This year, coinciding with the inauguration of the academic year, the new edition of ‘The UB in figures' publishes the most outstanding data from last academic year. The document offers a view on the academic activity and shows its evolution over the last courses. For the academic year 2020-2021, a total of 73 bachelor’s degrees courses, 15 dual study pathways, 162 master’s degrees courses and 48 doctoral programmes have been approved. Nowadays the UB has established agreements with 116 of… 
Next week, the Faculty of Economics and Business will host a fascinating experiment with a semi-humanoid robot (TIAGo) who will engage with humans in playing a board game. The experiment will last approximately 5 minutes and, at the end of it, the participant will fill out an anonymous questionnaire. The main objective of the experiment, led by UB Business School’s researcher Santiago Forgas Coll, is to evaluate various aspects of the interaction between the user and the robot acting as…
The exceptional crisis that our societies are going through makes it more necessary than ever for regions, companies, organizations and individuals to reinvent themselves. This year, given the impossibility to hold any face-to-face classroom work, to visit companies & creative spaces or to travel abroad, Mosaic-HEC Montréal and the University of Barcelona decided to reinvent their Summer School on Management of Creativity by offering an exceptional online edition on the theme “RESILIENCE & CREATIVITY” from June 29 to July 10,…
Scopus, the largest database of citations and abstracts of scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, has accepted the inclusion of the ‘Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business’. This is an interdisciplinary peer review journal, edited by the Universitat de Barcelona, specialized in original research, discussions, essays and reviews of literature about business in a dynamic, evolutionary perspective. UB Business School researchers Paloma Fernández Pérez, Professor of Economic and Business History, and Jaume Valls-Pasola, Professor of Management are coeditors of the…