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Woxsen University Ranks Amongst Top 47 Universities Globally As PRME Champion 2023

HYDERABAD, India, Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Woxsen University has been selected as one of the prestigious PRME Champions for 2023, amongst top 47 universities and institutions globally. Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) is an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact. The PRME Champions represent a group of dedicated business and management schools globally, committed… Read more >

Woxsen University Established an Educational Excellence and Innovation Centre

An Advisory Board, student teams, and various projects were taken up, focusing on the core pillars of Woxsen: The prime goal of the Board would be to provide insights on how to develop effective learning environments, critical thinking, fostering ethical & humanitarian values and pedagogical innovations. The Board members are a mix of Industry experts,… Read more >

No Longer an Option: Financial Literacy, a CORE Necessity at AUC

Since fall of 2021, AUC School of Business has collaborated with the Academy of Liberal Arts at AUC to offer a Financial Literacy course as part of freshman students’ Core Curriculum. The course is offered as a Core 1099 course (selected topics) every semester and does not have any prerequisites. It is aimed at all… Read more >

A New Life for Milton Friedman’s Pencil

“Look at this lead pencil. There is not a single person in the world who can make this pencil.”  That was Milton Friedman 16 minutes into the first installment of “Free to Choose,” the 1980 television show by the Nobel Laureate and his wife, Rose Friedman. For the next two minutes he told the remarkable… Read more >

Redefining Modern ERS in Higher Education

Woxsen University follows a simple but thorough strategy to create an impact in society built on two constituent processes: PRME Principle Woxsen ERS Principle 1: Purpose Woxsen’s Master of Business Administration Programme aims to sensitise and develop student capability in the area of ethical, responsible and sustainable business practices.  Principle 2: Values Our curriculum and… Read more >

University of Glasgow Celebrates Tercentenary of Adam Smith  

The University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School is marking the 300th anniversary of pioneering Scot Adam Smith with a year-long celebration of his life, work and influence.   The tercentenary commemoration of The Father of Economics includes a host of events in Scotland and around the world, designed to inspire renewed discussion about Smith’s ideas.  … Read more >

Esade Supported More Than 2,000 Entrepreneurs and Drove the Creation of 320 Start-Ups Thanks to its Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

More female entrepreneurs take part in programs, and interest for social impact projects increases. Since 2012, start-ups in Esade entrepreneurial ecosystem have raised more than €3.5 billion of funding. The Esade Entrepreneurship Institute (EEI) founded 30 years ago is now an international benchmark in which research and support for entrepreneurship play an essential role. More than 2,000 entrepreneurs… Read more >

Hanken School of Economics Granted Substantial EU Funding to Facilitate Free Access to Scientific Books

The funding is part of the Horizon Europe CSA project, Palomera (Policy Alignment of Open access Monographs in the European Research Area). In addition to European universities, various umbrella organisations for libraries, research funders and publishers are involved in the two-year project. “We will get an overall picture of the challenges and possibilities of publishing… Read more >

Gies Business iMBA Named MBA Program of the Year by Poets&Quants

The fully online MBA from the University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business has earned the coveted distinction of 2022 MBA Program of the Year by Poets&Quants, the preeminent source for information on undergraduate and graduate business education. Gies’ MBA – known as the iMBA – is a full 72-credit-hour MBA offered completely online and at a… Read more >