Media Highlights – June 2024
From the business of the Olympic Games to a four-day work week trial, see where Macquarie Business School has been making headlines.

Professor Sean Foley, Department of Applied Finance, provided comment to The Saturday Paper (print version), about recent hydro, gas and coal price spikes.
Dr Jun Yao, Department of Marketing, provided comment to Forbes Advisor on shrinkflation.
Macquarie University Economics student, Kate Gibson, was featured in the Australian Financial Review and discussed her interest in economics.
Dr Lurion De Mello, Department of Applied Finance, was interviewed on 2GB Radio and discussed oil demand, supply and pricing.
Honorary Professor Geoffrey Kingston and Professor Jeffrey Sheen, both from the Department of Economics, were included in Finder’s RBA Survey. They provided their RBA cash rate predictions for June.
Professor Rebecca Mitchell, Department of Management and the Health and Wellbeing Research Unit, was interviewed on 720 ABC Perth Radio, 666 ABC Canberra and ABC Northern Tasmania about a Senate inquiry into the treatment of menopause in the workplace and menopause leave.
Professor Denise Jepsen, Department of Management, provided comment to The Sydney Morning Herald (print and online) on how to handle an exit interview.
Professor Rebecca Mitchell, Department of Management and the Health and Wellbeing Research Unit, was featured on Digital Nation, India Education and ABC Canberra Radio and commented on a trial of the four-day work week at Medibank. Macquarie University issued a press release about the trial at its midway point: MQ Newsroom.
Associate Professor Yimin Huang, Department of Marketing, provided comment to SBS TV about the recently published Choice report on supermarket prices.
Professor Jeffrey Sheen, Department of Economics, provided his prediction regarding Australia’s economic recovery in 2024-25 to The Conversation as part of a panel of leading economic forecasters.
Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, provided comment to The Australian Financial Review (print and online) on the business of the Olympic Games.
Dr Nick Garvin, Adjunct Fellow in the Department of Economics, provided comment to AFR Weekend (print version) on the barriers of selling a large family home and moving to a smaller property.