International Blue Sky Lecture Series

As a leader in innovative thinking, we are pleased to offer a series of presentations, delivered exclusively to international students via webinar, in the comfort of your own classrooms. These sessions are presented by world-class Bond University academics who possess a breadth of industry knowledge and experience.

The lectures are available exclusively for Bond University key partner schools and institutions. Lectures are curriculum relevant and are aimed at inspiring students to think about their future ambition and the career opportunities that are available to them after graduation.

You may choose from our popular range of lecture topics (see below) or lectures can be customised* according to curriculum requirements.

Our areas of expertise include:

Business

Accounting
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Event Management
Family Business
Finance
International Business
International Hotel and Resort Management
Management
Marketing
Revenue Management
Tourism Management

Information Technology

Cloud Computing (Infrastructure)
Computer Games Software
Information Security and Assurance
IT Management
Mobile Applications
Service Frameworks
Software Systems
Web Engineering

2013 Blue Sky Lecture Series Topics

2013 BLUE SKY LECTURE SERIES
Subject Area	Lecture	Presenter
Accounting	A Career that Counts! Accounting as the language of business	Ms Jacqueline Christensen/ Ms Jan Hollindale/ Ms Tamara Zunker
Accounting	Forensic Accounting - Can computers detect financial fraud?	Professor Kuldeep Kumar and Mr Adrian Gepp
Accounting	Fraud: How to Spot it and How to Stop it	Associate Professor Ray McNamara
Accounting	It’s a Gas: Evaluating Mining for Coal Seam Gas and Shale Gas	Associate Professor Ray McNamara
Accounting	Accounting Information and the Share Market	Associate Professor Ray McNamara
Economics	Bankrupcy Prediction - Sink or swim: Can you predict who will go bankrupt?	Professor Kuldeep Kumar and Mr Adrian Gepp
Economics	Fascination of Statistics: How to stop telling lies	Professor Kuldeep Kumar and Mr Adrian Gepp
Economics	"Economics, Politics and Development"	Associate Professor Neil Campbell
Event Management	Balancing costs and benefits of the Commonwealth Games 2018	Associate Professor Mike Raybould
Finance	CEO Compensation: Understanding Why Executives Live Like Superstars	Assistant Professor Colette Southam
Finance	There is Gold in them Thar Hills: Financial Options in Gold Mining	Assistant Professor Simone Kelly
Finance	I Love it When a Plan Comes Together: Personal Financial Planning for Wealth	Assistant Professor Simone Kelly
Information Technology	Where IT and Finance meet: Artificial intelligence and the stock market	Assistant Professor Bruce Vanstone
International Business	Business Strategy: how to ensure your money-making capabilities as a company	Mr Lars Isaksson
Hotel Management	Show Me the Money: Managing Revenue in the Global Hotel Industry	Associate Professor Carmen Cox
Hotel Management	Your Hotel’s Management is Clueless, and I’ve Just Told 19 Billion People: Managing Social Media in Tourism	Associate Professor Carmen Cox
Management	Management: It's just common sense, right?	Assistant Professor George Hrivnak
Management	Responding to Workplace Bullying: Sharing Suggestions from Recent Research	Assistant Professor Jane Murray
Marketing	Consumer Behaviour: The unknown side of retail therapy	Professor Mark Spence
Tourism Management	A Whale of a Time: Managing Nature Based Tourism Operations	Assistant Professor Claudia Ollenburg
Tourism Management	Dark Tourism: Exploring death, disaster and the macabre.	Associate Professor Rob Nash
Tourism Management	Tourism and Climate Change: Managing the Threat to our Recreation and Tourism Industries	Associate Professor Mike Raybould

For more information or to book an International Blue Sky Lecture, please contact Aiko Fujino via bus.marketing@bond.edu.au or +61 7 5595 3569.

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