Hult International Business School

Overview

Hult International Business School

Hult International Business School is a private business school with campuses in the United States, United Kingdom, China, and United Arab Emirates. It traces its origins to Arthur D. Little School of Management, which was founded in 1964 and the Ashridge Business School, which was established in 1959. Swedish billionaire Bertil Hult formed the institution by purchasing the former in 2002 and acquiring the latter in 2014. The school belongs to the top-ranked educational institutions in the country with contributions to the field of advertising, economics, and marketing.

Hult International Business School Key Statistics

The school offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree programs in business, including Bachelor of Business Administration, Master in International Business, Masters in Business Analytics, Masters in Finance, Masters in International Marketing, and Doctorate of Business Administration.

Other Hult International Business School key statistics include its 1,266 graduate students, 1,532 undergraduate students, and 478 academic staff. The school has seven campuses, which house facilities such as the Hult House, lecture theaters, and a library. The campuses in London and Boston are undergraduate and postgraduate campuses while the San Francisco, Shanghai, and Dubai campuses are postgraduate and summer rotational campuses. The New York City campus is a solely postgraduate campus while the Ashridge campus is an executive education campus.

The school is affiliated with the Association of MBAs and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Hult International Business School Research

The school conducts research on two main themes, namely, creating disruption and transforming behavior. The first theme studies strategies in international markets, what triggers them, how they are formed, and how well they perform, while the second theme deals with leadership practices and the programs that inspire improvement in the behavior of individuals and teams in businesses. Research projects are primarily funded internally through private grants and endowments.

Advertising, economics, and marketing are the top fields of Hult International Business School research. Its work outputs have been presented at conferences, such as the IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications in 2019, the Annual Conference on Computers in 2008, and the International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering in 2009.

The most cited research article from the school is Millar et al.’s (2012) “Sustainability and the need for change: Organisational change and transformational vision,” which appeared in the Journal of Organizational Change Management and has more than 160 citations to date. The second most cited publication is Esposito et al.’s (2018) “Introducing a circular economy: New thinking with new managerial and policy implications,” which was featured in the California Management Review and has over 130 citations.

In addition, the third most cited work is Millar et al.’s (2018) “Management innovation in a VUCA world: Challenges and recommendations,” published in California Management Review with close to 120 citations.

Its other most cited publications include Millar et al.’s (2017) “Disruption: Technology, innovation and society” (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 61 citations) and Salzman and Zwinkels’ (2017) “Behavioural Real Estate” (Journal of Real Estate Literature and Social Science Research Network in 2013, 35 citations).

Hult International Business School has produced more than 19,000 alumni, including the ninth president of Myanmar Htin Kyaw and the 54th president of the Dominican Republic Luis Abinader.

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