It’s become strategically imperative for many business schools to reach beyond their home country borders. For ESSEC Business School, this has most recently transpired as launching their own hub in India. ESSEC Business School officially announced the opening of its hub in Mumbai last month in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron. The strategic…

In France, the traditional, even “royal,” route into the top Master in Management programmes at business schools such as HEC Paris, ESSEC, and ESCP Business School runs through the classes préparatoires, commonly known as prépas. These demanding two-year programmes, taken after high school, prepare students for the highly competitive entrance examinations to France’s grandes écoles…

Routledge has published a textbook that directly addresses the needs of English-taught business programmes: “Management: A European Perspective”. The book organises the foundations of modern management while firmly embedding them in the socioeconomic realities of Central and Eastern Europe – where managerial decisions are shaped by economic transformation, competitive pressure, regulatory volatility, technology and geopolitics.…

The appointment of a new Dean is big news in the world of business education, and Professor Wendy Loretto has just been appointed as the new Head and Dean of Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow.  Professor Loretto joins from the University of Edinburgh Business School, where she was Professor of Organisational Behaviour and…

Earlier this month, more than 450 deans and senior leaders in management education gathered at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business for the 2026 EFMD Deans Conference under the theme “New Realities, Bold Choices: Reinventing the Business School.” Across two days, discussions moved from diagnosis to execution, examining how business schools respond to geopolitical…

MIT Sloan topped the latest Financial Times Global MBA rankings, with INSEAD in second and Wharton in third, and there are plenty of success stories to share.  The Dean of INSEAD, Francisco Veloso, says: “In today’s complex environment, shaped by geopolitical uncertainty, polarisation and rapid technological change, our mission to bring together people, cultures and ideas is…