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Mathilde Kjærgaard Jakobsen left a successful corporate career to follow her passion and become an entrepreneur. Working for Maersk and Coloplast gave her invaluable business experience and international exposure. It helped her mature and, ultimately, be able to build a business from scratch. One of her companies, Fresh.Land, recently won the Frederiksberg Entrepreneurship Prize 2018 and was featured in Forbes. Mathilde has also been awarded the Women of the Decade 2018 prize by the Women Economic Forum (WEF).

One of the many ways in which CBS’ alumni involve themselves in their alma mater is by being mentors in CBS’ mentor programme. Through five months over the winter, they meet and discuss career perspectives with a group of committed students. This is something that the students – judging by all their feedback –really benefit from. But what do the mentors get out of involving themselves? We have asked four of them.

CBS has appointed Lise Kingo – CEO and Executive Director of United Nations Global Compact, former Executive Vice President at Novo Nordisk and holder of a Graduate Diploma from CBS in 1992 – Distinguished Alumna of the year 2018. Kingo is being awarded this honour because of her leadership values and efforts within corporate social responsibility (CSR) throughout a prominent career that has made her a Danish role model in an international top position.

Luxemburg Leaks in 2014, Swiss Leaks in 2015, Panama Papers in 2015/16, and now Paradise Papers – ultra-rich tax avoiders are being exposed left, right, and center. But once the media and politicians have made the appropriate sounds of outrage, no consequences of any note seem to happen to anybody. We asked Professor with special responsibilities (MSO) Brooke Harrington why not.