The picture for this section represents an installation you can find in the Pommery cellar. The pictures was taken in Rems on December 27th, 2024. You will find many other artefacts in the Pommery cellar. The support of the Pommery company to artists dates back to the company founder, Mme Veuve Pommery.
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Business Innovation Week – Winter 2025
The picture for this section represents an installation you can find in the Pommery cellar. The pictures was taken in Rems on December 27th, 2024. You will find many other artefacts in the Pommery cellar. The support of the Pommery company to artists dates back to the company founder, Mme Veuve Pommery.
2024 BSL Circular Economy Conference
On Friday 19.04.2024, participants of the 2024 edition of the MIB1031 class “Circular Economy” and I, with the kind support …Read more
Call for DBA Research Projects “Decentralized Organizational Design Models”
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International Women’s Day: Standing up for Women’s Rights every day
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“Sustainable or not sustainable, this is the question that all responsible investors should ask”
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BSL Business Innovation Week Review
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PRE-OWNED LUXURY WATCH MARKET: The Dual Meaning of Traceability
Photo credits: Benjamin R Can the Swiss pre-owned watch market, as one of the largest in the luxury pre-owned segment, …Read more
BRAND VIBE SHIFT – FROM STORYTELLING TO STORYDOING AND STORYLIVING
In the pre-digital age, we usually built brand through three lines of brand experience delivery: 1. advertising2. product experience3. customer …Read more
How to Measure the Strength of Brand Assets
One way to measure overall ‘brand health’ is to know the strength of its brand assets. Brand assets are all …Read more
Biodiversity protection: who pays, who benefits?
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Maurik de Groot – DBA Testimonial
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GenAI Momentum: Exploring Marketing’s Fast-Track Landscape and Beyond
In today’s rapidly evolving digital realm, the trajectory of reaching a global user base has accelerated exponentially. From the telephone, …Read more
The Conundrum of AI:
Why teaching our students to adopt lifelong learning is important and how learning basic academic writing skills will help our …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Fall 2023 – Live Updates
Welcome to the Business Innovation Week – Fall 2023 Edition!Organized by the Student Council, for the Student Body. BIW updates …Read more
Common Traits Among Ovomaltine, Rolex, Nescafé, Swatch or Nagra
Blog photo credit: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons In its spring 2023 issue, the magazine Immorama, founded …Read more
Two recently published thought-provoking books
I recently had the opportunity to read two books, which were suggested to me by a former professor of BSL, …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Summer 2023 – Live Updates
Welcome to the Business Innovation Week – Summer 2023 Edition!Organized by the Student Council, for the Student Body. Agenda & …Read more
Blockchains: The New Wild West of Finance
In recent years, the world of finance has witnessed the rise of an innovative and disruptive technology: blockchain. Originally conceived …Read more
Why being able to code is so important for business students
Coding, also known as computer programming, is the process of designing, writing, testing, and maintaining computer software. It involves using …Read more
How to implement machine learning and AI in a financial investment class
Combining a class in machine learning and financial investments for business students can be a great way to provide students …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Spring 2023 – Live Updates
Welcome to the Business Innovation Week – Spring 2023 Edition!Organized by the Student Council, for the Student Body. BIW updates …Read more
2023 BSL Circular Economy Conference
Fig.1: Global circularity gap: minerals, metals, fossil fuels, biomass, (Circle Economy 2023) On Thursday 20.04.2023, participants of the MIB1031 class …Read more
POWERING DIGITAL MARKETING THROUGH GREAT ‘VALUE EXCHANGE’
Probably the most important question in all marketing – posited by Tony Stead in 1986 – is ‘And why would …Read more
The ‘3Cs’ of generating content for marketing
Companies and brands have one curious habit: they have come to believe that all of the content for their marketing …Read more
THE ‘SAS’ FORMULA FOR CREATING INTERESTING DIGITAL CONTENT FORMATS
Various marketing frameworks – such as PESO or Google’s 3H – talk about what kind of content to create for …Read more
Climate-Neutral Global Aviation – are we on the right track?
