MBA Open Day

Caroline is the Recruitment and Admissions Manager for Executive MBA programs and enjoys assisting candidates in their MBA journey. She has nearly a decade of experience working within the Higher Education sector in international recruitment, and program development and management. She has an academic background in education policy and governance with a masters from the University of Cambridge and a bachelors in her home country of the United States.

Rudsel is the Recruitment and Admissions Manager for the Global Executive MBA and the Executive Masters in Customs & Supply Chain Compliance programmes.  He has broad leadership experience across various sectors, including hospitality, aviation, coaching, training & development, and online education.  He is passionate about understanding, guiding, and ensuring that executive education is the right choice for your professional aspirations. His academic background is in Management and an MSc in Organizational Psychology.

Hans van Oosterhout (MSc Leiden University 1993, PhD, Erasmus University 2002) is a professor of Corporate Governance at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

His expertise is on the ownership and governance strategies of different types of firms, such as firms with different types of owners at different stages of the firm life-cycle, for example. Current streams of research include:

·   Making shareholder democracy work: The control (i.e. voting and activism) strategies of minority shareholders in publicly listed firms around the world.

·   The ownership and governance strategies of family firms: Why and how family owners exit their firms.

·   The early life-cycle ownership and governance strategies of new ventures and founder led firms.

·   Rethinking ownership for the twenty-first century: Developing novel conceptions firm ownership for a complex and rapidly changing global environment.

Hans has published extensively in journals including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, as well as various other academic and professional outlets. He has been a visiting professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and is a non-executive board member at RSM BV, the university-owned private company through which the Rotterdam School of Management offers its (Executive) MBA and Executive Education programs. Time permitting and contingent on his intellectual curiosity, Hans engages with firms, owners, as well as other stakeholders on strategic questions of ownership and governance in private enterprise organizations.