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Universitat de Barcelona Business School researchers Paloma Miravitlles, Fariza Achcaoucaou, Ana Núñez-Carballosa and Laura Guitart-Tarrés have published the article Is Spain losing out on international investment in R&D? in the latest dossier of the Social Observatory of “la Caixa” entitled Research and innovation: what are our stakes? The report was officially presented in Madrid on September 20th 2017 by the Chief Executive Officer and the Corporate Director of of the Research and Strategy Area of the “la Caixa” Banking Foundation,…
The Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona is pleased to welcome five new Job Market hires in 2017/18: Julia de Frutos, Jordi Teixidó, Guillaume Chapelle, David Rivero Leiva and Martí Sagarra. Julia de Frutos has joined the Department of Economic, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics as a guest professor. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Ghent University. Her research interests span Environmental Economics, Game Theory and Control Theory. She received her… 
The Executive MBA at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School reaches its 25th edition this academic year. Since 1992, this programme has trained businessmen and businesswomen of all kinds. In 2017/18 we will be welcoming 26 students from 12 different countries. As a result, the degree of internationalisation is very high and the percentage of foreign students climbs to 80%. Taking gender into account, there is a larger proportion of men than women, with 73% against 27%. The same figures… 
One of the strengths of the Executive MBA at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School is the possibility of undertaking a work placement. Students agree that internships add value to their CVs. Ana María Rivera Ortega and María Paula Capelli are two of the students that decided to embark on an internship during the academic year 2016-2017 at the multinational automotive manufacturing company Vokswagen and Deutsche Telekom's global IT services and consulting company T-Systems. “The internship allowed me to consolidate… 
The University of Barcelona has announced up to 77 Erasmus+ grants for teaching staff for the academic year 2017-2018. The main aim of this funding is to support teaching periods at higher education institutions abroad that have signed a mobility agreement with the Faculty to which the applicant belongs. In the case of the Faculty of Economics and Business, there are 63 agreements in place with universities from 17 different European countries. The maximum duration of the teaching period abroad… 
The book Best Practices in Global Wine Tourism: 15 Case Studies from Around the World, co-written by two of the Universitat de Barcelona Business School members, Agustí Casas and Rubén Huertas, was awarded Best Wine Tourism Book in the world Award. The ceremony took place in Yantia, China, last May 2017, at the annual Gourmand Awards Ceremony. It is the second prize for this book, which had already won the 2017 Best Wine Tourism Book in the USA prize, also… 
The call for papers has been announced for the ‘3rd Catalan Congress of Economy and Business: towards an equitable and efficient model’ organised by the Association of Economists of Catalonia. The congress will focus on the economy and business in Catalonia in the coming years, putting a special emphasis on the notions of efficiency and equity. Its main aim is to discuss the future challenges Catalan businesses will have to face in the future. The Congress will take place on… 
The Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business (JESB), co-initiated by researchers from the Universitat de Barcelona, reached a new achievement as it has been approved for inclusion in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS). This event marks a turning point for the Journal as it enhances its visibility on the international research scene and is with no doubt a recognition of the quality work carried by the JESB. The journal was granted inclusion… 
The second issue of the second volume of the Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business (JESB) has been released. This special edition, New Perspectives in Family Business Research, is available on the Scientific Journals of the University of Barcelona (RCUB) website. The Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business, which was established in 2016 is an open access journal led by an international interdisciplinary team who wants to attract contributions that help shed light on the new questions, challenges, methodologies and… 
The deadline to apply to the 2017/18 MSc in Business Research at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School has been extended. Students who are interested can now submit their applications until all places are filled. The MSc in Business Research offers international research excellence in business administration and management. It also provides the means for students to develop skills and abilities in research that meet the highest standards. Students are exposed to a rich training curriculum as well as a…