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The Great Remuneration Survey

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and De Standaard are organising the Great Remuneration Survey for the second time. This research gauges your satisfaction about your remuneration and a number of other characteristics concerning your work situation. The survey will take you approcimately 15 minutes to complete. Once you have filled it out completely, you may win one of the three Sony Vaio-notebooks, worth 899 euro.

Persbericht 7th Belgian Consumer Goods Study

86% believe that consumer confidence will remain low in 2009, which will lead to a persistent price-sensitivity. That’s why 76% see Colruyt gaining more market share next year as well. Fewer than one respondent in three thinks that the high fuel prices are causing consumers to change their shopping behaviour to limit trips with the car.

New! Managing Corporate Performance

A recent study by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in collaboration with Trifinance indicated that Performance Management is the top priority of the CEO. To bring you up to speed on the latest thinking on this topic, Vlerick launches a new programme on managing corporate performance.

New! Executive Master Class in Business process management

In a changing and ever challenging business environment, it is crucial to manage the business processes to excel competition. Business Process Management (BPM) delivers the crucial business glue that synchronises planning, designing, building, operating, maintaining, monitoring and improving the capabilities of the enterprise. BPM is unique in its ability to tame the relentless competitive, service and cost pressures in all organisations, enabling enterprises to continue to adapt (faster and faster) while enhancing quality and reducing costs.

4th BPI Conference was a success!

The fourth edition of Vlerick’s Business Process Innovation conference on 16 October turned out to be a huge success. With over 250 executives attending this conference, a large and diverse community of managers and decision makers gathered in Brussels. In total more than 25 presentations - spread over five parallel tracks - provided the participants the possibility to customise their conference experience and to get new insights, enlightening ideas and useful frameworks.

Professor Philippe Haspeslagh: Dean of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Philippe Haspeslagh has started his first academic year last month as Dean of the school. During his Opening Speech he expressed the following view: "No academic business school will stay a relevant learning partner without a global mindset, a focus on the key management challenges of today's world and an entrepreneurial and customer-focused culture."

Orator magazine: September - October - November 2008

We are poised at the start of a new academic year, a year full of challenges both for the School and its students. This year, we welcome 400 new Masters’ students, both full-time and part-time, to our campuses in Gent and Leuven. At an international level, our reputation is reaping its rewards – 40 part-time MBA students will be starting at our St Petersburg campus and 140 part-time and 60 fulltime MBA students in Beijing. We are positive that they, along with the School, will enjoy an exciting and enriching year. Our new dean, Professor Philippe Haspeslagh set the ball rolling at the opening of the academic year. You’ll find the highlights of his opening speech in Orator.

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School makes big jumps in the rankings

Two international rankings have placed the Master in General Management and MBA programme of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School at a very different position. The Economist made the school progress from the 21st to the 14th position worldwide. This ranking is highly based on the experiences of the students. They are increasingly more excited about the education they
receive at Vlerick.

Press release: Belgium slightly improves in the competitiveness ranking, but….

The new ranking of the global competitiveness report of 2008-2009, designed by the World Economic Forum, and for which Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is the partner institute, revealed that this year Belgium improved slightly on its competitiveness.

Based on a comprehensive survey which questioned 12.297 business leaders in 134 countries and the use of hard data on different aspects of an economy’s competitiveness, Belgium has been evaluated as the 19^th most competitive economy in the world. The improvement follows a status quo of last two years at the 20^th position.

Corporate Partnership Magazine, September 2008

Corporate Partnership Magazine, edition September 2008