MSc in Business Research alumnus César Fernández combines his job as associate director and coaching practice leader at the consulting firm Talengo with the academic work at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the School of Continuing Education (IL3-UB). César graduated in MSc in Business Research last academic year. Before, he had studied a bachelor in Psychology at the University of Barcelona and an MBA at the ESADE Business School. When you applied for the MSc in Business Research at…
The Universitat de Barcelona Business School will start receiving applications from January 8th 2018 for the Executive MBA (EMBA) programme starting in the following October. There will be four admission rounds until June 17th 2018. However, applying early is encouraged, especially if the student is looking to secure funding. The deadline for the first round of applications is February 11th. The second period will start on the following day, February 12th, and will close on 25th March 2018. The third…
The Universitat de Barcelona Business School has opened applications for 2018/19 entry to the MSc in Business Research and the PhD in Business. The two programmes together constitute the Graduate Programme in Business. However, these two stages can be coursed separately provided that the student meets the requirements. The MSc in Business Research is taught full-time over one year or part-time over two years, while the PhD in Business normally involves three years of full-time study or six years of…
The University of Barcelona holds the 46th position worldwide in scientific performance, according to the University Ranking by Academic Performance 2017-2018 (URAP). Moreover, it is once more the only university of Spain to appear among the top fifty universities. No other Spanish university has either been awarded with the highest international category (A++). The University of Barcelona stands out particularly in indicators on the number of scientific publications and citations. The leading institutions in URAP 2017-2018 are Harvard University (United…
Luis Andrés Araya defended his PhD thesis at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School on September 4th, 2017. He has been director of the Administration and Business School at the Miguel de Cervantes University (Chile) for several months now. He is also researcher and director of the master’s in Strategic Management at the same university. At the Health Institute of the Andrés Bello University Luis Andrés Araya is an advisor, while he is lecturer at the University of Chile, the… 
The University of Barcelona keeps on progressing and consolidating as the top university in Spain in the main international scientific rankings. In the new edition of the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), our university steps up to position number 103, and improves nineteen positions compared to 2016. The university improved also in the National Taiwan University Ranking (NTU) and holds a position among the top 100 universities worldwide, in particular number 64 –five more positions than in 2016– at a global scale, and…
The Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona will host a proposal-writing workshop on November 7th 2017 aimed at managers and researchers that are currently working on a proposal for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks call 2018. The main aim of this workshop is to provide information and the tools needed in order to fine-tune their proposals and meet the goals and requirements of this EU-funded programme. The workshop will take place in the Aula Magna of the 690 building of the…
The Career Services at the Faculty of Economics and Business have plenty of activities to offer, which are designed to develop the professional competencies of all our students. Throughout the year, presentations by large companies, job search workshops and other sessions relating to different sectors are being held in the Faculty. On Monday next week, the Career Services will once more set up the “CV Clinics” in the main corridor of the 690 Building, where students can bring their CVs…
The Barcelona Entrepreneurship Institute (BIE) at the University of Barcelona and the US Consulate General Barcelona have co-organised and will host the conference ‘Tech Entrepreneurship and Innovation by 2020: The Role of Established Companies and Higher Education Institutions’. The speaker will be Ingrid Vanderveldt, technology entrepreneur and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020) and Vanderveldt Global Investments. The event will take place on October 16th at 12:00 in Dolors Aleu Room at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB).…
In order to improve the employability of Executive MBA students and provide them with the necessary tools to promote their personal brand, the Universitat de Barcelona Business School and the Career Services at the Faculty of Economics and Business have launched the MBA career development programme. This new scheme has put in place a series of workshops aimed specifically at Executive MBA students, known as MBA career development programme. Sessions will focus on topics such as CV/LinkedIn, communications, networking/job interviews… 
The 2017/18 academic year has already started for MSc in Business Research students at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School. Once again, the master’s displays a wide diversity among the class group. There is no doubt this heterogeneity contributes to the success of this degree. Overall, 11 different countries are represented. Nationals make up 15% of all students, while the remaining 85% are international students from around the world. Europe, the Americas and Asia make up 30% each and Middle…
