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Can smells influence what you buy?

Using scent strategies to nudge consumers toward more wholesome food options is an under-explored opportunity to improve public health outcomes.

Pay transparency helps close gender gap

Many countries are legislating for pay transparency through mandatory audits, reporting, and gender-neutral job classification systems. Why isn’t NZ?

Needed: more midwives, better supported

Many NZ midwives feel professionally “invisible”, which contributes to a lack of support from healthcare bodies and threatens their health and safety.

Career tips for tomorrow's accountants

A career in accounting offers a world of possibilities for graduates with strong interpersonal skills – and AI won’t be changing that any time soon.

AI in teaching and teaching

As part of Techweek 2024, AUT Business School and the AI Forum NZ hosted a panel of academics who are forerunners in using AI in learning and teaching.

Why aren’t Australian churches taxed?

Should churches be offered an uncapped exemption from income tax when there are questions about how appropriately their profits are used?

“Difficult” or “difference-making”?

AUT Business School Dean, Professor Kate Kearins, explores a central question: How to help turn difficult conversations into difference-making dialogues?

Newbies don’t know what they don’t know

The first 90 days on the job can be stressful, but there are practical ways for employers to help newcomers thrive, writes Helena Cooper-Thomas.

AUT algorithm predicts unlikely NFL pick

An algorithm developed by an AUT economics professor is predicting an unlikely pick for the forthcoming National Football League (NFL) draft.

From ‘fad’ to ‘fab’ – Wendy Thompson Q&A

AUT alumna Wendy Thompson, co-founder of Thompson Spencer, a full-service global creative & media advertising agency, shares her remarkable career journey.