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Press Releases 2016

Financial Times Business School Ranking: WU placed 43th

Starting on 05 December 2016 at 10:20 Location:

In the most recent Financial Times ranking of European Business Schools WU placed 43th out of 90 ranked Business Schools. WU already achieved very good results in the Financial Times rankings ‘Masters…

WU offers internships for refugees again in 2017

Starting on 18 November 2016 at 10:01 Location:

As part of its initiative in support of refugees, WU is again providing eight academic in-ternship positions for displaced people. The internships will start in January and run for a period of three…

Bad decisions – bad people? Why managers become corrupt

Starting on 03 November 2016 at 08:22 Location:

Scandals like the manipulated emissions tests at Volkswagen or those seen in a number of oth-er large concerns pose the question of what causes so many managers to act irresponsibly and create such…

WU Rector hosts welcome event for first-semester students

Starting on 27 September 2016 at 09:30 Location:

WU welcomes its new first-semester students and guides them through their first few days at university to make sure that they get off to a good start and to show them that despite its large size, WU…

WU achieves first-ever top ten spot in FT ranking

Starting on 12 September 2016 at 09:59 Location:

WU has achieved a sensational result in the annual ranking of the world’s best degree programs in management. It climbed five places and secured its best result ever since joining the global Masters…

Leadership: Managing creativity

Starting on 02 August 2016 at 11:11 Location:

Creativity is an essential factor for the success of business enterprises. Almost every company benefits from creativity in one way or another. WU Professor Gerhard Speckbacher, head of the Institute…

WU aiming for a more socially diverse student population

Starting on 13 June 2016 at 11:36 Location:

In October 2015, Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger took over as the new rector of WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). Upon taking office, she announced plans to in-crease the diversity of WU’s…

WU awards internship positions to refugees

Starting on 03 May 2016 at 13:40 Location:

As part of its initiatives in support of refugees, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) advertised eight academic internship positions for refugees who have been granted asylum in Austria.…

Rich or poor? Looking into the future

Starting on 18 April 2016 at 13:10 Location:

The ready availability of worldwide demographic data on age, sex, and educational attainment is opening up new avenues for research. As part of research work carried out in cooperation with the…

WU Pin of Honor awarded to Kathryn and Craig Hall

Starting on 11 April 2016 at 10:41 Location:

WU Rector Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger awarded the WU Pin of Honor to Kathryn Hall, former US ambassador to Austria, and her husband Craig Hall, in recognition of their long years of generous support to…

WU offers internships for refugees

Starting on 15 March 2016 at 10:18 Location:

As part of its initiative in support of refugees, WU is providing eight academic internship positions for displaced people. The internships will start in April and run for a period of three months.

Boosting sales through crowdsourcing – user-driven innovation

Starting on 01 March 2016 at 09:00 Location:

New product ideas generated by customers are more successful than products developed by companies’ in-house designers. Ideas generated by communities of users not only tend to be more novel and…