The Solvay Business School (SBS) is composed of more than 100 academics and practitioners teaching at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Solvay Doctoral School in Management welcomes more than 80 researchers enrolled in our Ph.D. Program.

The year 2003 was the 100th anniversary of the Solvay Business School, founded by Ernest Solvay, a scientist and an entrepreneur who recognized the importance of an effective relationship between universities and the business world. The Solvay Business School, through its educational vocation and its research impulse, aims at fostering this entrepreneurial spirit.

The Centre Emile Bernheim (CEB), funded by the Bernheim Foundation, hosts research activities which are specific to a business school, including finance, strategy, marketing, accounting, innovation, international economy, historical finance, quantitative methods in management. It has recently experienced a huge development. In collaboration with the Doctoral School in Management Sciences, the CEB has recently initiated several international partnerships through formal and informal research agreements.

Located in Brussels and affiliated to a renowned university, the SBS holds a strategic position in Europe. Its international programme includes worldwide exchange opportunities for students and faculty and the organization of international conferences. Visiting professors from abroad are regularly invited. Foreign faculty also present research output either at the international conferences organized by the SBS, or at our research seminar in applied economics and management, jointly organized with the Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA)

The SBS faculty members publish in top academic and professional journals. They are frequently solicited as experts by national and international institutions (UE, OECD, World Bank, etc.) and private firms. They also benefit from funds dedicated to fundamental research and doctoral formation.

A key strength of the SBS is that it is part of ULB. Many SBS faculty members also teach and develop research activities in several departments and colleges. Our research process has therefore the advantage of being fully integrated. It is horizontally integrated in the sense that it is at the crossroads of many scientific disciplines. They cover the whole environment of private and public firms: from advanced finance to economics, from mathematics to strategy, from organizational behavior to artificial intelligence. It is also vertically integrated, from practical expertise to scientific investigation, at the junction of empirical experience and theoretical analysis.