SGH MAGAZINE (385) 2025

I am truly delighted with the accreditation AACSB we have received – this is a tremendous honour for our university. With this achievement, the SGH Warsaw School of Economics joins the ranks of the world’s leading business schools. It serves as both recognition of our efforts and a strong motivation for continued growth and improvement. This is a joyful and significant moment for the entire SGH community. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to everyone who contributed to this accomplishment.

It is with great satisfaction that I received the news concerning the AACSB accreditation awarded to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in April. This third accreditation, following the EQUIS and AMBA accreditations obtained before, is the culmination of a several-year process significantly participated by my closest associates, but also the entire SGH community together with our graduates and business representatives associated in the Partners Club. I am extremely grateful to them for that. With the AACSB accreditation, our University enters the elite club of business schools that can boast the so-called triple crown, i.e. three prestigious accreditations. Each of them separately and all of them together are a great distinction for our University. Thanks to this achievement, the SGH Warsaw School of Economics joins the group of leading business schools in the world.

Since the very first moments of my tenure as Rector, when my first term began in October 2020, my primary goal has been to win the triple crown accreditation. The challenge itself taken up by participating in accreditation processes contributes to building and consolidating an SGH positive image in the international arena, allowing us to show the scope and quality of activities undertaken by our University staff to the external stakeholders. The accreditation process is extremely dynamic, as the quality standards of business schools are constantly evolving to adapt to new educational models, changing expectations of students, the social environment of universities and cooperation with it, and the pace of development of advanced technologies, including AI. The AACSB accreditation is also a call for further development and improvement. This is a joyful and important moment for the entire SGH community. Let me once again express my sincere appreciation to all who contributed to this achievement.

PIOTR WACHOWIAK
Rector of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, about AACSB accreditation

The process of granting international accreditations consists in the evaluation of teaching, research achievements as well as university management. The university builds its position and prestige at home and abroad, also thanks to these elements, and accreditation is a kind of stamp of quality that attracts new domestic and foreign students to the university. Such a mark of quality of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics is the triple crown accreditation (p. 3), which our University won obtaining the American AACSB accreditation.

The main theme of the newest issue of “SGH Magazine” is research and initiatives carried out at SGH as well as profiles of selected scientists, without whom these activities would not be possible. Let me encourage you to read the texts about it on pages 40–53.

The last few years in the history of SGH have been an extraordinary time, reflecting the era in which we live, full of unknowns, instability and multiple threats, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the migration crisis to the war in Ukraine. In the 2024/2025 academic year, SGH has become the venue of unprecedented visits by the most important figures in world politics: the Secretary General of NATO and the President of Ukraine. Details to be found on pages 14-21.

SGH is developing in many dimensions, internationally (pp. 7-13) and infrastructurally – the SGH campus has been expanded by a modern green building of the Centre for Innovative Space (p. 24).

A university is created primarily by people and the initiatives they undertake. I recommend the entire People and Events section, in which we talk about the planned flight of a Pole into space and the Academic Space Network, economic congresses in which SGH participates as a content partner and about monthly student debates broadcast on Polish Television on topics bothering the young generation entering the labour market. We could not fail to break the latest news in this issue of our magazine – the conferment of an honorary doctorate to the Rector of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics by the Kyiv National Economic University (KNEU).

Eminent economists write about the development of the Polish economy, commenting on the OECD report “Poland 2025” (p. 58). You cannot miss the text by Professor Jan Toporowski, an eminent British economist, who is also an expert on Michał Kalecki (1899–1970), a world-famous economist, a collaborator of John Maynard Keynes (p. 78). The year 2025 has been designated the “Year of Professor Michał Kalecki” at SGH.

KAROLINA CYGONEK, Editor-in-Chief and the editorial team