CEMS Alumni of the Year 2017 January Candidate, Robert Hackl

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The CEMS Alumni of the Year is a joint campaign by the CAA in close collaboration with the CEMS Student Board, which gives the CEMS community the opportunity to learn about CEMS alumni on a monthly basis and vote for the favorite candidate as the CEMS Alumni of the Year.

Meet Robert Hackl, the January candidate for the CEMS Alumni of the Year 2017 election.

26 Jan 2017

CEMS V4 Conference 2017

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The V4 Conference is an annual CEMS event in Central Europe, hosted on a rotating basis by CEMS member schools fo the Visegrad Group. The 2017 edition will be hosted at The University of Economics, Prague from April 5th – 8th under the theme Behavioural Economics.

More information available at: http://www.cems.org/events-services/student-alumni/v4

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24 Jan 2017

Bringing World Class Education to Refugees: CEMS Partners with Kiron Open Higher Education

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Less than 1% of refugees globally have access to higher education.  CEMS has recently partnered with Kiron Open Higher Education to help combate this issue. Kiron believes that everybody has the right to fulfill their potential and improve their life prospects through education. Their vision is to provide millions of refugees worldwide with the opportunity to graduate with an accredited university degree, free of charge. They also leverage blended learning, where online courses are complemented with live and direct online tutoring and offline services like their Buddy Programme, Mentoring Programme, Study Hubs and Career Services. We connected with Kiron’s Fabienne Huber to learn more.

1/Could you briefly describe Kiron Open Higher Education’s history, goals and internal operations?

23 Jan 2017

Bringing World Class Education to Refugees: CEMS Partners with Kiron

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Less than 1% of refugees globally have access to higher education.  CEMS has recently partnered with Kiron to help combate this issue. Kiron believes that everybody has the right to fulfill their potential and improve their life prospects through education. Their vision is to provide millions of refugees worldwide with the opportunity to graduate with an accredited university degree, free of charge. They also leverage blended learning, where online courses are complemented with live and direct online tutoring and offline services like their Buddy Programme, Mentoring Programme, Study Hubs and Career Services. We connected with Kiron’s Fabienne Huber to learn more.

1/Could you briefly describe Kiron’s history, goals and internal operations?

23 Jan 2017

CEMS Alumna Named Forbes 30 Under 30 in Youth Media Category

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PublishDrive co-founder and CEMS alumna, 29-year-old Kinga Jentetics, been placed on the European list of Forbes 30 under 30, a successful youth media category. To see the full article, please click here: http://www.forbes.com/profile/kinga-jentetics/

23 Jan 2017

Investing in Start-ups

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Christian Winkler graduated from CEMS in 2007, having studied at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University as his home school and Vienna University of Economics and Business as his host school. Winkler is a financial services professional with more than eight years of experience with Credit Suisse AG, spanning two years in Digital Banking and investment advisory digitization, four years in wealth management with a focus on the Latin American market, and more than two years in corporate strategy and M&A. Together with Benedikt Kronberger and Frank Appeldorn he recently joined the board of the CEMS Global M&A, VC and PE Alumni Group. Winkler joined the start-up b-to-v in 2016 as an investment manager in the advisory team and shares his experience.

1/How did your CEMS experience shape your career path? Were there any specific moments that you recall that really changed your focus or gave you an aha moment?

19 Jan 2017

The 11 most effective business leaders revealed

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What turns a good leader into a great one?

Millennials, as future business leaders, see the rapid rate of technological and digital advancement as the biggest challenge facing them – ahead of political, economic and environmental concerns – a global study of CEMS Masters in International Management graduates has revealed.

Looking at hundreds of recent graduates, the survey asked who they thought were the most effective business leaders of today. See the full article by Emily Douglas on Business Grapevine: http://www.businessgrapevine.co/content/article/2017-01-17-11-most-effective-business-leaders-revealed

18 Jan 2017

CEMS Alumna Named Forbes 30 under 30 in Finance

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At just 28 years of age, Ariadna Maso has been named one of Forbes 30 under 30 in the category of Finance in 2017. Maso is a co-founder of the CEMS Alumni Group CEMS Entrepreneurs: http://www.forbes.com/profile/ariadna-maso/

16 Jan 2017

Millennials see the rapid rate of technological and digital change as the biggest challenge facing them as future business leaders, global study finds

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Young professionals also named technology innovator Elon Musk as the world’s most effective business leader

Millennials see the rapid rate of technological and digital advancement to be the biggest challenge facing them as future business leaders – ahead of political, economic and environmental concerns

13 Jan 2017

Running Dinner

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One city, three courses – and lots of fun: Join our next edition of Running Dinner in Zurich! Together with a cooking partner you will prepare one meal and two times you will be guest at other places. During the evening you will meet many new people and discover new places in Zurich. After dinner we all meet up for drinks & party!

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