New ranking system assesses how well universities meet the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The new Center for Digital Transformation will develop courses for students from all disciplines.

Singapore Management University organizes its new undergrad program around three pillars: capabilities, communities, and civilizations.

Programs at Indiana and Pepperdine aim to improve patient outcomes by delivering management training to healthcare professionals.

Business schools open new research centers and learning facilities.

 

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Business schools announce curriculum revisions and additions.

Recognition for people and institutions.

Individuals in the industry step up and move on.

The latest partnerships in business education.

Institutions announce new sources of funding.

2U and Trilogy, McGraw-Hill and Cengage, and Wiley and Knewton all announce plans to form new companies with broader reach.

Stanford opens a multidisciplinary center to better chart the future of artificial intelligence.

B-schools build ecosystems for student startups. 

Award recognizes research that benefits society.

The new “school without walls” will embed presences in departments on campus to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration.

Awards are given to schools and individuals that produce  outstanding cases.

Inspiring alums are honored in AACSB’s Annual Influential Leaders challenge.

An exec program for chief operating officers.

Institutions announce new sources of funding.

The latest partnerships in business education.

Individuals in the industry step up and move on.

Business schools announce curriculum revisions and additions. 

Business schools open new research centers and learning facilities.

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Emerald aims to promote change by sparking discussion around the issue.

New business schools focus on angel investors and working adults.

APLU is working with 130 universities on pilot programs to improve student success.

The University of California, Merced, is planning a standalone school of management.

How the Karlstad Business School worked with industry to create a new program.

Emerald’s inaugural competition honors those who bridge the gap between theory and practice.

The school will pay US$5.5 million on behalf of its business school over false rankings data.

More news from business schools and business.

Business schools open new research centers and learning facilities.

Business schools announce curriculum revisions and additions.

Recognition for people and institutions.

Individuals in the industry step up and move on.

The latest partnerships in business education.

Institutions announce new sources of funding.

Rice University, the University of Virginia, and Johns Hopkins now offer scholarships to middle-income students.

The Manifesto lays out the organization’s plan to change the course of management development.

Cornell MBAs no longer will share their grades with recruiters. 

The Hall of Fame honors “a select few who have inspired many.”

EdX rolls out nine new MOOC-based master’s programs developed by seven universities.

UCF has partnered with Siemens to apply analytics to building operations.

MIT and UC Berkeley give analytics its own home on campus. 

A new initiative will provide more administrators, students, and faculty with access to Babson’s entrepreneurial training.

The Royal Swedish Academy recognized Paul Romer for his work on urbanization and William Nordhaus for his exploration of the economics of climate change.

They’ve developed an online learning platform that enables collaboration.

Business schools announce curriculum revisions and additions. 

Business schools open new research centers and learning facilities.

More news from business and business schools.

Individuals in the industry step up and move on. 

The latest partnerships in business education.

Recognition for people and institutions. 

Institutions announce new sources of funding.

The second MOOC-based MBA comes to the Coursera platform, as the first graduates its student cohort.

The change especially benefits international students, who could be eligible for two-year extensions of their work visas after graduation.

Partners will open an interdisciplinary innovation hub to promote STEM education.

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are springing up worldwide as a result of wide-ranging collaborations among local businesses, academic institutions, and government agencies.

Universities in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific can help implement the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Two institutions share the outcomes so far for their all-tuition-paid full-time MBA programs.

Nineteen accounting professionals recognized for their impact on the profession.

Their CXI initiative promotes the socially responsible design and implementation of cutting-edge technologies.

York University provides training to G7 members.

Graduates from Southern New Hampshire University’s College for America can opt to receive immediately sharable, instantly verifiable diplomas.

Ripple partners with 17 universities to prepare future executives to work with blockchain.

INSEAD recognizes 50 female faculty.

