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Next semester’s exchange trips hang by a thread
The closedown of the world’s borders has cut short this spring’s exchange trips and caused several additional issues. Now, next semester’s trips are under threat. This can potentially leave CBS with too few places for its students on some courses. Ideas and solutions are being mulled over, including online elective courses at international universities.
29 Apr 2020
Mia Negru tossed a coin, left Romania and invented a sustainability game
Back in Romania, Mia Negru and her sister arranged weddings, organized Romanian Fashion Week and opened a porcelain shop. Then the financial crisis came, and the sisters tossed a coin on where to go to make their fortune. The coin landed on Copenhagen and now, four years after graduating from CBS, she has developed an online tool that helps companies become more sustainable.
28 Apr 2020
CBS copes with coronavirus: “My productivity is suffering. No doubt”
Four PhD Fellows share how they are coping with the current situation, including reduced productivity and the struggle to finish their degrees on time. “If you get two solid hours of work done, it’s pretty good,” says one. They share tricks on how to come to terms with not managing everything as planned – this includes avoiding productivity gurus.
27 Apr 2020
Corona crisis puts PhD Fellows in a pickle: Ministry discusses three-month paid extensions
Facing cancelled or postponed conferences, courses and research stays abroad, PhD Fellows are having a harder time finishing their studies on time. The Ministry for Higher Education and Science is discussing solutions. CBS’ PhD association proposes further initiatives to alleviate the COVID-19 challenges, which include the fear of fewer jobs for new PhD graduates.
27 Apr 2020
Guest lecturer pilot project at CBS now open to all programs
What started as a pilot project for only a few degree programs at CBS is now available for all. For the past year, CBS Business has been matching partner companies with study programs at CBS to help add more guest lectures and real-life cases to teaching. This semester, they will scale up the project and invite all degree programs to join.
24 Apr 2020
Take a tour of CBS WIRE’s new, redesigned website
Three years of wide-ranging content now becomes much easier to navigate, as CBS WIRE has boosted parts of its website with a new design and four new individual sections. Explore different countries seen through the eyes of CBS students, access all our podcasts, read what CBS researchers are up to in Researcher Zone, or meet CBS WIRE’s cool bloggers in Bloggers’ Universe.
22 Apr 2020
Benjamin and Nikolaj question the grade race and investigate what makes CBS students strive for top marks
They had both felt the pressure and stress from having to perform and get good grades while studying at CBS. So when it was time to write their master’s thesis, Benjamin Anker and Nikolaj Koors Hoff decided to explore why students get caught up in the grade race. Now, their results are to be published as a scientific article.
22 Apr 2020
CBS professor studies 5,400 parents for 15 years and notes fewer divorces if fathers take paternity leave
An Icelandic study by the Department of Economics at CBS shows that if fathers are granted earmarked paternity leave, the divorce rate decreases, the fathers are more likely to participate at home, and parents are less likely to fall into traditional gender roles.
21 Apr 2020
Give me 20 burpees: Student organization hosts online functional fitness competition for staff and students
Normally, the student organization CBS Mercury arranges sweaty workouts in the basement at Solbjerg Plads. Now, it has moved its training programs online and is inviting students and staff to join an online functional fitness competition in week 17. In this article, two of the organizers share their corona style workout routine, which involves suitcases packed with books.
20 Apr 2020
Corona-hit CSE startup beats an infected market with online events
In a single week, their order book went from full to empty. And after losing nearly all their revenue, the founders of Ticketbutler, a group of alumni from the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship, hit on a solution to strike back at the COVID-19 crisis: Online Events.
17 Apr 2020
Four Years After CBS: “I prioritize what other people call ‘work’, very highly”
He isolated himself in an office in Amsterdam taking care of a fulltime job during the day and writing his master’s thesis at night. He then worked at one of the largest consulting companies in Copenhagen before sailing the blue seas around French Polynesia pondering his next career move. And now, four years after CBS, Anders Birk is Director of Growth at Goodiebox.
15 Apr 2020
Press play: CBS professor shares his reflections on moving teaching online
Coronavirus has forced CBS’ teachers to move their teaching online, including Professor Edward Ashbee. In this piece, he shares his views and reflections on the matter. "Effective learning requires more than the ability to press ‘pause’," he argues.
14 Apr 2020
New organization of CBS can have a big impact on employees
As part of the new strategy under development, five units are undergoing reorganization, which can result in major changes for the employees involved. According to two shop stewards, the Senior Management cannot eliminate layoffs. The shop stewards say the announcement of the new organization is bad timing and encourage CBS to do everything to avoid layoffs.
02 Apr 2020
