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AMS announces new partnership with ESSCA School of Management

Antwerp Management School partners with ESSCA School of Management to launch top-ranked Executive MBA program in Paris. As of November 2021, Paris will become the third location of the EMBA after Antwerp and Moscow. The news comes after the program was ranked nr. 55 worldwide by the Financial Times Ranking, moving up 30 places in only 3 years!

Is digital security a market for lemons?

Although information security has a long history, it wasn’t really top of mind of senior management, board or other employees until late 2010. A “security professional” became a real job and market demand has grown ever since. Awareness about security risks increased significantly. The thriving forces for this were major security breaches such as Snowden, NotPetja and WannaCry shocking the world, but also regulators demanding companies to protect their critical assets, including non-tangible ones such as data. As a result of this, we can now state it has the board's attention by default.

Business schools on the barricades for sustainability

The Chair in Management Education for Sustainability at Antwerp Management School and Breda University of Applied Sciences was officially launched on December 15th 2020. Business schools need to go to the barricades, pressing for effective sustainability solutions. Now is the time for realism, Dr. Lars Moratis and Dr. Frans Melissen, holders of the Chair in Management Education for Sustainability, argue.

Get the biggest bang for your security buck

Over the last seven years, our role as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has drastically changed. According to our Microsoft Outlook Analytics client, more than fifty percent of our mail is spam from cyber security suppliers, trying to grab our attention by selling fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD). Over the last decade, we’ve seen this industry explode with self-proclaimed “cyber pros” and fuzzy vendors in the cyber domain. Is this because industry strategy agencies like IDC, Gartner, and Forrester predict that security spending keeps on increasing? Or is it because the cyber consumer just follows the herd?
The latest figures indicate that an astonishing 22% of the IT budget is allocated to cyber and information security. Our own experience is that dialogues with C-level execs nowadays ask: Are we doing the right stuff, and are we doing this stuff right? How do we measure and monitor our return on security investments (ROSI)? And, where do we get the ‘biggest bang for the buck’. It’s a dialogue that very few suppliers actively participate in, while interacting with their CISO customers.

Kim De Meulenaere

Jelena Zikic, PhD

Michael Dickmann, PhD

Riet Coenen

Employees no longer get by with "traditional" competencies. So, how do they manage?

There is a lot going on in the literature around 21st century skills. Rightfully so, because in our VUCA world, diplomas are expiring faster and faster. Employees can no longer manage with 'traditional' competencies. For example, now they also need to be problem solvers and cope with change. COVID-19 has only sharpened the need for such competencies for the future.

5 more years of high quality accreditation for the Faculty of Business and Economics of UAntwerp and AMS

We are so proud to announce that both Antwerp Management School and the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Antwerp extend their business accreditation by AACSB International for another 5 years.