Initiative for Regulatory Innovation (IRI)

Bernadett Koles, CEU Business School Associate Professor of Managment and Co-Director of the Initiative for Regulatory Innovation research center, was asked to join the Executive Committee of the International Management Research Academy, a global association of management scholars and practitioners dedicated to the continuous and effective development of management theory and practice.

Bernadett Koles, Associate Professor of Management at CEU Business School and Co-Director of the Initiative for Regulatory Innovation research center received the Best Competitive Paper Award - First Rank recognition for her paper that she presented at a conference organized by the International Management Research Academy in May in London. The conference attracted participant from 33 countries, representing academia as well as public and private organizations with a focus on emerging markets.

Professors Maciej Kisilowski and Bernadett Koles, Co-Directors of Initiative for Regulatory Innovation (IRI) received Google Research Award – a prestigious grant supporting the most innovative new research ideas. The grant, awarded by Google Inc. in a worldwide competition, will support IRI’s new multinational comparative empirical study of public and private knowledge-based organizations. “The fact that one of the world’s most innovative knowledge-based companies recognized the potential in our research is an enormous encouragement” admits Professor Koles.

November 19, 2010. Just one day after its strong showing at the prestigious Zilele Biz congress in Bucharest, IRI played an important role at a major conference of the nonprofit sector in Poland. The conference, organized by the Polish Ministry of Labor that is responsible for regulating the third sector, was focused on assessing the impact of a major reform of the Polish nonprofit law introduced in 2004.

April 5, 2010. During the upcoming summer term, CEU Business School will for the first time offer its new elective course in Public and Nonprofit Management, open to our MBA participants. The course is in many ways an experiment, since the School has not been focused on recruiting MBAs with a public- or nonprofit-sector career interests in mind. That is why, it came as a pleasant surprise when the new elective attracted more than 20 participants from full-time and executive MBA programs – well above our elective average.

November 15, 2009. Hungarian business media have noted our October 30th inaugural discussion forum. “CEU Business School in Budapest hosted an Exclusive Discussion Forum today on the governing challenges in the Eastern European countries in the post-crisis times” wrote Budapest Times. The article emphasizes both the participation of senior politicians and business executives from the region and the fact that the topics raised during the meeting will be thoroughly explored by the IRI. A similarly positive review of the event was given by the Világgazdaság.