TiasNimbas has partnerships with other leading business schools around the world, and maintains exchanges with several more universities as well. The school also cooperates with industry associations and is an active member of various business school platforms. Here’s a list of some of our associations.
Partnerships
Bradford University School of Management (United Kingdom)
CEU Central European University Business School (Hungary) GISMA Business School (Germany)Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University (USA)The European Institute for Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship (EIBIE)
Exchange Opportunities
Cranfield University (United Kingdom)National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) University of Glasgow Business School (United Kingdom)University of Peking, Guanghua School of Management (China)
Associates
NCD, Nederlands Centrum van Directeuren en Commissarissen (The Netherlands)
Sustainability Challenge Foundation (SCF) (The Netherlands)
Vereniging Logistiek Management (vLm) (The Netherlands) Association of Dutch University Business Schools (ADUBS) (The Netherlands)
Memberships
European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)
Netherlands Foundation for Management Development (NFMD)
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
Bradford University School of Management (United Kingdom)
TiasNimbas introduced the Bradford University MBA in 1989; in 2001 both institutions launched their DBA. Bradford is Britain’s longest established university-based business school and is one of fewer than 100 business schools from around the world to have attained EQUIS (the leading international system of quality assessment among business institutions) accreditation.
The English Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education approves both the standard of student achievement and the quality of learning opportunities at the school. The school’s faculty is actively engaged in research.
TiasNimbas introduced the Bradford University MBA in 1989; in 2001 both institutions launched their DBA. Bradford is Britain’s longest established university-based business school and is one of fewer than 100 business schools from around the world to have attained EQUIS (the leading international system of quality assessment among business institutions) accreditation. The English Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education approves both the standard of student achievement and the quality of learning opportunities at the school. The school’s faculty is actively engaged in research.
TiasNimbas introduced the Bradford University MBA in 1989; in 2001 both institutions launched their DBA. Bradford is Britain’s longest established university-based business school and is one of fewer than 100 business schools from around the world to have attained EQUIS (the leading international system of quality assessment among business institutions) accreditation. The English Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education approves both the standard of student achievement and the quality of learning opportunities at the school. The school’s faculty is actively engaged in research.
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CEU Central European University Business School (Hungary)
One of four partnership schools of TiasNimbas' International Executive MBA. A landmark institution established in 1988, CEU Business School was the first business school in Central Europe to offer graduate business education leading to an American MBA degree.
The School was founded as an independent institution but then became the business school of CEU (Central European University) in 2000.
CEU Business School has played, and continues to play, a pivotal role in relating global management education to the realities and continuing challenges of doing business in Central and Eastern Europe as the nations in the region make the transition from centrally-planned to market economies.
CEU Business School's executive and full-time MBA programs offer rigorous participative curricula taught by an international faculty with heritage and experience in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to existing specializations in the full-time MBA program in finance, strategic marketing, and technology, new areas of faculty interest at CEU Business School include entrepreneurship and corporate governance.
The multicultural student body at the school is given further opportunities to enhance its education through exchanges with CEU Business School's network of partner universities around the world. Established in 1991, CEU is an internationally-recognized institution of post-graduate education in the social sciences and humanities.
From the beginning, the vision of CEU's major benefactor and chairman of the CEU Board, George Soros, was a commitment to the development of open societies, sustainable democracies, and liberal education in the nations of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. From 100 students in 1991, CEU has grown to a current enrollment of 850 students annually drawn from more than 45 countries.
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back to topGISMA Business School (Germany)
GISMA Business School was founded in 1999 as a private, not-for-profit foundation of the State of Lower Saxony.
The initiators of the German International School of Management (GISMA) were the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and several heads of important German companies and organisations.
From day one, the goal was the establishment of a world-class business school. To that end GISMA established a co-operation with Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management. Recently, TiasNimbas Business School also co-operated in several Company Specific Programs developed at GISMA.
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back to topKrannert Graduate School of Management / Purdue University (USA)
Founded in 1869, Purdue University is a statewide university system with students on five campuses and at numerous teaching sites throughout Indiana. The University today has over 65,000 students enrolled in its programs, with some 36,000 enrolled on its main campus in West Lafayette, Indiana.
It has 14,800 faculty and staff across the entire system. The University is renowned for its quality of teaching and research in many disciplines, most notably in engineering, agriculture, technology, and management.
It has had over 22 alumni selected for space flight. Purdue astronauts include the first man to set foot on the moon, Neil A. Armstrong, and the last to leave it, Eugene A. Cernan.
TiasNimbas' International Executive MBA Program (IMM) grows from the guiding principles that have consistently placed the Krannert School at Purdue University among the top business schools in the United States. Since its founding 40 years ago, the Krannert Graduate School of Management has provided professional management training to people from a variety of backgrounds, including engineering, technical, and scientific education and experience.
