Hult International Business School (also known as Hult Business School or Hult) is a
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with
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in
Cambridge
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,
London
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,
San Francisco
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,
Dubai
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,
New York City
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, and
Shanghai
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. Hult is named for the school's benefactor
Bertil Hult.
Hult offers
undergraduate
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,
master's
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MBA
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degree programs, as well as
executive education
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through
Ashridge Executive Education
Ashridge Executive Education (also known as the Ashridge Programme or Ashridge) is the executive education programme of Hult International Business School, housed in Hult's Ashridge Estate campus. Formerly an independent business school, known ...
, housed on the
Ashridge Estate campus.
Hult is the successor of the Arthur D. Little School of Management, founded in 1964 in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, and of the
Ashridge Business School
Hult International Business School (also known as Hult Business School or Hult) is a private business school with campuses in Cambridge, London, San Francisco, Dubai, New York City, and Shanghai. Hult is named for the school's benefactor Bertil ...
, founded in 1959 in
Ashridge, England.
The school is patron to the
Hult Prize
The Hult Prize is an annual, year-long competition that crowd-sources ideas from university level students after challenging them to solve a pressing social issue around topics such as food security, water access, energy, and education. It was fo ...
, a student entrepreneur competition.
History
American background
The ''Arthur D. Little School of Management'' was founded in 1964 by
Arthur Dehon Little
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in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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. Originally developed as an executive management education program, the school began to grant degrees after receiving full accreditation by the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges
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in 1976. In 1996, the Arthur D. Little School of Management formed a partnership with
Boston College
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's
Carroll School of Management
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in order to share access to faculty and facilities.
British background
In 1921, future British Prime Minister
Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law ( ; 16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922 to May 1923.
Law was born in the British colony of New Brunswick (now a ...
acquired
Ashridge House, in
Hertfordshire
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, United Kingdom, through a trust, with the intent to establish a college at the estate.
In 1929, Ashridge was formally established as the ''College of Citizenship'' with the backing of the
Conservative Party
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, under the academic advisory of
Arthur Bryant
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, famed English economic historian. In 1959, the college was re-established as a
school of management under the name ''Ashridge Business School''.
International era
![Hult San Francisco Campus](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Hult_San_Francisco_Campus.jpg)
In 2002, Swedish billionaire
Bertil Hult purchased the Arthur D. Little School of Management, which resulted in the school's reorganization and reestablishment as Hult International Business School in 2003. Under its restructuring, Hult established a new curriculum oriented on
international business
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, which led to the establishment of Hult's global campuses in Dubai (2008), San Francisco (2010), Shanghai (2011), and New York (2014).
In 2007, Hult acquired
Huron University in London, a private American university located in London's
Bloomsbury
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neighborhood, which subsequently was reestablished as Hult International Business School's London campus.
In 2014, Hult International Business School acquired and merged with Ashridge Business School, creating one of the largest business schools in the world. After 2015, the two schools began operating as a singular entity, with the establishment of
Ashridge Executive Education
Ashridge Executive Education (also known as the Ashridge Programme or Ashridge) is the executive education programme of Hult International Business School, housed in Hult's Ashridge Estate campus. Formerly an independent business school, known ...
as Hult's executive program.
Hult opened its
undergraduate
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campus in London, near the
City of London
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financial centre, in 2014.
The Economist Intelligence Unit
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, supported by Hult International Business School, launched the Business Professor of the Year Award in 2012.
Campuses
Hult maintains 7 campuses across 6 countries and serves approximately 3,000 students:
two
undergraduate
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and
postgraduate
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campuses (London and Boston), three postgraduate campuses that serve as summer rotational campuses (San Francisco, Shanghai and Dubai) one solely postgraduate campuses (New York City), and one
executive education
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campus (
Ashridge Estate
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in
Hertfordshire
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, United Kingdom). Students are encouraged to rotate between campuses during their programs.
The Hult London Undergraduate Campus, built by British firm
Sergison Bates Architects
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, won the
Royal Institute of British Architects National Award in 2015.
Academics
![Hult Postgraduate Campus - London](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Hult_Postgraduate_Campus_-_London.jpg)
Hult's degrees are accredited under the
British Accreditation Council of Higher Education and the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges
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.
Hult also conducts business and market research out of its global research centers.
Hult International Business School has an acceptance rate of 28%. It has over 19,000 alumni in over 156 countries.
The
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
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classifies Hult as a ''More Selective Institution''.
Rankings
Hult's
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T ...
program was ranked #17 in The Economist's ranking of Masters in Management programs worldwide in 2019.
In 2020, Hult's
Ashridge Executive Education
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was ranked #16 in the
Financial Times
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Executive Education Top 50 Schools list.
EY Tech MBA by Hult
On 1 July 2020, Hult and
Ernst & Young
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(EY) announced the EY Tech MBA by Hult, consisting of online learning, practical experiences, insight papers and a capstone project. This MBA is now offered by EY free to all its people, regardless of rank or location and can be done over any duration. The curriculum is updated every four months.
Hult Prize
![Hult Prize Foundation](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Hult_Prize_Foundation.png)
Hult International Business School is the lead sponsor of the Hult Prize (formerly Hult Global Case Challenge), an annual international
case competition
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launched in 2010 that asks students to find solutions to global social challenges. The Prize is a partnership between Hult International Business School, the
Clinton Global Initiative
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, and the
United Nations Foundation
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.
The best teams from each regional event advance to a global final, at which a single winning team is chosen.
Bertil Hult provides a $1 million cash grant to help fund the winning solution.
Notable alumni
*
Thabo Mbeki
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, 2nd
President of South Africa
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*
Htin Kyaw
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, 9th
President of Myanmar
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*
Luis Abinader
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, current
President of the Dominican Republic
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*
Gary Smith, CEO of
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*
André Bier Gerdau Johannpeter, CEO of
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*
Hixonia Nyasulu, Chairwoman of
Sasol
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*
Oba Otudeko
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, Founder of
Honeywell Group
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and ''
Forbes
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Africa's 40 Richest''
*
Walter Bayly Llona, CEO of
Credicorp
*
Shaun Gregory
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Education
*1985-1988: Nottingham College
* 1999-2000: Wharton Business School
* 2001: Ashridge B ...
, CEO of
Exterion Media
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History
Platinum Equity was founded in 199 ...
*
Nataliey Bitature
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, 2016 ''
World Economic Forum
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's Top 5 African Innovators'' & 2014 ''
Forbes 30 Under 30
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''
*
Anil Shastri
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,
Indian parliamentarian; son of former Prime Minister
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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*
Mbaranga Gasarabwe
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G ...
,
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Safety and Security
*
Juan Cohen
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, parliamentarian in the
Central American Parliament
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History
...
*
Tonika Sealy-Thompson
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Biography
Sealy-Thompson graduated from Carleto ...
, Barbados' Ambassador to Brazil
See also
*
Hult Prize
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*
EF Education First
EF Education First (abbreviated as EF) is an international education company that specializes in language training, educational travel, academic degree programs, and cultural exchange. The company was founded in 1965 by Bertil Hult in the Swe ...
*
Bertil Hult
References
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