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With plans underway for the UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation of 110,000 customers following the collapse of Monarch Airlines – the biggest UK airline ever to cease trading – questions are quite rightly being asked about what went wrong. Professor Padraic Regan explores.

Current law requires Tegel be closed when the new, under-construction Berlin-Brandenburg International opens. But, in a blow to city authority plans, the results of a September 24 non-binding referendum showed that the majority of Berliners want to keep Tegel open. Professor Padraic Regan our aviation expert explores here.

Ryanair has had the week from hell. The budget airline has cancelled around 2,000 flights, affecting up to 400,000 passengers, and unleashing a wave of terrible headlines and withering commentary. But how did such an unexpected, unprecedented drama come seemingly out of the blue for one of the world’s fastest-growing and most profitable airlines? Our aviation expert Padraic Regan explains.

When we buy a pair of jeans, sunglasses, or trainers, we are never buying for ourselves, but for others. Dr Norah Campbell, in the second part of her three part series in Village Magazine, explores the hidden but damaging impact of marketing practices.

We need to work out how to save capitalism from itself writes Dr Julian Friedland in The Conversation.

Although CAO points for business studies degrees went down in most universities in Ireland, Trinity Business School bucked the national trend by achieving sizeable increases in its CAO points for both BBS and BESS which are now respectively the top two general management degrees in Ireland.

The blame game prevents learning because fearful and defensive people do not disclose all the facts, writes Dr Martin Fellenz.

Professor Brian Lucey proposes slow sustainable tourism initiatives for greater economic impact. Read Here.

Prof David Coghlan, in collaboration with colleagues from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and HEC in Montreal were awarded the best action research paper by the Organization Development & Change division of the Academy of Management at the annual conference in Atlanta in August.

The Liffey Trust, one of Europe’s oldest incubators is partnering with Trinity Business School at Trinity College Dublin to fund scholarships for entrepreneurs studying on the Trinity MBA. Read Here.

Is national pride the only thing that can save struggling airlines like Air Berlin and Alitalia from market forces? Professor Padraic Regan, our resident aviation management expert, writes about failing European airlines. Read Here.

Professor Frank Barry writes: Five years from now the Irish state will celebrate the centenary of its exit from the United Kingdom. The struggle to end that political and economic union was characterised not just by bitter debate but by military conflict. The process threatened British democracy itself. The script reads like a nightmarish film treatment of the Brexit process of today. Read it today.

Two recent graduates from Trinity’s Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting have been awarded prizes for academic achievement by EY. Niamh Lynch won the prize for the highest grade in the ‘Audit’ module and Petra Stracarova won the prize for the highest grade in the ‘Corporate Governance and Ethics’ module. Thank you to Oisin Molloy who presented the large cheques to both graduates. Congratulations Niamh and Petra!

Professor Andrew Burke, Dean of Trinity Business School and Chair of the Centre for Research on Self-Employment comments on the recent research results. Read more.

Assistant Professor in International Strategic Management and aviation expert, Padraic Regan gives his thoughts on how Brexit may impact on the aviation industry. Read more.

Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, Amanda Shantz explores what makes an effective, purposeful leader. Read more.

Find out about the Trinity MBA ahead of our upcoming tour of America. Read more here.

In part 1 of a three part series Assistant Professor of Marketing, Norah Campbell looks at the impact Marketing has on our bodies; where does personal responsibility end and corporate responsibility begin?

Managers need to spot when initiatives to improve employee engagement are pushing staff into workaholic behaviour, writes Dr Sarah-Jane Cullinane

Professor Brian Lucey responds to calls for Irexit. Read more here.

Trinity Business School and the Trinity Centre for Social Innovation and the School of Natural Sciences are leading a €12m EU-Funded project to bring nature into cities across the world. Read more about it here.

Richard Keegan, Enterprise Ireland and Adjunct Assistant Professor explains how the lean methodology can help Irish SMEs brace for Brexit. Read more here.

A pioneer of ethical consumerism, wedded to a corporate giant with a questionable record? The lessons of a decade ago should be ringing alarm bells. Professor Tanusree Jain analyses the merger.

