The Nova School of Business & Economics (Nova SBE) will launch its Digital Data Design Institute at the Estoril Conferences on October 24, 2024. The Portuguese business school is positioning itself as a thought leader in this subject area. To this end, it is joining forces with Harvard University.Nova SBE is bundling its experts for digital data and digital design under one roof within a new institute dedicated to these fields. This move comes as part of Nove SBE’s ambition to become recognized globally as a thought leader in this subject area, as Pedro Oliveira, Dean of the business school based in Carcavelos on the outskirts of the Portuguese capital Lisbon, states. The new institute will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) issues. To this end, it will be collaborating with the
Digital Data Design Institute at Havard University in the USA.
Along with Nova SBE and
NOVA Medical School, the Harvard institute is organizing this year’s
Estoril Conferences on October 24, where the new institute is to be presented. The event organizers have deliberately sought to invite not only academic speakers, but also businesspeople and political representatives. Among the invited speakers, Pedro Oliveira mentions the President of East Timor, José Ramos-Horta, and the former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite. The speakers also include the ex-professional footballer Pepe and the musician Derek Ali. The conference will be opened by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal.
In September, Nova SBE established an Institute for Public Policy, while a dedicated Institute for Sustainability and Business Transformation is set to follow in January next year. According to the Financial Times (FT), Nova SBE is ranked among the best business schools in the world. Its Master’s programs in finance and management were ranked in 7th and 8th place respectively in the
FT rankings for 2024.
Nova SBE obtains the majority of its funding from the business world. The share of public funding is currently just 12 percent. “It is not possible to be a top business school without the support of businesses”, Oliveira concludes.
