News from BMDA members
Unique network launches online platform to support regional economies
EDINBURGH, MARCH 23rd - With the pop of a virtual bottle of champagne, Eubizz.net was launched wednesday afternoon at the City Chambers of Edinburgh. Jim Galloway as the Head of Enterprise and Innovations of the City of Edinburgh carried this out on behalf of the European Business Support Network, celebrating this unique business support network going live. Galloway praised the initiative that aims to strengthen the efforts of local businesses entering new European markets.
“KVALITETAS” INTRODUCES AN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SIMULATION MODEL
International Conference
SMK University of Applied Social Sciences together with Association „New Generation Science and Business Cluster“ is organizing an international two-days conference „Development of Knowledge-Based Business Services: Future Challenges and Trends “ on May 22th-23th, 2012 in Vilnius.
DPMAR Thursday 28 and Friday 29 June 2012
Visit to IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia
ABS invites you to a number of events
The Association of Business Schools (ABS) organizes various events and invites you to take part at them!
Kolping week events
19-23 of March in Kolping University of Applied sciences was the Kolping week which became a tradition. The week-long events for the diverse auditory were organized for the fifth time.
Ruta Vainiene, Senior Fellow, LFMI
The Taming of the Fiscal Shrew
Article of LFMI
People in the Baltic Countries See the Same Causes of Smuggling – High Taxes and Low Income
LCC’s Assistant Professor Receives an Important Award for Management Research
LCC International University’s Business Administration Assistant Professor Femi Odebiyi was acknowledged for his research and received the 2011 Emerald/BMDA Borderless Management Research Fund Award several days ago.
Official Opening Ceremony of GCSC
On April 19, 2012 at “Radisson Blu Iveria”, there was an official Opening Ceremony of "Georgia’s Center for Strategy and Competitiveness". The event was also the venue for the presentation of the close-out report of USAID/Caucasus PhD Program in Business Administration at Caucasus University. The establishment of the strategic center is the direct result of the collaborative project financed under a USAID program that ensured the further development of PhD program at Caucasus University.
EBS has announced elections for the position of the Rector
The only private university in Estonia, Estonian Business School, has announced a competition for the position of the Rector, with the term of office of five years, commencing 1st September this year.
LCC Students Reach the Finals of International Business Competition
Four students from LCC International University made it to the top 20 out of 640 participants in the Peak Time Competition.
Board of Directors Announces Dr. Marlene Wall LCC’s New President
The LCC Board of Directors is pleased to announce that by unanimous vote Dr. Marlene Wall has been appointed as the sixth president of LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Conference of SMK
On the 12th of March, 2012 a conference “A New Role of Higher Education Institutions in Society: Challenges, Trends and Future Prospects” was organized by SMK University of Applied Social Sciences which took place in Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
The international module "Global EMBA" at MIRBIS
The Consortium “Global EMBA” now comprises the leading business schools from all over the world: the Alma Graduate School, Bologna, Italy; the Chapman Graduate School of Business (International University of Florida), Miami, USA; the COPPEAD Graduate Business School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Moscow International higher Business School “MIRBIS”, Moscow, Russia.
Educational Event at MIRBIS
From the 12th till the 16th of March 2012 a study visit of MBA and EMBA students from TSM business school (the Netherlands) took place at MIRBIS in the frameworks of the programme “International Business Strategies in the Russian context”.
Visit to Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Harvard Business School
Caucasus University hosted IAUP (The International Association of University Presidents)
LFMI has conducted a survey of the Lithuanian Economy
The survey conducted by the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) shows that Eurozone problems do not leave anybody cold. Lithuania failed to join the Eurozone in 2007 because it missed the inflation criteria by only 0.06 per cent. At the time, it was considered a big political failure.

