AUTUMN 2013
CEMS Magazine
NETWORK EVENTS
(L-R) Patrick Manigan (CEMS student, UCD-LSM), Alena Koshcheeva (CEMS LSM student & President of CEMS Club Louvain), and Jurgen Monaert (HR Representative of Deloitte)
CEMS-Louvain Corporate Benchmarking meeting Making the Global Alliance Close and Alive Véronique Seminerio - CEMS Communication Manager (Louvain School of Management)
The Louvain School of Management welcomed seven CEMS Corporate Partners for its annual CEMS CP Event taking place this year on 14 May. The objective of this CEMS-dedicated event, organised by the Louvain School of Management, was to make the CEMS Alliance close and alive, throughout its local roots. Through meetings, workshops conducted by CPs, and face-toface contacts, the CEMS CP Event was
a great opportunity. CEMS students met with HR representatives from Deloitte, ING Group, KPMG, L’Oréal, McKinsey, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and a new partner Mondi AG on the workshop theme of “Cross-border recruitment”. In addition, CEMS Corporate Partners were able to share their needs and expectations in terms of student profiles and competencies with the school’s core faculty. Finally, CEMS CPs active in Belgium were able to meet each other and discover partnership opportunities to further drive success in terms of recruitment, internships, and business projects.
Cologne hosts the 2013 edition of the World Business Dialogue
Christoph Sonnenschein - Head of the International Relations Center, University of Cologne
Once again, the world’s largest student-run business convention took place at the University of Cologne. On 13-14 March, 300 international students, 200 corporate participants and top-class speakers including Prof. Dr. Dr. Radermacher (member of the Club of Rome) and Dr. Mahler (Head of the Americas A.T. Kearney Inc.) joined the 16th World Business Dialogue to discuss this year’s topic, “Next Generation Business Strategies – Finding New Ways to Succeed”. Across numerous panels, workshops and Executive Sessions the participants went far beyond just re-thinking business: by
engaging themselves in an independentlyminded discussion the participants gained valuable inspiration for finding new paths to shape the future. The convention succeeded in bringing together thought leaders of different generations and nationalities and offered a platform for their innovative ideas. This is also the objective of the 17th World Business Dialogue, which will take place in March 2014.
Thanks to the presentation of Denisa Zichackova, Corporate Relations Manager at the CEMS Head Office, the attending companies improved their understanding of the CEMS student profile, the benefits of hiring them, and the many great reasons to be active in the alliance!
Denisa Zichackova (Corporate Relations Manager, CEMS Head Office)
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