Richard Ivey School of Business
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The Richard Ivey School of Business is one of the premier providers of business education in North America and is widely considered Canada's most prestigious business school.
Affiliated with the University of Western Ontario and located in London, Ontario, it was first established as the Department of Commercial Economics at UWO in 1922. By 1950 it had become a separate faculty at the university, and in 1992 was renamed the Richard Ivey School of Business in honour of businessman and philanthropist Richard G. Ivey.
The Ivey School currently grants bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in business administration. A leader in the case method approach to management learning (also called the Socratic method), it is the world's second largest producer of business cases in the world (after Harvard Business School). Carol Stephenson, former CEO of Lucent Technologies Canada, was appointed dean of the school in 2003.
Ivey also maintains two executive education facilities: the J.J. Wettlaufer Executive Development Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, and Spencer Hall, located close to the Ivey School.
Ivey was the first North American business school to establish a campus in Asia. Called the Cheng Yu Tung Management Institute and located in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the Institute was opened in 1998 by former dean Larry Tapp and Ivey alumnus Dr. Henry K.S. Cheng, managing director of New World Development Co. Ltd. The Institute offers an executive MBA as well as the opportunity for Ivey students to pursue an exchange at the school. It is the world leader in the production of Asia-Pacific business cases.
External Links
- Official web site (http://www.ivey.ca)
- Cheng Yu Tung Management Institute (http://www.ivey.com.hk)
- The University of Western Ontario (http://www.uwo.ca)Template:Canada-edu-stub