Is climate-neutral aviation even possible, what would it look like, and how do we get there? It is difficult to …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Fall 2022 – Live Updates
Welcome to the Business Innovation Week – Fall 2022 Edition! BIW updates are presented in reverse chronological order Friday 11th …Read more
Climate Action, Sufficiency, Deliberative Democracy
IPCC’s Assessment Report 6, Working Group 1, estimates the remaining 1.5°C-compatible carbon budget at around 400 Gt CO2, meaning that …Read more
A new step towards environment stewardship: Patagonia’s restructuring
Business Innovation Week – Summer 2022 – Live Updates
Welcome to the Business Innovation Week – Summer 2022 Edition! Thursday 21st July, 2022 – Day 4 (AM) (Final day!) …Read more
BSL Circular Economy conference and action
It is hard to escape hearing or reading almost daily about the circular economy (CE), but are we all talking …Read more
Addressing Sustainable Development: Academic Assembly 2022
Academic Citizens’ Assembly – 02.04.2022 A democracy is simply a governance system, leading to decisions that should reach the goals …Read more
Craft Your Flexible Learning Journey with BSL’s Dual-Mode MBA/EMBA
We have designed our MBA and EMBA so as to allow you to be flexible in the way you learn. …Read more
BSL Sustainability: A Long-Term Commitment
A significant step toward sustainability at BSL was the commitment to the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact …Read more
Empower Your Entrepreneurial Career with an EMBA or MBA at BSL
With an EMBA or MBA at BSL you can at the same time: MBA studies have traditionally been focusing on …Read more
Upskilling your Business and Personal Skills while pursuing your Doctoral Degree at Business School Lausanne
Develop at the same time your researcher, innovator and entrepreneurial mindsetwith 10 new business and personal skills! Throughout your Doctoral …Read more
The Swiss Negative Emissions Fund
The Swiss Negative Emissions Fund, entirely paid for by polluters, can significantly accelerate Swiss decarbonization and efficiently remove limited remaining …Read more
Dr. Dominique Bourqui shares her expertise on the role of the Entrepreneurial Mindset in Higher Education
On February 16th, 2022, Dr. Dominique Bourqui, Chief Academic Officer, Director of the Doctoral School & Professor, was invited as …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Winter 21-22 – Live Updates
Welcome to the Business Innovation Week – Winter 2022 Edition! Updates are displayed in reverse chronological order. Wednesday 9th February, …Read more
Google’s 3H framework for creating marketing content
image credits: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/ (this article talks about a concept we use in our class, applied by students at the end …Read more
Impact of Personalization
To what extent can a motto transform a school? We worded BSL’s motto “Personalized education for global impact” three years …Read more
Ethical challenges in modern (digital) marketing
Photo by Mikael Blomkvist from Pexels (This article is dedicated to the last topic discussed in the Digital Marketing and Social media class …Read more
Shedding light on sustainable access to the internet
image copyright: THINK ENGINEERING GMBH Beat Fahrni, a BSL MBA student, owns and runs THINK, a company structure that implements …Read more
Giving Back
The past two years has been hard on all of us. From one day to the next, we went from …Read more
A long-term POSITIVE (!!!) side effect of COVID: Dual Mode learning
Keeping up in challenging times As Dr. Bourqui wrote in the Spring of 2020, Covid-19 is the first VUCA context …Read more
Rethinking Segmentation in a Changing World
In our fast-changing world, organizations need to constantly change and reinvent themselves to survive in a more intense global competition. …Read more
Adjusting Marketing for the Modern Era
In today’s world with more digitalization, more globalization and an increased focus on sustainability, it becomes essential to consider these …Read more
Google Classroom – A Non-Technical Presentation
“Google Classroom is a learning management system (LMS) that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments and engaging students …Read more
London School of Digital Business International Awards and Conference
Hosted by Sachin Parekh (Director), the London School of DIGITAL BUSINESS welcomed BSL’s Acting Dean and CEO of Lemania Group …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Fall 2021 – Live Updates
Updates are displayed in reverse chronological order. Thursday 11th November, 2021 – Day 3 (PM) Final Departing Thoughts The BSL …Read more
Equality Diversity Inclusion Conference
We are happy to share that Professor Dr. Ganesh Nathan from Business School Lausanne (BSL) will be presenting his workshop …Read more
An intriguing and fascinating book: “Let my people go surfing”
Patagonia is a well-known brand of outdoor clothing founded in 1973 in Ventura, California, by Yvon Chouinard. Frédéric Laloux, in …Read more
2nd year BSL student, Natali Topolska, invests in success at top Swiss bank
23-year-old Czech Republic native, Natali Topolska, is a 2nd year BSL Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) Millennial Program student currently …Read more
BSL alumnus Josephine Bengtsson bags prestigious working opportunity at CERN (Geneva)
“Having small classes and professors who are willing to spend additional time helping us understand concepts is something that larger …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Spring 2021 – Live Updates
Updates are displayed in reverse chronological order. Thursday 6th May, 2021 – Day 4 (AM) 09:15 – Managing Diversity in …Read more
DBA GRADUATION CEREMONY IN KOREA
March 18th 2021 was the official Graduation Ceremony at aSSIST University in Korea for four of our Doctoral Graduates from …Read more
Well-Being Concerns For e-Learning
Have you ever counted the number of hours that you spend in front of a computer in a simple sitting …Read more
The Shifting Focus of Sustainability Teaching and Learning
As a teacher and learner myself, I spend much time reflecting on why and how to adapt the way we …Read more
Diversity & Inclusion – What do businesses need to change for diversity and inclusion to become sources of strength and growth?
