Umeå School of Business, Economics, and Statistics (USBE)
Research - Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Umeå School of Business, Economics, and Statistics (USBE) Employees
Virginie Fernandez
Postdoctoral Researcher in extreme contexts - Chercheur postdoctoral
Umeå School of Business, Economics, and Statistics (USBE) Details
Umeå School of Business, Economics & Statistics (USBE) or "Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet" in Swedish has about 150 employees including 90 Faculty members and 16 Full professors. More than 2900 students study in our programs per year. The areas of research and teaching are in business administration, economics and statistics.USBE is a university integrated business school located at Umeå University Campus. The Campus offers the students an interactive learning environment and good opportunities to meet and socialize with students from other programs. USBE was founded in 1989, but our education and research dates back to 1966, the same year as Umeå University was founded. The Umeå University Campus is centrally located on walking or biking distance from the city center, the airport and sport and cultural facilities.Our school is known for its high quality of education, research, interaction with external stakeholders and its strong focus on internationalization and sustainable development. We are AACSB accreditated, ISO14001 certified, members of the Global Business School Netwwork (GBSN) and advanced participant, signatory of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). The USBE VisionUSBE is a university-based business school firmly rooted in the region, nationally influential and internationally respected.The USBE MissionUSBE creates knowledge in interaction with stakeholders to develop responsible leaders with a sustainability orientation for a local and global society by:- providing a high-quality adaptive learning environment that stimulates professional independent thinking for future challenges;- providing a dynamic environment enabling discipline-based research with high international standards in strong research profiles;- acting as a catalyst and partner to generate and share knowledge and experience in cooperation with business and the community.
