/// INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS MAKE US STRONGER!

“International collaborations make the Arison School of Business at Reichman University stronger,” says Prof. Niron Hashai, the School’s Dean. In order to make its programs more attractive and expose and enhance the social networks of its students, the School has initiated collaborations with the best business schools in the world.

As such, 20 students participated in a four-day innovation and entrepreneurship workship at Duke University this summer. The School has a longstanding collaboration with Columbia Business School, where students participate in block week courses, as well as join MBA students for a one-week “Startup Nation” study tour in Israel, organized by the school’s faculty. Other exciting collaborations involve joint groups of students from the Arison School of Business and New York University, who spend time devising plans on how to penetrate the North American market for Israeli firms and startups. A similar collaboration is conducted with Dartmouth College, where MBA students from both institutions collaborate in an online course, with the aim of advising an Israeli startup on how to penetrate the US market.

When it comes to top European business schools, this year the School initiated a joint program with the University of Cambridge in the UK, where students and their counterparts participate in a week-long course to learn about the innovation ecosystem at Cambridge, and then spend a week doing the same in Israel. A different type of collaboration is the one with INSEAD, one of the leading global business schools. In it, the School takes the traditional casestudy approach used in many business schools one step forward and together, develop Virtual Reality (VR) case studies that give students a much more immersive learning experience. They believe this to be the next generation of how business schools teach case studies, and are proud to be one of the leading business schools in the world to advance this novel teaching method.

The School is currently looking to expand its portfolio of collaborations with top business schools from different countries – believing that this not only makes programs more exciting and unique, but also allows students to build themselves a strong global social network, which is pivotal for their future career.