The CEMS MIM: A Truly International Masters in Management

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Executive Director at CEMS Global Alliance, Roland Siegers sits down with accepted.com to discuss the CEMS MIM programme. Talking points included: the international flavour of the programme, the 100 institutions that contribute to shaping the programme and the global appeal for students. Listen to the interview here: http://cems.me/29CP2zf

13 Jul 2016

FINANCE APP FOR CHILDREN WINS INNOVATION PROGRAM

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A conceptual banking app for children, pitched by a team of Business School Master of Management CEMS students, has won the 2016 ‘NEXT’ innovation program. The banking app, dubbed ‘GoKoala’, was pitched as a children’s financial savings assistant for Westpac. The idea was conceived by CEMS students Simon Gautherin, Cristina Di Vincenzoo, Shiwei Yang, and Yifei Wu, as the final product of the program.

NEXT is a collaborative training program between universities and businesses that provides practical experience in business innovation as a 12 week unit of study, organi

06 Jul 2016

The Banking Sector Must Evolve To Create A Better World

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There is a societal and human need to transform our financial institutions if we want to see an impact on the overall economy and society. To realize this fundamental change we have to create leaders with transformational skills and a deep understanding of cross-cultural management. Written by Professor Jaap Boonstra, ESADE Business School (www.esade.edu), a professor of the CEMS MIM programme, this article first appeared in Global Banking & Finance Review on 28 June, 2016: http://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/the-banking-sector-must-evolve-to-create-a-better-world/

30 Jun 2016

Designing the Bank of the Future

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The banking environment has been evolving in the last few years, but other change agents will impact it in the future, stemming from a new era of customer needs and behaviors. CEMS students from Bocconi University had the unique opportunity to work on a Business Project with UniCredit’s in-house consulting unit, to design the role of a retail bank in ten years’ time, in terms of value proposition and services offered to individuals, distribution channels and potential partnerships with companies. UMC, the UniCredit Management Consultancy unit conceived the project and acted as partner of the CEMS team regularly during the three-month project lifecycle. CEMS interviewed the students, professor and company employees involved in the project.

Student Perspective: Exploring future innovations and planning for the long run was extremely fascinating for us from the very beginning.

30 Jun 2016

What the Dramatic Arts Can Teach Business Students

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This Spring, CEMS students on the LSE MiM Capstone course had the unique opportunity to attend the London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) to undertake tailored training designed to increase their personal impact and influence. The RADA workshop comprised a day of 4 sessions covering physical presence to increase gravitas and credibility; vocal presence by learning how to make a more resonant sound with your voice; first impressions by becoming more aware of your voice, body, eye contact and space; and skills for networking, including how to break in and out of conversations  and plan what you want to achieve from networking opportunities. Dr Rebecca Newton, Course Co-Coordinator, Capstone: Management in Action and Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Management at LSE tells us more.

The LSE MiM Capstone: Management in Action course equips students with the skills necessary to succeed in their managerial careers.

30 Jun 2016

CEMS Alumni of the Year 2016, June Candidate: Petr Guryev

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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 Petr Guryev, who is the June candidate for the CEMS Alumni of the Year 2016 election. Petr graduated from CEMS in 2011 from Graduate School of Management, St.

29 Jun 2016

Experiential learning at its best: CEMS students showcase stunning negotiation skills at the simulated Model UNFCCC

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Those with concerns over the shortcomings of last year’s UN climate change agreement can rest assured: the world’s countries can agree on tighter measures to keep global temperatures within 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels – at least if the outstanding negotiation skills displayed by CEMS students at the Model UNFCCC are anything to go by.

The Model UNFCCC was held in May at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the annual meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP).

13 Jun 2016

CEMS Alumni of the Year 2016, May Candidate: Thibaut Kleiner

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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 Thibaut Kleiner, who is the May candidate for the CEMS Alumni of the Year 2016 election.

30 May 2016

Disrupt Inside, a Look Back at the CEMS V4 Conference

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The V4 Conference is an annual CEMS event in Central Europe, hosted on a rotating basis by CEMS member schools of the Visegrad Group. This year, the conference took place in Budapest between the 20th and 22nd of April, under the topic ‘Disrupt Inside’.

The event opened with two panel discussions by the Lesław A. Paga Foundation, debating the possibility of a new Silicon Valley in the CEE region and disruptive trends in the energy sector.

26 May 2016

Catching up with CEMSies: Vojtech Knespl, Groupe SEB

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Many CEMS students have chosen to do their internships with CEMS Corporate Partners. In this interview series, we investigate how they’ve been doing. Today, we catch up with Vojtech Knespl, who has completed his CEMS year at Bocconi University and the University of Economics, Prague. He is working as a Category Management Intern for Groupe SEB.

1. Why did you choose to work with Groupe SEB?

25 May 2016