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We love our graduation wall at SBS. When walking by it’s always such a great reminder of how proud we are of all our students and the wonderful memory of graduation. Due to COVID-19, our graduation needed to be postponed to 2021. However, we still wanted to honor this year’s Class of 2020 and have a special display on our wall. We want to thank the students who supplied a...Read More

We are proud to announce that we have recently published Volume 8 of our very own Journal of Applied Business Research. The JABR mission is to publish research that advances the field of Business Management. Methodologically, JABR covers the full range of empirically-based modes of inquiry using appropriate research frameworks, provided they demonstrate generic insights of significant value to Business Management. Here you can access our latest volume for 2020:...Read More

The Supervisory Board at SBS Swiss Business School is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Carl Olsen as SBS Swiss Business School’s next SBS president. Dr. Carl Olsen completed his undergraduate, graduate, and military studies in the United States. He completed his doctoral studies at SBS Swiss Business School in 2015. His 23-year career as an officer in the US Army included troop leadership assignments in the US, Europe, and...Read More

SBS launched today the first SBS Series of Innovation – a Business Plan Competition for a More Sustainable Business World – to the students of the full-time graduate and undergraduate program! The students from each program will need to submit a video elevator pitch and business plan on a new product or service based on an SDG Sustainability Goal! The top five submissions will present in front of the SBS...Read More

In honor of our graduation, we have our honorary president,Dr. Craig Shoemaker, holding his last commencement speech to the Class of 2020. His speeches are always inspirational and filled with great advice. Read More

Yesterday was the last day of our fall thesis defense! All our students have done great research on so many different topics from so many different types of industries. We especially congratulate Jamila Akhundova, for winning a research scholarship from the Swiss Confederation. She will be a junior researcher in the Universite de Fribourg. Bachelor of Business Administration Aram Arakelian Topic: Viral Marketing on the Influence on Consumer Decision Buying...Read More

Here is a short summary of the successful Eden Doctoral Conference that took place from August 19th till 21st 2020. SBS Swiss Business School was a co-organizer of this event! SEMINAR THEME: Next Generation Project Managers:Mindfulness, Happiness, Spirituality, Intelligence, Wisdom andPassion? Aims: 1. To provide a forum for doctoral students in project management from Europe and around the world, where they can share experiences in studying project management, exchanging information...Read More

Zurich, August 18, 2020 SBS Honorary President, Dr. Craig Shoemaker will step down from the presidency by 30 September 2020. Dr. Shoemaker, a scholar and professor of marketing, has been our honorary president since October 2013. During his presidency, SBS obtained accreditation from the British Accreditation Council (BAC) and continued its international expansion. Dr. Shoemaker also reinforced the strategic and academic governance at SBS. A new Honorary President will be...Read More

Happy Birthday, Switzerland! Wishing all your Swiss a happy Swiss national day! We wish everyone a great day today!Read More

SBS and SKEMA have partnered to increase the value of the doctorial education in the form of Project and PMO management research seminar and doctorial colloquium which is schedule for August 19-21 2020. The conference comes under the name of EDEN which is the name given by EISAM (European Institute for Advanced Management Studies. EDEN is from the Book of Genesis and refers to the garden of earthly delights which...Read More

We were so happy to welcome the Executive and Flex MBA students back on CAMPUS starting in July! We have been preparing for this moment since the end of the lockdown. Our health and safety team has developed a secure protection concept to ensure that students and faculty are meeting the regulations set by Bundesamt für Gesundheit BAG. Now we have a thermal temperature check upon arrival at SBS and...Read More

Dr. Bert Wolfs together with Dr. Sudhindra Bhatt and Dr. Swati Sharma have published a new paper that is now Scopus Indexed. This paper seeks to compare stages of concern between faculty members of university management departments and private business schools about the use of information technology-based education. This study is based on a modified version of the Hall et al. Concern Based Adoption Model (CBAM). Analysis of variance (ANOVA)...Read More

From June 6th, 2020, the measures put in place to fight the new coronavirus will be extensively eased. That is the decision taken by the Federal Council on May 27th, 2020, given the positive developments in the epidemiological situation in Switzerland.  Classroom teaching at upper secondary and vocational schools, as well as higher education institutions, will be able to resume from June 8th, 2020.   SBS protection concept will be...Read More

We are excited to partner with Coursera, the leading online learning platform, to make our students job-ready. It’s a digital leap towards transforming the learning experience for our students, alumni, and faculty! The world’s most in-demand skills are now accessible to our students, faculty, and alumni on Coursera. Become more job-ready! When they’re one skill away from getting their dream job, our students are closing the gap with Coursera. Interested?...Read More

During these uncertain times, SBS Swiss Business School understands it may be hard for students to plan their educational future. We have tailored all our academic programs and activities for our current and future students to meet those educational aspirations. How may you ask? SBS has an online learning tool that will allow our programs that are due to start in 2020-2021 to take place. We will continue to provide...Read More

We have been ranked #46 by AmericaEconomia in their MBA global ranking!   Click here to see ranking! Read More

We are very proud to announce that we have been ranked again by QS Wolrd University Rankings: Online MBA. We have been ranked 27th in the world out of 47 programs that have qualified for the ranking this year.We are most proud of this achievement but most importantly we were ranked 4th for best in Class Experience! Class Experience Class Experience is defined by a series of inputs related to...Read More

41 Firmen sind dem Aufruf der SBS Swiss Business School gefolgt und haben an der SBS Unternehmerumfrage COVID-19 teilgenommen, welche vom 2. bis 10. April durchgeführt wurde. Befragt wurden Betriebe aus der Zürich Flughafen Region. Die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der Umfrage: Von den 41 Firmen, welche an der Umfrage teilnahmen, sind 66% kleine und mittlere Unternehmen aus der Dienstleistungsbranche. Diese Umfrage wurde zu 70% von CEO und Mitglieder der Geschäftsleitung durchgeführt....Read More

The Coronavirus risks are known in Switzerland since March 13, 2020 when the Swiss federal governmental authorities introduced a series of measurements to prevent a massive outbreak of the virus in the country.   Coronavirus has caused more than one million infections worldwide, and as it has progressed from epidemic to pandemic, the disease has acquired a new name, known as Covid-19. Scientists gave the strain an interim name of...Read More

#SBSAgainstCovid19 continues with the release of our new weekly video series – WolfsWeekly Check out our first episode below!Read More