FT top European business schools ranking, FT/McKinsey book award winner

Welcome to Business University Briefing. We give you insights from Andrew Hill and Jonathan Moules, and the select of top tales currently being read through in company universities. Edited by Wai Kwen Chan and Andrew Jack.

European company universities position 2020

Come across out which are the top 90 company universities in Europe, according to the Monetary Situations and read through the relaxation of our report.

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Andrew Hill’s administration challenge

Final 7 days, No Filter by Sarah Frier was named Financial Situations and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. (You can check out highlights of the online ceremony below.)

The book appears to be at the creeping manage Fb exerted in excess of Instagram following obtaining the picture app, whose founders in the long run quit.

In my column, I’ve touched on the counterfactual historical past in which the founders reject Facebook’s give. So for my management challenge, make sure you consider what would have occurred experienced Instagram remained independent. Could it have prospered without the need of the infrastructure, data and money support of Fb? Send your feelings — as concise as you can control — to [email protected].

Thanks for your responses to my contact for methods in which “not performing from household” careers could be redesigned to permit for a lot more remote perform. Several of you pointed out that plumbers and other tradespeople could perform remotely offering video diagnosis of uncomplicated complications. Sarah Ouarbya drew a cheeky parallel with administration consultants, pointing out that “the tradesperson rakes in the gains whilst the shopper has carried out all the tricky perform [and] finally the shoppers develop into so proficient in the activity they adjust task and develop into the tradesperson”.

In more reading, dip into the proposals of the a few finalists for the book award’s sister Bracken Bower Prize, commencing with winner Stephen Boyle’s concept about how central bank digital currencies could remodel the financial system.

Jonathan Moules’ company university news

This has been a tests year for the company schooling sector, but 1 that several universities have turned to their gain — particularly in the “old earth” nations, highlighted in our latest annual position of European company universities.

Figures from the Graduate Administration Admission Council, present European universities benefited a lot more from the rebound in 2020 purposes than their friends in the US and Asia Pacific. Our analysis highlights the larger proportions of European learners taking postgraduate courses immediately following their to start with diploma and the potential of several foremost programmes to continue at the very least some deal with-to-deal with teaching.

It will be critical for European universities to capitalise on their innovations in teaching shorter classes with broader enchantment, this sort of as the masters in administration diploma, even though embracing the technological and logistical necessities of on the internet.

There is superior news for would-be MBA learners. Six in 10 of admissions teams surveyed by schooling products and services supplier Kaplan stated they experienced suspended the GRE or GMAT exam prerequisite.

In other news, The Business University (formerly Cass) at City, University of London, is crowdsourcing learners, employees and alumni to obtain a new identify, after dropping its link to British slaver Sir John Cass in July, whose basis donated to the university.

For more reading, I advise the following piece about the potential risks of a domino influence from burnout, written by Thomas Roulet at Cambridge Decide Business University. We still require to treatment for ourselves as the financial affect of the pandemic reverberates in the coming year.

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To obtain out which subjects European company universities are superior at teaching, Leo Cremonezi and Sam Stephens look for answers in the most current FT rankings knowledge.

Postgraduates, who accomplished an FT survey in 2019 and 2020, report that MBAs are superior for entrepreneurship and global company teaching, even though the EMBA is more robust in corporate strategy and finance. Masters in Administration degrees score highly for basic administration, global company and finance.

Also, the FT’s position crew delves into the 2020 company university rankings knowledge, from careers to value for income, and graduates’ views on what company universities do perfectly in ­— and considerably less perfectly.

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The real course war is in the rich An tutorial blames ‘elite overproduction’ for political turmoil in the west

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