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ESADE Business School Partners with Finnish University to Offer Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programs
Spain’s ESADE Business School has formed a new international alliance with Finland’s Aalto University, a leader in the field of innovation, to expand its offerings for entrepreneurs, ESADE announced today. Aalto University President Tuula Teeri and ESADE Director General Eugenia Bieto signed an agreement outlining the new partnership this morning at... Read more »
USC Marshall School of Business Offers First-of-Its-Kind Social Entrepreneurship Degree
Students at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business are now entering their second semester as part of the school’s innovative Master of Science in Social Entrepreneurship program, the first of its kind at a U.S. business school. Students in this first cohort include a professionally trained ballerina, a... Read more »
Harvard Business School Names 16 New Entrepreneurs-in-Residence
MBA students at Harvard Business School (HBS) now have access to a whole new pool of entrepreneurial talent through the school’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiR) program, the school announced earlier this month. HBS has named 16 entrepreneurs to take part in the program for 2014-15, 14 of whom are HBS graduates. Sponsored by... Read more »
London Business School Awards Two £30,000 Scholarships to Female Business Execs
London Business School (LBS) has awarded two female business executives £30,000 scholarships for the school’s Senior Executive Program, concluding an initiative launched in August with the 30% Club, an organization devoted to increasing female representation in the C-suite of leading corporations. Andreea Moldova, general manager (Czech Republic and Slovakia) at... Read more »
London Business School Expands Mentoring Program for Entrepreneurs from London to Dubai
Building on the success of a program launched 18 months ago on its London campus, London Business School (LBS) has expanded a mentoring program to benefit aspiring entrepreneurs to its Dubai Center, the school announced late last month. Called the “Entrepreneurship Mentor in Residence” program, the program will provide entrepreneurial... Read more »
Columbia Business School Shares Updates on J-Term Admits, Regular Decision Interview Invites
Columbia Business School (CBS) has completed its Early Decision and J-term application review and will welcome approximately 200 new students as part of its January intake, the CBS Admission Committee announced earlier this week. Of those, roughly half come to CBS from international locations. After taking a week’s hiatus from... Read more »
HEC Paris Offers Global Open Enrollment Accelerator for Senior Business Execs
HEC Paris now offers a special global enrollment program designed to serve as an accelerator for business executives looking to spearhead socially responsible or sustainably focused projects or new business lines, the school announced earlier this month. Called ‘Inclusive Business and Value Creation,’ the program is taught by faculty of... Read more »
USC Marshall School of Business Launches New One-Year Marketing MS Program
USC Marshall School of Business is now accepting applications for a brand-new, one-year marketing degree program, the school announced late last week. The new Master of Science in Marketing program is designed to help students gain deep marketing expertise to complement a strong foundation in marketing management, strategy and business... Read more »
IMD, Tuck School of Business Launch Joint Executive Education Program in Leadership
Switzerland’s IMD and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth earlier this month announced a new collaboration designed to help global organizations develop leadership skills among their management. The Transition to Business Leadership (TBL) executive education program, launched earlier this year by IMD, will be offered in two modules alternating... Read more »
GMAC Reports Application Volume Growth for Full-Time Two-Year MBA Programs
The number of people applying to full-time two-year MBA programs increased for the third consecutive year, according to recent data from the Graduate Management Admissions Council. GMAC’s 2014 Application Trends Survey, released earlier this week, showed that as two-year programs enjoyed application volume gains, other graduate management programs saw flattening... Read more »
Cambridge’s Judge Business School Extends Lifelong Learning to EMBA Grads
The Judge Business School at Cambridge University this summer becomes the latest in a growing list of business schools that are offering lifelong learning opportunities to some of its graduates. Judge recently announced that alumni of its Executive MBA (EMBA) program will now be eligible to return to campus to... Read more »
Brown University to Begin Issuing EMBA Degree as Part of Joint Program with IE Business School
The governing body of Brown University voted earlier this month to begin issuing a master’s in business administration for the first time – to graduates of a collaborative 15-month executive MBA program the school has offered since 2011 with Madrid’s IE Business School, according to a report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek.... Read more »
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business to Present Silicon Valley Business Perspective to Chinese Leaders
The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley this week began a new program through which Berkeley-Haas faculty will present a Silicon Valley perspective on business, innovation and leadership topics to top Chinese leaders, the school announced. Called the Partnership for CELAP and Berkeley-Haas, the three-year pilot... Read more »
IE Business School Partners with Singapore Management University to Launch EMBA for Asia
Spain’s IE Business School and the Singapore Management University (SMU) earlier this month announced plans to launch a joint Executive MBA (EMBA) program in September that will focus on southeast Asia. “We really wanted to create a program for people looking for a part-time MBA in the southeast Asian market,”... Read more »
Yale School of Management Expands EMBA to Include Asset Management, Sustainability Focuses
Students in Yale School of Management (SOM)’s Executive MBA (EMBA) program will soon be able to select asset management or sustainability as a focus for their studies, the school announced yesterday. Yale SOM is now enrolling students interested in either of these specialties for fall 2014. The EMBA program at... Read more »
