Career prospects

MSc in Business, Language and Culture (cand.merc.int.) – Business and Development Studies

Career Opportunities for BADS' graduates

Students following the BADS specialisation will be trained to fill managerial and consultant positions in internationally oriented companies and organisations working with or in developing countries and emerging markets.
Examples of the types of jobs held by graduates from the concentration include, among others, junior professional officers at the UN; project managers in developing country subsidiaries of Danish companies; corporate social responsibility managers; marketing functions related to emerging markets; project managers in NGOs working with developing countries; and consultants in development oriented consultancies.
”BLC graduates acquire a supreme base to perform exceptionally in the global business environment: a broad and solid background for contributing to international companies/organisations in most commercial roles, the BLC graduate copes with strategy, organizational change, and above all the importance of people with the training in cultural sensitivity to understand e.g. the go-to-market strategy and local modus operandi in emerging markets. BLC shapes valuable team-players and well-rounded leaders, best confirmed by the diversity in responsibility and impressing careers so many BLC graduates establish.”
Martin Holm, BLC Graduate; Managing Director at GN ReSound do Brasil
"Multinational enterprises, small companies operating across borders, consulting companies serving global businesses, and international organisations - effective management in any of these contexts requires acute sensitivity to culture and, by implication, to values. For managers, it is crucial to be able to leverage culture as a strategic and organisational tool - without awareness of cultures you cannot make it."
Mads Øvlisen, Former CEO and Chairman of the Board of Novo Nordisk A/S
”I work with organisational and human development. I use my intercultural knowledge, my ability to critically analyse future scenarios, and my experience with project-oriented work to a great extent. As a BLC graduate, I am able to work across disciplines and “make the ends meet” when working with traditional specialists such as engineers, economists, lawyers etc.”
Pia F. Warming, MSc BLC Graduate in Intercultural Management, HR Consultant, Danish Technological Institute.

Last updated by Business Relations & Communications 02/12/2010