It was among the first graduate programs to foresee the developing interaction between business and technology. The foundation on which the Krannert Graduate School of Management rests, is the conviction that successful managers must learn throughout their careers.
This belief is the basis for the School's undergraduate curriculum for young people planning to enter business, provides the instructional philosophy for the full-time graduate programs in management, and underlies the development of the Krannert Executive Master's Programs.
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back to top The European Institute for Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship (EIBIE)
Founded by TiasNimbas Business School and Philips Research, EIBIE's mission is to offer best-in-class educational programmes, training and coaching informed by excellent research and best practice on fast growing new business creation; to enable large corporations, small- and medium-sized enterprises, university start-ups and individual entrepreneurs to successfully organise and manage fast growing new business creation; to cultivate and nourish a thriving network that unifies academic, government, and business leaders around the vision of entrepreneurial success; to carry out and coordinate state-of-the-art research on topics related to the creation and development of fast growing new business.
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The first cohort of the Part-time MBA for Young Professionals had a one-week leadership session at Cranfield School of Management. Cranfield University is one of Western Europe's largest academic centres for strategic and applied research, development and design.
It is unique in its almost entirely postgraduate focus. Its aim is to be a leading national, European and international institution for the generation, dissemination and application of knowledge in selected areas of engineering, applied science, manufacturing, management and medical science, to both the civil and the defence sectors. Its mission is to create and transform world class science, technology and management expertise into viable, practical, environmentally desirable solutions that enhance economic development and the quality of life.
The university is made up of three campuses Cranfield, Silsoe and Shrivenham (The Royal Military College of Science). At Cranfield campus in Bedfordshire you will find the School of Engineering, Cranfield School of Management and the School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science, all offering entry at graduate level only.
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back to top National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) 
National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), founded in 1896, is a research-oriented comprehensive university, located in the heart of Taiwan’s Silicon Corridor.
NCTU is a leading university in East-Asia, best known for its Science & Technology programmes and its management school, which has a high research output, and is developing rapidly (close to AACSB accreditation). The NCTU MBA was recently ranked no. 5 in by Asia Inc., an influential regional ranking. NCTU also offers an all-English International MBA.
NCTU’s College of Management has a student population of 2502, including 1433 Master students and 390 PhD students. Currently, there are 90 full-time faculty, 90% of them holding PhD degrees from distinguished universities in the United States.
NCTU’s spacious and beautiful main campus sits in Hsinchu, the world’s R&D hub for IT, and is commercially, technologically and socially closely linked to Silicon Valley in California: many companies, families and executives reside in both places.
Through its faculty and alumni networks, NCTU works closely with multinational companies in the adjacent Hsinchu Science Park, where TSMC, Philips and UMC and 360 other high-tech multinationals conduct cutting-edge R&D and run their top-end, often unique, manufacturing operations. For this very reason, Business Week, in its May 2005 issue, dubbed Taiwan the “hidden center of the global economy”.
NCTU has a satellite campus in Taipei, the economic, political, and cultural center of Taiwan. Taipei is home to the National Palace Museum, with its immense and unparallelled collection of Chinese artefacts. The world’s tallest building, Taipei 101, is located in Taipei’s ultramodern business and entertainment district.
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University of Glasgow Business School (United Kingdom)
The University of Glasgow Business School (UGBS) forms part of one of the oldest and most prominent universities in the United Kingdom, namely Glasgow University, founded in 1451. Famous people such as Adam Smith (economist), Lord Kelvin (physicist), William Cullen and Joseph Lister (both medical doctors), A.J. Cronin (writer) and a number of Nobel Prize winners worked or studied here.
The university began providing business education around 1950 and started the business school in the 1970s. Both the university and the business school have a long tradition of international collaboration and TiasNimbas places great value on this relationship. For a number of years this collaboration had taken the form of participation by Glasgow lecturers in the TiasNimbas program 'Strategy and Innovation for the Public and Non-profit Sector'. One of the TiasNimbas' professors, prof. dr. ir. Kees Mouwen, is member of the Strategic Advisory Board of UGBS.
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University of Peking, Guanghua School of Management (China)
The Guanghua School of Management at Peking University is one of the top business schools in China. The School, initially named Peking University Business School, was founded in 1993 with the combination of the Department of Economic Management, School of Economics, and the Centre of Management Science, which were established in 1985 by Peking University. Located in Beijing's western suburbs, near the beautiful Yuan Ming Yuan and the famous Summer Palace, Peking University includes advanced research institutes and centres, state-of-the-art laboratories, a world-renowned library, and classroom facilities that combine beautiful classical Chinese architecture with the latest technology.
