Imperial College Business School
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| Type | Public business school |
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| Established | Operational Research/Management Science (part of Mechanical Engineering Department, 1955), Department of Management (1971), School of Management (1987), Tanaka Business School (2003), Imperial College Business School (2008) |
| Dean | Professor Nelson Phillips |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations |
Association of MBAs EQUIS AACSB |
| Website | imperial.ac.uk/business-school |
Imperial College Business School is a triple accredited business school located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent of Imperial College London. The business school was opened in 2004 by Queen Elizabeth II. It is based at Imperial's main South Kensington campus in West London.
The business school can trace its earliest origins to 1955, when the Operational Research/Management Science (ORMS) course started at Imperial in the Production Engineering Section of the Mechanical Engineering Department. There were only 5 students enrolled when the programme commenced in October 1955 at 14 Prince's Gardens, with an arrangement in place for students to be able to attend one-day intensive economics and accounting courses for one or two terms at the London School of Economics. The agreement became a reciprocal one lasting until 1966. In the mid-1960s, there was even the idea of creating a joint School of Administration, Economics and Technology (between Imperial and LSE) but this was ultimately rejected in favour of a new graduate school of business being started in the capital (and another in Manchester, now known as the Alliance Manchester Business School) in line with Lord Frank's 1963 report recommendations. Imperial and LSE acted as co-sponsors in the establishment of this new school, named the London Graduate School of Business Studies and now known as the London Business School. Accordingly, the London Business School's first academic planning board included the heads of Imperial College and LSE.
From the ORMS course, a Department of Management Science (DMS) was established at Imperial in 1971, under the leadership of Samuel Eilon. The department was composed of staff and students from Imperial's Industrial Sociology Unit and at its inception had 15 academic staff and around 60 students on an MSc course. Over subsequent years the department grew and its focus shifted towards business studies.
In 1987 the Department of Management Science was merged with Imperial's Department of Social and Economic Studies to form a new School of Management, based in new purpose built accommodation on Exhibition Road. David Norbun was the first Director. The School launched a new three-year part-time Executive MBA course.
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