5/12 Barcelona Student Board newsletter May 2012

NEWSLETTER Barcelona Meeting April 2012

CEMS – THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION

A word from the Executive Team Exciting times last week in Barcelona... Indeed, next to the impressive amount of high-level football games going on and a truly poetic local holiday that is Sant Jordi the Student Board gathered in the Catalan city for its first meeting of 2012. With this newsletter, the Student Board wants to share the latest news, while focusing on the main projects we are working on and the major events that will happen throughout the CEMS alliance in the coming months.

The Student Board was kindly hosted in Barcelona by ESADE Business School and we enjoyed very much the discussions we had with the members of this outstanding academic institution. We got the chance to elaborate on the topic of “Business Schools and their contribution to society” together with the author of the book presented in Lisbon at the CEMS Annual Events, Alfons Sauquet, Dean of ESADE. Among the main topics covered in this newsletter you will find many new projects that were started during the meeting in Barcelona. We are very excited to see these grow in the coming months and have high hopes of getting them ready before December when the CEMS Annual Events will take place in St Gallen.

Enjoy the newsletter and look out for opportunities to keep your CEMS experience up this summer. Looking for suggestions? Why not connect with fellow CEMSies doing their internship in the same company or city as you? Or take a trip with the Alumni Association to a nice and sunny destination? Let’s make the most out of the CEMS network!

Executive Team William Coupe - President and Mihaela Pisau - Vice President & Treasurer Executive-Team@cemsmail.org

CEMS – THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION

Update from MIM Affairs MIM Affairs is pleased to announce that it welcomed two additional members during the Barcelona meeting, Luciana Coelho (HSG) and Karol Górnowicz (SGH). The meeting was an opportunity for the team members to discuss and prioritise new projects raised by students and in line with the current developments at the head office level.

The core mission of MIM team remains to improve the CEMS MIM programme quality and learning experience. It provides a link between students and other stakeholders. In this regard, the team has been gathering feedback from all student board representatives and produced a report that was submitted to the Head Office. Recommendations covered a wide range of topics and aim at pointing out the crucial issues that students are facing in their respective schools.

Using the same methodology and following its quality mission, the team is currently working on a new report regarding issues related to business projects. At least one student per school is or will be soon surveyed about his or her business project experience. The report is expected to be made available to the Head Office in the coming weeks.

Finally, the team is also contributing to the task force “learning objectives and implications for the curriculum”. A workshop was held during the Barcelona meeting with the following theme: “innovation in the MIM programme.” Several student board representatives contributed to a bright discussion, which translated into some fresh ideas for the programme. Those ideas will be taken into consideration when reshaping the MIM programme to keep CEMS at the forefront of the education world.

For any suggestions or any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the MIM Team MIM-Affairs-Team@cemsmail.org, Luciana Coelho (HSG) Tommaso Loviscek (UB) Karol Górnowicz (SGH) Romain Aubert (SSE) .

CEMS Club Warsaw

CEMS Social Responsibility Team The Barcelona meeting was quite an important one for the CSR team. It marks a complete makeover of our team; it provided us with some great conclusions; and it allowed us to plant some seeds that, over the next year, might grow into interesting CSR projects for the CEMS community. First of all we celebrated the completion of our main project for the last months: the first edition of the CSR Booklet.

The booklets are travelling to your schools with the Student Board reps at the moment. If you want to catch a glimpse, track down your rep in the coming days!

Miguel, Alexandra and Roser (making up the entire “old” CSR team) will all be leaving the Student Board in the near future. We are fortunate however to have recruited three new members already. Sarianne, Paula and Cristina will do a great job in continuing with the projects that have grown close to us over the last months. Given that we had a complete turnover of our team, we spent a lot of time on teaching our newbies about our recurring projects (like the preparation of the Global Values Statement and the production of the CSR booklet, which we decided to make an annual edition) and also selected a new team leader: Cristina.

Cristina Avramov Alexandra Levrincova Miguel Pintos dos Santos Paula Pitol Sarianne Lehto Roser Preuss

Our most important session during the meeting was on the topic of a central CEMS CSR theme.

