REGIONAL EVENTS
FORUM
WRITERs: Henrieta Borovska and Helena Sjölin CEMS Club Copenhagen
CEMS Nordic Forum A huge success The home of the whole world On 16th-19th March, CBS hosted the CEMS Nordic Forum Conference, which is an annual regional event organised by the CEMS students currently studying at a Nordic CEMS member school. The task of organising and hosting the conference rotates among the four Nordic CEMS Academic Partners – NHH in Norway, Aalto University School of Economics in Finland, Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden and Copenhagen Business School, and this year’s forum stood in the name of CBS. The theme of the conference was “Management Challenges of the 21st Century”. The five companies that participated were Astra Zeneca, Google, Maersk, Shell and Vestas. Besides the corporate participation, two other seminars where held on presentation and negotiation techniques, led by CEMS MIM Academic Director Sven Junghagen and professional negotiator Keld Jensen from MarketWatch respectively.
The satisfaction of the four-day event was obvious both on an academic level as well as socially and the feedback has been overwhelming.
“I would really like to congratulate the whole Nordic Forum team for having organised it so well. The seminars were fascinating and you could see the companies’ involvement and respect for us participants. The event clearly focused on seminars but social activities were more than satisfactory. Bravo!” Youssef Iraqui (Moroccan), CEMS student board member for HEC Paris The students that participated were also very pleased with the conference.
“The Nordic Forum offered the perfect blend between learning from In all, the forum hosted more than 90 CEMS professionals and socialising. students from 23 business schools in the CEMS The organisers deserve a round of network and 33 nationalities. So for four days, CBS applause as they were committed to was literally the home of the whole world. making this event the success it was,”
A place to network
Aditya Kothari (Indian, Belgian), student at Rotterdam School of Management
Throughout the four days, the participants were able to learn about CEMS, its corporate partners and each other through different kinds of activities. With several workshops offered by the invited companies and other social activities such as an outing to the Carlsberg Museum, a typical CBS party at Nexus and a farewell dinner at the Copenhagen restaurant Madklubben followed by a party night at the exclusive nightclub Karel Van Mander, the Nordic Forum had a diverse range of interesting offers to current CEMS students.
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