CBS Alumni Newsletter februar 2008

Put your Talent into Play… towards New Jobs in your Career

At CBS we believe in talents, and that is why we have started cooperating with talentagent.dk. Through this cooperation, we want to expand our knowledge about talent, and at the same time we wish for you to fully benefit from your qualifications. Clarity and focus create opportunities… that is how it is with companies, and also when it comes to your own professional development.

The concept of Talentagent.dk’s is based on a forward thinking coaching session clarifying your competences, qualifications, your talent as well as your wishes and opportunities for career development and job opportunities. With the coaching session being the starting point, talentagent.dk will subsequently operate as your personal agent. On request they will expose your profile to companies that can offer you positions matching your wishes for the future regarding job or career development, as a specialist or a manager.

Several candidates have already had a coaching session with the professional coaches of talentagent.dk, and so can you if you wish. Whether you are in a job seeking process, you just want a qualified, neutral talk about your job situation and career development, or you want to create a dynamic channel to new job and career opportunities.

Read more here: www.talentagent.dk/karriere .

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Managing Culturally Diverse Business Teams - New CBS Research Project

A new research project managed by Professor Anne-Marie Søderberg, which involves nine CBS scholars and ten scholars from Aalborg University, has recently received a major grant (7,8 mill. DKK) from The Strategic Research Council.

This project will explore how Danish companies perceive the challenges of managing culturally diverse business teams in countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Mexico and the extent, to which Danish managers and employees are prepared to work and communicate with their foreign colleagues.

The project will start on 1 April 2008 and companies such as Carlsberg, Ecco, Grundfos, Novozymes and Vestas have so far joined as business partners, whereas VELUX has funded an industrial PhD scholarship. As part of the concept, the companies will be attending seminars and workshops with Danish and international research teams connected to the project. They will also meet representatives from other companies and, thereby, exchange professional experience across businesses. The project does not involve any costs for the business partners.

If your company is operating in the mentioned markets and you wish to participate or simply receive more information about this project, please contact Professor Anne-Marie Søderberg at ams.ikl@cbs.dk.

Debate Meeting: ”The Danish Management Values as a Strategic Resource in the Global Competition”

In corporation with the trade journal Økonomistyring og Informatik, CBS Centre for Business Development and Management invites you to participate in a debate meeting Wednesday 9 April from 16:00-19:30 approximately on the theme: “The Danish Management Model as a Global Winner Model – How can the Danish View of Organisations and Humanity become a Strategic Resource in the Global Competition and Fight to Survive?”

The Danish Management Culture – also referred to as The Danish Model – has been created, inherited, and maintained over centuries. It is a cultural heritage that we are not always aware of that we live with and let ourselves control by. But do we make use of the heritage in an optimal way, or could we use the values in a more constructive, critical, and conscious way? Are the Danish values under pressure from the outside? And do the Danish Management Values need a revitalisation and revision?

Please note that the number of participants is limited and that the price is 500 DKK. The meeting will be followed by a buffet.
The debate meeting takes place at CBS, Kilen, Kilevej 14 A/B, 2000 Frederiksberg, room Ks-48.

CBS - Entrepreneurial University of the Year

CBS has been awarded the Entrepreneurial University of the Year by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
It is, among other things, the increasing number of CBS students who, during the last five years, have started their own businesses and the number of female entrepreneurs that secured CBS the award for the second time. CBS first received this award in 2004.

New Programme for the Leaders of Tomorrow

CBS has launched a new training programme for high potentials. The Leadership Acceleration Programme (LeAP) is an intensive three module programme designed to boost business and leadership skills. The first batch will take off in September 2008.

Read more about the programme and application procedure at www.hhe.dk or contact Project Coordinator Kim Pedersen at +45 3815 2052 or kp.hhe@cbs.dk.

Research Project concerning Global Compact

CBS is about to launch an industrial PhD concerning the UN initiative Global Compact. It is a cooperation between The Danish Commerce and Companies Agency (Erhvervs- og Selskabsstyrelsen) and United Nations Development Programme Nordic Office.

DCCA and CBS have offered to contribute with both supervisors and office equipment. Mr. Mads Øvlisen has agreed to be the mentor on the project and will supervise the candidates. The Global Compact office in New York and The Confederation of Danish Industries both approved to contribute to the project with advice, knowledge, network, experiences etc.

Nevertheless, we are now looking for companies or funds who will take part in setting this research project afloat. It is up to potential partners to decide how many resources they wish to put into the project - both with respect to economy and manpower.

If your company could be interested in more information about the research project, please do not hesitate to contact Professor Mette Morsing: mm.ikl@cbs.dk or MSc Maja Rosenstock: mr.ikl@cbs.dk.

New Master Education at CBS: MSc in International Business & Politics (cand.merc.pol.)

As per September 2008, CBS offers a new, interdisciplinary master programme, which focuses on international interactions between businesses, national and international political institutions and NGOs, a field which is of ever growing importance in the age of globalisation.

The programme strikes a balance between understanding and problem-solving. Some courses will deepen the students understanding of contemporary developments in the global political economy and skills in analysing these. Other courses focus on using such skills to develop solutions to specific problems in business, public and non-governmental organisations.
This master programme is taught entirely in English.

New Book from CBS Press: Return to Normalcy or New Beginning Concepts and Expectations for a Postwar Europe Around 1945

By Joachim Lund and Per Øhrgaard

At the end of the Second World War in 1945, the countries of Western Europe found themselves at a crossroad. How should they react to the challenges posed by the peace, Germany's defeat and the newly won freedom? How should they deal with the emerging division of the continent, the eastern part being controlled by the Soviet Union? Would they repeat the experiences that followed 1918, relapsing into national isolationism, or would they engage themselves in new ways of transnational cooperation?

Adressing these questions, Return to Normalcy or a New Beginning presents new accounts and interpretations of the immediate postwar situation in leading Western European countries and regions.

Return to normalcy or a new beginning

Being a CBS Alumni member, you get a 20 % discount on books from CBS Press. For purchase and further information, please contact: cbspress.press@cbs.dk

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Sidst opdateret af Mikala Gyllinge 02.02.2009