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When women make up 30% of boards that’s when it starts having an impact. Mavis Wong

July 11, 2018

‘Network contagion’ is key to getting healthier numbers of women on company boards

Michael Gilding, Swinburne University of Technology; Dean Lusher, Swinburne University of Technology, and Helen Bird, Swinburne University of Technology

The only predictor of boards reaching 30% female directors is if it has a director who sits on another board that has already met the target.

Australian manufacturing can provide the “silver sliver” - or the high-value - part of world goods. Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

July 26, 2015

Chasing the ‘silver sliver’: making sure innovation doesn’t slip through our fingers

Beth Webster, Swinburne University of Technology and Michael Gilding, Swinburne University of Technology

Australia has the frustrating distinction of repeatedly producing world-beating ideas - only to lose them overseas. Why can’t we hold onto what we invent?

Offering rewards for medal-winning performances didn’t help Australia’s swimming team. AAP Image/Dean Lewins

August 13, 2012

Swimming Australia’s incentive model was a failure: fact

Michael Gilding, Swinburne University of Technology

Three weeks before the Olympics, Swimming Australia imposed a new “high-performance” funding model on its swimmers, reportedly to “see medallists rewarded”. The timing made it difficult, even unpatriotic…

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