CBS Alumni Newsletter marts 2008
See Madeleine Albright’s Speech at CBS
The auditorium was packed Thursday 6th March when Madeleine Albright, Former US Secretary of State, visited CBS. Albright captured the audience and talked about everything from her greatest success to her worst day as a Secretary of State: Kosovo being her proudest achievement, and 7th August 1998 being the worst day of her time as a Secretary of State when US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed.
Many people have asked how it was possible to have one of the most influential and insightful women in the world come visit CBS. CBS professor Maiken Schultz attended a private dinner party in the fall of 2007, and sitting next to Niels Helveg Petersen, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, she heard about Ms. Albright and her planned visit to Copenhagen to attend a conference hosted by Helveg himself. Maiken Schultz immediately responded that Ms. Albright should visit CBS as well.
New Advisory Board for CBS Alumni, Corporate Relations, and Career Center
This year a new Advisory Board will be formed to discuss matters regarding the three CBS departments: CBS Alumni, Corporate Relations, and Career Center, collectively called CBS Connect.
The members of the CBS Connect Advisory Board have not yet been appointed, but they will be made up of 12-15 persons, some being CBS Alumni members, Corporate Partners, and students, and others with interest in CBS Connect. The board will meet twice a year.
“ The Advisory Board will be keeping its finger on the pulse by entering into a close dialogue with those we need to connect with”, Director of CBS Connect Mette Reebirk states. Mette Reebirk further emphasizes that with the CBS Connect Advisory Board she wishes to establish a creative, innovative, binding, and dynamic cooperation with enthusiastic people with drive.
For further information, please contact Mette Reebirk at mnr.info@cbs.dk
Event: Take Brand Initiative
On the 8th May from 13:30-17:00, you can meet the authors of the new book " Taking Brand Initiative" Professors Majken Schultz and Mary Jo Hatch as well as the companies featured in the book.
Meet Corporate Thought Leaders Jørgen Vig Knudstorp (CEO, The LEGO Group), Edgar Jorissen (Marketing Director, Nike), Charlotte Ersbøll (Corporate Brand Manager, Novo Nordisk), and fashion guru Peter Ingwersen (Founder and CEO of the new brand Noir). Learn about major innovators behind their corporate brands and discover a revolutionary approach to Corporate Branding presented in this new book.
Taking Brand Initiative - How Companies Can Align Strategy, Culture and Identity Through Corporate Branding looks beyond the marketing value of brands (company-to-customer) and the HR significance of brands (company-to-employee). Embracing these approaches and much more, it offers an integrative view of Corporate Brand Management as a process that drives business forward in a global economy.
Fee: 200 DKK including book and refreshments.
Place: CBS, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Tuborg Auditorium (SP2.02).
Place: CBS, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Tuborg Auditorium (SP2.02).
For further information, click here
or contact event.executive@cbs.dk.
Conference: Market Leadership - Challenges and Roads to Profitable Growth
Market Leadership is a timeless subject. All companies talk about Market Leadership and aim at it – but only few are capable of achieving it. Consequently, we are pleased to invite you to a relevant conference on Market Leadership.
Speakers at the conference will be:
Mia Osholm, Marketing Manager, Applus A/S
Jim Frandsen, Business Unit Manager, Carlsberg Danmark A/S
Henrik Hübner, Sales Director, Sanistål A/S
Nils-Henrik Hansen, Sales Director, SAS Airlines Danmark A/S
Jim Frandsen, Business Unit Manager, Carlsberg Danmark A/S
Henrik Hübner, Sales Director, Sanistål A/S
Nils-Henrik Hansen, Sales Director, SAS Airlines Danmark A/S
The conference will be held in Danish, and will take place on Thursday 22nd May from 9:00-13:00 in SPs01 at CBS, Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg. The conference fee is 1800 DKK.
The conference is organized by Professor Thomas Ritter, Research Director at Centre for Business Marketing & Purchasing at CBS and Henrik Andersen, Director at Andersen&Partners Management Consulting.