Recent social movements (feminist march, Black Lives Matter, Pride march) have put pressure on organizations to be more inclusive of …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Winter 2020/2021 – Day 4 Recap
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS AND ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS The last day of the Business Innovation Week (BIW) was focused on sustainable business and …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Winter 2020/2021 – Day 3 Recap
The importance of customer experience in today’s world! Lately, competition between companies has become more fierce than ever before and …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Winter 2020/2021 – Day 2 Recap
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Afternoon With the collaboration of Professor Marko Majer, BSL students had the opportunity to work on a Harvard simulation …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Winter 2020/2021 – Day 1 Recap
E-COMMERCE AND ACTIVITY Living in the age of the internet and technology, students of BSL wondered how e-commerce works. It …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Winter 2020/2021 – Live Updates
Updates are displayed in reverse chronological order. Thursday 11th February, 2021 – Day 4 11:20 – Students doing 120-second presentations …Read more
Case Study published by BSL DBA Student Steven Yamshon
Our DBA candidate, Steven Yamshon, has published a case study that he wrote in 2017. It is now published in …Read more
The Java Boost – and we are not talking about coffee
Astrid Widayani is not only a DBA Candidate at Business School Lausanne but is an Edupreneur and experienced director in …Read more
Strategy Today: Building Sustainability into Stakeholder Relations
It is a commonplace that companies today need to be active in sustainability. Deciding exactly what to do can however …Read more
Enriching Dual Mode Teaching: Virtual Speaker Success
While my dual mode teaching experience still leaves a somewhat mitigated aftertaste and loads of space for improvement, there is …Read more
BSL Hosts Pascal Kienast, Founder of K-Wave Consulting and CLEMAP, to Explore Entrepreneurship Inside and Out
Mr. Pascal Kienast was invited on Tuesday, November 10th, 2020 to participate in Business School of Lausanne’s Business Innovation Week …Read more
My Story Is My Advice. BSL Students host Ch Daniel of Legit Check.
On Monday, November 9th, BSL Bachelor and Master students invited Ch Daniel in the Fall Business Innovation Week framework. Ch …Read more
Societal Changes discussed at BSL
Students and researchers, representing all BSL programs, gathered to discuss societal changes and sustainability during the virtual Business Innovation Week …Read more
BUSINESS INNOVATION WEEK: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020 – Daily reflections
Yesterday, I was able to follow most of the sessions of the Business Innovation Week. This was a great pleasure …Read more
Business Innovation Week – Fall 2020 – Live Updates
Updates are displayed in reverse chronological order. Thursday 12th November – Day 4 Afternoon 15:30 – This concludes the Fall …Read more
Perlego: BSL provides the Spotify of textbooks to Students and Faculty
Back in 2011, I was flabbergasted by the potential of iPads for education. I felt precisely the same impression in …Read more
Sustainability as a “Meta” Megatrend
The “Why” of Sustainable Development is relatively easy to understand. We have only one planet, natural resources are not infinite, …Read more
Business Innovation Weeks: BSL’s signature experiential learning
Business Innovation Weeks’ unique recipe is a mix of peer-learning, challenge-based learning, student engagement, 21st-Century skills development, trust, enthusiasm and …Read more
Business School Lausanne’s SDG Explorer Course Selected as Best Practice by UN SDSN
Teaching and learning sustainability is notoriously challenging, for a number of distinct yet related reasons. First of all it touches …Read more
Important decisions ahead for Switzerland
Image credits: https://www.eda.admin.ch/ A semi-direct democracy Switzerland is a semi-direct democracy, which means that citizens are regularly called upon to …Read more
3 Benefits to Small Class Sizes When Completing an Executive MBA
An Executive MBA is perfect for experienced managerial professionals who want to take their careers to the next level. You …Read more
Dual-mode Teaching: Here to Stay in our New Normal – An Interview with David Claivaz, Acting Dean of BSL
The outbreak of the coronavirus had a huge impact on universities around the world. Lectures, seminars, and workshops moved online, …Read more
How an MIB Program at BSL Complements Specialized Bachelor Degrees like Hospitality: An Interview with Head of Careers and Industry Relations, Daniele Ticli
Every year, the Master in International Business (MIB) program at Business School Lausanne welcomes students from a wide variety of …Read more
Can an MBA Degree Improve Your Career Prospects?
