Strengthening Alumni Ties at Home and Abroad
Our global alumni was a top priority in 2024 as we focused on strengthening our connections with them in Australia and around the world.
Our global alumni was a top priority in 2024 as we focused on strengthening our connections with them in Australia and around the world.
We refreshed our engagement approach to better cater to alumni needs in learning, networking and career development.
This includes a revamped alumni e-digest providing value-led such as interviews with business leaders, real-world applications of business theory, as well as networking events and online masterclasses that alumni can attend.
Our new approach also placed more emphasis thought-leadership content from our faculty members, such as expert commentary on business issues or articles that help demystify hot topics, to help drive connection and engagement on our website, newsletters and social media.
As a precursor to reinvigorating our alumni chapters since the pandemic, we also reconnected with our alumni in Australia and overseas through meetup events with Professor Jenny George in her first year as the newly appointed Dean of Melbourne Business School.
Jenny met with alumni in Beijing, Hyderabad, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney. Alongside reminiscing about Melbourne Business School, the meet-ups were valuable in learning from alumni how the School can continue to support their growth.
In 2024 we also relaunched the New South Wales Alumni Chapter, the first of many geographic, interest-based and corporate chapters that have been re-invigorated. Led by its new president Selwyn D’Souza (MBA 1995) the chapter had an inaugural event called ‘AI in the C-suite and Boardroom’ on 28 November that was attended by 40 Sydney-based alumni. It featured a panel discussion with C-suite leaders from consulting firms and startups and our very own Professor Andrew John, followed by networking cocktails.
Alumni also attended key Melbourne Business School events across 2024 such as:
- In Conversation with Amanda Holt | 8 May 2024
- MBA Summit: Embracing AI as a collaborative problem-solver | 28 June 2024
- In Conversation with Eytan Lenko | 29 August 2024
- The Charles Goode Oration featuring Andrew Ang | 13 August 2024
- MBA Summit: Where should leaders focus their sustainability efforts? | 18 October 2024
- The 29th Women in Leadership Dinner featuring Anna Lee, Sally Capp, Clare Morgan and Jennifer Overbeck | 19 September 2024
Alumni Evenings: A thought-provoking series to help our alumni reconnect on campus
Our Alumni Evenings series is designed to provide alumni with the opportunity to network with peers and to re-connect with the School. Faculty members delivered talks on contemporary topics, followed by networking drinks and canapes.
Four Alumni Evenings were held at Melbourne Business School campus and streamed online in 2024:
- April: ‘How should entrepreneurs balance strategy and innovation?’ by Associate Professor Kwanghui Lim along with the Co-Founders of Navi Medical and Wilderlands
- June: ‘Why your brand probably isn’t what you think it is’ by Professor Don O’Sullivan
- September: ‘Getting the most out of your professional networks’ by Associate Professor Brandon Lee
- November: ‘Mistakes were made: What I learned as a CEO by doing the wrong things’ by the Dean of Melbourne Business School, Professor Jenny George.
The event series was attended by more than 500 people, in person and online.