In May, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a consortium of more than 500 organizations dedicated to streamlining the use of Ethereum blockchain technology, released Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification 1.0. ...View All

This past summer, the Waikato Management School at the University of Waikato in New Zealand held its first Executive Innovation Bootcamp, hosted at Waikato Innovation Park, a business campus that houses more than 40 companies. ...View All

David Beatty has received a lifetime achievement award from the International Corporate Governance Network. ...View All

Purdue University’s new online education platform for adult learners, Purdue University Global, has named Jeffrey M. Buck as the dean of its School of Business and Information Technology. ...View All

Nanyang Technological University’s Nanyang Business School in Singapore has partnered with NTU’s Wealth Management Institute (WMI) to create a new master of science with two specialization tracks: asset management and wealth management. ...View All

Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, has received a US$10 million commitment from the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation to establish an endowed professorship in social entrepreneurship, fund entrepreneurial education, and launch a fundraising challenge to create a dedicated space for all of the school’s social innovation programming. ...View All

Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, has established the Carol Sawyer Parks Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, which was endowed by real estate developer and Suffolk trustee Parks. ...View all

The National University of Management in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, has launched a Social Innovation Lab with support of the telecom SMART Axiata. ...View all

A new initiative at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, will be dedicated to integrating data science education into every student’s learning experience and driving data science research on campus. ...View all

Four business professors have been honored with the 2018 Louis W. Stern Award, which recognizes an outstanding article that has made a significant contribution to marketing literature.  ...View all

On July 1st, Xavier Ordeñana became the new dean of the ESPAE Graduate School of Management at Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador. ...View all

Florida International University (FIU) College of Business in Miami has entered into a three-year agreement with the University of International Business & Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China. ...View all

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business in Charlottesville has received a US$15 million gift from the Batten Foundation, which has unlocked a matching gift from UVA’s Bicentennial Fund. ...View all

New magazine focuses on practical research.

The association honors business school alumni who have made a difference to society, the economy, or education.

Three deans take up new administrative posts.

The College of Business (COB) at East Carolina University in Greenville will establish the Van and Jennifer Isley Innovation Building thanks to a US$2 million gift from the Isleys. ...View all

The Global Business School Network has launched a program for deans and directors at business schools in developing nations. ...View all

This fall, the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro will welcome the inaugural cohort to its online Master of Science in International Business. ...View all

Kenneth Freeman and his wife, Janice, have committed more than US$25 million to the College of Management at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. ...View all

Misty Johanson has been named dean of the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. ...View all

INSEAD in France has announced a partnership with Station F, a 111,500-square-foot startup incubator in Paris. ...View all

Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights began offering an accelerated online MBA in January. ...View all

Nicole Tee, director of graduate studies at Nanyang Business School at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, received the 2017 Bud Fackler Service Award from the Executive MBA Council (EMBAC) in October at its annual conference. ...View all

The University of San Diego in California has received a leadership gift of US$20 million from former Clorox CEO Donald Knauss and his wife, Ellie. ...View all

NSF grant helps researchers identify the STEM teaching methods that bring in low-income students.

Grenoble Ecole de Management in France has partnered with the Glion Institute of Higher Education, a hotel management school in Montreux, Switzerland, to offer a dual MBA/MSc in international hospitality. ...View all

Soumitra Dutta has stepped down as dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. ...View all

Business schools, businesses, and city governments coordinate their efforts to create urban meccas for digitalization.

Wits Business School at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has launched the African Energy Leadership Centre (ELC) to address issues of energy shortages in Africa, as well as the skills deficit of managers in the energy industry. ...View all

Dominican University’s Brennan School of Business in River Forest, Illinois, has announced the Norman and Ruth Carroll Endowed Chair in Business and Economics. ...View all

How can business scholarship contribute to a better world?

Purdue program shows young African leaders how social entrepreneurship can solve national challenges.

ESSEC Business School in Cergy, France, has launched a new web series called ESSEC Knowledge Live. ...view all

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in Charlottesville is offering a new fulltime dual degree program, a master of business administration/master of science in data science. ...view all

The Mannheim Business School at the University of Mannheim in Germany has opened a new study and conference center in the former coal cellar of Mannheim Palace, one of Europe’s largest baroque palaces.  ...view all

Georgia State University in Atlanta is opening the Legal Analytics Lab, an initiative of the Robinson College of Business with support from the school’s College of Law. ...view all

Fred Phillips has received the 2017 N.D. Kondratieff Medal (the gold medal) from the Russian Academy of Sciences. ...view all

Reto Steiner is the new dean and managing director of the ZHAW School of Management and Law in Winterthur, Switzerland. ...view all

The organization reverses previous policy against making official political statements.

Entrepreneurs from Stanford, Harvard, and UC Berkeley attract the most funding from venture capitalists.

Warwick exec ed program teaches business how behavioral “nudges” can have dramatic effects on employees and customers.

