VRIN Analysis on these 3 universities business schools

Lorenzo Palladini ~ F15401049

 STRUCTURE
Statement of Purposes
Description of the 3 universities
LUISS
Angers University
Ningbo University

VRIN analysis of the business schools

Conclusion: If you were the dean with a limited budget,
where would you invest precious financial resources to
make your school number one among its rivals?
STATEMENT OF PURPOSES
The 3 universities (LUISS, Angers University, and Ningbo University)
have been chosen because I have had the opportunity to study in all of
them and to experience directly their teaching strategy, their buildings,
information systems specially the ones related to the business schools.

The purpose of this presentation is to choose, according to our research,

on what kind of activities it would be better to invest Ningbo
Universitys money in order to make it grow and be n 1!

Our research is going to be based on a VRIN analysis, which is

valuable, rare, costly
the strategic tools used to evaluate how
to imitate, and nonsubstituable are the core competencies, in
this case, in the business schools of our 3 specific universities.
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITIES ~
LUISS (1)
LUISS Guido Carli has its origins in an earlier Roman institution:
Pro Deo University, founded in 1966;
In 1974 a group of entrepreneurs led by Umberto Agnelli decided to
invest human and financial resources inan innovative educational
project aimed at executives;
LUISS adopted a new educational approach, moving in the direction
of top-notch international universities;
Other important public and private industrial groups joined the
Universitys founders in subsequent years, along with financial firms,
which brought an authoritative representation of businesspeople to
the Universitys Board of Directors;
In 1977, the University officially changed its name to LUISS Libera
Universit Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, or the Guido Carli Free
International University for Social Studies.A year later, Guido Carli,
who was then President of the Italian industrial association;
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITIES ~
LUISS (2)
Confindustria, became the Universitys President. During this
period,increased emphasis was put on the underlying elements of
LUISSs educational approach: a rigorous admissions process, a
set number of students, the study of foreign languages and IT, and
a curriculum that is in line with the needs of the marketplace and
closely linked to the business world.
Guido Carli remained the President of LUISS until his death in
1993.
In 1982, LUISS expanded its number of degree programs. The
Department of Law was added to the Departments of Economics
and Political Science.
In 1994, the Board of Directors decided to rename the University in
memory of Guido Carli.
In 1997, LUISS Management S.p.A. was established for all
market-directed educational activities.
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITIES ~
LUISS (3)
What distinguishes Luiss is its privileged relationship with the
business world;
Over 200 companies, multinationals, and public and private
institutions collaborate with the university, offering its degree
candicates and new graduates their first real opportunities to step
foot in the business world.

LUISS in numbers
Departments: 4 N of students: 8074 N of new students per
year: 1530
N of agreements with Double Degree: 22 N of students that spent a
other universities: 187 semester abroad: 581
% of employed alumni Average time to graduate in Average time to graduate in
after 1 year: 78% Bachelor Degree: 3.1 years Master Degree: 2.1 years
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITIES ~
LUISS (4)
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITIES ~ ANGERS UNIVERSITY (1)
The University of Angers harks back to a very long history of
universities in the city.
By 1080, the Studium or the School of Angers was already a
renowned scholarly institution. It received the title university in
1356, and in 1364, Charles V granted the university its autonomy
and privileges.
The first statutes were drawn up in 1373.
By 1450, the university had colleges in Law, Theology, Arts and
Medicine, which attracted students from the whole of France.
Sharing the fate of other universities, it was abolished during the
French Revolution.
Angers remained an important focus of intellectual and academic
activity, and higher education persisted, with free, public courses
in Medicine as early as 1796, and with the creation of the School
of Medicine of Angers in 1807.
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITIES ~ ANGERS UNIVERSITY (2)

University of Angers in numbers

Different
N of students: N of N of exchange N of bilateral
nationalities:
22710 laboratories: 28 students: 2690 agreements:
117
Teaching &
N of partner
N of research N of Ph.D N of Double researchers
universities:
buildings: 3 students: 518 Degree: 50 faculty
232
members: 1077
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITIES ~ NINGBO UNIVERSITY (1)

In December1984, Sir Yue-Kong Pao decided to donate foreign exchange

worth of 5,000,000 RMB to set up Ningbo University.
In September 1985, Dengxiaoping autographed the school name for
Ningbo University.
In October 1985, Ningbo Municipal government held a foundation stone
laying ceremony for Ningbo University, with the deputy premier Wanli
and Sir Yue-Kong Pao present.
In October 1988, Ningbo University held inauguration ceremony for the
first phase of the school building. Mr. Tianjiyun, Vice premier of the State
Council and other leaders were present.
In July 1990, Ningbo University was approved to award bachelors degree.
The first group of undergraduates graduated and was awarded bachelors
degree.
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITIES ~ NINGBO UNIVERSITY (2)

In March 1996, Zhejiang provincial government decided that former Ningbo

University, Ningbo teachers college, Zhejiang marine products Institute Ningbo
Campus combined to establish a new Ningbo University. The three schools were
merged and the establishment of the new school was supported by both the municipal
and the provincial government.
In June 1998, the Medical School of Ningbo University was established.
In April 1999, College of Science & Technology, Ningbo University, the first state-
owned and non-governmental secondary college in Zhejiang Province, was
established.
In February 2002, the Provincial Government ranked Ningbo University among the
three key construction universities in Zhejiang Province.
In 2006, Ningbo University won the second prize of National Science and Technology
Progress Award.
In June 2007, Academic Degree Committee of the State Council authorized Ningbo
University to award Ph.D. Degree.
DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITIES ~ NINGBO UNIVERSITY (3)

Ningbo University in numbers

N of students: N of Master N of Bachelor
N of faculties: 19
47320 Program: 135 Program: 71

N of teachers: N of full N of international N of exchange

1330 professors: 283 students: 400 programs: 80
VRIN ANALYSIS
Capabilities
Valuable Rare Costly to Imitate Nonsubstituable
& Resources
Faculty
Y N Y N
Strengths
Student quality Y N Y N
Administrative
Y N Y N
efficiency
Information
Y N N N
Systems
Building
Y N Y Y
Maintenance
CONCLUSION (1)
In our analysis we have been comparing one of the top Italian universities in
business studies (LUISS), one of the middle level French universities (Angers
University), and one of the middle level Chinese universities with an high rate of
growth in both teachings quality and students number (Ningbo University).
From the viewpoint of Ningbo Universitys dean, I think that, according to the VRIN
analysis and other parallel researches in the universities environment, most of the
investment budget should be used to increase the faculty strengths by improving both
quality of the administrative staff and professor. If it was me to make the decision, I
would actually devolve from 60% to 75% of the universitys budget to the Professors
payroll in order to attract academics from all over the world!
Thanks to this strategy (which should be enforced by spending the whole remaining
budgets percentage on buildings and universitys environment), the university would
be able to raise the students fee (which will result in more income and more
investment to keep increasing Professors quality more and more) thanks to its
higher teaching ranking which will, by the way, enable this institution to climb the
Chinese university ranking, attract much more higher quality students (as we know,
Chinese students are bounded to choose their university according to their national
test score), and become a leading research institution.
CONCLUSION (2)

TEACHING QUALITY