Business Education at AUB started in 1900 and was provided either by a department o r by a semi-autonomous school under the university s Faculty of Arts and Sciences for approximately one hundred years. In celebration of the hundred-year anniversary of offering business programs, AUB established an independent School of Business (later named the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, OSB) in September, 2000, as the sixth faculty of the University. T he Suliman S. Olayan School of Business mission is to enable world-class business research, learning and knowledge transfer from our authoritative anchor point within the MENA region.