Nova School of Business & Economics

Former name	Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Motto	A Clear Horizon
Type	Public school
Established	1978
Parent institution	Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Alfredo de Sousa Foundation
Dean	Pedro Oliveira, Ph.D
Academic staff	300
Administrative staff	150
Students	3200
Undergraduates	1500
Postgraduates	1600
Doctoral students	100
Address	Campus de Carcavelos, Rua da Holanda, n.1, 2775-405 Carcavelos , Cascais , Portugal 38°43′59″N 9°09′38″W / 38.73300°N 9.16046°W / 38.73300; -9.16046
Campus	Carcavelos Campus
Language	Portuguese and English
Colours	Black, White, Red and Blue
Affiliations	AMBA, CEMS, EQUIS, AACSB
Website	https://www2.novasbe.unl.pt/en/

Nova SBE's previous main building in Campolide.

Nova School of Business & Economics (Nova SBE) is a business school located in Portugal that offers a wide range of academic programs including Bachelor's, Master's, Ph.D., MBA, Executive Education programs.

The school has approximately 3,000 students from over 70 different countries. Its programs have received recognition from various academic rankings, such as the Financial Times Ranking,^[1] The Economist,^[2] Eduniversal,^[3] Times Higher Education^[4] and QS World Rankings.^[5]

The current Dean is Professor Pedro Oliveira (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

The new campus in Carcavelos (Municipality of Cascais) was inaugurated on September 29, 2018. The funding for the Carcavelos Campus project was made possible by corporate and individual donations.^[6] From its founding year in 1978 until 1988, Nova SBE campus was located in Campo Grande. Subsequently, until its relocation to Carcavelos in September 2018, the school was based in the 19th-century building of the former Jesuit College of Campolide.

Programs

Bachelor's degree

• Economics
• Management
• Portuguese and Business

Master's degree

• Economics
• Finance
• Management
• CEMS Master in International Management
• Law and Management
• Impact Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• International Development and Public Policy
• Business Analytics

Ph.D.

• Economics and Finance
• Management

MBA

• The Lisbon MBA

Knowledge at Nova SBE: Faculty, Knowledge Centers, Hubs & Labs

Ranked Excellent in Research by Portugal's Science and Technology Foundation.

Research at Nova SBE is combined in the Nova SBE research unit, Knowledge Centers, Hubs & Labs. The research unit integrates the three basic disciplinary areas – Economics, Finance, and Management – and all its researchers into a single unit.^[7]

The eight Knowledge Centers at Nova SBE are conducting research with a dedicated focus on individual subjects and a cross-disciplinary orientation.^[8]

Labs:

• Nova SBE Innovation & Design Lab
• Social Sciences Data Lab
• Nova SBE Behavioral Lab

Hubs:

• Nova SBE Sustainability Hub

Student organizations

Nova SBE has more than 35 different clubs, each with a defined purpose, drive, and passion. Ranging from professional clubs like Nova Women in Business or the Portfolio Management Club, to social clubs like the Nova Surf Club or Tuna Fortuna. More than 100 students volunteer in 60 non-profit organizations.The Nova SBE Student's Union was founded in 1986, with the mission to represent all Nova SBE students.

Roughly 160 events are organized by student clubs each year.

The Carcavelos Campus

Facing the sea next to the Carcavelos beach and spanning an area of more than 75,061 m², the Carcavelos campus contains low buildings and open spaces accessible to the community.

The Fundraising Campaign

With the objective of financially supporting the construction of the new campus and the development of the school, a private fundraising campaign was launched in 2014 with the goal of raising 50 million euros, led by the Alfredo de Sousa Foundation. The foundation was created by four founders: the Cascais Municipality, Santander Totta Bank, Jerónimo Martins, the Soares dos Santos family, and is named after the founder of Nova SBE — in order to honor the vision and ambition he instilled in the school.

The campaign was supported by over 50 companies and around 2000 individual donors some of whom gave their name to spaces of the campus, namely the:

• Cascais Academic Hall
• Teresa e Alexandre Soares dos Santos Library
• Santander Academic Hall
• Jerónimo Martins Grand Auditorium
• Ming C. Shu Executive Hall
• Fidelidade Seguros Plaza
• EDP Plaza
• Hovione Atrium
• CTT Student Hall
• Sagres Beach Way
• SUMOL+COMPAL Orchard
• Via Verde Parking
• Navigator Company Park
• Outsystems Square
• Westmont Hospitality Hall

There are other spaces, such as auditoriums, connection zones, classrooms, garden benches, among others, named after all of those who decided to contribute to the Nova SBE campus.

Nova SBE is involved in research projects, executive training programs, placement of students, and programs of innovation, and digital transformation with all of the companies that contributed.

Notable faculty

• Jorge Braga de Macedo, Minister of Finance in the XII Constitutional Government.
• Maria do Carmo Seabra, Minister of Education in the XVI Constitutional Government.
• Luís Campos e Cunha, Minister of Finance in the XVII Constitutional Government.
• José Manuel Neves Adelino, non-executive director at SONAE SGPS.
• Pedro Oliveira, Dean and founder of Patient Innovation.

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