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MIB academic director says program evolving with changing business landscape

Posted on: February 17, 2022; Updated on: February 17, 2022

Marc van Essen

MIB program academic director, chair of the Sonoco International Business Department and international business professor

Education   
'11 Ph.D., Management, RSM Management Erasmus University; '07 M.S., Economics and Law, Utrecht University; '05 B.S., Economics and Law, Utrecht University

Research
His research interests include entrepreneurship, comparative corporate governance, international business, family business and meta-analytic research methods. The results of this research have been published in leading journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Science and others. Recently, van Essen has started to conduct research in the intersection of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.

Thoughts on the current standing of the MIB program
"The Master of International Business program has developed more than 80 partnerships with the top international business schools in more than 35 countries — more than any other U.S. university. The plan is to continue the ‘partner-based model’ for the MIB program and intensify the relationships by developing multiple programs with our current partners. The transaction costs are lower, and commitment is higher.

"For example, with ESSEC (France), Bocconi (Italy) and Aalto (Finland), we have agreements for undergraduate IB exchange and a double master’s degree. More specifically for the MIB program, we are in the process of signing agreements with top universities around the word to get access for our students in specialized master's degree programs, which are sometimes taught in local languages in topics like digital business, global supply chain and sustainability. We are also finalizing the process to get our program ranked in the Financial Times and ask that each of our alumni please support us in this effort. The MIB program has grown tremendously over the past few years and has continued evolving to keep up with the changing business landscape. Thus, we hope to reap the rewards of these efforts by having the program ranked on an international scale."

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