Olayan School of Business

Building on over a century of prominence in business education, the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (“OSB”) is committed to providing quality undergraduate and graduate programs aimed at developing business leaders in, for or from the Middle East region and beyond.

The School’s undergraduate program (“BBA”) accentuates a liberal arts-based operational focus whereas the Executive MBA has a distinct leadership and strategy orientation. The MBA program imparts globally current, regionally relevant general management competencies to the next generation of business leaders; the specialized masters programs are designed to graduate expert practitioners.

OSB’s role in knowledge dissemination and service is reinforced by the School’s contribution to knowledge generation through basic and applied research. OSB upholds and promotes the highest ethical standards and a continuous improvement ethos in all its activities.

The Olayan School of Business (OSB) of the American University of Beirut (AUB) is a national leader in business research with an international reputation for research excellence and innovation. OSB aspires to become the region’s premier business school recognized for its research excellence manifested by the production of rigorous and relevant intellectual contributions that advance the knowledge and practice of business in our community in specific and the world at large.

The OSB Research Committee Chair facilitates the growth of world-class research activities across the Faculty, as well as the growth and viability of interactions with the industry, government and wider community to mobilize knowledge creation and transfer in ways to significantly improve and impact positively the life of our community.

The School Research Committee with the Chair advise the OSB Dean on the allocation of funds made available to OSB by the University Research Board and OSB endowed funds for research purposes.

The OSB research is organized into centers and interdisciplinary research units that contribute to the development and delivery of three pillars of OSB – research, learning and service to our community.

Research

The Olayan School of Business (OSB) of the American University of Beirut (AUB) is a national leader in business research with an international reputation for research excellence and innovation. OSB aspires to become the region’s premier business school recognized for its research excellence manifested by the production of rigorous and relevant intellectual contributions that advance the knowledge and practice of business in our community in specific and the world at large.

The OSB Research Committee Chair facilitates the growth of world-class research activities across the Faculty, as well as the growth and viability of interactions with the industry, government and wider community to mobilize knowledge creation and transfer in ways to significantly improve and impact positively the life of our community.

The School Research Committee with the Chair advise the OSB Dean on the allocation of funds made available to OSB by the University Research Board and OSB endowed funds for research purposes.

The OSB research is organized into centers and interdisciplinary research units that contribute to the development and delivery of three pillars of OSB – research, learning and service to our community.