Universitat de Barcelona Business School researchers Paloma Miravitlles, Fariza Achcaoucaou, Ana Núñez-Carballosa and Laura Guitart-Tarrés have published the article Is Spain losing out on international investment in R&D? in the latest dossier of the Social Observatory of “la Caixa” entitled Research and innovation: what are our stakes? The report was officially presented in Madrid on September 20th 2017 by the Chief Executive Officer and the Corporate Director of of the Research and Strategy Area of the “la Caixa” Banking Foundation,…
The Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona is pleased to welcome five new Job Market hires in 2017/18: Julia de Frutos, Jordi Teixidó, Guillaume Chapelle, David Rivero Leiva and Martí Sagarra. Julia de Frutos has joined the Department of Economic, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics as a guest professor. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Ghent University. Her research interests span Environmental Economics, Game Theory and Control Theory. She received her… 
The Executive MBA at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School reaches its 25th edition this academic year. Since 1992, this programme has trained businessmen and businesswomen of all kinds. In 2017/18 we will be welcoming 26 students from 12 different countries. As a result, the degree of internationalisation is very high and the percentage of foreign students climbs to 80%. Taking gender into account, there is a larger proportion of men than women, with 73% against 27%. The same figures… 
One of the strengths of the Executive MBA at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School is the possibility of undertaking a work placement. Students agree that internships add value to their CVs. Ana María Rivera Ortega and María Paula Capelli are two of the students that decided to embark on an internship during the academic year 2016-2017 at the multinational automotive manufacturing company Vokswagen and Deutsche Telekom's global IT services and consulting company T-Systems. “The internship allowed me to consolidate… 
The University of Barcelona has announced up to 77 Erasmus+ grants for teaching staff for the academic year 2017-2018. The main aim of this funding is to support teaching periods at higher education institutions abroad that have signed a mobility agreement with the Faculty to which the applicant belongs. In the case of the Faculty of Economics and Business, there are 63 agreements in place with universities from 17 different European countries. The maximum duration of the teaching period abroad… 
The 2017 Summer School on Management of Creativity kicked off in Montreal last Wednesday June 28th, 2017. The programme has gathered 48 participants from nine different countries. After a week in Montreal, they will land in Barcelona on July 9th, 2017, where they will spend another week. Attendees are a mix of professionals in large international companies such as Cirque du Soleil, Ubisoft, Chanel and Torrot; master’s and doctorate students; and scholars from 10 different universities. The Summer School also… 
Former Executive MBA student and Business Process Leader at Click-IT Technologies Cristóbal Avilés has recently joined the team of lecturers at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School. He will walk into the same classrooms where he was once a student, but now as a lecturer. When he started studying the programme he had already 15 year of experience, but he acknowledges that the course allowed him to make a qualitative leap in his professional life. “The Executive MBA was a turning point.… 
Students on MSc in Business Research at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School have finished the academic year this week after presenting their master theses. Completing the thesis has been the last stage of this one-year degree, during which they have developed skills, techniques and methodologies to conduct their own research. Some of the students will now request admission to the PhD in Business. Others will embark upon careers in research and policymaking in the public and private sectors. In… 
The Executive MBA at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School is almost full for the academic year 2017/18. Apply now to be considered for this face-to-face programme taught over a single academic year. The admissions process operates on a rolling basis from the application opening date until all places are filled. It is expected that we will reach the limit on places in the following weeks. Therefore, do not delay in completing the application! Applicants may also benefit from one… 
Elio Shijaku joined the Department of Business at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School in October 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher, after successfully going through a competitive international selection process. He obtained his PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2016. He has also been a Visiting Researcher at the Bocconi University and Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In this interview he talks about his experience so far and his expectations about the future. It’s already been… 