The whole Student Board reached the unanimous decision to implement such a theme and voted for “Education”. The team will be working on a document to explain the purpose of such a theme and will brief all the CEMS Clubs and the wider CEMS community in the next months.

We also had one session together with Kevin Titman (CEMS Communication Manager) on providing an update of the CSR information on the cems.org website. The content production from the student perspective will be one of the priorities of the CSR team in the next months.

All in all, it was a great meeting for the CSR team and, as always, it was a lot of fun.

CEMS-Social-Responsibility-Team@cemsmail.org

Marketing & Communication Dear CEMSies, My name is Pavol Dzurjanin, the Student Board representative for Rotterdam School of Management and the new team leader of our team. First of all, I am very pleased to welcome Anna Mátyus, the new representative from Budapest, who has hit the ground running and immediately prepared this semester’s CEMS merchandise for the online store even before her first Student Board meeting in Barcelona last week.

Talking about merchandise – your orders have been successfully processed and handed over to the suppliers. You can pick them up from your local CEMS Club in the second half of May. Now let us give you a little insight into our upcoming projects!

Since CEMS has been on the map for some time now and there are many accomplished alumni with interesting profiles, we would like to bring to your attention some of the successful CEMS alumni out there.

You can therefore expect to have a look into a life of a CEMS student many years after graduation as well as find out which aspect of CEMS remains most valuable throughout your future career.

The Student Alumni Mentorship Programme (SAMP) is also slowly getting off the ground. However, as the regional CEMS communities vary largely in size and relative position to the school, don’t be shy to get into contact with CEMS alumni working in your area of interest through social or professional networks. Our team will be sending out a short how-to guide to make your networking experience as easy as possible.

Finally, we would like to remind you that you can always share your CEMS experiences or advertise for CEMS events on the official Facebook and Google+ CEMS page by sending an e-mail to this address: cemsfacebookmessage@gmail.com. These can be invitations to an event hosted by your local CEMS Club, social activities for students and alumni or a seminar that took place in your country. It is a great way to promote both your school and your local CEMS community within the alliance.

We wish you a successful completion of the semester and good luck on your exams!

For any suggestions or any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the M&C Team Marketing-Communications-Team@cemsmail.org, Best, The Marketing & Communications Team.

The Globalisation Team The Globalisation Team has been sinking its teeth into many projects this past term! Through a Corporate Partner mapping and an analysis of student satisfaction between CEMS alliance schools in Europe and outside Europe, the team has gained a strong understanding of the obstacles currently facing students at newer CEMS schools. With this analysis in mind, the team hopes to share its results regarding courses, Corporate Partners and information dissemination with administrators and CEMS clubs alike in order to determine targeted solutions to the issues presented by students.

Additionally, the team worked with Procter& Gamble to better understand their interaction with CEMS schools across the alliance. Through understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the collaboration with various schools, the team hopes the analysis will help P&G to ensure that all CEMS students are enjoying a consistent experience. Experiencing the same great programming throughout CEMS! Looking to the future, the Globalisation Team will be working closely with Head Office to determine new, exciting schools for the global expansion of the alliance. Furthermore, the team is also working to develop targeted promotional activities for prospective students in the newer CEMS schools. In addition to increasing CEMS’s e-presence online, the team is hoping students will help support “student ambassador” initiatives while on terms abroad by helping to promote their own schools to prospective students while abroad.

For any suggestions or any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the Globalisation Team at globalisation-team@cemsmail.org More details and materials will follow – be sure to check your inboxes and keep an eye out on YouTube!

CEMS Club Support Since the meeting in Lisbon in December the CEMS Club Support Team has mainly focused on the ongoing support of the CEMS Clubs, updating their support packages and mapping the Regional Events, as well as preparing the new communication platform Podio.

In Barcelona, the team had to say goodbye to two devoted members, Nadya Sheynina and Annie Nguyen, but was pleased to welcome Damla Taskin, Chris Glaser and Dennis Surya. The new members quickly got up to date on the current projects, and are already showing to be valuable assets for the team.

