Focus: Warwick Business School
REGULARLY listed as one of the top ten business schools in the UK, Warwick Business School is the largest department of the University of Warwick.
It was created as the School of Industrial and Business Studies (SIBS) in 1967 and took its present name in 1984. It has an international reputation for top quality education and research in management and business in the public and private sectors.
The newly‐appointed Dean of Warwick Business School, Professor Mark Taylor, took up his post in April 2010.
Professor Taylor has extensive experience both in academia and in the business and policy worlds. He has held a professorship in international finance at Warwick since 1999, although for the four years before becoming Dean, he was on leave from Warwick and working as a managing director at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, where he led the European arm of the Global Market Strategies Group, a large global macro investment fund.
Previously a Fellow of University College, Oxford, he has also held professorships at Cass Business School and at Liverpool University and was Visiting Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He was also a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, for five years and an Economist at the Bank of England
His research on exchange rates and international financial markets has been published extensively in many of the leading academic and practitioner journals and he is one of the most highly cited researchers in finance and economics in the world.
On his appointment last year, Professor Taylor said: “I want to consolidate and build on WBS’s success to make us a leading intellectual powerhouse among business schools, where academic excellence and business relevance in research and teaching are one and the same thing.”
The £44m turnover institution has almost 400 senior staff and more than 6,000 students. Its MBA and MPA (Masters in Public Administration) programmes alone account for more than 2,500 students.
Research income tops £6m, and major research programmes currently include projects for PwC, the EU and the NHS.
The December 2008 Research Assessment Exercise rated 75 percent of WBS research at three stars and above, placing it third in the UK.
WBS was the first business school in the UK to be accredited by all three premier international management education bodies: EQUIS, The Association of MBAs, and AACSB International.
The Warwick MBA and MPA were fully re‐accredited in 2009. In 2007, the MSc in Management achieved Pre‐Experience Masters in General Management accreditation from the Association of MBAs.
WBS is the first business school in the world to achieve, in 2007, both Bachelors‐level and Masters‐level (levels 1, 2 and 3) accreditation from the CFA, the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute, for those of its degree programmes which include the teaching of Finance.
