CEMS Student Board's Meeting at IIMC in Kolkata India

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The CEMS Student Board held its second meeting of the year 2016 at The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta) from September 23.-27. The Student Board meetings are highly valuable for the projects, as these are usually the only time the team members are able to be in the same room together. The meetings are usually also joined by the CEMS head office to work alongside the teams to improve the CEMS alliance and the CEMS experience.

“To jointly lead a team of 30 highly motivated Student Board reps for one year, is a challenge and an honor in itself.

12 Oct 2016

Investment Enabler

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CEMS graduate, Shruti Chandra, gave up a promising career at a global Big 4 consultancy to help build India into the world’s top investment destination. She tells ‘India Investment Journal’ about her work which involves attracting foreign investment into India. Source: https://goo.gl/ggD8OY

It was a mini-crisis. One of the world’s largest retail chains had been served notice to shut shop at duty free areas of Delhi and Mumbai airports. Reason: its security clearance had expired.

10 Oct 2016

Beyond the Classroom

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P&G is one of the longest standing Corporate Partners of the CEMS Global Alliance, collaborating in higher education since CEMS’ foundation in 1988. Beyond a high number of CEMS graduates working at P&G, the two groups have collaborated on over 35 Business Projects worldwide in the last 10 years, including four this year in the Czech Republic, Poland, Ireland and Germany. This is a unique opportunity for CEMS students to build upon their academic knowledge in a professional setting and for P&G to benefit from a focused look at business cases by a multinational group of highly talented students. Below, we take a look at two such projects from this year.

Creating Value in a Commoditized Market

Pampers wipes, Dublin, Ireland in collaboration with UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

06 Oct 2016

Whenever CEMS Students Gather, Something Special Happens

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‘It’s the atmosphere. It’s hard to explain, but whenever CEMS students gather, something special happens. You could almost compare it to the buzz around startups. Things happen, thoughts are exchanged. It’s a fantastic feeling when an entire support network cares about you and wants to cheer you on,’ describes Julianna Alanne, a CEMS Master’s degree student from the Aalto University School of Business.

Read more about this exciting program in Finland:

 http://www.publicnow.com/view/D8978387E28E1AB9AD67896262C6788C14CB458D

06 Oct 2016

CEMS Welcomes BCG As A New Corporate Partner

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The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm with 85 offices in 48 countries. The firm advises clients in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 500. Considered the world’s leading advisor on business strategy, BCG was ranked third in Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” in 2016. We spoke with Laure Demarty, International Senior Recruiting Coordinator at BCG to learn more about this new Corporate Partner.

1/Could you briefly describe BCG’s corporate culture?

05 Oct 2016

Value in Diversity

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Twice a year, the CEMS community organises benchmarking events, where Corporate Partners can network, discuss and exchange best-practices on HR and business themes of common interest. From 22-23 September, 47 CEMS Corporate Partners and Academic Members gathered on the campus of the National University of Singapore (NUS) to discuss the topic of ‘Cultural Diversity in the Workplace’.

The meeting kicked off with a welcome address from Dr.

03 Oct 2016

Bringing Theory to Life

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Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, KONE is one of the largest manufacturers of elevators and escalators worldwide, and also provides maintenance services and modernization. In addition, KONE builds and services automatic doors and gates. Last Spring, CEMS students at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) had the unique opportunity to work with KONE to build upon their academic knowledge in a professional setting. For a company like KONE, it allowed them to benefit from a focused look at a business case by a multinational group of highly talented students.

During the past 100 years, KONE has proven its ability to adapt to a changing world as well as to create new opportunities for growth.

03 Oct 2016

Empowering Managers to Become Leaders

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BNP Paribas is a French multinational bank and financial services company with global headquarters in Paris and is one of the largest banks in the world. Last Spring, CEMS students at the Nova School of Business and Economics had the unique opportunity to work with BNP Paribas to build upon their academic knowledge in a professional setting. For a company like BNP Paribas, it allowed them to benefit from a focused look at a business case by a multinational group of highly talented students.

Empowering managers by developing their leadership skills is a main concern in every company.

30 Sep 2016

IIM Calcutta: ‘CEMS student board meeting a great exposure for students’

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Apart from taking stock of the situation around the globe and what happened last year, the board meeting also had a session with corporates from the city. The full article can be read in the Indian Express: http://indianexpress.com/article/education/cems-student-board-meeting-a-great-exposure-for-students-3056780/

30 Sep 2016

The Outlook of a Start-up in China

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Tsinghua Unigroup is a leading IT company in China and joined CEMS global alliance as a corporate partner in May, 2016. To help CEMS students, both incoming and local, get better understanding of Chinese business environment, Tsinghua MiM office organized a company visit to Unigroup as a part of the block seminar. 

With great support from our new Corporate Partner, the company visit to Tsinghua Unigroup’s offices took place on the 6th September and was appreciated by all visiting students and faculties.

28 Sep 2016