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The big test: CBS moves campus to cyberspace
Coronavirus prevents us being together, but luckily we can meet in cyberspace. Here, teachers, students and the Head of Teaching and Learning at CBS explain from their home offices how moving lectures, study groups and oral exams online is coming along. “It will definitely take more self-discipline,” says a student.
19 Mar 2020
CBS copes with coronavirus: Niamh will be working at Harvard, but from her apartment in Copenhagen
A dream had come true for CBS student Niamh Higgins. She was accepted for a unique three-month internship at Harvard University starting in late March. That was until coronavirus closed the borders here and in the U.S. Now, she will do the internship from Copenhagen. “You learn how to make lemonade out of lemons.”
17 Mar 2020
A month ago, they were in isolation in Shanghai, now they are in Taiwan where everything is … business as usual
The two CBS students Mikkel Graulund Jørgensen and Tobias Løvkvist Bidstrup, who are on a 90-day language trip to learn Chinese, are reporting from Taiwan where everyday life seems unaffected by the coronavirus that has shut down many countries in Europe. The two students do not plan to cut their trip short and return to Denmark.
16 Mar 2020
First it imprisons his family in Italy, then coronavirus banishes him from his workplace
When Italy closed down entirely on the morning of Tuesday March 9, it may have seemed a rather drastic move. However, less than 48 hours later, Denmark followed suit. Giulio Zichella, an Assistant Professor at CBS with family in Italy reflects on the situation both there and in Denmark. “People in Italy are afraid and they are asking whether the situation could become even more complicated,” he says.
16 Mar 2020
CBS copes with coronavirus: Student Hub had 59 calls in the first 16 minutes
CBS’ campuses are closed due to coronavirus. So now what? Anne Mette Hou, Head of Student Affairs, reports from an abandoned CBS, where staff members are collecting what they need to work from home, and working hard to inform students of the situation that has caused a phone-storm.
13 Mar 2020
Now coronavirus has consequences for CBS staff and students
No Thursday bars in March, no annual celebration, fewer study seats at the libraries and fewer classes on campus. Coronavirus has resulted in a number of initiatives to avoid spreading the infection that has infected two students and put three individuals from CBS in precautionary quarantine at home.
Updated: 13 May 2020
Four Years After CBS: Harder, better, faster, stronger and a little bit of Baijiu
As a student, he wrote his master’s thesis while working fulltime for A.P. Møller Mærsk in China. Now, four years after CBS, Stig Thorlacius Bondrup lives in Shanghai, speaks Mandarin and is responsible for the day-to-day running and development of six different companies spread across different cities in the Greater China Region.
11 Mar 2020
CBS’ first entrepreneurship program turns 10: “We train our students how to act in order to know”
The MSocSc in Organizational Innovation and Entrepreneurship was the first program of its kind when it was launched at CBS in 2009. Since then, the program has changed how CBS teaches and has become one of the university’s most international programs. But the “necessity” to create an entrepreneurial environment became the program's greatest vulnerability almost overnight.
11 Mar 2020
All CBS canteens get permanent recycling stations and a return system
It started as a student-driven pilot project, and now CBS has permanent recycling stations at all its canteens. Departments and learning environments are next on the list along with a three-month pilot deposit system for cans and bottles. The profit, if there is any, will be spent on green initiatives at CBS.
10 Mar 2020
Can mindfulness make you a better consumer and live more sustainably?
A newly started PhD project aims to help clarify once and for all; can mindfulness change our consumer behavior and how, and is being mindful making us live more sustainably? Or is sorting our trash just a personal characteristic? Also, a new elective on mindfulness will be launched this fall.
06 Mar 2020
Now MBA students can specialize in sustainability
CBS innovates its MBA program in response to students’ demands for more in-depth knowledge within four new subjects: sustainability, finance, digitalization and entrepreneurship. The new ‘concentrations’ are based on extensive research into future and previous students’ needs and demands.
05 Mar 2020
Plagiarism case at CBS under investigation by the National Committee
A former CBS student has filed a complaint with CBS’ Practice Committee after discovering that large parts of a master’s thesis were used by his Master’s thesis supervisor in a scientific article published in an international journal. The complaint has been forwarded to the National Committee and is being treated as a case of plagiarism.
02 Mar 2020
She explores emotional connections through her art
After setting aside her creative talent in her early teenage years, a tragic event brought Helena Sokol, a student at CBS, back to art. She is now using creative expression both as a cheaper form of therapy and as a way to bridge perspectives. 20 artistic pieces portraying relatable emotions and moments of dark rawness are on display at Solbjerg Plads until April.
28 Feb 2020