AGSM Student Society

Flat-Club is targeting top MBA alumni and students and helps them arrange mutual stays when they travel during holiday, projects, or relocation with accommodation prices up to 80% lower than hotels. Alternatively, when you travel home, you can sublet your current accommodation and make money, by finding only guests that you trust from top b-schools and your social network – friends of friends.

Flat-Club launched a year ago with 5 flats in London and now has 2,000 flats worldwide, it was featured in the Financial Times and recently won the pitching competition of TechCrunch. Continue Reading →

For this release of AGSM Star, we have decided to publish the articles as a blog instead of the usual e-magazine format. We have three different articles for this latest release, enjoy! Continue Reading →

First of all thank you to everyone who helped support the AGSM Movember efforts this past month. You can now all feel free to shave your face and no longer have to deal with awkward looks, although I understand that this may be hard because you have developed an attachment to your Moustaches!

In total AGSM raised $4,750 which is amazing and over four times our original goal! It’s a great legacy to leave as a class and it definitely went a long way in helping out an Australian charity, like Movember. Continue Reading →

It’s just one more day until the Movember party is finally here! And I thought I would send a note letting you know the schedule of events for the night.

5 pm – Doors at the ASB Lounge on the UNSW Kensington Campus. From that point you’ll be able to get some drinks and unwind from a long week of work/school. Keep in mind course you are entitled to 1 free drink with entrance ($4/alcoholic, $2/non-alcoholic beverages from there on).

5:30 pm – The catered nibbles start to come out, enjoy!

6 pm – The games commence there will be 3 different games going on:

• Poker ($10 Buy-in, Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd)
• Risk ($10 Buy-in, Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd)
• Perudo ($2 Buy-in, Prizes for the winner in each of the 4 rounds)

7 pm – Mr. And Mrs. Movember are announced and awarded their sashes and prizes – For this everyone will be able to cast votes at the party. The criteria for each is pretty wide open as long as you vote for a guy for Mr. Mo and a girl for Mrs. Mo. The tricky part comes with Mrs. Mo, whoever is announced the winner will have the privilege of have a moustache drawn onto her by our own AGSM artist, Matt Barnett, so that should be fun.

7:30 pm – The raffle starts so everyone remember to bring/buy your tickets. Just to whet your appetite here is a sampling of some of the prizes that will be raffled off:

• Bondi Dreaming Package (2 tickets to Bondi Dreaming and a bottle of wine)
• 1-hour photo session with Matt Barnett
• Date Night Package ($50 voucher to Chao Praya, 2 movie tickets to the Ritz Cinema and a bottle of wine)
• Mo Package (1 Movember Gala event ticket @ Luna Park, Movember Cuff Links, Schick Trimmer & shave cream)
• 2 tickets to Shore Thing on NYE in Sydney
• Free food, free coffees, free beers, free wine and heaps of things to enjoy

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We have another Masters of Business speaker coming up on 23rd November 2011 from 6pm, with drinks afterwards. Our guest speaker is Paul Cave, an alumni of UNSW who is best-known for founding BridgeClimb – though he has also had a very successful commercial and entrepreneurial career before that (see full bio below).

I have posted details on Facebook, so all please RSVP to the event so that we have an idea of numbers. As a bit of a trial, partners are welcome to come along to this event and if that works out, we might open future events up too.

Regards,
George Crones
AGSM MBA Class of 2012

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For the next Master of Business series, the CEO of Jetstar will be coming for a talk on 21 November 2011 at 6PM.

Jestar is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qantas and has been able to establish itself as a strong and profitable airline in a very short period of time. Bruce was instrumental in making this happen. Prior to his CEO assignment, he was at Qantas in a variety of senior management roles and he joined Qantas after working as a strategy consultant for a number of years.

Above all, the most exciting thing about Bruce’s background is that he is an MBA graduate from the AGSM itself.

In inviting Bruce we hope he can appeal to a wide variety of backgrounds and interests ranging from marketing & entrepreneurship to finance & consulting.

We look forward to seeing you at the event.

Satyendra Pandey
AGSM MBA Class of 2012

EVENT DETAILS

Speaker: Achal Agarwal, President of North Asia Region for Kimberly-Clark’s consumer business in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan
Date: Wednesday , 23rd of November 2011
Time: 12pm – 1:30 pm (refreshments and light snacks will be provided)
Location: 6th floor, ASB Lounge, UNSW Kensington Campus
Title: “Building Brands in China”

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It’s the final countdown…

TO THE START OF MOVEMBER!  Or the last time we’ll be able to shave our Mo’s.  This year AGSM is participating in Movember where we will be having individual participants on the AGSM team all trying to raise at least $100 each for the Movember charities including the Prostate Foundation of Australia, Beyond Blue (Mental Health), and the Movember Foundation (Men’s Health Issues).

If you are interested in donating or joining our team link is: http://au.movember.com/mospace/1444188/. Continue Reading →

It’s been a rollercoaster of a year – with the global economy on a downward spiral, fluctuations with the Australian dollar, industrial unrest in the tourism and manufacturing sectors, unpredictable talent markets and a surge in demand for an MBA within Asia-Pacific.

The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and Melbourne Business School (MBS) recently hosted a collaborative panel discussion event on Monday 10^th October 2011 at the AGSM, addressing the economy, career prospects and how important it is to have an MBA in today’s marketplace. The panellists appeared before an expectant audience of current MBA students, prospective MBA candidates, alumni of both schools and industry representatives.

The panel included recruitment, HR and industry experts within education, banking and finance, government and executive search, as they shared their insights into the future landscape facing MBA grads, in Australia and beyond. An engaging and well-respected ABC Business Editor, Peter Ryan was the appointed Panel Moderator for the evening. Continue Reading →

And after a close game, we have the winners!

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