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Business school
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A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in business administration or management. Such a school can also be known as school of management, school of administration, or, colloquially. There are several forms of schools, including a school of business, business administration. Most of the university business schools consist of faculties, colleges, or departments within the university, in North America, a business school is often understood to be a university program that offers a graduate Master of Business Administration degrees and/or undergraduate Bachelors degrees. In Europe and Asia, some universities teach only business, privately owned business school which is not affiliated with any university. 1759 – The Aula do Comércio in Lisbon was the first institution to specialise in the teaching of accounting in the world and it provided a model for development of similar government-sponsored schools across Europe, and closed in 1844. Therefore the Aula do Comércio paved the way for schools to start. 1819 – The worlds first business school, ESCP Europe was in Paris and it is the oldest business school in the world and now has campuses in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Torino, and Warsaw. 1855 - The Institut Supérieur de Commerce dAnvers and the Institut Saint-Ignace - École Spéciale de Commerce et dIndustrie were founded in the year in the city of Antwerp. After getting university status in 1965 and after almost 150 years of business education,1857 – The worlds first public business school, Budapest Business School was founded in Budapest in Austria-Hungary as the first business school in Central Europe. 1868 – The Ca Foscari University was founded in Venice and it is the oldest business school in Italy and one of the oldest in the world. 1871 – The Rouen Business School which has merged with Reims Management School under the name of NEOMA Business School, Rouen Business School is the second oldest French business school. 1871 - The ESC Le Havre was created, created the same year than Rouen Business School it is also the second oldest French business school. 1881 – The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is the United States first business school,1898 – The University of St. Gallen established the first university in Switzerland teaching business and economics. 1900 - The first graduate school of business in the United States, the school conferred the first advanced degree in business, specifically, a Master of Science in Commercial Sciences, the predecessor to the MBA. 1902 - The Birmingham Business School of University of Birmingham is the United Kingdoms first business school, established as the School of Commerce in Birmingham, United Kingdom. 1906 - The McGill School of Commerce was founded as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,1906 – The Warsaw School of Economics was established as the first university in Poland dedicated to teaching commerce and economics. 1908 - Harvard Business School was founded at Harvard University and it was the first program in the world to offer the Master of Business Administration degree
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Regent's Park
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Regents Park is one of the Royal Parks of London. It lies within north-west London, partly in the City of Westminster, the population of the Camden ward at the 2011 Census was 13,528. It contains Regents University London and the London Zoo, the park is Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The park has a ring road called the Outer Circle and an inner ring road called the Inner Circle. Apart from two roads between these two, the park is reserved for pedestrians. The south, east and most of the west side of the park are lined with elegant white stucco terraces of houses designed by John Nash, Running through the northern end of the park is Regents Canal, which connects the Grand Union Canal to the former London docks. The northern side of the park is the home of London Zoo, winfield House, the official residence of the U. S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, stands in private grounds in the western section of the park. Nearby is the domed London Central Mosque, better known as Regents Park mosque, located to the south of the Inner Circle is Regents University London, home of the European Business School London, Regents American College London and Webster Graduate School among others. Primrose Hill is also the given to the immediately surrounding district. The public areas of Regents Park are managed by The Royal Parks, the Crown Estate Paving Commission is responsible for managing certain aspects of the built environment of Regents Park. The park lies within the boundaries of the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden, the Crown Estate owns the freehold of Regents Park. In the Middle Ages the land was part of the manor of Tyburn, in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII appropriated the land, and it has been Crown property ever since, except for the period between 1649 and 1660. It was set aside as a park, known as Marylebone Park. It was then let out in small holdings for hay and dairy produce, when the leases expired in 1811 the Prince Regent commissioned architect John Nash to create a masterplan for the area. However, most of the terraces of houses around the fringes of the park were built. Nash did not complete all the detailed designs himself, in some instances, the scheme is considered one of the first examples of a garden suburb, and continues to influence the design of suburbs. The park was first opened to the public in 1835. On 15 January 1867, forty people died when the ice cover on the lake collapsed
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Open University
