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Women's Business Network: Dr Catherine de Fontenay - 21 May

Next date: Tuesday, 21 May 2024 | 11:30 AM to 02:00 PM

Dr Catherine de Fontenay from the Productivity Commission examines productivity during times of risk at the Monash Women's Business Network lunch.

Discover how businesses can use alternative approaches to borrowing, hiring and networking to boost innovation and productivity.

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Event details

Tuesday 21 May 2024
Riversdale Golf Club (200-280 Huntingdale Road, Mount Waverley)
Networking: 11.30am - 12pm
Lunch: 12pm - 2pm
Cost: $70 (two-course lunch)

About the event

Achieving productivity in risky times

Businesses are facing significant risk: risk of inflation in key inputs and wages, risk of continued high interest rates, risk of a downturn in the economy. Businesses grappling with these risks may choose to postpone or cancel investment plans, even though investments in new equipment and new technologies are one of the main ways to boost productivity.

What alternative approaches do businesses have to boost their productivity? Join us to hear from Dr Catherine de Fontenay from the Productivity Commission, as she explores how businesses can use new approaches to borrowing, hiring and networking to boost innovation and productivity in risky times.

Come and join us at this lunch to be inspired, learn and connect with your peers.

Please call us if there are any access needs.

About Dr Catherine de Fontenay

Catherine has an Economics PhD from Stanford University and she has taught at UNSW, University of Melbourne and New York University. Most recently she was an Associate Professor at Melbourne Business School. She has published research on negotiations in supply chains in a number of international journals.

Catherine started a five-year term as a full-time Commissioner with the Productivity Commission in July 2019. She has led studies and research into the vulnerability of Australia's supply chains, small and medium business' access to finance, firms' adoption of overseas innovations, the productivity of service sector industries, and the productivity of the health sector.