In early 2025, Woxsen University’s School of Business launched Polaris 1.0, a bold experiment designed to challenge the long-standing limitations of higher education. Around the world, universities have been criticized for producing graduates who excel in theory but stumble when confronted with the realities of modern workplaces. Polaris 1.0 set out to rewrite that script,…

Students and young entrepreneurs representing a number of European business schools participated in the Grand Finale of the 3rd Annual INNOVA Europe Competition earlier this month. This year’s event brought together leading business schools from across Europe, as well as a guest school from India. These top academic institutions competed to tackle a unique challenge: developing innovative…

In 2025, more people access financial services through a mobile screen curated by a technology platform than through a bank branch (Chaudhari, 2025; Pazarbasioglu et al., 2020). FinTech firms are unbundling services with speed and precision, while BigTech giants such as Amazon, Tencent and Google are embedding financial products into everyday consumer ecosystems. Banks, once…

From Bumble, to Canva, to TaskRabbit: some of the most recognisable brands out there were founded by women. And, for that matter, many of the most exciting start-ups that we see and hear about are women-led. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to many, and yet, there are still significant barriers to female entrepreneurship –…

The paradigm shift toward evidence-based organisational transformation is not merely trending in academic institutions—it has become essential for survival. A framework for academic excellence: Academic leaders Dr. Hemachandran K, Vice Dean and Director of AI Research Centre at Woxsen University, and Dr. Raul Villamarin Rodriguez, Vice President of Woxsen University, represent a new generation of…

Wilfred Mijnhardt, Policy Director General at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and Honorary Professor at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, brings over 25 years of experience shaping the strategic transformation of business schools towards impact-driven mindsets. Can you introduce yourself and share what initially drew you to focus on impact in business education?…