss their research that shows economic stimulus money was spent on gambling but Carbon Tax compensation was not. This is the first working paper from the Institute in 2013

Jürgen W. Schneider, Regional General Manager at Siemens has been involved in the career mentoring programme since it began 10 years ago. Listen to him talk about the benefits for mentors and mentees.

Professor Ross Garnaut AO, Professor Cai Fang, Institute of Population Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor Xiaobo Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute and others gathered at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on 13th July for a Melbourne Instiute Forum to discuss Sustaining China's Growth in an Uncertain Global Economy #Australia #China #economy #MelbourneInstitute

The Unimelb SIFE team were finalists in the Championship round at the National SIFE conference. Listen here to a sample of their presentation to 45 judges and assembled guests at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne in July 2012

The HILDA report was released this week and Associate Professor Roger Wilkins was interviewed by ABC

Associate Professor Roger Wilkins on the release of the HILDA report . Log onto the Melbourne Instiute to download the report

GSBE student Cameron McKenzie-McHarg is part of Australia's team for the men's eight rowing. He will be providing an audio diary before and during the Olympics for B&E readers. Here in his first entry he describes the prep with three weeks before London 2012

GSBE student Adam Spencer was awarded a scholarship for outstanding performance in the Master of Economics. The value of the scholarship was the registration fee for the ADC Future Summit, which took place in Melbourne on the 14th and 15th May. Here Adam speaks about the summit.

"After the Great Recession: Recovery or Stagnation?" was the title of a public lecture at The Spot by Prof Dale Mortensen. This is the first part of this lecture.

"After the Great Recession: Recovery or Stagnation?" was the title of a public lecture at The Spot by Prof Dale Mortensen. This is the second part of this lecture.

At the recent Melbourne Institute Intergen conference, Professor Pagan questioned the forecasting ability of the Treasury in what was a heated debate. The Treasury brought this recent Senate economics committee meeting to our attention. It sheds light on what happened after the conference. Speaking first is committee member Senator Barnaby Joyce, followed by Dr. David Gruen of the Treasury.

Dr Brent Coker speaks about his research that has created a Branded Viral Movie Predictor algorithm to create the a successful viral video. Log onto B&E news for more details of this research.

Come to this talk about microfinance given by a former student at this Faculty. Date, time, venue: May 17th, 5.30pm -7pm, ICT Theatre 3, ICT Building – refreshments provided

Professor Pagan outlines his opinion of the Intergen reports and budget forecasts, an opinion that is strongly rejected by the Treasury's head of macro economomics David Gruen