Lots of congratulations to Professor Mary Keating, Director of the MSc in International Management on receiving a Certificate of Excellence at the Global Engagement Awards 2017! The awards recognise faculty and administrative members who have shown a passion for encouraging international activities in the University. Mary’s research on culture and her dedication to teaching international management has been exemplary. Martha O’Hagan Luff kindly accepted the award on Mary’s behalf.

Trinity´s student startup accelerator, has kicked off again for the summer with a whole new cohort of energetic early stage businesses. Read more

Congratulations to Mairead Brady, Assistant Professor in Marketing on recently receiving the Provost’s Teaching Award for her innovations in the classroom. Read more about the awards here.

Are our risk perceptions impacting our saving perceptions for the worse? Raphael Schoenle, Rawley Heimer and Trinity Business Schools Krisitian Myrseth’s research was recently featured in Allianz Project M magazine. Read it here.

The Journal of Empirical Finance has recently ranked the INFINITI Conference, chaired by Brian Lucey from the School, as one of the top 50 finance conferences worldwide and No.12 for a conference of its size. The conference was constituted in Trinity College Dublin in the Summer of 2003.

Trinity College Dublin rises in QS world university rankings, making it number one in Ireland for research impact, academic reputation, our international student community and faculty. Read more.

Today the international business publication, CEO Magazine, has announced its latest global rankings for MBA programmes and has placed the Trinity MBA in the top tier of MBAs in the world.

David McWilliams fuelled debate at the Trinity Global Forum when he addressed the questions: Is the world order changing irredeemably? What are the economic forces behind change? What next for Europe? . Watch the video here.

The current debate on digital transformation is naturally very technology-centric but the human factor is often underestimated or ignored. Adrienne Gormley of Dropbox shares her perspectives.

Professor Frank Barry discusses why Irelands tech companies do not need to worry about Brexit or Trumps tax plans for the US. Read here.

In his controversial new book, Business School veteran William Kingston, charts the rise and projects the fall of capitalism. He argues that laws and traditions which once ensured self-interested actions also produced public benefit have now been captured and shaped by those who could benefit most from them. Read an abstract here.

Professor Andrew Burke, Dean of Trinity Business School recently addressed the Chartered Accountants Interm Managers Conference championing the benefits of freelance professional experts to industry, economies and the experts themselves. Read more here.

Professor Brian Lucey gave his inaugural lecture as Chair of International Finance and Commodities on Tuesday evening. You can listen to the podcast of his talk here.

Professor Frank Barry discusses why Irelands tech companies do not need to worry about Brexit or Trumps tax plans for the US. Read here.

Eduniversal Best Masters 2017 rankings were released yesterday and all of Trinity Business School Masters were highly ranked. Find out more here.

Danny McCoy, CEO of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) explored the implications of Brexit for Irish business at the recent Trinity Global Business Forum. Watch the video here.

Studies show that corporations are stronger with more women in senior leadership positions. Yet the piple is limited by the Missing Middle phenomenon. Fiona Dawson, Global President of Mars Drinks, Food and Multisales discusses the steps corporations can take to address this key challenge.

The ceremony was held in the House of Lords, Bank of Ireland on College Green on Thursday, 6th April. Read about the event here.

Embracing Disruption - Finding Opportunities in Crises. Read about our recent Global Business Forum as well as other goings-on in Trinity Business School.

The new fund will be sponsored by the Ryanair Foundation to the value of €1.5m over five years and will see the new Ryanair Professor of Entrepreneurship take up the role from September 2017. Read more on the story here.

The UK has taken a leadership position in Europe in terms of its relations with China. While there has been a greater openness to FDI from China in Europe there remains a skittishness around investment. Professor Louis Brennan outlines the possible implications of China losing a key member state in the EU. Read more.

The Annual Trinity Business School Newsletter is now out. Read about the fastest growing Business School in Europe

Congratulations to the 2nd Year Business and French students, Liam Cronin and Mark Perham who won Jailbreak on Sunday, 12 March by reaching ‘Location X’ in San Marino just before 5pm .

Disruptive business models like McDonalds, Airbnb and Uber attract harsh criticism but they have benefits too, writes Louis Brennan.

