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Knowledge Beyond Borders
Welcome to the SBE Blog, a platform for our academic community to share their expertise with people beyond their academic borders! Our authors range from students and PhDs to tenured professors and lecturers.
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Blog posts
Owners of family businesses often lack adequate preparation for their role
- UM news
Owners of family businesses feel they are insufficiently prepared for their role. While succession planning regarding management or employee positions within the family business is carefully discussed, attention to future ownership and the associated responsibilities is often lacking.
Honouring heritage, embracing hospitality: SBE alumna Yinyin’s story
- Human interest
- UM news
When Yinyin (SBE Alumna) walks through the doors of her restaurant on the weekend, she is not just an owner checking on operations. She is also a project manager, a strategist, a sister, and an entrepreneur balancing two very different worlds.
DigiMach: digitisation for SMEs
Digitisation is becoming more and more important, including for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). DigiMach is a Euregional innovation project designed to help smaller companies in the metal sector move forward with digitisation. Maastricht University is one of the partners.
Language across the curriculum: how research and teaching collaborate to enhance language education in Heerlen
Researchers and teachers in Heerlen are jointly developing language-focused teaching across all subjects. Through co-creation, they test new methods that help pupils better understand complex tasks, and the approach can later be implemented in other schools as well.
Global Connections are built, not inherited
- Human interest
- UM news
If you want to learn more about the true nature of international careers and the importance of networking and adaptability, be sure to read on. Discover SBE Alumnus Lennart's experiences that reveal how to navigate your own international career journey effectively.