The University of Barcelona has again improved its position in the QS World University Rankings. Our institution climbed four places up to 156th in the 2018 edition of the ranking from its previous position of 160th in 2017 of over 950 of the best universities in the world. The University of Barcelona came 64th in Europe, jumping up two places from the 66th place last year. Also, it has again been ranked the best university in Spain. This year’s results… 
José María Gay de Liébana, member of the Universitat de Barcelona Business School, has been awarded the European Medal for Merit in Work by the European Association of Economy and Competitiveness in recognition of his professional career as an economist and his participation in various media. He has also been distinguished as Honorary Counselor of the organisation. Gay de Liébana, doctor in Economics and Law, usually comments economic current affairs in several TV and radio programmes, he also writes articles in… 
The 2017 edition of the Careers Month at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School closed last Wednesday with great success. Four workshops and four panel discussions were held during the month of May to boost the career prospects of graduate students in Economics and Business. Sessions featured as many as fifteen different guest speakers, which gave us different insights on various career paths for students and job search techniques. Workshops covered communication, CV, LinkedIn and job search strategies. On the… 
The University of Barcelona has jumped eight places in the Leiden Ranking 2017 for Social Sciences and Humanities, from 161st to 153rd position worldwide. The university is the leading institution in Spain in this field since 2016, when it overtook the Autonomous University of Barcelona as the top institution in Spain. The University of Barcelona has maintained the upward trend since 2014, improving its position by 123 places worldwide. Havard (USA), Oxford (UK) and Toronto (Canada) lead the Social Sciences… 
The Universitat de Barcelona Business School invited Carlos Garza, founding partner and director of the catering company Universitas, to be our guest speaker in the Executive MBA “Business Chat”. During this session, which was held at the Faculty of Economics and Business on May 9th 2017, Garza spoke about the company, its mission and values. He also explored the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Universitas manages a total of 21 cafes and restaurants at the University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University and… 
The Summer School on Management of Creativity in an Innovation Society offers a unique and privileged opportunity for 60 participants from different countries and backgrounds to explore and compare two ecosystems in creative and innovative cities, as well as to tap into new sources of inspiration on how to create environments that stimulate innovation. The course is jointly organised by the Entrepreneurship Chair at the University of Barcelona and the multidisciplinary platform for research and training Mosaic at HEC Montreal.… 
María de Lourdes Eguren studied the MSc in Business Research (2009-2010) and the PhD in Business (2010-2015) at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School. She works now at Bunge, one of the largest agribusiness and food companies in the world. While she was still studying her master’s she found a job at another multinational, in this case in the pharmaceutical business: Novartis. Eguren combines her managerial job at Bunge with lectures at Tecnocampus de Mataró, where she works as an… 
This month of May will bring plenty of careers guidance activities aimed at graduate students at the UB Business School and the UB School of Economics. Two different sessions are scheduled for every Wednesday, from May 3rd to 24th, 2017. Workshops targeting topics such as communication, CV, LinkedIn, and job search strategies will take place every Wednesday morning, from 10:00 to 11:30. In the afternoon, panel discussions addressing Consulting, Big Data, Financial Markets, and the Public Sector will be held… 
Ramon Alemany Leira, Professor in the Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics, took office as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona on April 19th, 2017. Vice-Deans Laura Guitart Tarrés, Raúl Ramos and Núria Rodríguez-Àvila also took office during the same ceremony, as well as Teresa Preixens as secretary of the Faculty. The new team led by Ramon Alemany wants to maintain the level of excellence achieved in bachelor and master’s degrees and… 
The University of Barcelona, as coordinator of the Red Iberoamericana para la Competitividad, Innovación y Desarrollo (REDCID), welcomes the submission of papers for presentation at the International Workshop for the Innovation and Sustainable Development, which will take place in Barcelona on June 26th-27th, 2017. Research topics may include business and economic applications of the innovation, finance, fuzzy logic, management, marketing and simulation. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in a book of proceedings with… 
Patricia Elgoibar is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School. She joined the Department of Business at the Faculty of Economics and Business last September. Previously she was assistant professor and academic director of the MSc in International Business Negotiation at IESEG School of Management (Paris). In this interview, she shares with us her thought and impressions about her past few months at the University of Barcelona. It’s already been seven months since you joined the UB…
