Goethe Business School

The Goethe Business School is a graduate business school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the center for management education of Goethe University Frankfurt (Frankfurt University). It operates as an independent, non-profit limited liability company, within the university and offers graduate-level degree programs on behalf of the AACSB accredited Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Founded in 2004, GBS is currently located in the heart of Frankfurt am Main, in the House of Finance at the university's Campus Westend. The programs are taught by faculty members of the University’s Faculty of Economics and Business Administration as well as international visiting professors. The school launched its full-time MBA program in 2009, which consists of more than 70% international students. The endowment is based on the House of Finance, which increased its endowment to $28 million/ €21 million in the year 2011.^[1]

Organization

Lars Schweizer is currently the Dean of Goethe Business School, and the Chairman of the Board is Rolf-E. Breuer, former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank.

Programs

• "Goethe Executive MBA" in alliance with Duke University's Fuqua School of Business^[2]

• "Executive Master of Finance and Accounting" ^[3]

• "Goethe Full Time MBA"^[4] In the past, the Goethe FT-MBAs completed internships with organizations such as Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Grant Thornton, Clifford Chance, Accenture, IBM among many others.^[5]

• Customized corporate educational programs for developing current and future business leaders ^[6]

The school has established the China Executive Education Center (CEEC), European Supervisor Education Initiative with Deutsche Bundesbank and Central Banker Education (CBE).^[6]

Notable faculty

In the recent past professors teaching at GBS programs have taught at schools such as Wharton School, Yale University, Duke University, University of North Carolina, Nottingham University, Grenoble Ecole de Management, Tongji University.

The following are or have been faculty at GBS.

• Andreas Hackethal- Dean, Goethe Business School^[7]
• Mark Wahrenburg- Metzler Visiting Professorship to Wharton School^[7]
• Katherine Schipper- Thomas F. Keller Professor of Accounting at Duke University^[7]
• Reinhard Schmidt- Metzler Visiting Professorship to Wharton School^[7]
• Rolf van Dick- Chair of Social Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt
• Michael Halliassos- Chair of Finance and Macro Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt^[7]
• Uwe Walz- Chair of Industrial Organization, Goethe University Frankfurt^[7]

Partners

The school's Executive Master of Finance and Accounting (EMFA) is a CFA Institute partner. one of the "World's Top 125 Finance Programs" to partner the CFA Institute.^[8]

The school has a partnership in executive education with the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. Other partners are:^[9]

• Duke University Fuqua School of Business
• Indian School of Business
• Tongji University
• KPMG
• DVFA

Rankings

• QS Ranked Goethe MBA at 49 in Europe in the QS Global 200 Business Schools Report of 2012^[10]
• Financial Times Listed in the World's Top 100 Masters in Finance Program Listing of 2010 ^[11]
• Eduniversal Ranked 66 in the World's Business School Ranking of 2010 in the Four Palms Category ^[12]
• Handelsblatt Ranked 4 in the Best Economics and Business Administration Faculty in Germany, Switzerland and Austria ^[13]
• Shanghai Rankings Ranked in the World's Top 100 Economics/Business Schools ^[14]

The House of Finance Building

The Goethe Business School is situated in the House of Finance, which on 30 May 2008, relocated to a new building designed by the architects Kleihues+Kleihues located in Frankfurt University’s “Campus Westend”. The dominant feature of this campus is the IG Farben Building by the architect Hans Poelzig. This building is an example of neoclassicist architecture, . This style was chosen as "a symbol for the scientific and mercantile German manpower, made out of iron and stone", as the "IG-Farben"-director at the time of the construction, Baron von Schnitzler, stated in his opening speech of October 1930. The floors, walls and ceiling of the foyer are decorated with a grid design that is continued throughout the entire building. Inspired by Raphael's mural, ‘The School of Athens, comes this design into its own in the flooring.^{[5] [6]}

References

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See also

• Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management
• Center for Financial Studies
• Institute for Law and Finance
• List of business schools in Europe