An MBA is a big investment in terms of time and money, which is why prospective students should ensure that …Read more
A Short Guide to Using LinkedIn for Professional Success while at Graduate Business School
LinkedIn offers a world of opportunity for business students. The platform is the most used professional networking site in the …Read more
How Students and Faculty at BSL Are Using Face-to-Face Online Learning
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the move to online learning has affected schools, colleges, and universities worldwide. Professors and students …Read more
Providing students with the tools they need
Founded over 30 years ago in 1987 by Dr. John Hobbs, Business School Lausanne (BSL) is one of Switzerland’s leading …Read more
Build Entrepreneurial Skills at Business School Lausanne
Being excellent at your job is no longer enough. Here is how young professionals can build a stable career in …Read more
Doctoral Candidates
DBA Candidate Profiles BSL hosts currently, at any given time, more than 45 DBA Candidates who are spread out across …Read more
5 Essential Networking Tips for Students at Business School in Switzerland
One of the most valuable things that you can gain at Business School is connections. Not only will you have …Read more
MIB vs. MBA vs. EMBA Degree: Which Is Right for You?
Graduate business education is a great way for ambitious professionals to learn new skills, forge new connections, and enhance their …Read more
Is Advanced Business Studies for You? 3 Signs from BSL.
Advanced business studies are perfect for business professionals who want to enhance their career with additional skills, in-depth knowledge, and …Read more
Explore Economics, Ethics, and the Fair Use of Public Space with BSL
Camden High Street, London, May 2020 (photo credit: CNBC) Habits are notoriously hard to change, and patterns of space use …Read more
Business Innovation Week Inspires Students and Alumni in Uncertain Times
Business Innovation Week (BIW) at Business School Lausanne (BSL) brings together inspirational speakers, students and alumni. The four-day-long event includes …Read more
Coronavirus, travel, resilience and sustainability
Finally and thankfully, over 100 countries are now following calls by epidemiologists to severely restrict public life, closing schools, universities, …Read more
David Vanni Interview | BSL Careers Office
Our BSL Careers Office interview series is a great opportunity where we reconnect with some of our former students and …Read more
BSL alumni Richard Fyk brews entrepreneurial success
For the next installment of our BSL careers office interview series, where we get an insight into the lives of …Read more
Finding a new kind of energy: how one BSL graduate’s journey is taking him to Oxford
We are celebrating the success of BSL alumni member Armen Danielyan. Armen is a born leader with a wealth of …Read more
BSL Alumnae, Ola Kayal, keeps it cool with Nabati a plant-based ice cream startup
For the next installment of our BSL careers office interview series, where we take a look at the post-BSL lives …Read more
BSL Alumnus, Marco Piermartiri, named COO of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce
Marco Piermartiri, one of our EMBA Alumni, was recently appointed as Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the Geneva Chamber of …Read more
A successful entrepreneur: our alumnus Lorenzo Wiskerke
Lorenzo Wiskerke completed his BBA at Business School Lausanne in 2006 and his MBA one year later. His sister Chayenne …Read more
BSL & Sumba Hospitality Foundation: An Exotic Internship
In 2017, Business School Lausanne (BSL) and Sumba Hospitality Foundation (SHF) in Indonesia co-created an Internship program tailor-made for BSL …Read more
Life Journeys – Matteo Stifanelli: the “Impact Sabbatical”
Matteo Stifanelli graduated with an MBA at Business School Lausanne in July 2017 while working at Airbnb. He has been …Read more
Disruptive Strategies for Sustainable Enterprises
Our professional development course, Disrupting the Business Model – Strategies for a Sustainable Enterprise, starts on April 9 and we’re …Read more
BSL Advancing SDG Implementation in Switzerland
On Thursday Feb 15th, Dr Katrin Muff will moderate and present at the conference to launch the Sustainable Development Solutions …Read more
MERIT Summit 2018 Tackles Autonomy and Agility in Business
The annual MERIT Summit, which had its inaugural event in Barcelona in 2017, is a forum where speakers, exhibitors and …Read more
BSL Selected to Join the United Nations’ PRME Champions Business Schools Initiative
BSL is pleased to announce that we have been selected as one of 40 business schools globally to join the …Read more
Alumni Mentoring Program – What is it all about?
Within the context of employability, I often hear people talking about their mentors and how such figures brought more clarity …Read more
Relating Sustainable Goals: Launching the Gap Frame Website
In March 2017, the Gap Frame website, www.GapFrame.org, was launched with the intention to measure the gap of where we …Read more
Newsletter – February 2017
February was a dynamic month for us – we started the spring term of the academic year and welcomed our …Read more
Newsletter – January 2017
We are starting the new 2017 year full of hope and dedication to be a positive force for good in …Read more
BSL is a member of the International Association of Universities
BSL has become a member of the International Association of Universities (IAU) – the UNESCO-based global association of higher education …Read more
Paul Polman’s Impact on BSL Journal Covered by HuffPost
Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever and recipient of BSL’s 2014 Honorary Degree, recently had his contribution to BSL Journal’s special …Read more