ESSEC Business School in Cergy, France, has launched a new web series called ESSEC Knowledge Live. ...view all

The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has embarked on a US$11 million construction project to convert three floors in its facility into a vertically connected educational space called the Learning Commons. ...view all

Kent State University in Ohio has received a US$3.1 million gift for a College of Business Administration scholarship endowment from the estate of Kent State alumnus Joseph Stevens. ...view all

Georgia State University in Atlanta is opening the Legal Analytics Lab, an initiative of the Robinson College of Business with support from the school’s College of Law. ...view all

The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in Charlottesville is offering a new full-time dual degree program, a master of business administration/master of science in data science. ...view all

In October, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences named Richard H. Thaler of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Illinois as the 2017 recipient of its Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. ...view all

Reto Steiner is the new dean and managing director of the ZHAW School of Management and Law in Winterthur, Switzerland. ...view all

In September, Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its Business College Pavilion, a new facility that will be built on the campus in East Lansing. ...view all

Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has received a US$50 million gift from insurance professional James J. Maguire and his wife, Frances. ...view all

Mannheim Business School in Germany will collaborate with professional soccer club TSG Hoffenheim on numerous projects in research, teaching, and knowledge transfer. ... view all

The CFP Board Center for Financial Planning is launching Financial Planning Review, a double-blind, peer-reviewed academic journal that will be published quarterly by John Wiley & Sons beginning in mid-2018. ... view all

Beginning in fall 2017, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business in College Park will launch a STEM-certified master of quantitative finance program. ... view all

Franklin Allen has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Allen, a professor of finance and economics at Imperial College Business School in London, was recognized for his research on issues relating to financial crises, corporate finance, and financial innovation. ... view all

At the end of the 2017–2018 academic year, Sally Blount will step down as dean of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. ... view all

Giving those with financial barriers and time constraints more incentive to come to business school.

The University of Chicago and Northwestern form three-year partnership to boost entrepreneurship in two inner-city neighborhoods.

Three business schools launch programs to help businesses better understand, employ, and keep up with the latest digital innovations.

The University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has announced a new Global Executive MBA program with a focus on healthcare and life sciences      ...view all

The University of Delaware in Newark has reappointed Bruce Weber as dean of the school’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics.      ...view all

The Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware in Newark has partnered with the Delaware Financial Education Alliance to launch a trust and wealth management minor.       ...view all

The CFP Board Center for Financial Planning has announced that the Northwestern Mutual Best Paper Award will be presented at the Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning and Related Disciplines.      ...view all

Franklin Allen has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.       ...view all

Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has received a US$50 million gift from insurance professional James J. Maguire and his wife, Frances.        ...view all    

Surrey Business School at the University of Surrey in the U.K. has launched a Centre for Management Learning.      ...view all

The acquisition supports plans to establish a new public university for adult learners.

New program will overcome challenging business climate, while drawing from Afghanistan’s emerging private sector.

HEC Paris will accept its first cohort into MOOC-based master's in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Partners seek to create an expanded database of knowledge for finance fields.

Two programs will require in-person immersions.

Frank was dean of the Smith School for over a decade and held leadership roles at AACSB.

Faculty from the University of St. Gallen receive award for Overall Winning Case.

Field-based research, social innovation program among the winners.

New training tools are designed to help companies manage their employee development programs.

HEC Paris encourages business to maximize social impact as well as economic performance.

Signatories call for more investment in infrastructure, research, science, and training.

Employers report that recent graduates have the skills they need.

Forté Foundation builds on programs in place at ten universities.

Open University’s FutureLearn platform is partnering with Deakin University to deliver postgraduate degrees.

Innovator Mae Jemison encourages students to focus on the people they want to be, not the jobs they want to have.

KPMG LLP has partnered with Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business in Columbus and the Villanova University School of Business in Pennsylvania to develop master’s degree programs emphasizing data analytics in accounting.

The organization announces its 2016 Faculty Pioneer Award winners.

MOOC-based programs will offer opportunities to accelerate path to completion of master’s degrees.

Individuals honored for efforts in innovation, education, entrepreneurship, diversity, sustainability, and healthcare.

Professors specialize in contract law.

Professors honored for their service to their teaching and communities.

Professors at North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management and the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business receive the American Accounting Association 2016 Innovation in Accounting Education awards.

In August, the Academy of Management honored business professors with its 2016 All-Academy Awards, which were presented at the organization’s Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California.

The AICPA and NAF team up to introduce high school students to the benefits of accounting careers.

Changes in the market inspire the school to adopt a new online strategy for its MBA.