Lara Connaughton is the first Irish recipient of a Schwarzman Scholarship in Tsinghua University, Beijing. Lara studied BESS (Business, Economics and Social Studies) specialising in Business and Economics in her final year and graduated with a first class honors degree.

Read the piece written by Sheila Cannon that featured in Newsweek. Read article here.

Trinity Business Alumni in association with Bank of Ireland invite Nominations and /or Applications from Senior Sophister Business Students for the Award of Trinity Business Student of the Year 2017.

Trinity College Dublin is the No 1 University in Europe for Graduate Entrepreneurs who are raising venture capital. The annual Pitchbook Universities Report came out today. For the second year running Trinity College has ranked as number 1 in Europe for producing VC-backed entrepreneurs from our undergraduate programmes. Pitchbook have noted 192 entrepreneurs in this year’s report up from 114 in last year’s report. Company count 180 (106 last year). $2,166M capital raised ($655M last year). Trinity is the only European University listed in the top 50 worldwide.

Professor Martin Fellenz joined The Sunday Business Show to discuss the issue of people taking work home with them and not being able to disconnect. “Many employers don’t know it is in their interest to take away the digital onslaught for their employees.” You can listen back to it here.

Professor Kristian Myrseth’s paper was discussed by eminent financial journalist Noah Smith in a recent Bloomberg article. Smith tackles the question of the future of Behavioral Economics. Read the article here.

In partnership with the 30% Club Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and Trinity Business School are delighted to announce the launch of the Trinity 30% Club MBA Leadership Scholarships. With funding from the University and the Business School, we have launched a scholarship for high achieving women to join the Trinity MBA and foster leadership and representation of women at executive level in business organisations.

Professor Andrew Burke, Dean of Trinity Business School joined entertainment industry leaders at the launch of Let’s Celebrate 2017, research conducted on the value entertainment events to the Irish economy. The events were found to have generated €1.7bn of additional revenue over a 12-month period, excluding actual ticket purchases. Professor Burke spoke on the value of research. He noted without clear figures the industry will often be ignored. Read more here.

Find out what has been going on over the last few months in the Business School. From graduations to the upcoming Global Forum, you can find it all here.

Professor Jim Stewart writes that the policies of the Trump administration following Brexit and possible political change in Europe in the near future could lead to unprecedented change in Ireland. Read more.

Professor Frank Barry provides his expert commentary on what he contends is the wrong-headed analysis doing the rounds on the implications of the proposals of the new US Administration for Ireland. Read more here.

Join us for an evening with our expert faculty, admissions team and careers specialists to learn more about our programmes and to choose the best one to launch your business career. Register here.

Dr. Mairead Brady, lecturer of Marketing reflects on the benefits of playing games in class. “ Students apply the theories they have learnt in a way that has consequences, but no real-world risk.” Read more on The Trinity Education Project.

Trinity Business School and Abrivia Recruitment Salary Survey reveals some interesting findings.

Addressing Trinity Entrepreneurial Society, the CEO of Ryanair spoke about Ryanair’s relentless expansion and how the airline is actually trying to be nice to people. Read more.

Trinity Business School is featured in the October edition of British Airways inflight magazine Business Life this month. Read about it here

Congratulations to Iseult Ward, CEO and Co-Founder of FoodCloud who has been named in Forbes 30 Under 30. Iseult began FoodCloud as a student enterprise during her time in Trinity and, as a result of her efforts to reduce both food waste and food poverty, was named Business Student of the Year 2013.

Professor Jim Stewart writes that the policies of the Trump administration following Brexit and possible political change in Europe in the near future could lead to unprecedented change in Ireland. Read more.

Trinity Business School is featured in the October edition of British Airways inflight magazine Business Life this month. Read about it here

We are very proud to announce that BESS graduate, Lara Connaughton, is the first Irish recipient of a Schwarzman Scholaship for Tsinghua University, Beijing. Lara will join Scholars from 30 countries and 75 universities at Tsinghua University, a premier institution in China. Dean Andrew Burke commented on this achievement: "While I know how incredibly difficult it is, I was not at all surprised when Lara informed me that she was to become one of the recipients.." Read more.

