News
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
The School of Management Studies launched an open source textbook that introduces first-year students to marketing but with a lens on the local marketplace. It uses local case studies and approaches theory in a localised way. Marketing to South African Consumers developer-in-chief, Dr James Lappeman, the head of projects at the UCT Liberty Institute of Strategic Marketing, spoke about their transformational approach with UCT News.
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Wed, 17 Feb 2021 - 10:30
Why do people watch movies and documentaries about murder? What is it that intrigues them about the genre? Is there an evolutionary element to it? Voyeurism? Or is it about survival? During his two-day Summer School lecture, “Murderers: We can’t take our eyes off them”, Gilad Stern, a management consultant and lecturer in the School of Management Studies, drew on expert research and provided his views to begin answering these questions.
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Mon, 01 Feb 2021 - 15:45
A comprehensive new e-library focusing on tobacco taxation and illicit trade has been launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Knowledge Hub at the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (REEP) in the School of Economics. A project two-and-a-half-years in the making, it is set to be a valuable resource for students, researchers and policymakers across the globe.
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Mon, 01 Feb 2021 - 15:15
Just three months before graduation season was due to begin, the UCT community received an In Remembrance notice with devastating news: 42-year-old Mike Abia, who was studying towards a PhD in information systems, had passed away after being ill for some time. His wife, Shuvai Abia, will accept the degree, which is the fulfilment of a lifelong dream, on his behalf.
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Mon, 14 Dec 2020 - 09:15