New Programs

The University of St. Gallen is launching a new part-time MBA in February. The focal point is personal development as a manager.

Building on the MBA’s flexible, practice-based approach, the new MBA program of the Open University (OU) Business School will have a strong international focus, with emphasis on strategic analysis, interdisciplinary skills and independent judgement.

The Executive MBA Program (IMM) of the GISMA Business School in Hannover (Germany) in cooperation with the Krannert School of Management (USA), the Central European University (Hungary) and TiasNimbas Business School (Netherlands) will be offering one more location in future. Apart from the lectures at the four partner schools, as well as in Beijing and Shanghai, participants will be also able to study in future in Mexico City and Puebla.

The Frankfurt School of Finance and Management is set to start a new Executive MBA. The target group is particularly bankers without a first degree but with further education at the Frankfurt School. A change in the Higher Education Act of the State of Hesse makes this possible.

Grenoble Graduate School of Business (GGSB) will be launching a new Executive multi-site MBA in January 2011. The programme will take place in eight locations by taking advantage of the GGSB off-site campuses and offices: Grenoble – Geneva – Moscow - London – New York – Singapore – New Delhi – and Beijing.

The WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar is starting a new part-time MBA program in September in Düsseldorf. The program lasts 26 months and costs 35,000 euros.

The ESCP Europe in Berlin has redesigned its General-Management Program (GMP). The Program now represents the nine core courses of the European Executive MBA. This allows participants to progress to the Executive MBA.

The Essec Business School in Cergy, near Paris, renames their until now erroneously dubbed ‘MBA program’, which is actually more a Grande Ecole Program in Master of Science (MSc) in Management. Additionally, the school starts a traditional MBA program in September 2011. The renaming is part of an ambitious strategy to position ESSEC among the best five business schools in Europe.

Starting in the fall, the European Business School (EBS) will offer a new double degree program together with the renowned MIT Zaragoza in Spain. The new offer will encompass the EBS’ full-time MBA program as well as a Master of Engineering in Logistics & Supply Chain Management. The EBS hopes to acquire more students with the program. A similar program is being offered by the IE Business School in Madrid already since 2006.

IE Business School and Brown University announce the launch of the IE Brown Executive MBA program that integrates the innovative approach to management education at IE Business School with Brown University’s excellence in the humanities, social, biological, and physical sciences.

When it came to the location for its MBA program, the Münchner Marketing Akademie came up with a special delicacy. Teaching takes place within the space of star chef Alfons Schuhbeck’s gourmet restaurant. But this isn’t the program’s only special trait.

The trend toward specialization has shaped most industries over the past decade, but few have embraced the shift more enthusiastically than business schools.  Nowadays schools focus on areas such as aerospace, wine management, luxury goods, real estate or even church management.

Many MBA programme directors spent the year after the collapse of the world economy wondering whether they need to re-invent their teachings in response to a financial crisis to which some critics believe they lent a helping hand.

Short programs that provide an overview of management essentials are currently popular in the US. Several business schools report that demand for the courses, often referred to as Mini MBA’s, has drastically increased over the past year.

MBA Students at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business can now improve their analysis of a wide range of economic, social, ethical and environmental dilemmas with a handful of new courses to be offered during the 2009/10 academic year.

Online education has a long and winding history. Initially regarded by many institutions as a very interesting possibility to lower costs and offer students a way to learn themselves with interactive materials, it evolved into something that could be described as “education on steroids”.