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The Open University is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education. The majority of the OUs undergraduate students are based throughout the United Kingdom and principally study off-campus, the OU was established in 1969 and the first students enrolled in January 1971. The University administration is based at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire and it also has offices and regional examination centres in many other European countries. The university awards undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, as well as qualifications such as diplomas. Since it was founded, more than 1.5 million students have studied its courses and it was rated top university in England and Wales for student satisfaction in the 2005,2006 and 2012 United Kingdom government national student satisfaction survey, and second in the 2007 survey. The Open University was founded by the Labour government under Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Wilson was a strong advocate, using the vision of Michael Young. Wilson envisioned The Open University as a marker in the Labour Partys commitment to modernising British society. He believed that it would build a more competitive economy while also promoting greater equality of opportunity. By the time the actual, much higher costs became apparent, the majority of staff are part-time Associate Lecturers and, as of the 2009–10 academic year, almost 8,000 work for the OU. Salaries are the OUs main cost - over £275 million for the 2009–2010 academic year, in 2010 the OU became one of the Sunday Times′ Best Places to Work in the Public Sector. Open University Employees Credit Union Limited is a savings and loans co-operative established by the University for staff in 1994, a member of the Association of British Credit Unions Limited, it is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the PRA. Ultimately, like the banks and building societies, members’ savings are protected against business failure by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, in 1982 the OU announced the establishment of a business school supported by the Foundation for Management Education and the British Institute of Management. In 1983 the Open University Business School was founded with 1,600 students enrolled onto the first two courses – The Effective Manager and Personnel Selection and Interviewing, the Open University Business school is accredited by the international accrediting bodies AACSB, AMBA, amd EQUIS. It is the only triple-accredited business school that specialises in flexible learning, the OU uses a variety of methods for teaching, including written and audio materials, the Internet, disc-based software and television programmes on DVD. Course-based television broadcasts by the BBC, which started on 3 January 1971, materials comprise originally authored work by in-house and external academic contributors, and from third-party materials licensed for use by OU students. For most modules, students are supported by tutors who provide feedback on their work and are available to them at face-to-face tutorials, by telephone. Some modules have mandatory day schools and these are day-long sessions which a student must attend in order to pass the module. Nevertheless, it is possible to be excused on the basis of ill-health, over the past ten years the university has adopted a policy of separating residential modules from distance-full-time taught modules
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Concordia University
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Concordia University is a public comprehensive university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, as of the 2014-2015 academic year, there were 46,378 students enrolled at Concordia, making the university among the largest in Canada by enrolment. With four faculties, a school of studies and numerous colleges, centres and institutes, Concordia offers over 300 undergraduate and 100 graduate programs. The universitys John Molson School of Business is consistently ranked within the top 10 Canadian business schools, Concordia is a non-sectarian and coeducational institution, with more than 200,000 living alumni worldwide. The universitys varsity teams, known as the Stingers, compete in the Quebec Student Sport Federation of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, Loyola College traces its roots to an English-language program at the Jesuit Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal at the Sacred Heart Convent. In 1896, Loyola College was established at the corner of Bleury Street, Loyola College was named in honour of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. On March 10,1898, the institution was incorporated by the Government of Quebec, the same year, following a fire, the college was relocated, further west on Drummond Street, south of Saint Catherine. Although founded as a collège classique, Loyola began granting university degrees through Université Laval in 1903, the college moved into the present west-end campus on Sherbrooke Street West in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in 1916. The School of Sociology opened in 1918, in 1920, the institution became affiliated with the Université de Montréal, which began granting degrees instead of Université Laval. Memorial bronze honour roll plaques in the hall, administrative offices are dedicated to those from Loyola College who fought in the First and Second World Wars. The inter-war period was marked by the shift of education in the institution, the collège classique education was replaced by humanistic education in 1940, Loyola College never became a chartered university, and never had the ability to grant its own university degrees. Theology and philosophy were taught to all students until 1972, in 1940, the Faculty of Science and the Department of Engineering, which became a faculty in 1964, were created. In addition to providing the same programs as other colleges. Students could enrol in Academic majors starting in 1953 and honours programs in 1958, students graduating from Loyola could afterwards pursue graduate-level education in other universities, with a few earning Rhodes Scholarships. Starting in 1958, Loyola also began offering its first evening courses for students not being able to go to school full-time, new courses were given in library science and faith community nursing. Since its creation, Loyola College had welcomed almost exclusively young English-speaking Catholic men as students and it became co-ed in 1959 and became less homogeneous with the ever increasing number of foreign students. Obtaining a university charter was an important issue in the 1960s, although many wanted the Loyola College to become Loyola University, the Quebec government preferred to annex it to Sir George Williams University. Negotiations began in 1968 and ended with the creation of Concordia University on August 24,1974, in 1851, the first YMCA in North America was established on Ste-Helene street in Old Montreal
