At Business School Lausanne, we approach business education differently. Building a new generation of leadership has become essential to create learning programs that address the fundamental changes of working in the 21st century. This includes focusing on how digital transformation, current economic trends, societal structure changes, and environmental concerns have transformed the business landscape.
Based in Switzerland, we are a truly global learning lab. Students from sixty nationalities with diverse backgrounds join our experienced faculty in a co-creative approach to learning, focusing on topics as broad as leadership, systems thinking, economics, and business-driven sustainability. Our faculty comprises individuals who have run successful businesses and have practically applied what they teach in real-world situations, ensuring our students are taught the most cutting-edge business thinking.
BSL is committed to creating a personalized and focused learning experience for each of our students. This is why we insist on keeping our classes small. So each student has the opportunity to truly participate in seeking new ideas for measuring the role and impact of business in today's society. We endeavor to create a space where all of our students, professors, staff, researchers, and stakeholders, feel free to come together to ask courageous questions and maximize solutions through values that matter because the connection is key to tackling issues for the common good.
We teach our students big picture thinking to develop innovative cross-sector solutions, which we believe will help them realize their true potential in whatever avenue of business they choose to pursue.
Pursuing a BSL degree gives you the chance to live and study in Switzerland, a multilingual country with a culturally diverse population and a growing ex-pat community. You will have the opportunity to meet people from all over the world, enhance your cross-cultural skills, learn new languages, and develop a global mindset.
BSL students benefit from the school's proximity to many international organizations and large corporations in the Geneva Lake region. With its banking, commercial, and tourism infrastructure, Switzerland ranks among the world's 20 largest economies and hosts 15 Fortune 500 companies.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a civic business school with an international reputation for shaping responsible management behavior.
Our Mission is to provide a learning platform that enables individuals and organizations to thrive by co-creating viable business solutions for our planet and its people. We aim to:
- Deliver teaching and learning opportunities of the highest quality.
- Be recognized internationally as an innovator in responsible business education.
- To be relevant to industry so that they value our opinion and our graduates.
Our six values support our three cornerstones and allow us to measure our intentions, behavior, and actions. These commonly developed values have been guiding the collaboration among all our stakeholders – from students to professors and administrative staff and our business partners, parents, and friends of our students, our suppliers, and partners in society.
BSL's student council is responsible for organizing events and cultural activities on and off-campus throughout the year to bring students together to build relationships and network. You can look forward to welcoming parties for new students, our much-loved Culture days, BBQs, and many other exciting social events. Our council is also dedicated to giving back, so they have some humanitarian projects they are involved in, and we encourage our full student body to get involved.
BSL offers a dynamic and enthusiastic team of professors. In line with the school's pragmatic approach, they have been carefully selected based on their abilities to combine real-life experience with classroom learning. All are current and accomplished business professionals, incorporating today's issues and challenges into their lectures. As seasoned business professionals, BSL professors live in a world of bottom-line responsibility and effective management. They originate from many cultural backgrounds, and most have practiced business in two or more countries. This level of diversity and multicultural experience provides BSL students with unique perspectives on problem-solving.
BSL professors are excellent communicators and mentors, often working one-on-one with students. Their goal is to see students succeed, and they provide a continuous assessment of students' development. Students are trained and assessed based on their ability to be successful in today's business environment.
At BSL, we are all bound by our shared passion for conducting our business (and indeed our life) in a way that does good in the world. Through these stories, we discover the infinite number of different ways that diversity can make this typical goal manifest itself. Humans of BSL celebrates this diversity and commonality and slowly reveals through its wonderfully unique Humans, the Soul of BSL.
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