CEMS ranked top ten in QS Masters in Management rankings 2018

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CEMS – the Global Alliance in Management Education – has been ranked number 8 out of 121 schools globally, in the QS Masters in Management rankings 2018.

In particular CEMS has been recognised for:

28 Nov 2017

WU Wins Exclusive Course of the Year Award

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CEMS students voted for their choice of the exclusive CEMS Course of the Year as the Multinational Financial Management taught at WU. The increasing globalization and integration of goods markets, as well as financial markets, has substantially increased the importance of foreign real operations and foreign financial operations of multinational firms. Understanding the international dimension of financial management is relevant for key tasks in multinational firms such as risk management, financing the firm and determining the cost of capital as well as capital budgeting. CEMS sat down with Professor Christian Wagner who is teaching the course at WU to learn more.

The course is structured in two parts. In the first part, I teach students the basics of international financial markets, in particular currency markets, and financial instruments.

26 Nov 2017

ABB and the University of Cologne win Business Project of the Year

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Similar to the rise of the internet, digitalization will transform our everyday lives. Most tasks which can be based on algorithms will be done or at least semi-automated by artificial intelligence and robots. CEMS students studying at the University of Cologne in Germany had the unique opportunity to collaborate with ABB on a business project involving marketing intelligence around IBM’s Watson. The project was voted as the 2017 CEMS Business Project of the Year. We caught up with Oliver Lawrenz, Group Vice President Marketing & Sales – Performance Management, ABB; supervising professor at UoC Dr. Michael Becker-Peth; and students Daniel Zimpel, UoC; Felix Hütter, UoC; Yiran Yang, USYD; Peizhe Yang, UB to learn more.

“ABB is transforming the way its customers interact through a couple of digitalization programs including FACE (Future ABB Customer Experience) and ABB Ability, the company’s unified, cross-industr

22 Nov 2017

Tomas Laboutka, CEMS Alumni of the Year-Young Leadership Category

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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. Tomas Laboutka has won the CEMS Alumnus of the Year for the Young Leadership Category. CEMS sat down with Tomas to learn more about this years’ winner.

It is incredibly humbling to receive this award, especially when you consider the caliber of all the candidates.

22 Nov 2017

Millennials believe people skills will be the key to success in an automated age, new global study finds

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Technical disruption requires a skills revolution

The leaders of tomorrow believe that exceptional people skills will be the key to business success in a technological age, new research from CEMS – the Global Alliance in Management Education – has found.

The study examined the views of hundreds of recent graduates from the CEMS Master in International Management programme, many of whom are likely to be business leaders of the future.

21 Nov 2017

CEMS announces partnership with the American University in Cairo School of Business

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AUC is the first business school in the Middle East and Africa to join the Global Alliance in Management Education, meaning CEMS is now present on all continents

CEMS – the Global Alliance in Management Education – will welcome The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business on board as an Academic Partner, pending ratification, meaning that for t

21 Nov 2017

SGH Wins Course of the Year Award For Global Management Practice

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The Global Management Practice course encompasses challenges of diversity and uncertainty and their managerial implications. The main focus of this course is on managing people across cultures. It is meant to develop a managerial mindset beyond traditional limitations, focusing on what it really means to practice management, encouraging students to move between management concepts and their real-life applicability. We caught up with Professor Jacek Miroński to learn more about this award-winning course.

The fundamental objective of this course, as I perceive it, is to develop among students the attitude of “Reflective Practitioner” (source: S.

20 Nov 2017

Experience the CEMS Waltzing Days 2018 in Vienna

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The CEMS Alumni Association Austria and the CEMS Club Vienna are happy to invite you to the CEMS Waltzing Days 2018, which will take place from the 11th to 14th of January 2018.

This CEMS event is will be held for the 16th consecutive year and has established itself as an absolute must within the CEMS event calendar.

15 Nov 2017

Nova Wins Course of the Year

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The Nova School of Business (Nova) recently won the CEMS Course of the Year award for the Strategy course “Negotiation Strategy”. The course was voted by CEMS students as the best course in the category of Strategy. We recently interviewed Professor Luis Almeida Costa, who teaches this course, and CEMS students, to understand what made this course so successful.

This course offers a strategic and integrated perspective about how to prepare and how to deal with different types of negotiating situations in an international context.

27 Nov 2017

CEMS to Welcome the American University in Cairo

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It is with great pleasure that we announce the upcoming arrival of the first business school in the Middle East and Africa to join CEMS. The arrival of The American University in Cairo (AUC) into the CEMS Family, pending ratification at the Annual Events in Sydney, is particularly significant because it means that CEMS will be present on every continent in the world for the first time. Please join us in welcoming this prestigious organization to CEMS and read the exclusive announcement in Forbes today: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogertrapp/2017/11/14/a-big-opportunity-to-develop-leaders-for-the-middle-east-and-africa/#554d8cb5457e

14 Nov 2017