The history of TIAS goes back to 1982 and covers over three decades • 1982 - Professor
Harry Peeters founds the “Tilburgs Instituut voor Academische Studies”. • 1986 - Tias changes its acronym to denote Tilburg Institute for Advanced Studies and makes management education its core business. • 1986 - The first two master programs were created: ‘Banking and Finance’ and 'Managerial Information Science’ (which still exist today as ‘Master in Finance’ and ‘Master in Information Management’ respectively). • 1986 - 1995 - On average one new Master program is launched every year. • 1996 - Tias focuses on post-experience management education only, and adds contract research and company specific programs and executive education are added to the portfolio of activities. • 1999 - Tias starts a dual-degree Executive MBA with
Purdue University in the United States,
Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and
GISMA in Hanover, Germany. • 2001 - Tias becomes a private company, with Tilburg University as its sole shareholder. • 2004 - Eindhoven University of Technology acquires 20% of Tias shares. • 2004 - Tias integrates the management education activities of Eindhoven University of Technology. • 2006 - Tias merges with Universiteit Nimbas in Utrecht by acquiring 100% of its shares and becoming TiasNimbas. • 2006 - TiasNimbas Fellowship Program expands faculty base to 11. • 2009 - Prof. dr. ir.
Ramon O’Callaghan takes over from
Philippe Naert as Dean of TiasNimbas Business School. • 2009 - Formal cooperation between TiasNimbas and the School of Economics and Management of Tilburg University to jointly design a new full-time MBA and a suite of Executive Programs. • 2010 - TiasNimbas ranks in all categories of the Financial Times Ranking for the first time. • 2010 - Launch new full-time MBA • 2012 - Prof.dr.
Kees Koedijk takes over from Ramon O’Callaghan as Dean of TiasNimbas Business School. • 2014 - TIAS School for Business and Society is the new name of TiasNimbas Business School == TIAS organization ==