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City University of Hong Kong
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City University of Hong Kong is a public research university in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1984 as City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and it is one of eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions. It offers over 50 bachelors degree programmes through its constituent colleges and it also offers dual degree programmes with world-renowned universities such as Columbia University. Postgraduate degree programmes are offered by the Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies, City University of Hong Kong is globally recognised as a top centre of higher learning and research. CityU is ranked #55 in the world in the QS World University Rankings, in particular, the College of Business is well regarded for their cutting-edge research. It is ranked #57 in the world and #2 in Asia by the U. S. News & World Report and it is also ranked #33 in the world and #2 in Asia in the UTD Top 100 Business School Research Ranking. City Universitys origins lie in the calls for a second polytechnic in the following the 1972 establishment of the Hong Kong Polytechnic. In 1982, Executive Council member Chung Sze-yuen spoke of a consensus that a second polytechnic of similar size to the first should be built as soon as possible. District administrators from Tuen Mun and Tsuen Wan lobbied the government to build the new institution in their new towns. The new school was called City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, a name chosen among nearly 300 suggestions made by members of the public, the new polytechnic opened on 8 October 1984, welcoming 480 full-time and 680 part-time students. The architectural contract to design the new campus was won by Percy Thomas Partnership in association with Alan Fitch and it was originally slated to open by October 1988. The first phase was opened by Governor Wilson on 15 January 1990. By 1991, the school had over 8,000 full-time students, the second phase of the permanent campus opened 1993. The school achieved university status in 1994 and the name was changed accordingly, in April 2015 the university abruptly and controversially shut down its MFA programme in creative writing. Students and alumni launched a petition against the decision, while the faculty, acclaimed Canadian novelist and faculty member Madeleine Thien, writing in The Guardian, was among those who attributed the decision to censorship and diminishing freedom of expression in Hong Kong. City University of Hong Kong is located on Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong and it is near the MTR Kowloon Tong Station of the East Rail Line and Kwun Tong Line, Shek Kip Mei Park, Nam Shan Estate and the Festival Walk shopping centre. The main campus covers around 15.6 hectares, the original buildings for CityU comprising Academic 1 were designed by Percy Thomas Partnership with Fitch and Chung, who won an international design competition. The first phase of construction was completed in 1990 and the phase in 1993
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Jean Monnet
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Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet was a French political economist and diplomat. An influential supporter of European unity, he is considered as one of the fathers of the European Union. Never elected to office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist. He was named patron of the 1980–1981 academic year at the College of Europe, Monnet was born in Cognac, a commune in the department of Charente in France, into a family of cognac merchants. Subsequently, he traveled widely – to Scandinavia, Russia, Egypt, Canada, Monnet firmly believed that the only path to an Allied victory lay in combining the war efforts of Britain and France, and he reflected on a concept that would coordinate war resources. In 1914, young Monnet was allowed to meet French Premier René Viviani on this issue and he managed to convince the French government to agree with him, in principle. However, during the first two years of the war, Monnet did not have much success pressing for an organization of the allied economic cooperation. It was not until two years later that stronger combines like the Wheat Executive and the Allied Maritime Transport Council were set into motion, adding to the overall war effort. At the Paris Peace Conference, Monnet was an assistant to the French minister of commerce and industry, Etienne Clémentel, the scheme was officially rejected by the Allies in April 1919. He returned to politics and, as an international financier, proved to be instrumental to the economic recovery of several Central. He helped stabilise the Polish złoty in 1927 and the Romanian leu in 1928, in 1935, when Monnet was still in Shanghai, he became a business partner of George Murnane in Monnet, Murnane & Co. He was considered among the most connected persons of his time, in December 1939, Monnet was sent to London to oversee the collectivization of the British and French war industries. His influence inspired Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill to agree on an Anglo-French union, in August 1940, he was sent to the United States by the British Government, as a member of the British Supply Council, to negotiate the purchase of war