Half a century of the UWA MBA
Through 2026 we have been gathering the films, the stories and the milestones that mark 50 years of the program and the community built around it.
The films
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Manny Tamayo's anniversary film opens the collection. Nick Hodges was part of the first UWA MBA cohort in 1976, the year the GMA was founded. Jan Stewart is a fellow graduate of the program, and Professor Geoff Soutar taught in it from its earliest days. Fifty years on, each sat down on camera for the anniversary.
50 years of the GMA
5:30Five decades of the GMA and the UWA MBA, made for the 2026 Black Tie.
Jan Stewart in conversation
1:21Jan reflects on the program and what it has meant across her career.
Nick Hodges
1:47Professor Geoff Soutar
2:45Alumni stories
Fifty years of graduates
The UWA Business School has been collecting reflections from MBA graduates across the decades, including several faces familiar to the GMA: Brian Leedman, Charlie Gunningham, Bourby Webster and our patron Michael Chaney have all been recognised by our own awards.
Part of the story?
If you have photographs, programs or memories from the past fifty years, we would like to add them to the archive.
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