The UNYP Chronicle

Author: David Starr-Glass MBA, M.Sc., M.Ed. Position: Mentor, International Programs (Prague), State University of New York – Empire State College Here is a sequence of feelings and emotions that people often experience. Do you recognize it? Stage 1. Things are new, exciting, and unexpected and we enjoy that novelty. Stage 2. This usually develops after about […]

Author: Óscar Hidalgo-Redondo, MPhil Position: Chair of International Economic Relations This is the time of the year when faculty members are asked by graduating students to write recommendation letters that will help them in their application to graduate programs. UNYP has been able to build a solid reputation, and many of our students have been […]

Authors: JUDr. Jan Zvoník, MBA and Ing. Ladislav Čapek, MBA If they had decided not to study MBA at UNYP, they would probably never have met and or started their business. Here is the story of successful UNYP graduates. Ladislav Capek and I started our MBA at UNYP in 2008.  I think that UNYP offers the best […]

Author: Edel Sanders, M.A., EdM Position: Instructor of Music and the Mind Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. Gottfried Leibniz – mathematician and philosopher My doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge examines the relationship between musical and mathematical cognition.  I explore mathematical elements, such as […]

Author: M.A. Kevin Capuder Position: Chair of Business Administration Department When a former Goldman Sachs’ managing director, the former head of the U.S. Central Bank and the former U.S. Treasury Secretary all begin to talk about ideas considered far  outside the economics mainstream just a few years ago, one could be excused for thinking the world is […]

Author: Andreas Antonopoulos, M.Eng., MBA, Ph.D. Position: Rector of University of New York in Prague There are a lot of things that the financial crisis of the last few years has changed but one of the most profound changes observed is the renewed interest and activity in startup companies and entrepreneurship in general.  Since the final years […]

In November, three recent UNYP graduates Andrea Šandorová, Jakub Čermák and Jiří Sýkora won the prestigious BCG Strategy Cup, a student competition held by the Boston Consulting Group in the Czech Republic. Participating teams are required to analyse a real-life business problem and to come up with a solution. The competition was introduced in 2007 […]

Christmas is the time to show love and affection to those that matter in our lives but also to those that need us. This Year University of New York in Prague will support 3 child foundations. For every new “Like” on our Facebook page until Friday December 20th 2013 we will be donating 1 Kc. Also […]

Author: Martin Pavlíček, M.A., MBA Position: Advanced Public Relations Instructor I do not wish to put myself above others, or give the impression of being a perfectionist: PR people make mistakes just like everyone else. But lately it has occurred to me that a lot of journalists are making way too many of them way too […]

Author: Aaron Johnson, Ph.D., CFA Position: Graduate Business Programs Manager As I write this, I am miles above the earth, being hurled swiftly through the air in a relatively small metal tube, making my way from Oslo to Vienna.  I have been the beneficiary of one of the professional development opportunities offered to UNYP faculty.  […]