supplies. Soon after his arrival in Washington, D. C. he became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1941, Roosevelt, with Churchills agreement, launched the Victory Program, which represented the involvement of the United States in the war effort. After the war, John Maynard Keynes, a British economist, claimed that through his coordinating, in 1943, Monnet became a member of the National Liberation Committee, the French government of De Gaulle in exile in Algiers, designated Commissaire à lArmement. During a meeting on 5 August of that year, Monnet declared to the Committee, There will be no peace in Europe, the countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation, following World War II, France was in severe need of reconstruction and completely dependent on coal from Germanys main remaining coal-mining areas, the Ruhr and the Saar. In 1945, Monnet proposed the Monnet Plan, also known as the Theory of lEngrenage, the plan was adopted by Charles de Gaulle in early 1946
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Pace University
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Pace University is a private institution that was founded in 1906. It has a campus in Manhattan, New York City, the school also operates other properties, including a womens justice center in nearby Yonkers, city public school Pace University High School, and two business incubators. Pace University was founded by brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace in 1906 and it operated out of the New York Tribune Building in New York City, and spread as Pace Institute, operating in major U. S. cities. In the 1920s, the school divested the other facilities, maintaining its Lower Manhattan location and it purchased its first permanent home there in 1951, and opened its Pleasantville campus in 1963. Pace opened its largest building,1 Pace Plaza, in 1969, four years later, it became a university. Its White Plains campus opened in 1975 upon Paces merger with the College of White Plains, Briarcliff College was purchased two years later. In 1994, Pace moved its law school to the White Plains campus, in 1997, Pace purchased the World Trade Institute at One World Trade Center. The school put the Briarcliff campus up for sale in 2015, in 1906, brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles Ashford Pace founded the firm of Pace & Pace to operate their schools of accountancy and business. Taking a loan of $600, the Pace brothers rented a classroom on one of the floors of the New York Tribune Building, the Paces taught the first class of 13 men and women. The school grew rapidly, and moved several times around Lower Manhattan, the Pace brothers school was soon incorporated as Pace Institute, and expanded nationwide, offering courses in accountancy and business law in several U. S. cities. Some 4,000 students were taking the Pace brothers courses in YMCAs in the New York-New Jersey area, the Pace Standardized Course in Accounting was also offered in Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D. C. Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, in 1927 the school moved to the newly completed Transportation Building at 225 Broadway, and remained there until the 1950s. After Charles died in 1940 and Homer in 1942, Homers son Robert S. Pace became the president of Pace, in 1947, Pace Institute was approved for college status by the New York State Board of Regents. In 1951, the college purchased its first campus building,41 Park Row in Lower Manhattan and this building, designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in March 1999, was the 19th-century headquarters of The New York Times. In 1963, the Pleasantville campus was established using land and buildings donated by the then-president of General Foods and Pace alumnus and trustee Wayne Marks, the school is now celebrating their 50th anniversary. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and New York City Mayor John Lindsay broke ground for the One Pace Plaza Civic Center complex, the former New York Tribune Building at 154 Nassau Street, across from 41 Park Row, was demolished to make way for the new building complex. The New York State Board of Regents approved Pace Colleges petition for university status in 1973, Briarcliff College was acquired in 1977 and became the Briarcliff campus. Finally in 1997, Pace purchased the World Trade Institute at 1 World Trade Center from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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UCL School of Management
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The UCL School of Management is the business school of University College London and is located in Canary Wharf and Bloomsbury, London. The school offers undergraduate, postgraduate, executive and PhD programmes in management with a focus on innovation, technology, analytics, UCLs Department of Management Science and Innovation was established in 2007 along with UCL Advances, UCLs centre for business interaction and entrepreneurship. Currall held the chair of the department. The department grew significantly between 2007 and 2015 and expanded its offerings to include a masters in Management and bachelors degree in Management Science, in August,2015, the Department of Management Science and Innovation was renamed UCL School of Management, with Bert De Reyck as founding Director. The UCL School of Management is located at Level 38 of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, the school is in close proximity to Level39, Europe’s biggest financial technology accelerator, located in the same building. The school, working in association with UCL Advances, is linked to East London Tech City. The school also has a base on the main UCL campus in Bloomsbury, in the UK government’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework,55 per cent of the schools research output was judged to be world-leading, and it ranked second in UK for world leading research output. Professor Martin Kilduff is the founding Deputy Director of Research of the school, UCL departments in closely related fields of computer science, economics, planning