Dr Farhad Ahmed is pictured here alongside his supervisor, Professor Louis Brennan and Dean Andrew Burke. Dr. Farhad has taken up an academic position with Monash University, and we wish him every success with his future career.

Dr. Lamest is pictured here with his supervisor, Máiréad Brady at his graduation. We wish him every success with his future endeavours.

THINKTECH is a €1 million fund looking to find and back tech based solutions to Ireland’s critical social issues. Launched by Minister Simon Coveney T.D. on June 21st, 69 applications were received and put through a rigorous selection process including a world class technology advisory group and interview panels. Read more here.

Two of our Masters students, Kelsey Ellis and Jessica Porter share their story as Victory Scholars working with the Sports Changes Life programme. Read their story here.

Dean Andrew Burke, Minister Richard Bruton and Provost Patrick Prendergast officially turned the sod on the new land mark building for Trinity Business School on Friday, 14th October.

Facing bankruptcy, Matthew Moore our Law and Business student candidly shares his story of how education offers him a new life. Read it here.

The ESB Challenge is an annual event which started as an Engineering Challenge and expanded this year to an Engineering and Business Challenge. Each college nominates a single team of Junior Sophister students to take part in the competition. This was Trinity’s best performance in the competition since its inception. Read more here.

The Freelancer Confidence Index Report co-authored by Dean Andrew Burke has been published. It shows that Brexit has had a significant impact on the confidence levels of the UK’s 1.91 million freelancers. Four in ten freelancers reported the outcome of the EU referendum lowered their business performance in the third quarter of 2016. More than half of freelancers also expect Brexit to harm their business in the next twelve months. Read more here.

Have a read of the October 2016 edition of Trinity Business School's newsletter. We have a myriad of stories, from summer internships to space exploration, we have it all! Read more here.

In recognition of his outstanding international research, innovation, managerial and lecturing service to Trinity, the Board of the University have promoted Brian Lucey. He is now the Chair of International Finance & Commodities. Congratulations Brian!

Dr. Na Fu, Associate Professor of HRM, has just been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Studies which is one of the top management journals in the World.  This is a great achievement and accolade. More information about Professor Na Fu can be found here.

Professor Jim Stewart considers the budget from the perspective of Multinational firms. Read it here.

Professor Andrew Burke, Dean of Trinity Business School was invited to speak at the UK Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) Awards for Excellence 2016 held on Tuesday, 18th October. Professor Burke talked about the changing workforce and emphasised the importance of the freelancers to driving company innovation. Read more here.

An article from Lara Connaughton on Trinity Global Business Forum 2016

Watch this brilliant animated explanation of possible Brexit models open to the UK.
Concept by our Adjunct Professor David McWilliams

Our Professor in Marketing, Laurent Muzellec, has an article published by the Harvard Business Review website on interactive product replacement for marketers. Read Here

This edition includes a snapshot of the broad range of keynote addresses and panel sessions that took place at the recent Trinity Global Business Forum.Read the newsletter here

Interested in studying a Bachelor of Business Studies with Trinity College Dublin? If so you’re invited to attend a Webinar on Trinity’s new Bachelor of Business Studies programme! Ask your questions about opportunities to study business with Trinity and living in Dublin, Ireland. The Webinars will take place at 9am GMT on Friday 8th July. Click here for full details

Did you know you can download our current and previous Alumni Newsletters directly from the website? Now you can keep up to date with the School's growth over the past number of years! Click here for more

Interested in learning how the Trinity MBA can progress your career in management? Why not attend the forthcoming MBA Information Evening? 6:30pm Thursday 23rd June Trinity Business School, TBSI Building, 152-160 Pearse St, Dublin 2 To register click HERE

Congratulations to Neil Dunne, Director of our Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting, on winning a prize for his research at the recent Irish Accounting & Finance Association (IAFA) Conference 2016. Neil is pictured along with Karen Ann O'Dwyer, DCU, and Paul Heaney, Director Education and Training, CPA Ireland.