The team is still working on a new platform, Podio, in order to support CEMS Clubs around the globe more efficiently. Podio is an online working platform that will improve the communication between CEMS Club Presidents and CEMS Club Support Team. It will be used as a knowledge repository, a place to share best practices, ask your question and get support on different issues.

We also started to discuss the CEMS Club Awards and the CEMS Club Conference (CCC) for 2012. This years’ CCC aims at gathering all the CEMS Club Presidents, to create team spirit, to improve collaboration and communication as well as to share best practices. The CCC will be held in Budapest on 14 - 15 of November, providing an interesting start to the Career Fair for the presidents. At the Annual Event in St. Gallen, the CEMS Club Award will again be handed out to the best performing CEMS Club.

Lastly we are happy to announce that we will start working on a Best Practice Booklet, displaying events organized at the different CEMS universities. The aim of this booklet is to let the different Clubs share experiences and events they are proud of, and at the same time providing inspiration for the other Clubs.

While working on these projects, the CCS team members will of course continue to stay in touch with the Clubs. You can find your coach here:

Chris: CBS, ESADE, LSE, UoC, USYD Damla: EAESP, HEC, LSM, NOVA, RSM, UCD Dennis: KEIO, NUS, SSE, TSEM, UB, WU Nadya: AALTO, GSOM Lise: CUB, HSG, IVEY, KOC, NHH, SGH, VSE

From now on we have a direct team e-mail address (CEMS-Club-Support-Team@cemsmail.org). We are looking into all aspects of CEMS Club life in order to improve the CEMS experience for everyone. We greatly appreciate any knowledge sharing, best practices or recommendations to make this task more efficient and fulfilling. We thank you for your future contributions and look forward to working with you!

Instructions for sending e-mail via your cemsmail.org account: Since the cemsmail is used as an incoming mailbox only, here are quick instructions on how to set up your Gmail account to be able to send emails from name.surname@cemsmail.org 1) Log on to your Gmail account 2) Click on the 'flower/gear icon' in the upper right corner and click on 'Mail settings' 3) Select the third tab 'Accounts and Import' 4) In the section 'Send mail as', click on 'Send mail from another address' 5) Type in your name.surname@cemsmail.org and unclick the box ' treat as an alias' 6) Follow the instructions to verify your cemsmail.org account 7) Once composing a new email message, in the field 'from' select your cemsmail.org For more help, see the official Gmail site: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=22370

Who’s your rep’?

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AALTO Sarianne Lehto

NHH

Lise Jokstad Hafskjold

CBS

Cristina Avramov

NUS

Annie Nguyen

CUB

Anna Matyus

RSM

Pavol Dzurjanin

EAESP Paula Pitol

SGH

Karol Gornowicz

ESADE Andrea Roberto Bifulco

SSE

Romain Aubert

GSOM Nadya Sheynina

UB

Tommaso Lovicek

HEC

Béatrice Hu

UCD

Remo Drost

HSG

Luciana Spengler Coelho

UoC

Christian Glaser

Ivey

Meilene Lam

USYD

Henrietta Dreyer

Koç

Zeynep Hazal Ozuslu

VSE

Alexandra Levincova

LSE

Roser Preus

WU

Iveta Novakova

LSM

Damla Taskin

NOVA Miguel Pinto dos Santos

President: William Coupé Vice President: Mihaela Pisau

Any comments concerning the newsletter? Please do not hesitate to contact andrearoberto.bifulco@cemsmail.org

AALTO Natalia Velikodnaya

NOVA Carlota Cabral

CBS

Fredrik Ahlberg

NUS

Jia Jun Zhang

CUB

Kornelia Bodnar

RSM

Tanmayi Gummaraju

EAESP Eduardo Caimbro

SGH

Maciej Sewerski

EGADE Jose Cruz

SSE

Filip Goldmann

ESADE Ludovic Manjot

UB

Marina Marchese

GSOM Evgenia Popova

UCD

Gwilym Williams

HEC

Youssef Iraqui

UoC

Miriam Olivia Scharmach

HSG

Andri Hinnen

USYD

Wei-Chieh Chuang

Ivey

Matthew Zajac

VSE

Robert Hnauck

LSE

Cleo Biron

WU

Nina Poxleitner

LSM

Nicola Romano