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Author: Jan Boleslavský Stefan Engeseth is one of the most creative speakers in Europe and he is also the author of several successful books about marketing and entrepreneurship like Sharkonomics, Detective Marketing and One. Since 2014, Stefan Engeseth is also a lecturer on the prestigious MBA program at the University of New York in Prague, where […]

Author: Bill Cohn, J.D.  Position: Attorney, Lecturer of law, ethics and critical thinking at UNYP A colleague asked me not long ago, “What are the greatest challenges to security today?” Having thought about it for a few weeks now, here is my answer: “Security” is an ambiguous term, which in public policy debate is used by […]

Authors: La Salle Communication professors Have you Yik Yakked yet? Is Facebook (mostly) dead? If a company tweets and nobody retweets did it have an impact?  Without question, social media has transformed the communication landscape. But, much as the utopian promises made with other new media forms, the reality of social media doesn’t quite live up […]

Author: Petr Rieger Petr Rieger ,,My main and very straightforward advice is to never stop studying and working hard.”  1) Peter, you are a graduate of bachelor program in Business Administration. What did studying at UNYP give you? Besides the development of my business English and other communication and presentation skills, I learned many soft skills […]

Author: Aaron Johnson, Ph.D., CFA Position: Graduate Business Programs Manager In the movie Facing the Giants, a football coach challenges a leader on his team to do the “death crawl,” where the young man crawls on his hands and knees along a football field, without touching his knees to the ground, while another player rides on […]

Author: Dr. Hilary Cahalane Position: Clinical Psychologist, Teacher of Counselling Theories at UNYP We all experience self-critical thoughts sometimes, but for most of us these thoughts are situation-specific and relatively fleeting, and result in little enduring damage.  However, for some people, often those who have received harsh, critical, rejecting or abusive care from caregivers growing up, […]

A team of five UNYP students won the prestigious CFA Research Challenge 2014 for the second year in a row. Namely students Renata Ďurčová (team leader), Filip Kunčar, Sophia Khaydari, Martina Tamchynová and Martin Kotchera competed against teams from Charles University, Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín and VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava. UNYP’s winning […]

Author: David Starr-Glass MBA, M.Sc., M.Ed. Position: Mentor, International Programs (Prague), State University of New York – Empire State College Here is a sequence of feelings and emotions that people often experience. Do you recognize it? Stage 1. Things are new, exciting, and unexpected and we enjoy that novelty. Stage 2. This usually develops after about […]

Author: Óscar Hidalgo-Redondo, MPhil Position: Chair of International Economic Relations This is the time of the year when faculty members are asked by graduating students to write recommendation letters that will help them in their application to graduate programs. UNYP has been able to build a solid reputation, and many of our students have been […]

Authors: JUDr. Jan Zvoník, MBA and Ing. Ladislav Čapek, MBA If they had decided not to study MBA at UNYP, they would probably never have met and or started their business. Here is the story of successful UNYP graduates. Ladislav Capek and I started our MBA at UNYP in 2008.  I think that UNYP offers the best […]