CEMS celebration of Dorte Salskov-Iversen

Dorte Salskov-Iversen, with the two CBS Deans

CEMS award
MSC Head of Department, Dorte Salskov-Iversen, was awarded the 2018 CEMS Honorary Membership during the CEMS Annual Event in Malta on 5 – 9 December.

Dorte Salskov-Iversen received the award for her outstanding contribution to the organization where she has held a series of important posts over the years, including that of Executive Board member and Chair of the Academic Committee  (concurrently with being the CBS Vice President of International Affairs (2007-Dec 2017) as well as Head of Department).

CBS participation at Malta

CBS participants at the CEMS annual meeting
 

The current CBS Vice President for International Affairs, Dana Minbaeva, the Dean of Education, Gregor Halff, and the Dean of Research, Søren Hvidkjær, also attended the award ceremony at Malta.

They were joined by the team behind the CBS CEMS programme (Master in International Management), Rene Barsegian and Wafa El Moumi Nielsen CEMS & Double Degree Programme Managers, CBS CEMS outgoing Academic Director Peter Ørberg Jensen, and incoming Director Diego Stea.

The CEMS Honorary Membership award was presented by CEMS Chair Eugenia Bieto (ESADE, and EASDE General Director 2010-2018).

The CEMS organisation

CEMS, the Global Alliance in Management Education, was founded in 1988 and is an alliance of academic and corporate institutions dedicated to educating international business leaders. The CEMS Master's in International Management (MIM) is among the world’s leading management programmes.

Read more on CBS News about the award of the highly prestigious honorary membership to Dorte Salskov-Iversen, including comments by CBS President, Per Holten-Andersen, and CEMS Chair, Eugenia Bieto.

Links for further information: about CEMS and about the CEMS programme at CBS.

The new CBS Sustainability research centre

Launch event

On 3 December, the MSC centre, cbsCSR, celebrated its relaunch as CBS Sustainability.

The new CBS Sustainability research centre focuses on sustainable practices and developments in organizations, markets and society.

It continues the activities of both cbsCSR and the former cross-disciplinary research unit, CBS Sustainability, which worked with various business-related areas of sustainability across CBS.

The programme

The launch event featured presentations by Professor Steen Vallentin from CBS Sustainability, Senior Advisor Henrik Schramm Rasmussen from the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI), and Professor Cass Sunstein from Harvard University. The programme was concluded by a presentation by the Sustainability Influencers about the SDGs from the perspective of the young generation. Read more about the programme and the new centre in this CBS Sustainability news item and this article in CBS Wire.

The CBS Sustainability centre is located at Dalgas Have and is hosted by MSC. For further information about CBS Sustainability, please contact the Centre Manager, Louise Thomsen, at lth.msc@cbs.dk.

Opportunities and challenges for Danish medium-sized exporters in Africa

Report on business opportunities in Africa

In 2016, the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) embarked on the project ”Africanisation: From Næstved to Nairobi”. Through intensive advice and network facilitation, the project would assist 14 Danish medium-sized companies in starting up and further developing export to East Africa. The Danish Industry Foundation (IF) supported the project financially.

The background for the project was previous DI analyses which indicated that Danish companies, and here especially medium-sized companies, were not exploiting the export potential of Africa to the extent of other similar countries. The project was explorative in the sense that various new export support methods were developed and implemented. An evaluation team from the Centre for Business and Development Studies at MSC followed the project to determine progress and extract learnings.

Subsequently, two CBDS researchers, Michael W.

Hansen and Henrik Gundelach, have authored the report Opportunities and challenges for Danish medium-sized exporters in Africa - Lessons learned from the DI Africanisation project 2016-18, with findings and recommendations from the project.

You can find the report  here. For further information about the project, please contact Michael W. Hansen, mwh.msc@cbs.dk.

The Department of Management, Society and Communication

The department came into existence on 1 January 2017 as a result of the merger of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management and the Department of International Business Communication. Read more about MSC's profile here.

MSC moved into its new premises in Dalgas Have in August 2017. As one of CBS' largest department, it occupies most of the second floor of the building.