Umeå School of Business

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Umeå School of Business
Handelshögskolan vid Umeå Universitet
Established: 1989
Type: Public University
Rector: Lars Lindbergh
Staff: 250
Students: 2,000
Undergraduates: 1,500
Postgraduates: 500
Doctoral students: 90
Location: Umeå, Sweden
Campus: Urban
Affiliations: EQUIS, EFMD, EIASM
Website: USBE

The Umeå School of Business, USBE, or Handelshögskolan i Umeå, is a business school at Umeå University in the mid-north of Sweden. USBE is one of Sweden's three business schools, Handelshögskola, about 2000 students currently study at USBE. The School offers four Bachelor programs, seven Master`s degrees programs, EMBA-Prague program and doctoral programs. Umeå School of Business holds the European Foundation for Management Development 'Equis' accreditation.

The International atmosphere is important to the school and offers one Bachelor program (International Business program), all Master's programs, and all doctoral programs entirely in English, USBE also accept a large number of international students as exchange or degree students.

USBE is located at the very heart of the University campus, a meeting-place for all academic disciplines, giving the school tremendous opportunities to co-operate across traditional academic boundaries. It also gives USBE- students an opportunity to take an active part of student environment created for the 28 000 students at Umeå University. USBE is located in the social science building that has been renovated and updated recently.

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[edit] Organization

USBE is organized into four academic units (or departments) of Accounting and Finance, Entrepreneurship, Management, and Marketing. Every academic staff member belongs to one of these four departments. Each department is headed by a professor who is assigned responsibilities for coordinating activities within the department, overseeing quality, promoting research, suggesting syllabus developments, and coordinating the supervision of doctoral candidates within the discipline. The activities of the departments are organized into two main categories: research and education. The head of each department is responsible for a research team and a teaching team, both of which are highly integrated. Departmental academic faculty, whether primarily research or teaching staff, meet regularly and are responsible for designing courses in their respective disciplines and for the progress of academic work.

  • Unit of Management
  • Unit of Marketing
  • Unit of Entrepreneurship
  • Unit of Accounting
  • Unit of Finance

[edit] USBE Career Center

USBE Career Center concentrates primarily on helping Business graduates in the transition between graduation and the business world.

[edit] Strategic partner departments

Umeå School of Business (USBE) collaborates closely on several areas of education and research with four departmens at Umeå university. The departments conducts leading research as well as extensive education that is part of the USBE study programmes.

  • Department of Economic History
  • Department of Law
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of Statistics

[edit] Research

[edit] USBE Research Institute

The Research Institute, stimulating advanced research at USBE The Research Institute is working specifically for the business community and society as a whole. Research is focused on a number of particular themes within areas such as the environment, the utilisation of natural resources, business dynamics, and studies concerning the process of change in Eastern Europe.

The Research Institute is administered by the Assistant Dean. The Institute provides seed money to doctoral students, post-doctoral staff, and senior researchers for new and innovative research ideas, or workshops.

[edit] Center for Digital Business

Together with the Department of Informatics, USBE runs the Center for Digital Business.

[edit] The Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovations and Business Development

[edit] Education

[edit] Research and Ph.D studies

About 80 persons are studying at the five areas of Business Administration, that USBE offers. The main focus is Marketing, Management, Entrepreneurship, Dynamica Business, Finance and Accounting.

[edit] EMBA-Prague program

The Umeå School of Business offers a Master’s of Business Administration program in partnership with the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University and DATAMAR in Prague, Czech Republic. The success and delivery of high-quality training and education for future managers and executives is guaranteed by the partnership with an existing business organization and a local university.

The EMBA-Prague program is designed to benefit managers and executives in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as third country expatriates in the region who are seeking further education and a boost to their careers. The EMBA Prague program relies extensively on Swedish management experience and executive performance and is taught exclusively by highly qualified Swedish and international faculty as well.

[edit] Master's Programs

  • Master's program in Accounting
  • Master's program in Finance
  • Master's Program in Entrepreneurship and Dynamica Business
  • Master's Program in Management: People, Projects and Processes
  • Master's Program in Marketing Research and Analysis Management
  • Master's Program in Strategic Project Management: offerd jointly with Heriot-Watt University and Politecnico di Milano (1.5 years)
  • Master's Program in Strategic Entrepreneurship: offerd jointly with The Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration "Hanken" and University of southern Denmark (2 years)
  • Master's Program in Economics (Offerd by the department of Economics at Umeå University)

[edit] Bachelor Programs

  • International Business program -in English
  • Civilekonomprogrammet (The Business Administration and Economics Program) -in Swedish
  • Retail and Supply Chain Management Program -in Swedish
  • Service Managementprogramet -in Swedish

[edit] External courses and Executive Education

USBE offers special courses in such subjects as management, marketing, operational control and project management. These courses are tailored to the specific needs of contracting companies.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Students

  • Linus Berg - founder and CEO of "Rest & Fly"
  • Frida Berglund - founder of the popular blogg "Husmusen"
  • Wilhelm Geijer, former CEO and Boarde member of Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Christian Hermelin - CEO, Fabege
  • Lars Lindbergh - Dean, Umeå School of Business
  • Leif Lindmark - former Rector, Stockholm School of Economics
  • Agneta Marell, professor
  • Henrik P. Molin - Author
  • Göran Carstedt - Leding the global network "Society for Organizational Learning"
  • Malin Mostroem - Swedish women footballer, nominated best in Sweden and the world.
  • Lars Petterson - CEO, Atea Sweden

[edit] Faculty

  • Tomas Blomqvist - professor in management
  • Jan Bodin - professor in marketing
  • Lars Lindbargh - Dean at USBE
  • Agneta Marell - former Dean at USBE
  • Stellan Nilsson - professor in Financial Accounting, Auditing and Financial Analysis
  • Karl- Gustaf Löfgren - professor in Economics, member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

[edit] Honorary Doctors

  • Carl Kempe, Swedish businessman
  • Robert H. Haveman, Professor
  • Lars Heikensten, frm. Governor of the Swedish Riksbank

[edit] Internationalization

USBE has over 100 partner Universities and Business schools all over the world, here is a list of some of them:

[edit] See also

[edit] External links