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

Snowweekend 2018

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Join us for a weekend at the “magic mountain” in Davos to enjoy the crisp winter sunshine for an amazing uplift to any winter gloom.

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Block Seminar of the Year 2016/2017: “Strategy as Practice – Critical Thinking, Problem Formulation, and Biases’’

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A co-creation of Professor Phillip C. Nell from WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business and Professor Diego Stea from Copenhagen Business School, this block seminar was developed based on a discussion between the two about conventional approaches in classic strategy courses. In contrast to classic approaches, this course uses insights from the behavioral sciences and focused on the fact that, after all, strategy is crafted and implemented by humans. Thus, we focused on perceptions, logical fallacies, and cognitive biases that human beings frequently suffer from, so as to provide new insights on the strategic management of organizations.

Through this course, the students learned how the adoption of a behavioral perspective provides important insights into the way strategy is crafted and carried out in practice.

09 Nov 2017