Newsletter #4/2016

MSM Dean Wim Naudé

Maastricht School of Management is the leading business school in the Euregio Maas-Rhine. Our quadruple-accredited full-time The Maastricht MBA is ranked #2 in the Netherlands and is by a far margin the most international MBA degree in the region, as BusinessBecause (read more below) found. We offer the region’s only transnational management education experience, in management and engineering, in partnership with RWTH Aachen University. This is Germany’s top engineering university, ranked #12 in the world in mechanical engineering in the QS University Rankings 2015. We recently awarded degrees to a number of our joint students at a Graduation Ceremony in Aachen (see their elation in the banner above). It is not only these programs, and programs such as our innovative and exciting Sports Management Executive MBA that makes us a leading business school in Europe, but also because of our unmatched global presence in emerging markets. Read in this newsletter about our recent initiatives in Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Iran, Mongolia, Peru, South Africa…

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M.Sc. students in Management and Engineering graduate in Aachen

In 2013 and 2014 Maastricht School of Management and RWTH Aachen University started collaboration on three M.Sc. degrees in management and engineering. In 2015 no less than 85 students from these programs graduated. On 29 April 2016 at a Graduation Ceremony held in Aachen, students were handed their degrees by the Dean of MSM, Professor Wim Naudé and, representing the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of RWTH Aachen University, Professor Matthias Hüsing.

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Graduation in Lima: MSM’s Peruvian and Colombian MBA and DBA students celebrate

MSM is pleased to welcome the newest graduates of the joint MBA program of MSM and Centrum Catolica Graduate School of Business to the international MSM alumni network! The graduation ceremony took place in Lima, Peru on 30 March 2016.

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MSM’s Azerbaijan MBAs explore European business

Intake 3 of MSM’s Executive MBA in Azerbaijan, offered in partnership with ADA University recently visited Maastricht for their study-attachment abroad.

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MSM to start Agribusiness MBA in Mongolia

MSM plans to offer an exciting new MBA with a focus on Agribusiness in Mongolia.  In terms of a recent agreement MSM will cooperate in this with the Mongolian Business Development Agency (MBDA) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The expected start date is September 2016.

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MSM to offer its MBA in Iran

MSM is planning to start its highly accredited MBA program in Iran. Recruitment has already started, and the first cohort is expected to commence in fall 2016. This MBA program will be delivered in partnership with Mahan Business School in Tehran.

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Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: MSM leads the way

It is no exaggeration to state that Maastricht School of Management (MSM) is the leading business school in the Netherlands in teaching and researching Business and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets.

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Maastricht is drawing more international MBA students

BusinessBecause, the network for the business school world, caught up with four of MSM’s full-time, international MBA students to find out why they chose MSM.

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MSM and Fontys Sporthogeschool explore collaboration

Maastricht School of Management and the Fontys Sporthogeschool, located in Eindhoven, are exploring cooperation in teaching and research in the field of sports management, entrepreneurship in the sport industry, and sport business data analytics.

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Managing high performance sports: the case of South-Africa

On 14 April 2016 the Executive MBA in Sports Management students had the unique opportunity to be immersed in a lecture that dealt comprehensively with the nature, size, scope and management of the sports industry in South Africa – Africa’s largest sports market.

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MSM plays key role in IACBE

IACBE has celebrated another successful Annual Conference and Assembly meeting in Memphis early April. MSM’s Associate Dean Ms. Kati Kovacs represented MSM at the event, which started with three intensive days of Board of Commissioners meetings and continued throughout the week with a variety of events and activities.

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Managing innovation in high-tech: the case of Philips’ Wearable Sensing Technologies

On 10 April 2016, Giuseppe Coppola, General Manager of Philips Wearable Sensing Technologies gave an encouraging guest lecture at Maastricht School of Management about “How to build a business from scratch within a big company?” to the audience of the full-time and Executive MBA students.

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Female Talent Development Toolbox now online!

The Ethiopia Education Strategy Centre (ESC) and Maastricht School of Management (MSM) have launched an online Female Talent Development Toolbox (www.femaletalent4dev.org) in support of increasing the number and strengthening the position of women in academic and leadership positions at higher education institutions in Ethiopia.

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Leadership book now available in Korean

Napoleonic Leadership, A Study in Power, written by Dr. Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at MSM and her co-author Professor Jonathan Gosling of the University of Exeter in UK, has now been translated into Korean.

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New and upcoming programs

Executive Education
Strategic Leadership
Organizational Change
MSM deadline: 9 May 2016

Full-time MBA
Application deadline non-EU residents (private sponsorship): 1 July 2016
Application deadline EU residents (private sponsorship): 1 August 2016
Start date: 26 September 2016

Executive MBA
Specializations: 
Sports Management
Healthcare Management
International Business & Sustainable Development
Application deadline non-EU residents (private sponsorship): 1 July 2016
Application deadline EU residents (private sponsorship): 1 August 2016
Start date: 1 October 2016

Maastricht Summer School
Development Projects Management
   Course date: 4 – 8 July 2016
Development Projects Proposals
   Course date: 11 – 15 July 2016
Doing Business in Western West Africa: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
   Course date: 18 – 22 July 2016  

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New and recent publications

Visit our research portal or click on the links below to access our publications. 

Recent titles include:
Migration, occupation and education: Evidence from Ghana
In: UNU-MERIT working paper series
Authors: Clotilde Mahé & Wim Naudé

Is European Entrepreneurship in Crisis? 
In: IZA Discussion Paper 9817
Author: Wim Naudé

Business in Genocide: Understanding and Avoiding Complicity
In: IZA Discussion Paper 9743
Authors: Nora Stel and Wim Naudé

Ondernemerschap helpt om het potentieel van vrouwen te benutten
In: De Volkskrant
Authors: Wim Naudé and Josette Dijkhuizen

Analysing High Performance in the Manufacturing Industry: the case of WP Haton
In: International journal of management cases
Authors: André de Waal

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Latest and upcoming events

Join the Maastricht Entrepreneurship Week
Date: 9 -12 May 2016

Call for Papers Research Conference: The Rise of Eurasia – New perspectives on East-West Business and Economic Relations
Deadline submission of abstracts: 30 May 2016
Conference date: 9 September 2016

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MSM videos

The Maastricht-Suffolk Executive MBA is an international accredited management degree offered in partnership with Suffolk Business School of University Campus Suffolk (UCS) and Maastricht School of Management (MSM). Watch the video to get an impression of the program. 

Click here for the MSM YouTube channel

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Vacancies

Click here for the current job opportunities at Maastricht School of Management. 

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