The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Graduates of the business studies programs at Business School Lausanne in Switzerland are likely to follow one of two career paths. Either they will rise to key management positions in the company they work for, or they will be involved in managing their family business!

Whatever happens they will need to understand not only the individual components of business (marketing, finance, operations and human resources), but also, and more importantly, how they fit together in the best combination to lead to business success. They will need to demonstrate entrepreneurial spirit.

BSL is dedicated to developing this entrepreneurial spirit in both its undergraduate and graduate business students. Not surprisingly, over the past two decades an impressive number of leading owners of family businesses around the world have entrusted BSL to provide a pragmatic and relevant business education for the successors of their businesses: their children.

Working for a Company
The job market for new graduates is as competitive as business itself. In this situation you are the product, and you must be able to stand out from the crowd if you are to sell yourself. The business studies at BSL will give you the advantage you need.

A career starts with an interview. Prospective employers are interested in the transitional bridge between education and practice being as short as possible. They are looking for people who will quickly be able to add value and will make a profitable contribution to business success. The BSL pragmatic approach in the classroom equips graduates to talk real business during the interview. BSL graduates can show that they understand the opportunities and constraints of today's business environment.

Large multinational corporations like ABB, Accenture, Alcoa, Credit Suisse, Hewlett-Packard, P&G, Serono, JP Morgan, Korn Ferry, Ericsson, Sandoz, Syngenta, Caterpillar, Johnson & Johnson, UBS, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, DHL, Nestle and countless others have already found out that BSL graduates perform well on challenging assignments. BSL graduates often contribute in strategic positions to the success of these companies. Many BSL graduates put their entrepreneurial skills to work in either more local or emerging fast growing and highly dynamic companies such as Starbucks, Bulgari, Edipresse, Orange, Migros or Medtronic. One thing they share: BSL graduates have gained a well-deserved reputation of fitting in quickly and make contributions to project teams almost instantly. They are known to put forward creative and innovative ideas in an easy to understand manner.

The skills learned during your studies at BSL in get you on the corporate ladder, and they’ll keep you moving upwards as success builds on success.

Managing a Family Business
You may start your own business from scratch or participate in managing your family business. This is surely an exciting application of the skills learned during your business studies at BSL. Here is the opportunity and freedom to do what you want, with the realization that success depends totally on the decisions you make.

The small class sizes in the business study programs at BSL create an atmosphere that encourages you to think like an entrepreneur. You’ll be asked to come up with solutions to real business problems. And that doesn’t just mean to weigh the pros and cons of various solutions, but to decide what actions to take. “What would you do now if it was your money you had to spend” is a question often asked in the classroom at BSL.