UTS Business

06/05/2026

🙌 Well done to the UTS Case Team on another great performance! Last month, QBE Insurance Australia tasked UTS Case Team students with a real-world business problem - developing strategies to address the biggest disruptors in the Australian general insurance industry, including climate change, geopolitical shocks, AI and changing regulation.

🥇Congratulations go to the 1st place team of Liv Coxsedge, Kapilan Kuruparan, Harshil Vyas and Jasmine Kalantar!

🥈 Congratulations also to the 2nd place team of Luella Green, Julieanne Luu, Gigi Tsai and Sanam Maharaj!

👏 Well done to all involved!

29/04/2026

🙌 Delighted that the UTS Business Building has been named one of Australia’s 50 greatest buildings (besides the Opera House) by Sydney Morning Herald Traveller! Affectionately known as the “crumpled paper bag”, it has been home to our faculty since 2015. A big thank you to architect Frank Gehry for your unique vision 👏

15/04/2026

🏆Another trophy for the UTS Case Team! Last month, UTS Business students Erin Chow, Peter Gitman, Zacharie Smith and Maria Moutopoulos competed in the 2026 Corvinus Undergraduate Business Experience in Budapest, Hungary against 15 university teams from Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania.

🏅 The competition involved three consulting cases including a 24-hour case advising Allianz Technology Hungary. In a great result, the team placed 1st in their pool in the 24-hour case and fourth overall.

Congratulations to the team and all those involved!

27/02/2026

Alex enrolled in a business degree to build economic security. He ended up on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos. When Alexander Cheng started his Bachelor of Business at University of Technology Sydney, he was looking for tools to create financial mobility for himself. What he found was something bigger, a space to test ideas, explore social entrepreneurship and start asking what business could actually do in the world.

During his time at UTS, Alex launched the UTS Enactus chapter, joined the UTS Hatchery program and travelled to Norway with the UTS Case Team.

Since graduating, he's led Australia's largest professional LGBTQ+ mentoring program, co-founded Careers in Colour, a platform supporting culturally and linguistically diverse professionals in building more inclusive workplaces and served as a Board Observer at the Sydney Theatre Company.

Now, he's been selected as one of just 150 Schwarzman Scholars from nearly 6,000 applicants worldwide, earning a fully funded place in the Master of Global Affairs at Tsinghua University.

"It's business, but it's also culture, it's technology, it's creativity, it's design, it's all those things that come together to play a part in building the world you want to see." That's the kind of business education we believe in at UTS.

Read Alex's full story - https://www.uts.edu.au/for-students/experience-uts/business/alexander-cheng

UTS Alumni

UTS Business graduate Alexander Cheng shifted from corporate pathways to social entrepreneurship, founding Careers in Colour and earning a Schwarzman Scholarship.

09/12/2025

👏 🥉 Congratulations to Team UTS who came 3rd at the 2025 Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge finals in Las Vegas! Well done to team members Matthew Beard, James McQueen and Caleb Cumarasamy for their wonderful efforts over the 3 days of competition.

🙌 Another big cheer for Matthew Beard, who also achieved 2nd place in the individual competition! It was a great achievement in his first year in the competition.

The Las Vegas event was the exciting conclusion of a year of hard work, enhancing Excel skills, in this competition between universities from across the globe.

If you’re interested in joining the team next year, contact Lecturer Leonardo Fernandez from the Finance Discipline.

You can also follow the team on LinkedIn to find out more: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uts-excel-esports-modelling-team/posts/?feedView=all

30/10/2025

🏛️ 🏢 🏫 Did you know that this Sunday 2nd November, the UTS Business Building will be one of 50 exclusive sites open to the public as part of Sydney Open 2025? You’ll have the chance to visit many Sydney buildings that are rarely open to the public.

On Sunday, visitors can view the oval classrooms, lecture theatres, level 8 external balconies, the level 12 boardroom featuring cloud-shaped lighting and more.

It’s also a great time to celebrate the Frank Gehry-designed Business Building, affectionately known as the “crumpled paper bag” building, as it reaches its 10-year anniversary this year.

👉 Discover the full Sydney Open program and start planning your day: https://www.sydneyopen.com.au/program/

27/10/2025

🎉 🙌 Congratulations to the UTS team who won the NSW Finals of the 2025/2026 CFA Institute Research Challenge last week! Well done to team members Lauren Bailey, Oliver Buchanan, James McQueen, Max Miller and Hrish*ta Nariani for their wonderful efforts.

This annual global competition involves building real-world skills in financial analysis, specifically valuing a stock, writing a research report and presenting recommendations.

All the best for the next round of the competition, when they compete in the sub-regional finals in March 2026!

21/10/2025

🎉 🏆 Congratulations to the many clubs and societies from the UTS Business School that achieved success at the recent Activate UTS awards! Well done to the big winner of the night, UTS Women in Business who were awarded ActivateUTS Club of the Year, and one of their executives, Emily Pich, who was awarded Executive of the Year!

Other amazing wins:
🔹 Sustainability Alliance of Students and Staff (SASS) received one award for Social Good and another for Innovation
🔹 Consulting Club and the UTS Business Society, both received Innovation Awards
🔹 MBA Nexus, shortlisted for Rookie Club of the Year

🙌 We’re very proud to celebrate this wonderful year for our clubs and societies and the opportunities they provide for students to grow personally and professionally while building their networks.

We can’t wait to see what they achieve in 2026!

20/10/2025

🙌 A great finish to the competition year for the UTS Case Team!

Last week, Mila Nikolic, Kayla Monaco, Liv Coxsedge and Matthew Whitney represented UTS at the 2025 Lazaridis International Case Competition hosted by Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, joining 11 top universities from Asia, North America and Europe.

📈 The team placed 1st in their pool in the main 12-hour case, a strategy for Asian expansion for Canadian retailer Roots. Their strategy, presented to Canadian business leaders including the CFO of Roots, proposed expanding into South Korea and included immersive in-store experiences and promotions, AI-driven styling tools and making online shopping more sustainable.

🏅 The team was also awarded Most Spirited School, recognised for their engagement and connections with fellow competitors, faculty and organisers both in person and online.

👏 Thanks to the UTS Business School, UTS Accounting Discipline Group and Associate Professor Nelson Ma for their support and guidance.

Congratulations to the team!

10/09/2025

🎉 Congratulations to the UTS Case Team on another strong international performance, this time at the Oceania Case Competition sponsored by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) at the University of Auckland - Waipapa Taumata Rau!

Last weekend, two UTS: University of Technology Sydney teams competed against 10 teams from top Australian and New Zealand universities to develop consulting solutions to real-world business problems.

🏆 Business students Joshua Wilson, Luella Green, Jessica Rosario and Brayden Grant placed equal 2nd for the 5-hour case by designing a strategy for property giant Goodman Group New Zealand to ride the e-commerce wave via micro-fulfilment centres and strategic partnerships.

In addition, Joshua collected the Best Speaker award, impressing industry judges with his responses to challenging questions, and it also marked Luella, Jessica and Brayden’s first in-person case competition.

👏 Special mention to Jasmine Kalantar, Mattia Bonato, Gigi Tsai and William Penn, who were recognised by the judges for the creativity of their solutions.

The teams would like to thank the UTS Business School, UTS Accounting Department and faculty advisor Associate Professor Nelson Ma for the support and coaching.