The Academic Week Ahead

Launch a start-up

Enterprise Week is taking place at the University of St Andrews School of Management. It aims to encourage students to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.

Meet MBA alumni

The Forté Foundation is running a webinar on how to make the most of your MBA. This will feature a panel of MBA alumni from sponsor schools, including Harvard and MIT Sloan, sharing what they have achieved with their MBA since graduating. A forum is also taking place in London at the Chicago Booth campus.

Invest in India

Rotman School of Management and University of St Gallen have invited Vikas Mitall, a managing director at McCain Foods India, to their executive MBA speaker series. His talk is titled The McCain Experience of Doing Business In India.

Be Latin American

IMD business school is hosting a one-day conference on the future of Brazil. Panel discussions will cover the economy, investment, large sporting events and more.

Study online

The Open University is running an information session in Italy for prospective students. Materials used on courses will be available to view and questions answered in English and Italian.

Be European

Deans, associate deans, department chairs and faculty at business schools worldwide are invited to attend the annual AACSB Europe Conference at Grenoble School of Management. The conference will explore management education trends specific to Europe.

Transform healthcare

The University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business Center for Health Information and Decision Systems is hosting a workshop on health IT & economics. Speakers include Anand Iyer, chief data scientist at WellDoc and an MBA graduate.

Be data savvy

The fifth annual New Directions in Analysing Text as Data Conference is taking place at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. The conference brings together researchers from political science, computer science and linguistics to investigate new approaches to utilising text in political science research.

Email forthcoming events to charlotte.clarke@ft.com