Introduction

Isabelle ASSASSI
Academic Dean of Toulouse Business School

"Today, Toulouse Business School Group has about 80 permanent faculty members and 60 affiliated faculty members, to which are added 45 visiting professors from partner universities abroad and about 1200 professional speakers. All together provide education in our programs.

The faculty is the heart of strategic skills of a "Grande Ecole" like ours. Grouped in major subjects of management (accounting-management control-auditing, finance-economy-law, human resource management, marketing-trade,Organization-Logistics-technology, strategy and information systems), all our professors are experts in their specialty.

This high level of expertise, recognized and validated by the 3 international accreditations obtained by the Group (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA), involves some requirements in hiring new faculty and in research development. Thus the number of permanent faculty has grown 20% in 5 years.

For over 10 years, all our new professors must have a Ph.D. (or be about to present their thesis). When hiring a professor, apart from its qualities as a speaker, his recognition as a researcher (impact of their work , publications well placed in rankings, etc ...) and the international projection of his profile, are valued.

In keeping with our multi-campus identity (Toulouse, Barcelona, Casablanca), the international projection is enhanced with the priority recruitment of foreign professors: more than half of the professors hired in the past 3 years are from a foreign nationality. Today, they represent 30% of permanent faculty and they come from 17 countries around the world: Germany, Australia, Canada, Chile, United States, Iceland, Japan, Morocco, Nigeria, Portugal, Romania, United Kingdom ...

Research, innovation in education, international renown and professional anchorage make up a virtuous circle that allows the Group Toulouse Business School fulfill its mission: to train the pilots of change".