Global MBA Design, Fashion and Luxury Goods Bologna Business School

Key facts

• Format: Full-time
• Language: English
• Start: September 2022
• Location: Bologna (Italy)
• CFU: 60
• Duration: 12 Months

The Global MBA in Design, Fashion, and Luxury Goods aims to strike a balance between creativity and business in the management of luxury companies, by providing managers and entrepreneurs with the know-how gained from Italian excellence. In-depth analysis of fashion and design business models in different industries enables students to combine product knowledge with luxury management-specific managerial approaches, providing vision and an operational capacity for international expansion.

Thanks to a close relationship with Italian companies that act as international symbols of high quality, the program focuses on the practical aspects of fashion and luxury management. This course has the potential to make a great impact on the professional and personal futures of young managers.

Why study at Bologna Business School

Bologna Business School believes in cutting-edge and high-quality education. With this in mind, BBS designs course offerings with the strategic guidance of an International Advisory Board and the day-to-day input of mixed teams made up of academics, practitioners, consultants, and players on the global socio-economic scene.

Bologna Business School believes in continuing and customized education for:

Young managers who want to grow professionally and personally, strengthening specific functional skills or deepening their understanding of specific market sectors; Recent graduates who are entering the workforce and require knowledge, techniques, and practical tools in addition to traditional university education; Executives and professionals ready to challenge themselves, to consolidate their knowledge base, and raise the bar with their skills through work-study, training, and access to new networks; Companies and institutions aware of the complexity of new global realities who are ready to meet the challenges and opportunities that derive from leveraging their internal human capital.

Bologna Business School believes in accessible and open education, this is why there are scholarships available for the students of the Professional Masters and Global MBA.

Program content

The Global MBA is a 12-month full-time program including 504 hours of class activities, 1260 hours of individual and group work, and a 500-hour internship.

The academic portion is divided into three terms. During the first term, students will study the fundamentals of general management, while the second and third terms will focus on management skills and on the specific subjects of each track.

Admission requirements

In order to apply it is necessary to have:

• a Bachelor’s Degree (must have been obtained at least two years before the enrollment deadline)
• 2+ years of qualified work experience
• English language proficiency (no certificates required)

Application deadline

• 7 February 2022 (Round I)
• 1 April 2022 (Round II)
• 3 June 2022 (Round III)
• 8 July 2022 (Round IV)

Selection

• 15-16 February 2022 (Round I)
• 7-8 April 2022 (Round II)
• 9-10 June 2022 (Round III)
• 14-15 July 2022 (Round IV)

Enrollment deadline

• 8 April 2022 (Round I)
• 3 June 2022 (Round II)
• 1 August 2022 (Round III)
• 31 August 2022 (Round IV)

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The School is fully committed to creating employability, by way of a systematic career service action, constantly focused on matching at best the students’ professional projects with the needs companies have.

The internship is an exceptional springboard, suffice it to say that six months after the end of the MBA at Bologna Business School on average 90% of students work in a company.

The BBS Career Service assists and supports students from the very beginning, along a training and professional development path. This is accomplished by organizing a series of workshops, with the aim of providing the fundamental tools and resources to be appropriately prepared for the labor market.

To achieve this goal, students are involved in several workshops, among which we may list:

• Writing a CV and a Cover Letter
• How to create an effective Linkedin profile
• How to prepare for a job interview
• Career Retreat

In addition to this, thanks to the collaboration with professional career counselors, students receive a customized service, in order to understand their strengths and to build a professional development plan, which will turn out to be helpful when looking for an internship. Here follow some of the activities:

• Initial guidance interviews
• Specific interviews focused on one’s own career plan
• Continuous support to students with one–to–one session

Student services & facilities

The goal of the Career Service of Bologna Business School is to provide the tools and resources to gain access to the labor market and find an internship. The aim is also to support the businesses of our territory, and not limited to it, to select talents to employ; talents from all over the world, who come to Bologna to immerse themselves in the culture and the excellence of Made in Italy.

The Career Service Team supports the students in their journey made of learning and professional development, through a series of seminars, with the aim of providing the necessary tools and resources to gain access to leadership positions in the labor market. Furthermore, thanks to professional career counselors and a process to identify one’s own “Strengths” (Point Positive Assessment) developed in collaboration with Essentic, students are supported by way of customized service to establish a professional development plan, which will help them achieve their goals in their search for an internship.

The process is carried out through the following steps:

• Drafting of a CV and a Cover Letter
• Creating an efficient LinkedIn profile
• How to manage a job interview
• Initial guidance interviews
• Career Strategy Counseling
• Mock Interviews with specialized Head Hunters
• Career Development Retreat
• On-going support to students through one–to–one session.

Campuses

Villa Guastavillani is Bologna Business School headquarters and institutional seat, a beautiful sixteenth-century residence located on Mount Barbiano in the very first Bologna hills and just a few minutes away from the city center of Bologna. The villa is developed on four floors, one of which is underground. Inside it is possible to admire frescoed walls and ceilings, which in several cases give the name to the room that hosts them.

New Campus (next opening) is located in front of Villa Guastavillani and will rise on the crest of the hill through the redevelopment and recovery of some buildings already present on the site, for a total area of 3300 square meters. The project is designed to create a place where nature, history, and architecture interact in other to provide learning spaces in tune with the needs of students and pay great attention to the issue of sustainability.

Bologna Fair part of the didactic activities has been moved from Villa Guastavillani to pavilion 34 of the Bologna Fair. A temporary solution that provides 8 classrooms to accommodate at least 370 participants and students, 11 breakout rooms, and spaces reserved for staff and teachers within an area that can normally accommodate up to 10,000 people.

Student lifestyle

National and international companies support the School for different activities that concern the design of the courses, company visits, guest lectures, project works, besides hosting students for the final internship. Indeed, to this end, over the years the Bologna Business School has established a large network and a sound partnership with the most important Italian and European companies thanks to a customized approach, one that is based on the needs of each individual business.

The BBS Alumni Community Portal is also dedicated to our students.

Target

11,000 potential members including current students / participants, alumni, faculty

Objective

To strengthen the sense of belonging to BBS during and after, to build loyalty and nurture the community network

Activities

Events, mentorship, job opportunities, groups, and chapters for aggregation.

The institution’s most important event of the year, for the Bologna Business School Community, is the Graduation Master Class, a solemn moment that marks the academic success of the School’s graduating students.

The Graduation is held in Piazza Maggiore, in the historical heart of the city of Bologna, where more than 1500 students of BBS University Masters and Executive Masters are reunited.

Accommodation

We are currently running a partnership with Spotahome. Students can get a 25% discount on their reservation fee by using the promo code that the school will give to them.