Benefit from our expertise:
- Extensive expertise in management, banking and finance, communication and marketing, regional economy, tourism and mobility
Get ahead with us:
- Dare to leap forward and let us help you to develop robust solutions for real-life problems
Trust our experience:
- Fifty years of success in education, continuing and executive education, research and services with more than 400 skilled and highly motivated employees
Broaden your perspective with us:
- Rooted in Central Switzerland, connected in Switzerland and across the world
Create educational paths with us:
- Foster careers through cooperation with colleges of higher education, universities and other educational institutions
CONTRIBUTION
The Lucerne School of Business develops people and organisations, in particular in Central Switzerland, but also nationally and internationally. Its services are aligned with the current and future needs of its partners from the business and research communities, as well as from society generally.
ACTIVITY
The School's mandate covers degree programmes, continuing and executive education, and research and consultancy services. Its degree and continuing and executive education programmes provide professionally oriented qualifications and are research-based; its research is application oriented, competitive and open to experimentation; its services are fit for the market, implementation oriented and based on research.
PEOPLE
Students and employees appreciate learning and working at the University. Ambitious goals are met thanks to pragmatic cooperation in and between manageably sized units. Students and employees act responsibly as a team; they are inquisitive, precise and self-reflecting.
In 2021, the Lucerne School of Business celebrated its 50-year anniversary. Its dedicated anniversary website features first-hand accounts of the School’s early days in the 1970s and of how its educational activities have developed over the years.
From 26 to more than 2,500 students in 50 years: the history of the Lucerne School of Business is defined by rapid growth, innovation, and close collaboration with companies and institutions.
It all began with the founding of the “Höhere Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungsschule (HWV) [Higher College of Business and Administration] Luzern”. After merging with other institutions in 1997 to form the “Fachhochschule Zentralschweiz” [University of Applied Sciences of Central Switzerland], the institution went by the name of “Hochschule für Wirtschaft [University of Business] Luzern (HSW)” for ten years. In 2007, the brand “Lucerne School of Business” was launched. Many people shaped the School over these past 50 years: employees, students and participants in continuing and executing education programmes, as well as partners in corporations, institutions and associations. The support, trust and engagement of many helped to shape the Lucerne School of Business, which, in turn, had a great impact on many a biography and organisation, making the School’s history the history of the people currently and formerly associated with it.
In addition to creating a commemorative website, the School celebrated its anniversary with a Festschrift and by publishing a report on its teaching activities which offers valuable insights into the academic journeys of its graduates.
