CEMS Magazine | May 2011
A new executive team in place for 2011 The first day brought about a number of updates from the four work groups (CEMS Club Support, Student Relations, CEMS Social Responsibility and MIM Affairs), and ended with a recap of 2010 year by Thomas Smith, former Student Board President, and Tom Zacharski, former VP/Treasurer. Their charges were then passed on to the new Executive Team, Marco Proto (President) from NHH and Fredrik Ahlberg (VP/ Treasurer) from CBS, who will together lead the Student Board throughout 2011.
Charlotte Saldanha – representative of the Programme Managers for Nova School of Business & Economics – shed some light on the duties and burdens that PMs face, underlining the conditions which enable them to be most helpful to CEMS Clubs. Stefano Gnes and Denisa Zichackova from the CEMS Head Office spoke about the outcome of the Career Forum which took place in Budapest in November 2010, as well as how to manage relations with Corporate Partners.
The meeting continued with many interesting discussions on highly relevant topics, including branding, the re-vamped CEMS website, the role of Career Services within CEMS, and how best to incorporate the newly-elected Social Partners into the alliance.
After discussing some of the most interesting best practices by CEMS Clubs and an update on the regional events, and the promise to create an alumni engagement package and eventually organise a regional event in South East Asia, the short but intense conference ended on an upbeat note – Dutch Sintaklaas cookies. We look forward to hosting the next CEMS Club Conference.
Participation from Procter & Gamble and Wolseley plc
With this said, we all thank you for your attention. We encourage you to get in touch with us for any question you may have.
The event did not lack any interaction with CEMS Corporate Yours sincerely, Partners. Procter & Gamble kindly hosted us at their facilities The CEMS Student Board for an interesting presentation on cause marketing and a mingling session with representatives from the Company. We had a workshop on trust and game theory with Shell after we had lunch with the representatives. Finally, we met Wolseley for an intense bowling session. We thank all involved Corporate Partners for their kind support.
Third edition of the CEMS Club Conference
The Student Board show their brand loyalty!
The Student Board meeting was followed by the third edition of the CEMS Club Conference. Twenty-three participating club Presidents and Vice Presidents took part, representing in total 18 CEMS clubs. The goal of the conference was dual: increasing the Student Board’s knowledge of the CEMS Club status, and encouraging best practice sharing and knowledge dissemination. Representatives of over 12 clubs shared extensive details about their status, best practices, findings and experience. This was very useful to gain insight into the staggering differences among member countries, but also to discover new ways to tackle problems such as fund raising, corporate awareness and student involvement. The hand-over of a CEMS club was identified as a crucial point upon which to work.
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