and psychology, were ranked at the top for research in UK in the 2014 REF assessment. Moreover, in the REF assessment, UCL had the largest output of world leading research in STEM and social sciences among UK universities, although management has recently emerged as specific area of research at UCL, some prominent figures in closely related fields were faculty members at UCL. Karl Pearson who founded the worlds first statistics department at UCL in 1911, is regarded as the father of modern statistics, pearsons mentor and polymath, Francis Galton, who founded the erstwhile Galton Laboratory of UCL, is considered to be the father of psychometrics and differential psychology. Several important contributions to such as statistics and evolutionary game theory were made by figures like Kirstine Smith, Ronald Fisher. Haldane and John Maynard Smith associated with the lab, in the field of experimental psychology, several faculty members of UCLs Faculty of Brain Sciences like James Sully, Charles Spearman and Tim Shallice made noted contributions to advance the field. Moreover,1922 Nobel Laureate and faculty member of UCL Medical School, the school ranked as one of the most research intensive departments for management research in UK in 2014 REF evaluation. Its masters program in Management is highly selective with around twenty applications made for every place, the schools masters program in Technology Entrepreneurship has spun out several successful startups. UCL is considered to be one of the leading research universities in the world. All students of UCL are automatically members of University College London Union which has over 200 clubs and societies covering a range of sporting, cultural. Societies like UCLU Business Society, Economics and Finance Society and Entrepreneur Society specifically cater to students interested in entrepreneurship, business, economics, UCLs Bloomsbury campus has several cafes and bars and cultural venues like the Grant Museum and Bloomsbury Theatre. Located in central London, it is close to Londons major cultural and recreational venues, like the British Museum, Camden Town and West End
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Birmingham Business School
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Birmingham Business School is the business school of the University of Birmingham in England. Originally established as the School of Commerce in 1902, Birmingham Business School is the oldest business school in the United Kingdom, in 1901, Sir William Ashley took the first Chair of Commerce at the school, where he fostered the development of its commercial programme. From 1902 until 1923 he served as first Professor of Commerce and Dean of the Faculty, will ultimately guide the business activity of the country. In its first year, the costs of the Faculty. There were six students, a room and two classrooms. By 1908, fifteen men had graduated from the School, from 1914 till 1919, University House became a nurses home during World War I. In 1964 the building became a mixed halls of residence until 2002, where it was closed due to the condition of the building, in March 2005 University House was officially opened by Sir Dominic Cadbury as the Business Schools new £20m home. In 2008, the School expanded to add the Department of Economics to its list of departments that already included Accounting and Finance, Management, a brand new £10m postgraduate teaching centre, the Alan Walters Building officially opened in December 2016. The school has a number of research focusing on a range of topics including International Finance, Strategy and Procurement Management, Industrial Strategy. Birmingham Business School, along with just a handful of the business schools, holds the gold standard of triple-crown accreditation from the AACSB, AMBA. In 2016 School achieved a worlds first receiving AMBA accreditation for a wholly online MBA programme, the Birmingham MBA is also taught part-time in collaboration with SIM University in Singapore and Jinan University in Guangzhou. The Birmingham MBA has been ranked in the major MBA league tables. Previous Heads of School have included, David Bailey Jonathan Michie Birmingham Business School University of Birmingham
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John Molson School of Business
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The John Molson School of Business is a business school located in Montreal, Canada. JMSB was established in 1974 by Concordia University, the Goodman Institute’s MBA in Investment Management Program provides the world’s only MBA program that fully integrates the requirements of the CFA Program. This combined curriculum permits students to study towards two world-recognized designations simultaneously, both undergraduate and graduate students are active participants in international business case competitions. The school also hosts two of its own competitions, the John Molson Undergraduate Case Competition and the John Molson MBA International Case Competition, a selected group of undergraduate students manage a $1.9 million endowment portfolio every year as part of the Kenneth Woods Portfolio Management Program. The portfolio was donated by Ken Woods in 2000 for the purpose of training undergraduate students in investment management. BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK Top 30 International Business Schools in 2015, THE ECONOMIST Top 100 Business Schools in 2015. QS GLOBAL200 BUSINESS SCHOOLS REPORT Top 50 Most Targeted Business School Worldwide in 2015, CORPORATE KNIGHTS Top 25 Sustainable Business Schools in 2015. CANADIAN BUSINESS Top 10 Canadian Business Schools by Reputation in 2016, the John Molson School of Business is named after businessman John Molson who was an entrepreneur in Canada during the late 18th century and early 19th century after having emigrated from England. Shortly after his arrival, at the age of 23, he founded the Molson Brewing Company, education in Canada Rankings of universities in Canada Bissonette, L. A. Loyola of Montreal, A Sociological Analysis of an Educational Institution in Transition between 1969 and 1974