The Trinity MBA programme is providing our candidate’s with a highly customised GMAT preparation course over two successive Saturdays on the 2nd and 9th of July on campus in the Trinity Business School. The Trinity MBA is delighted to partner with Veritas Prep – a leading US GMAT preparation provider. Click here to read more

Trinity Business School was featured recently in the Sunday Business Post. Focusing on the School’s high growth strategy, the article spoke about our suite of postgraduate programmes and the new offerings available in 2016/17.

Professor Yiannis Gabriel recently visited the School to deliver two talks, one on Ethical leaders and ethical followers and one on the editorial perspective he takes as a leading journal editor. Professor Gabriel is a world renowned expert in qualitative research. Professor of Organizational Studies in Bath, he has published numerous works in the leading organization journals. He is at present Senior Editor of Organization Studies. He is well known for his work into organizational storytelling and narratives, leadership, management learning and the culture and politics of contemporary consumption. He has used stories as a way of studying numerous social and organizational phenomena including leader-follower relations, group dynamics and fantasies, nostalgia, insults and apologies. He has also carried out extensive research on the psychoanalysis of organizations.

The class, made up of MBA alumni and candidates from our full time and part time cohorts took part in what can only be described as an extremely intensive week of case study analysis around key concepts in entrepreneurial finance. The 6 person teaching team led by Trinity visiting professor, Bill Cockrum from UCLA, were outstanding. Congratulations to the 36 participants who took part. In particular, it has been a real pleasure to welcome back those members of our alumni community who have taken part in the course as part of our MBA Re-fresher initiative

A year of Growth, Innovation and Collaboration. The past year has been an exciting time for Trinity Business School. We have embarked on a high growth strategy which will more than double the size of the School and includes the development of new and existing programmes, as well as the construction of a cutting-edge new building for the School (which will also incorporate an Innovation and Enterprise Hub).
Read about this and more in our newsletter, click here to download'

Trinity Business School is currently implementing a high growth strategy over the next five years which entails the significant recruitment of faculty and professional staff plus investment of over €70 million in a new state of the art building at the heart of Dublin City. We are currently recruiting 5 Professors in the areas of Accounting, Human Resource Management, Marketing, and Social Entrepreneurship and/or Corporate Social Responsibility. Click here for more information and to apply:'

The MBA programme at Trinity College Dublin has been awarded a Global Tier One ranking in the just published CEO Magazine 2015-2016 MBA rankings. The global rankings, which were released in London today, focus on the practicality and quality of the MBA journey for participants. Factors taken into consideration include the learning environment, class sizes, tuition fees, quality and make-up of faculty, delivery methods, international and gender diversity. The objective of the ranking is to identify schools which marry exceptional quality with a great return on investment. Trinity’s programme is the only Irish course to make into the tier one level of European MBAs.
“CEO Magazine provides an innovative and fresh approach to evaluating MBA programmes around factors that are relevant to people looking at undertaking an MBA,” said Michael Flynn, Director of the Trinity MBA programme. “We are delighted with Trinity’s result in the CEO Magazine MBA rankings. The survey provides valuable insight into the character and content of an MBA programme allowing people to evaluate MBA offerings in a meaningful way where issues such as the quality of the programme and its ability to facilitate career change and advancement can be assessed.”
Professor Andrew Burke, Dean of Trinity Business School points out that this Global Tier 1 ranking by CEO Magazine comes “hot on the heels” of the Trinity MBA being ranked 5th in Europe by Eduniversal in December. “Both rankings are very much industry focused and illustrate how highly our MBA is regarded by businesses. The Trinity MBA is one of the few MBAs in the world which adopt a major business projects learning approach which involve students working with firms on corporate strategy, SME high growth and social enterprise projects. They do so to the exclusion of any other coursework for a period of six months on the programme. So it is good that firms are recognising the unique value added that the Trinity MBA can generate for businesses and it being reflected in these rankings”. Click here to view the rankings

Dean of Trinity Business School Prof Andrew Burke talks about the plans for the university’s new Business School in the 2014-15 Provost's Review

