Berlin School of Business and Innovation

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Berlin School of Business and Innovation (BSBI)
TypePrivate, for-profit
Established2018
Parent institution
Global University Systems
Key PeopleSagi Hartov
(Executive Chairman)
Prince Paul of Romania
(Patron)
Location
Berlin, Germany
WebsiteOfficial website

Berlin School of Business and Innovation (BSBI) is a business school run by private, for-profit education company Global University Systems in Berlin, Germany.

History[]

Berlin School of Business and Innovation was founded in 2018 by Netherlands-based for-profit education company Global University Systems (GUS).[1]

The institution is headed by Sagi Hartov, Israeli cellist and BSBI Executive Chairman, and Aaron Etingen, British-Russian businessman and Global University Systems CEO.[2][3]

BSBI does not hold degree-awarding powers in Germany and its programmes are validated by private Italian distance learning institution UniNettuno International Telematic University.[1]

In November 2019, BSBI announced that it had partnered with Concordia University Chicago to deliver programmes at its Berlin campus.[4]

In June 2020, BSBI become an official signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UN-PRME) initiative.[5][6]

Patronage[]

In November 2018, BSBI appointed Prince Paul of Romania and Princess Lia of Romania as the school’s Patrons, and Princess Madeleine of Bentheim and Steinfurt as Honorary Patron.[7][1]

In December 2020, BSBI’s patron Prince Paul was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison by the Supreme Court of Romania.[8][9][10][11]

Criticism[]

In July 2018, an MBA Journal article report claimed that BSBI’s admission requirements were "extremely low" and that the institution was cooperating with a university of "very low standards". BSBI parent company Global University Systems’ chief academic officer Maurits van Rooijen defended BSBI, saying, "We want to offer different access options (academic and financial) and different learning formats for different target groups."[12]

On 22 May 2019, MBA Journal reported that students had told the publication that they had written to BSBI management accusing the institution of poor "quality of teachers and teaching, learning materials and assignments." In the letter, students said, "Often times, we are left to learn from Google and Youtube because of the lack of resources that BSBI provides us."[13]

In July 2019, BSBI students wrote to Poets & Quants, sharing with the education publication that they had written to the institution's management in March 2019 calling their attention to "substandard classes and coursework". Amongst a variety of complaints that were raised, students told the publication, "For 2 to 3 weeks we didn't even have chairs."[14]

Poets & Quants revealed that the BSBI campus in Berlin was a shared floor with another institution, and the schools shared most of the inventory in the campus. The institution moved out a year after BSBI's launch and took all its inventory with it. "They took things like the coffee machine, the glasses, tables, chairs, everything," students told the publication.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Ethier, Marc (13 July 2018). "New B-School Born in Berlin". Poets & Quants. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  2. ^ "BSBI: Our Team". Berlin School of Business and Innovation. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  3. ^ "GUS: The Team". Global University Systems. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  4. ^ Kennedy, Kerrie (18 November 2019). "BSBI announces new programs with CUChicago". The PIE News. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Berliner Wirtschaftsschule BSBI tritt der UN-Initiative für verantwortungsvolle Bildung bei". Finanz Nachrichten (in German). 11 June 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  6. ^ "LSBF Singapore expands Uni of Greenwich partnership". Study Travel Magazine. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  7. ^ "Berlin School of Business and Innovation Officially Launches with Opening Event in Berlin". PRNewswire. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  8. ^ Chirileasa, Andrei (18 December 2020). "Romanian prince becomes wanted person to serve jail sentence in corruption case". Romania Insider. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  9. ^ Popescu, Ana; Ionescu, Alin (17 December 2020). "BREAKING Verdict final în dosarul Ferma Băneasa: Remus Truică – 7 ani, Benjamin Steinmetz și Tal Silberstein – câte 5 ani, Paul al României – 3,4 ani, toți cu executare/ Dan Andronic – 3 ani cu suspendare" [BREAKING Final verdict in the Băneasa Farm trial: Remus Truică – 7 years, Benjamin Steinmetz and Tal Silberstein – 5 years, each, Paul of Romania – 3.4 years, all with enforcement/ Dan Andronic – 3 years with suspension]. G4Media.ro (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  10. ^ Pirv, Cosmin (17 December 2020). "Condamnări definitive în dosarul fermei Băneasa. Ce pedeapsă a primit Remus Truică". Mediafax (in Romanian). Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  11. ^ de Natal, Frederic. "Le prince Paul-Philippe de Hohenzollern condamné à la prison ferme". Monarchies et Dynasties du monde (in French). Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  12. ^ Schwertfeger, Barbel (23 July 2018). "GUS mit neuem Billig-MBA in Berlin". MBA Journal (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  13. ^ Schwertfeger, Barbel (22 May 2019). "BSBI: Massives Missmanagement". MBA Journal (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2021.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b Ethier, Marc (16 July 2019). "Is This Berlin B-School A Scam? Some MBA Students Say Yes". Poets & Quants (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2021.

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