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Montserrat Crespi-Vallbona, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and UB Business School researcher, and Oscar Mascarilla Miró, researcher of the UB School of Economics, are the co-authors of an article titled “Street Art as a Sustainable Tool in Mature Tourism Destinations: A Case Study of Barcelona”. Recently published in the scientific journal International Journal of Cultural Policy, it focuses on the idea that tourism needs both an urgent innovation and creativity to keep its boom going. The current tendency to live experiences… 
The applications are now open for 2021/22 entry to the graduate programme in Business at the UB Business School. The graduate programme comprises a one-year MSc in Business Research and the PhD in Business. The two stages can be coursed independently of one another provided that the student meets the requirements. The MSc in Business Research is taught full-time over one year or part-time over two years, while the PhD in Business normally involves three years of full-time study or five years of part-time study. There will be four… 
The Business School at the Universitat of Barcelona welcomed 13 new students that joined this year the MSc in Business Research. Most of them come from Asia (53%), Europe (23%), America (16%), and Middle East (8%). Altogether, there are 7 nationalities represented on this class where the average age is 27 years old. This diverse group of people will now pursue a cutting-edge master’s degree programme, designed to provide students with advanced training in research skills, techniques and methodologies in order to conduct their own research into business and business competitiveness. Students enrolled on the MSc in Business Research typically have an undergraduate… 
Alfonso Antonio Hernández Vivanco, PhD graduate in Business at the UB Business School, has been awarded the extraordinary doctoral prize for the academic year 2018-2019. The decision was taken by the Governing Council of the Universitat de Barcelona past October 7th, 2020. Dr Hernández Vivanco defended his PhD thesis titled “Understanding Innovation within the context of the Integration of Management Systems” on July 16th, 2018. The research, directed by the UB Business School researchers Dr Mercè Bernardo and Dr Claudio Cruz Cázares, aims to understand how organizations manage to innovate in a way that they meet with… 
The European Continuous Conference on Collaborative Conflict (E4C) network announces their first online event to take place on December 9th, from 17:00 to 19:00 CET. UB Business School researcher Patricia Elgoibar, and PhD in Business candidate Carlos Politi, are members of this network that aims to strengthen the relationships between researchers in conflict management in Europe. The network organises multiple events throughout the year with the aim of promoting a European network including 21st century technologies and sustainable aspirations, as well as practically navigating continuous academic exchange in the world of Covid-19 boundaries and the… 
This year, coinciding with the inauguration of the academic year, the new edition of ‘The UB in figures' publishes the most outstanding data from last academic year. The document offers a view on the academic activity and shows its evolution over the last courses. For the academic year 2020-2021, a total of 73 bachelor’s degrees courses, 15 dual study pathways, 162 master’s degrees courses and 48 doctoral programmes have been approved. Nowadays the UB has established agreements with 116 of… 
Next week, the Faculty of Economics and Business will host a fascinating experiment with a semi-humanoid robot (TIAGo) who will engage with humans in playing a board game. The experiment will last approximately 5 minutes and, at the end of it, the participant will fill out an anonymous questionnaire. The main objective of the experiment, led by UB Business School’s researcher Santiago Forgas Coll, is to evaluate various aspects of the interaction between the user and the robot acting as…
The exceptional crisis that our societies are going through makes it more necessary than ever for regions, companies, organizations and individuals to reinvent themselves. This year, given the impossibility to hold any face-to-face classroom work, to visit companies & creative spaces or to travel abroad, Mosaic-HEC Montréal and the University of Barcelona decided to reinvent their Summer School on Management of Creativity by offering an exceptional online edition on the theme “RESILIENCE & CREATIVITY” from June 29 to July 10,…
At the UB Business School we are aware that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will transform our world under many aspects. Adjusting to the changes will be challenging, but we also know that new opportunities will arise in the next months and years. This is why it is important to start planning ahead and invest in education that will provide tools and skills that will fuel innovation. This is the time to lay the foundation for your career in an ever-changing… 
As of March 15th, 2020, all buildings and facilities of the University of Barcelona are closed and access is forbidden except for authorised people, due to the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) health alert. All face-to-face learning activities are suspended from March 13th, 2020, to April 14th, 2020, and April 15th, 2020, in the case of the Faculty of Economics and Business. On March 12th, 2020, the Rector of the University of Barcelona issued a statement on the suspension of all face-to-face academic…