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The CEMS Student Board
held its second of three annual meetings of 2019 proudly hosted by the American
University of Cairo (AUC). During the meeting, the Student Board met with the
university’s very first student cohort and support the launch of CEMS Club
Cairo, while working together with the CEMS Global Office and their 11 teams,
on projects within the CEMS global community.

Cultural Intelligence is a skill you can acquire through constant practice. Cultural differences are all too often limited to nationalities or ethnicities. We all have several identities and belong to several different groups. For example, there are cultural differences between us and our parents: We don’t always think or act the same way. There are cultural differences between genders, as we are socialized in certain behaviors. There are cultural differences between job roles: An engineer and a salesperson will look at the same events with a different eye and have different interpretations.

 

Read more from Marie-Therese Claes Ph.D. a Professor of Cross-Cultural Management at Louvain School of Management, University of Louvain, Belgium. She teaches in the CEMS Masters in International Management and is part of the Global Leadership Faculty Group. She is a regular contributor on Nurturing Cultural Intelligence from Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/nurturing-cultural-intelligence/201907/repeat-correct-reflect-practicing-cultural-intelligence

The Lufthansa Group is an aviation company with worldwide operations and more than 550 subsidiaries and affiliated companies. The portfolio of companies comprises network airlines, point-to-point airlines, and aviation service companies. CEMS spoke with Remo Hauser, Director, Head of Employee Experience, Human Resources SWISS, to learn more about this great partnership.

Taking part in a UN Framework Convention on Climate Change revealed just how challenging climate change negotiations can be, writes master’s student Sui Kan Cheung. Read on: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/blogs/tackling-climate-change-global-scale