Business Schools

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.

Next to ethics sustainability is probably one of the most used buzzwords at many business schools. A growing number of Sustainable or Green MBAs are popping up around the world in an attempt to educate business students on these issues. Now a new book provides information and tips for those interested in this topic.

The 1st European MBA Career Fair takes place in Berlin on April 26 and will include six business schools from wider Europe.

The case of the questionable Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) is a lesson about the failures of the media and business schools. It is not only about clarification, responsibilities and ethics – it is about profit. The interests of potential MBA students get left by the wayside.

Mahesh Sarma, editor at Careers360, talks about IIPM and the role of business schools, media and politics and why a small magazine started to write the truth.

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.

Criticism of the MBA is always well-received in Germany, where the MBA concept and knowledge about it is still very marginal.

A new report, titled Tomorrow’s MBA, has found that prospective students are still keen on the MBA qualification despite its reputation taking a knock during the banking crisis. However, asked which academic content was important to them as part of an MBA study, respondents put Ethics in the bottom 4 out of 30 possible elements.

When two sexologists brainstormed with a group of MBA students to examine connections between sexuality and leadership the discussions probably got quite heated. However, the results of this experiment are rather lukewarm than hot stuff.

Almost since their inception more than 100 years ago, the death of business schools and MBAs has been predicted to be imminent. Stuck between business that think them academic, in the derogatory not the complimentary sense, and universities that think them unacademic, in an equally derogatory sense, it is not surprising that business schools periodically suffer serious bouts of self‐doubt.

Deutsche Bank and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business announced a multi-year academic partnership designed to support and expand education related to risk management and financial regulation.

Aston Business School has launched Islamic Finance and Business Centre – the first of its kind in Europe. The Centre has been developed as a result of a £1.5 million grant from Dubai-based business Surgi-Tech and aims to establish Birmingham as the centre for Islamic finance in the UK.

Joining the likes of Iese and Esade, the IE Business School is now also opening an office in Munich. The office will serve as a regional hub that prospective students, alumni or customer companies can turn to with any question or query concerning the IE Business School.

At 40 students, the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin, has just started its largest class ever for its one-year full-time MBA program. Last year there were just 26 students. Nine of this year’s students received full scholarships and there were also several partial scholarships.

In December the Leipzig Graduate School of Management Leipzig (HHL) proudly announced that the school’s full-time MBA was listed on the “Europe-wide leading ranking of the Financial Times” for the first time, thus making the school number one in Germany and 34th in Europe. The ranking, however, raises some questions.

Women today comprise about 37 per cent of the student body at full-time MBA programmes in the US, compared with 33 per cent five years ago and 30 per cent 10 years ago, according to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). And while most schools are still far from having an even split, many are closing the gender gap.