TIAS School for Business and Society

History

• 1982 - Professor Harry Peeters founds the “Tilburgs Instituut voor Academische Studies”.
• 1986 - Tias changes its acronym to denote Tilburg Institute for Advanced Studies and makes management education its core business.
• 1986 - The first two master programs were created: ‘Banking and Finance’ and 'Managerial Information Science’.
• 1986 - 1995 - On average one new Master program is launched every year.
• 1996 - Tias focuses on post-experience management education only, and adds contract research and company specific programs and executive education are added to the portfolio of activities.
• 1999 - Tias starts a dual-degree Executive MBA with Purdue University in the United States, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and GISMA in Hanover, Germany.
• 2001 - Tias becomes a private company, with Tilburg University as its sole shareholder.
• 2004 - Eindhoven University of Technology acquires 20% of Tias shares.
• 2004 - Tias integrates the management education activities of Eindhoven University of Technology.
• 2006 - Tias merges with Universiteit Nimbas in Utrecht by acquiring 100% of its shares and becoming TiasNimbas.
• 2006 - TiasNimbas Fellowship Program expands faculty base to 11.
• 2009 - Prof. dr. ir. Ramon O’Callaghan takes over from Philippe Naert as Dean of TiasNimbas Business School.
• 2009 - Formal cooperation between TiasNimbas and the School of Economics and Management of Tilburg University to jointly design a new full-time MBA and a suite of Executive Programs.
• 2010 - TiasNimbas ranks in all categories of the Financial Times Ranking for the first time.
• 2010 - Launch new full-time MBA
• 2012 - Prof.dr. Kees Koedijk takes over from Ramon O’Callaghan as Dean of TiasNimbas Business School.
• 2014 - TIAS School for Business and Society is the new name of TiasNimbas Business School

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