2015 has been a period of rapid growth and development at Trinity Business School. In addition to running our usual range of research and education activities across the undergraduate, MBA, MSc and doctoral programmes, the School has been engaged in an extensive range of new developments and innovations which include:
• The first round of student recruitment for our new Bachelor of Business Studies Degree,
• Development of new MSc programmes including Marketing, Financial Risk Management and Digital Marketing,
• Development of a new Diploma in Accounting,
• Innovation in our degree programmes (particularly in the realm of more ‘into action’ learning as well as ethics and value driven management education),
• Re-engagement with the executive education market with a new business growth programme,
• A new School website,
• New branding for the School,
• Significant progress on industry accreditation and rankings (including the creation of an in-house accreditation and rankings team, re-accreditation of our MBA by AMBA, joining the Association of Business Schools and AACSB, and ranked as 1st in Ireland and 16th in Western Europe by the World’s Business School Deans),
• A growth of roughly a third in our graduate student numbers
• Recruitment of excellent new faculty and professional staff – over 20 new people joined the School in a single year!
This has all been achieved by a huge School effort across faculty (full time and adjunct), professional staff, students (particularly class reps and those involved in the newly established Business Society’s Chamber of Commerce), our alumni, our eminent and active Advisory Board plus a lot of people who just want to help us achieve our mission to enhance Trinity Business School’s impact on graduates’ careers, business and society as well as its international reputation. So to EVERYONE a BIG WELL DONE and THANK YOU on behalf of Trinity College Dublin.
Have a great Christmas and New Year celebration. I look forward to working with you again next year in order to continue the growth and development of Trinity Business School.
Best wishes,
Andrew Burke
Dean of Trinity Business School

AMBA, the accreditation body for MBA programmes worldwide have completed a review of the Trinity MBA programme and have re-accredited the course for the maximum full five years allowed with no conditions attached to the award.  
This status is the highest that AMBA can give an MBA programme, noted Professor Michael Flynn, Director of the Trinity MBA. Trinity Business School are delighted to join the small number of MBA programmes globally that have achieved AMBA’s highest accreditation status. This achievement comes on the heels of the Trinity MBA being ranked in the top 100 MBA’s in the world by the Economist and number one in Ireland and in the top ten in Europe by Eduniversal, said Flynn.
The Trinity programme brings an innovative approach to the design and delivery of the MBA experience by taking a 360*perspective of management and strategic thinking. This approach is combined with one of Europe’s most unique leadership and professional development courses and the Trinity live project model where high performance MBA teams are deployed into a range of organisations where they work alongside executive management teams on value creation focused projects. The international diversity and calibre of the class was described by AMBA as impressive and the project and leadership development aspects of the programme as an example of best practice.
The Dean of Trinity Business School, Professor Andrew Burke noted that the MBA is an exemplar of Trinity Business School’s impact learning carried out in partnership with industry involving projects with corporations, fast growing SMEs and social enterprises.  It is great to see the MBA programme getting recognition for its achievements from AMBA.  For more details on the Trinity MBA programme, contact Aoife Fitzpatrick: Aoife.fitzpatrick@tcd.ie or visit: https://www.tcd.ie/business/mba/

The Trinity Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting has now been fully accredited by ACCA. Launching in September 2016, graduates attain the full suite of exemptions from the ACCA ‘Fundamentals’ exams. Director of the Programme Neil Dunne commented: ‘this generous set of professional accounting exemptions reflects the ambition and quality of this diploma, which is structured to give students exposure to developments in this fast-moving area’

The specially developed class was delivered by Kingsley Aikins, founder and CEO of Diaspora Matters. He has written and spoken extensively on the topic and has previously delivered this Masterclass for Google, Intel, Linkedin, AIB, PwC, Bank of Ireland and Accenture. Aikins is a Trinity graduate, holding an honours degree in Economics and Politics.

This year’s Eduniversal Best Business School Rankings have been announced and Trinity Business School has once again reached the No. 1 spot in Ireland with 5 Palmes of Excellence

Twitter has evolved into a platform for serious finance gurus. Professor Brian Lucey has sent us the list to which he contributed - 'The 129 finance people you have to follow on Twitter'

MBA Director Michael Flynn attended Eduniversal World Convention in Harvard last week, at which Trinity was awarded “5 Palmes of Excellence” (Eduniversal’s top level). The Business School was again ranked 1st in Ireland in Eduniversal’s Palmes League.