The Universitat de Barcelona Business School has announced the launch of two European Talent Scholarships aimed at students from European Union countries with an outstanding professional profile and the skills needed to become a leader that will have an influence on business in the future. Students may apply for a grant of 50% of the tuition fees of the Executive MBA programme at the University of Barcelona (the scholarship does not cover the administrative fee). The main aim of this…
The Universitat de Barcelona Business School stand at the postgraduate fair Futura was approached by hundreds of students. The event took place in Barcelona from 24th to 25th March. For the third consecutive year, the centre for research and postgraduate and executive education in business at the Faculty of Economics and Business showcased its degrees, which include the MSc in Business Research, the PhD in Business, the MSc in International Business and the Executive MBA. A large majority of students…
Carlos Astete Larraín is a former Executive MBA student at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School. He is now employed as an expert in training at the law firm Cuatrecases, one of the market leaders in the Iberian Peninsula. Only five months after having started the EMBA, Astete found a job in a tech startup based in Barcelona. In this interview, he speaks about his experience while at the University of Barcelona and his later professional life. In which way…
Luis Andrés Araya Castillo, PhD student at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School, has been awarded the best paper in the Leadership, Strategy and International Business track at the 32nd National Meeting of Management and Economics Schools (ENEFA). His paper “Strategic groups and competitive dynamics in higher education in Chile” explores the higher education from a strategic point of view and according to the strategic group theory. The paper is co-authored by his PhD advisor and researcher at the UB…
The University of Barcelona will host the 2nd Business Creation Workshop on March 16th 2017, from 9:30 to 14:00. The session, organised by the Doctoral School, is aimed at PhD students and will be taught by experienced professionals at Barcelona Activa, a public organisation that promotes economic development in Barcelona. Services, programmes and activities available for entrepreneurs to assess the viability of projects and business creation will be explained at the beginning of the session. This will be followed by…
Job and internship seekers are invited to attend the Employment Forum that will be held next Tuesday from 10:00 to 17:30 at the Faculty of Economics and Business. This event is a unique opportunity for students to gather career and employment related information from employers, as well as to submit their resume for interview consideration. Participants will have a chance to interact and connect with a range of companies including: Danone, Pepe Jeans, VidaCaixa, Nielsen, PwC, SCA Hygiene Products, PepsiCo,…
Concepció Curet, managing partner at the consulting firm GlobalMed, has joined the Universitat de Barcelona Business School as Executive MBA lecturer. She will teach the course on Total Quality & Environmental Management as part of the Operations Module. The course helps students better understand de principles of Total Quality Management; the mission, vision and values of corporate policy; the implications of adopting quality and environmental management systems ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 at all corporate levels; and the Six-sigma process…
Researcher at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School and professor of Financial Economics and Accounting Montserrat Casanovas has been appointed full member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED), a prestigious centenary institution in Europe which defends the prestige of the title of doctor and has taken care of maintaining a close collaboration with its members, some of which are Nobel Prize laureates. The RAED has its origins in its creation as the Association of Enrolled Doctors of Catalonia…
The Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona hosted a PhD in Business Workshop on February 21st, 2017, which showcased current research by doctoral students at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School. This workshop provided a unique opportunity for PhD students in Business to present and discuss their work with peers and academic staff. Topics ranged from competition and innovation to state of the art in business research and performance measurement interventions, among others. The final programme…
A number of activities related to the forthcoming Job Forum are taking place at the Faculty of Economics and Business in the next two weeks. The Career Services office has organised workshops and guidance sessions aimed at graduate and undergraduate students that will attend the event on March 7th, 2017. Topics include personal marketing, tips on writing a successful CV, and job interview tips for job-seekers at companies such as Unilever and Danone. The Job Forum will take place from…
Recently published university rankings show that Barcelona offers one of the world’s most appealing environments to live in and study in the world. According to QS, Barcelona ranks as Europe’s No. 8 top city for students, after having climbed three places compared to 2016. In fact, it is also the second-best ranked city in southern Europe. This might be explained by Barcelona’s relatively low living costs compared to other major European cities such as Paris or London, as well as…