Montserrat Crespi-Vallbona, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and UB Business School researcher, and Oscar Mascarilla Miró, researcher of the UB School of Economics, are the co-authors of an article titled “Street Art as a Sustainable Tool in Mature Tourism Destinations: A Case Study of Barcelona”. Recently published in the scientific journal International Journal of Cultural Policy, it focuses on the idea that tourism needs both an urgent innovation and creativity to keep its boom going. The current tendency to live experiences… 
The applications are now open for 2021/22 entry to the graduate programme in Business at the UB Business School. The graduate programme comprises a one-year MSc in Business Research and the PhD in Business. The two stages can be coursed independently of one another 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 five years of part-time study. There will be four… 
The Business School at the Universitat of Barcelona welcomed 13 new students that joined this year the MSc in Business Research. Most of them come from Asia (53%), Europe (23%), America (16%), and Middle East (8%). Altogether, there are 7 nationalities represented on this class where the average age is 27 years old. This diverse group of people will now pursue a cutting-edge master’s degree programme, designed to provide students with advanced training in research skills, techniques and methodologies in order to conduct their own research into business and business competitiveness. Students enrolled on the MSc in Business Research typically have an undergraduate… 
Alfonso Antonio Hernández Vivanco, PhD graduate in Business at the UB Business School, has been awarded the extraordinary doctoral prize for the academic year 2018-2019. The decision was taken by the Governing Council of the Universitat de Barcelona past October 7th, 2020. Dr Hernández Vivanco defended his PhD thesis titled “Understanding Innovation within the context of the Integration of Management Systems” on July 16th, 2018. The research, directed by the UB Business School researchers Dr Mercè Bernardo and Dr Claudio Cruz Cázares, aims to understand how organizations manage to innovate in a way that they meet with… 
The European Continuous Conference on Collaborative Conflict (E4C) network announces their first online event to take place on December 9th, from 17:00 to 19:00 CET. UB Business School researcher Patricia Elgoibar, and PhD in Business candidate Carlos Politi, are members of this network that aims to strengthen the relationships between researchers in conflict management in Europe. The network organises multiple events throughout the year with the aim of promoting a European network including 21st century technologies and sustainable aspirations, as well as practically navigating continuous academic exchange in the world of Covid-19 boundaries and the…