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Nederlands Centrum van Directeuren en Comissarissen (NCD) (The Netherlands)
TiasNimbas developed in co-operation with the NCD a programme for starting executives. The NCD, the Dutch Centre of executive and non-executive Directors, is a society with approximately 3,000 members. The NCD is an active network of entrepreneurs - executive and non-executive directors - working in medium to large-sized companies. The main objective of the NCD is to improve your professional performance by means of sharing your personal experiences in an open and inspiring atmosphere, providing knowledge in areas relevant for members, and lobby for the position of executives and non-executive directors in The Hague and Brussels. More on the NCD: www.ncd.nl.
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Sustainability Challenge Foundation (SCF) (The Netherlands)
The Sustainability Challenge Foundation is an international Non-Governmental Organisation registered in the Netherlands. It was established in 1994 by a number of prominent individuals who had been closely involved with the organisation of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro.
UNCED demonstrated how important cultural changes are taking place in the public perception of sustainability. This is also apparent in the activities of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, in the European Union's Fifth Environmental Action Programme and in innumerous initiatives in developing counties.
The next step is to operationalise the concept of sustainability - and it is with this goal in mind that the Foundation decided to create an annual executive programme, International Programme on the Management of Sustainability (IPMS), designed to attract individuals from around the world working at a senior operational level on problems of sustainability.
The objective of the Sustainability Challenge Foundation (SCF) is to provide training and assistance to the various parties involved in sustainable development world-wide. These include senior representatives from the public, private and non-profit sectors. SCF Programs focus on conflict management, and demonstrate ways to discover common interests behind the apparently contrasting demands of economic development and environmental protection.
The Sustainability Challenge Foundation is a small organisation that operates predominantly as a network among professionals. In order to build, expand and maintain the network, it relies on a number of key figures in the world that have played an important role in environmental protection and sustainable development during the last two decades. The expanding number of SCF sponsors are the Foundation's life support system without which none of the activities could take place.
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Vereniging Logistiek Management (vLm)
Vereniging Logistiek Management (vLm) is a branch association for managers, specialists and students in logistics and others who are interested in logistics. The association encourages professional development of logistics by offering a network and by exchange of knowledge and experiences. Furthermore, vLm undertakes new initiatives in the field of logistics, even though in cooperation with other parties. vLm is partner in the Master of Transport and Logistics program of TiasNimbas Business School.
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Association of Dutch University Business Schools (ADBS)
Business schools aren't created equal. University-embedded business schools' edge over stand-alone business schools is their closer and faster iinterface between academic research and management training programmes.
New association of business schools - To consolidate their lead, the top six business schools in The Netherlands founded the Association of Dutch University Business Schools, on 18 June 2007. The Association acts as a platform for multi-lateral linkages between the business schools to speed up the transfer of best practices in reseach, teaching, and corporate and societal outreach amongst its members.
The sharing also benefits their parent universities and the markets they serve. The Association's members develop more offerings on European integration and globalisation issues to support businesses to stay competitive and winning in their fast-changing global environment.
Members - The association's six founding members are: RSM Erasmus University (RSM), TiasNimbas Business School, Academische Opleidingen Groningen (AOG), University Maastricht Business School (UMBS), TSM Business School, Nyenrode Business University. The University of Amsterdam Business School and Academie voor Management joined a few months after the establishment of the foundation. The members are represented by their boards.
Partners - The Dutch Association of University Business Schools acts as a strategic partner to providers of public services (public and privatised entities) and the international business community. The association also works closely with the European Foundation of Management Development (EFMD), which serves similar interests on a European level. EFMD strongly endorses the Association's initiative.
Research - The association conducts research to further enhance the effectiveness of their international management training programmes. Its initial research will focus on the career development of the six member schools' alumni, and feed the results back into their curriculum designs.
Alumni - The Association will also work with and support the alumni networks of its members, by offering additional collective/shared management and career services to its alumni.
For further information please visit www.adbs.nl
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European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)
TiasNimbas has been a member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) since over a decade (Nimbas: 1993; Tias: 1997). EFMD is an international membership organization, based in Brussels, Belgium. With more than 650 member organizations from academia, business, public service and consultancy in 75 countries, EFMD provides a forum for information, research, networking and debate on innovation and best practice in management development. TiasNimbas plays and active role in EFMD and sits on several committees.
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Netherlands Foundation for Management Development (NFMD)
The Netherlands Foundation for Management Development (NFMD) was established in 1974. NFMD supports professionals working in the field of Management Development. To exchange information, share knowledge and create synergies, NFMD organises seminars, workshops and conferences.
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is an association of educational institutions, businesses, and other organisations devoted to the advancement of higher education in management education. It is also the premier accrediting agency of collegiate business schools and accounting programs worldwide.
Our International Executive MBA (IMM) is accredited by AACSB. This EMBA (IMM) is delivered in cooperation with Krannert Graduate School of Management / Purdue University (USA), CEU Central European University Business School (Hungary) and GISMA Business School (Germany).
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