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The Executive Board of Maastricht University has appointed Mariëlle Heijltjes, professor of managerial behaviour, as dean of the School of Business and Economics (SBE).

The Maastricht School of Management (MSM) and Maastricht University (UM) are complementary institutions that have the potential to strengthen one another. Therefore, the boards of both organisations signed an agreement on 20 May 2022, integrating MSM into the School of Business and Economics (SBE), one...

Completing a bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management in 2011 and a master’s in the same field in 2012—both as SBE—Patrick Mack has gone on to enjoy a career that has taken him from the Netherlands to work in three different countries, learn two new languages, and travel extensively. He shares with...

Alumnus Jean-Paul Jaegers completed the Dutch Mountain Trail in one day on 17 April 2022. The trail is 101km long and covers seven summits in the beautiful southern parts of Limburg via the German and Belgium borders and finishing in Maastricht. In addition to the trail being a bold personal challenge...

Training participation among workers has dropped from 54 percent in 2017 to 51 percent in 2020. The time spent on tasks from which one can learn has also decreased. This decrease in work-related learning seems to be the result of the pandemic.

On Friday, April 22, the MORSE 2021 Thesis Awards ceremony took place, introduced by a lecture on "How to write an impactful thesis" by Dr Therese Grohnert. The second part of the event was dedicated to the awarding of the 2021 MORSE thesis awards.

MORSE (Maastricht Observatory on Resilient, Responsible and Sustainable Enterprise and Economy), an SBE Spearhead program, had its Launch Week from 25 – 29 October. During this week, there were lectures from valued speakers, inaugural lectures from MORSE members, panel discussions with Students and...

With today's energy prices, you almost don't dare turn on your heating. Yet for many, solar panels and a heat pump still sound like an expensive joke.