The Business School Broadcast - 3rd November 2017

The Business of Fashion published their global ranking of graduate fashion business courses this week. It may be of little surprise that Paris’ Institut Français de la Mode topped the list, but who made up the rest of the top 10?

As part of a professional education course at the London Business School, the students – mainly senior executives and board members – venture across Regent’s Park and visit the London Zoo with an anthropologist.

The purpose of the visit is to consider the differences and similarities between people and animals, and learn about the human species in the process.

Former Maryland governor Parris Glendening has joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School as an executive visiting professor focusing on community design, smart growth, and real estate & infrastructure.

Led by academics from University of Edinburgh Business School and the University of St Andrews, a study analyzed the performance of banks directed by more than 600 US-born chief executive officers who were children or grandchildren of immigrants.

The study found leaders whose cultural heritage emphasizes restraint, group-mindedness, and long-term orientation were safer, more cost-efficient and as a result more likely to perform under pressure.

Online education firm UpGrad has announced an online education collaboration with the executive education division of Cambridge Judge Business School. With this, UpGrad also announced its international expansion into South East Asia & Middle East markets.

The Charles & Agnes Kazarian Foundation (the Kazarian Foundation) is collaborating with Columbia Business School to launch a new sovereign risk initiative.  The sovereign risk initiative has the potential to radically improve the analysis of sovereign risk and public financial management.