For further information or registration, please contact Anne Overgaard Jørgensen at aoj.marktg@cbs.dk
Conference in Budapest on Lifelong Learning
ECLO (European Consortium for the Learning Organisation) is running its 15th international conference in Budapest 15th to 16th May.
The theme of the conference is: " Never Stop Asking. The Age of Life Long Learning" and will address the following key themes:
The theme of the conference is: " Never Stop Asking. The Age of Life Long Learning" and will address the following key themes:
- Fostering Sustainable Learning
- Emerging Tools and Approaches that will shape the future of LifeLong Learning
- The Role of Mobile Technologies in LifeLong Learning
- LifeLong Learning and its Impact on Society
- Standards and Qualifications in the Context of LifeLong Learning
- National Perspectives on LifeLong Learning from France, USA and Hungary
It is still possible to add few additional speakers contributing to the issue of organisational learning processes. Interested scholars should submit abstracts to info@eclo.org.
For further information about this conference, please visit www.ECLO.org
or contact Mr. Ole Hinz at +45 2022 2077 or ohi.om@cbs.dk.
CBS Hatches Denmark's First Doctor of Business Administration
Four years ago, CBS became the first university in Denmark to launch a groundbreaking doctoral program for Executive PhDs. Today, CBS is proud to announce the emergence of Denmark's first Doctor of Business Administration, Peter Kastrup-Misir. The 34-year-old CCO and partner at an international marketing agency completed the five years' rigorous part-time research programme in an extraordinary period of 3 1/2 years. Peter's doctoral research deals with studies of market orientation, uncovering how markets and firms co-evolve.
View Peter's defense at www.youtube.com/kastrupmisir
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For more information about the program, please visit www.dba.cbs.dk
or get the programme e-mailed to you by Director Irene Rosberg at ir.mbs@cbs.dk.
CBS Student Organisations MS and DSR Merge into CBS Students
The student political organisations Moderate Students (MS) and Student Council at CBS (DSR) merged on 20th February. However, the merger wasn't that easy. It took three General Assemblies in MS before the matter was settled.
At the previous two General Assemblies in MS, held back in January and November, opponents to the merger from MS blocked the student organisation merger. Some of them also spoke voiciterously at the General Assembly on 20th February, and finally walked out, vowing to establish The New Moderates as an alternative student organisation, shortly before the final vote. Nevertheless, the voting turned out 88 votes pro, one contra, and three blanks, which was well above the two thirds majority necessary to vote in favor of the merger. According to Henrik Thorn, the temporarily Constituted Chairman of CBS Students, the merger will strengthen student representation at CBS substantially.
With more than 100 Moderate Students members in attendance plus spectators, the General Assembly 20th February was the largest by far, and the vote for a merger the most conclusive.
New Book from CBS Press: The Notion of General Management
By Karin Holmblad Brunsson
Almost one hundred years ago, the French industrialist Henri Fayol claimed that organizations are so much alike that they should all be managed in a similar fashion. This book describes how Fayol’s notion of General Management allows for diverse management literature.
Hardly anybody is unaffected by Henri Fayol’s notion of General Management, and many depend on it for their living. But few recognize the immense influence – or the unfeasibility – of Fayol’s top-down perspective. There are many Fayolists, who disown Frederick Taylor’s bottom-up approach to management from sheer habit. What if Taylor was right, after all?
Members of CBS Alumni get a 20 % discount on books from CBS Press. For purchase and further information, please contact cbspress@cbs.dk.
Sidst opdateret af Mikala Gyllinge 02.02.2009
Read about:
- See Madeleine Albright’s Speech at CBS
- New Advisory Board for CBS Alumni, Corporate Relations, and Career Centre
- Event: Take Brand Initiative
- Conference: Market Leadership - Challenges and Roads to Profitable Growth
- Conference in Budapest on Lifelong Learning
- CBS Hatches Denmark's first Doctor of Business Administration
- CBS Student Organisations MS and DSR Merge into CBS Students
- New Book from CBS Press: The Notion of General Management
