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Lifelong learning: “We are pulling the wool over our eyes if we believe learning is happening exclusively at universities”
Universities are at risk of making themselves irrelevant if they don’t acknowledge that the production of knowledge and learning also takes place outside CBS, argues the Associate Dean of Lifelong Learning at CBS. He wants to make CBS loosen its grip on the supply chain of knowledge and be present where knowledge is produced as a way of introducing lifelong learning, and he is looking for students and employees to join his quest.
23 Oct 2019
Companies can sell more by acting like a Tour-de-France team
Are the best salespeople high-speed ‘smart from the start’ types or team players? Danish researchers have developed a new model that can improve corporate sales centers.
22 Oct 2019
CBS has the biggest mentor programme in Northern Europe – and it’s still growing
With 137 mentors and a goal of reaching 400 mentees in a programme representing 61 nations, it’s the biggest of its kind in Northern Europe – but CBS Business has even bigger ambitions. And, uniquely, its success is due partly to group mentoring.
22 Oct 2019
24 researchers trawl through scandal-hit financial sector and give advice for the future
Blurred lines between sales and financial counselling, discussions about digital currencies and money laundering cases – these are some of the aspects a new report investigates with the core aim of clarifying and recommending solutions to the future challenges faced by the financial sector.
17 Oct 2019
CBS startup helps students get the experience they lack
When studying at CBS, Louise Bech Junge and her friend Mikkel Korn Frederiksen saw how their fellow students were struggling to get relevant student jobs. So, the two friends leapt into action and established Taskflex. And after graduating this summer, they’re putting all their energy into expanding into Norway and Sweden, and to make it “scale up like crazy”.
15 Oct 2019
CBS to introduce designated smoking areas in December
Senior Management and Campus Services have agreed to introduce designated smoking areas in CBS’ outdoor areas starting with Solbjerg Plads in December. The Head of Campus Services explains that ‘smoke police’ will not be lurking around outside, and answers why CBS isn’t introducing a smoke-free policy just yet.
14 Oct 2019
DI director: “Going abroad gives you a front row ticket on the job market”
According to a new OECD report, most Danish students stay in Denmark while studying. At CBS, every fourth student opts for an exchange stay, but according to DI Director Mette Fjord Sørensen, the number should be higher.
10 Oct 2019
Can grade-free classes reduce stress and improve the student environment? It looks like it
Yes, it’s working. That’s the overall conclusion 12 months after the BSc of Business Administration and Psychology introduced the grade-free first year as an attempt to limit the pressure and stress students experience from having to perform well. But will the students’ behavior change as soon as the grades begin ticking in during semester three?
09 Oct 2019
CBS risks losing DKK 50–60 million of its education funding if the government’s budget is approved
If the government’s draft budget is approved, CBS’ budget will increase by DKK 12 million but be reduced by DKK 50–60 million - a tenth of CBS' education funding. The University Director explains that the budget cut could lead to fewer teaching lessons, fewer teachers and fewer resources to introduce up-to-date teaching methods.
08 Oct 2019
The Confederation of Danish Industry: CBS must be better at showing what research it does
It is too difficult to figure out what research CBS researchers do, if you ask Mette Fjord Sørensen, Head of Research, Higher Education and Diversity at the Confederation of Danish Industry. And at a time when natural sciences are in the spotlight, humanities and social sciences need to step up and show how they can be useful to society and companies, she argues.
07 Oct 2019
Cross-uni organization helps companies create happy elderly communities and sell ugly vegetables
A construction container by the old police station in Frederiksberg is home to Millennial Consulting. This organization encourages students with different academic backgrounds from a range of Danish universities to come up with ideas on how to improve life for elderly people and how to sell ugly tossed vegetables.
04 Oct 2019
Rockstar professor visits CBS and shares the dark sides of Surveillance Capitalism
The famous bestselling author professor Shoshana Zuboff visited CBS and shared the dark findings from her whopper of a book on how shadowy forces such as Facebook and Google shape and control our lives and society.
02 Oct 2019