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Macquarie Business School Research Office
Creating insights with global impact
The Macquarie Business School is a globally significant centre for research in business, management and economics. We conduct world-leading research to solve society’s biggest challenges.
Research with impact
We are recognised by industry as well as other world-leading academics for our impactful, interdisciplinary and innovative insights. Our research helps companies, governments, and not-for-profits transform the sectors they operate within, for public good.
Our research focuses on areas including:
- Health and social care
- Sustainability
- Data and analytics
- Markets.
Learn more about our areas of research expertise.
Accounting & Finance, QS Subject Rankings 2025
Business & Management, QS Subject Rankings 2025
Economics & Econometrics, QS Subject Rankings 2025
As a leading research institution, our priority is to engage, exchange knowledge and produce applied and impactful research.
Our first-class researchers produce impactful research and develop strong intellectual capability among our students.
Our Finance Decision Lab is an immersive experience that combines world-class financial and business analytics with real market data to demonstrate the impact of finance decisions.
Our MQBS Vernon L. Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory is the home of cutting-edge experimental research and teaching in economics and social science.
Our partnerships
We have partnered with:
- Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA)
- Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)
- Australian Museum
- Aware Super Pty Ltd
- Asian Development Bank
- Australia Council for the Arts
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission
- City of Sydney NSW
- Cochlear Limited
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Copyright Agency Limited
- CSIRO
- Deloitte Australia Pty Limited
- Department of Health (Commonwealth)
- Digital Finance CRC
- e61 Institute
- Ecstra Foundation Ltd
- Institute for Couples in Business
- Johnson & Johnson Medical Pty Ltd
- Library Council of NSW
- Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub
- Momento Hospitality
- NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
- Optus Networks Pty Ltd
- QIMR Berghofer
- Sail Exchange
- Toyota Finance Australia Limited
- UNESCO
Digital Finance CRC
Learn more about the research we conduct in each of our departments:
Research centres
Our pioneering research centres consistently impart expertise across industry sectors.
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Research themes
Learn about the areas in which we are driving research with real impact.
See our research themes
Research impact
See how we're making a real-world difference with some of the ground-breaking research our faculty is involved in.
Read our impact stories