Italian University Bocconi increases the number of English-language programs.

One of Italy's leading universities in the field of business, economics and law - Universita Bocconi - is expanding its range of programs in English, and offers scholarships to foreign students to study in Milan. Since September 2007, will start three new master's programs, and in January 2008, the first students will be enrolled on a course Executive MBA.

Three new English-language programs leading to the master, it's MSc in Marketing Management; MSc in Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology and MSc in Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment. Executive MBA course will be taught in a university business school - SDA Bocconi. There already has one program EMBA - taught in Italian. With the new program, the number of courses in English-speaking university Bocconi rises to 23, including the recently launched program of Executive Master in Marketing and Sales. In addition, to study in the 2007-08 academic year, the university offers 40 new scholarships for international full-time students: 10 - for bachelors, 30 - for the Masters. The scholarship covers the full cost of tuition and accommodation, and also provides 4 thousand euros to spend.

The best business schools in Europe to compete in the contest European Business Schools Case Challenge

Students of MBA programs of business schools that are among the top fifty schools in Europe according to Financial Times, will be able to meet face to face and test their potential as future business leaders in the contest European Business Schools Case Challenge 2006-2007.

45 business schools were invited to take qualifying round. Schools that rank FT European Business Schools Rankings 2005 took the top five lines, were contestants automatically. Among them - London Business School (UK), INSEAD (France), IMD (Switzerland), IESE (Spain) and the Instituto de Empresa (Spain). The remaining finalists will be announced in June 2006. In the final, which will take place within the walls of INSEAD in April 2007, will get 16 schools.

The competition will consist of several rounds. In each round, the team of 5 members be covered "case" - to solve a specific business problem from the real-world (eg, case-method - business case study). Proposed business objectives are fully simulated real-life situations: the participants will have to work under stress and time pressure. Designed contestants options to resolve business problems will be evaluated by members of the independent jury - members of the academic and business communities.

The winning team will be awarded the prize money, and the business school will receive trophy and the title - The European Business Schools Case Challenge Winner 2007. As noted by Jeffrey Gray (Jeffrey Gray), Director Ecch - the organizer of the event, the competition The European Business Schools Case Challenge is one of the most important events in the life of every business school. Case method is recognized as the most effective in teaching business, and as for the contest, this method allows you to really evaluate the potential of students.

For the first time this biennial competition, which involved 14 business schools, was conducted in 2005. The winner was the team of the French school INSEAD.

Copenhagen Business School (CBS): perhaps the most modest organization in Europe

CBS Executive branch of the Danish Business School Copenhagen Business School was founded 12 years ago. Along with EMBA lasting 21 months, which went down in 2005, ranking 75-the world's best EMBA programs by Financial Times, the school has also developed a one-year full-time MBA program. Starting this year, CBS will be the third partner (instead of French school Essec) in the European Consortium MBA with Warwick Business School in the UK and the University of Mannheim in Germany. In February 2007, CBS with Kelley school at Indiana University launched an Internet-MBA.

By analogy with a very memorable advertising slogan of German beer "Carlsberg" ("Probably the best beer in the world"), Copenhagen Business School, located in the heart of Denmark's capital, may well introduce oneself himself as "probably a very good business school." However, while the majority of American and European business schools are literally screaming about the professionalism of their teachers, the number of students or specific strategies of their deans, CBS continues to quietly do their work. Such modesty surprised even some teachers of the school. Sven Dzhungagen (Sven Junghagen), Associate Professor and Director of the School of CBS Graduate school, describes it as only "a Danish phenomenon."

In favor of CBS said three factors. First - this is the size: the school has about 450 permanent professors of that is approximately equal to the total number of teachers of such schools as the Insead, London Business School, IMD and Iese Business School. The number of students is also growing rapidly. To date, the school take courses in more than 11 thousand students, which is 40% more than eight years ago.

Secondly, the school has built its reputation on the close cooperation with the business. A very common reason for criticism of business schools now is that the schools are separated from the real world of business. School is CBS has strong links with local businesses. "Half the time students spend in school, and a half - in the company. And are they really work, "- says Dean EMBA.

The third factor is undoubtedly the deep respect that belong to Scandinavian companies in the world. CBS has built its brand on a combination of innovation and development that has long been recognized native Scandinavian qualities. Copenhagen itself is a vector of gravity - this city is the fifth-most visited in Europe, after cities such as London and Paris.

Freshman Christine Blin (Christine Blin), half-French, half-Icelander, said many of the 40 students enrolled in full-time MBA program this year, hoping to get the final, the practical part of the course in the companies of Copenhagen. 78% of students - not the Danes. Some of them daily to cross the Swedish border, going to school.

Along with the desire not to lose relevance to the Danish industry and development of international relations, CBS has two additional goals: to increase the productivity of their research and to build a reputation provider of world-class MBA program.