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Analysis: Billionaire entrepreneurs can make for bold businesses but often with fewer checks and balances

Analysis: Billionaire entrepreneurs can make for bold businesses but often with fewer checks and balances

by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 4, 2025 | media and events

Published in The Conversation. Richard White, head of WiseTech Global, is the latest of a small number of charismatic business founders to have captured the public and corporate imagination. The businessman is synonymous with one of Australia’s most successful...
FactCheck: Pauline Hanson’s ‘worst’ per capita recession claim is mostly false

FactCheck: Pauline Hanson’s ‘worst’ per capita recession claim is mostly false

by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jan 8, 2025 | media and events

Published by George Driver for AAP FactCheck. Senator Pauline Hanson has claimed Australia is experiencing its worst per capita recession in history, but economic figures stretching back more than a century show things have been worse before. The country recently...
Event: Gendered enterprise and women and Australian business history

Event: Gendered enterprise and women and Australian business history

by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Nov 25, 2024 | media and events

One of the nice things about working on DECRA is that you are encouraged (compelled?) to develop a community of colleagues in your area. To this end, in early 2023 I held a workshop collating new work on Australian women in business history. I have very fond memories...
Podcast: Conversations for a Brave New World, Women in Corporate Leadership

Podcast: Conversations for a Brave New World, Women in Corporate Leadership

by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jul 4, 2024 | media and events

Recorded for Conversations for a Brave New World. Conversations for a Brave New World is produced by the Gender Network (feminist, gender and queer research and practice) at CSU. We bring global, national and local issues about gender to the Central West. Each month,...
Profile: How the Big Four firms have ‘infiltrated’ top corporate boards

Profile: How the Big Four firms have ‘infiltrated’ top corporate boards

by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jun 19, 2023 | media and events

Published by Helen Trinca and Joe Lam for The Australian. The boards of Australia’s Top 100 companies are heavily populated by people drawn from the ranks of professional service firms, with almost 25 per cent of directors with multiple seats coming from the Big Four...
Event: Women and Australian business history

Event: Women and Australian business history

by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jan 27, 2023 | media and events, updates

Happy new year! As we ease back into work, I have been busy on two tasks: first, preparing for a new session teaching Diversity and Inclusion (this time for a very strong group of postgraduates). Second, I’ve been working on final preparations for my DECRA...
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