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Open letter to the university management: Let us show the way towards a more ambitious climate agenda
More than 700 researchers from all eight of Denmark’s universities have signed a climate letter, which has been sent to each of the universities’ leadership around the country. “If we do not start a global transition to a greener society immediately the consequences will be catastrophic.” This is how they have outlined their appeal. Read the letter in full here.
Updated: 05 Dec 2018
Denmark’s universities ask Margrethe Vestager to add scientific journals to her hit list
A handful of scientific journals have created a monopoly-like situation, forcing universities and researchers to pay a higher price for having their research published. Now, 800 European universities, led by Denmark’s eight universities and Universities Denmark, ask the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, to put a stop to the monopoly. The Dean of Research at CBS, Søren Hvidkjær thinks it’s important that Margrethe Vestager takes up the case.
15 Nov 2018
Oops: Let’s talk about our great f*ck ups!
She refuses to get her grades as a way of provoking the anti-fail culture, and he wants everyone to talk openly about their mistakes to make them more acceptable. CBS student, Mathilde Andersen and PhD Fellow at CBS, Thomas Burø are part of a team organizing the Oops! Festival – a festival devoted to f*ck ups, fat-finger errors and failures in mid-November.
14 Nov 2018
PROFESSORS ARE THE ONES WHO KNOW. NOT STUDENTS! Right?
A guerilla group of CBS faculty and students are looking for new ways to integrate the humanities into more courses at international business schools through a series of workshops they call, ‘The Business of Teaching’. But do literature, philosophy and art really have a place in business schools in the first place?
14 Nov 2018
The Dean of Education: We can experiment more with experiential teaching
The Dean of Education at CBS, Gregor Halff, salutes the teachers who have the courage to experiment with experiential teaching, and says it’s among CBS’ future goals. However, scale and resources are always a challenge.
13 Nov 2018
I cannot keep up with the tempo this semester…!
Initially, when I started this semester, I had some internal doubts about how I would make it through the year. However, in the midst of my doubts, I slowly began to gain confidence and became more optimistic. Unfortunately, the doubts have come back and I am honestly slacking a bit. Maybe much more than a bit actually.
13 Nov 2018
Unique field-based program in Uganda is a playground for students
Only one program at CBS allows students to take hands-on classes in the field, spend up to three weeks in a developing country, and work with a local partner university. Over the last eight years, Associate Professor Thilde Langevang – together with her colleague Søren Jeppesen – has organized this unique study program, and she wants experiential learning to play a greater role in CBS’ future plans.
13 Nov 2018
Here they are! CBS’ three new research platforms
Transformations, diversity and difference, and inequality are the themes that will bring researchers together from across CBS and all over the world in three new 'business in society' platforms. Their aim is to carry out research that will be useful for everyone.
12 Nov 2018
Campus is friggin’ H U G E and there is food everywhere!
The first few days at a new school are always the most nerve-racking. What's going to be completely new? What's going to be similar? What will feel as though it’s from a whole different planet? Mihika Deb, CBS Student, tells about 'Siberian winters' in Malaysia, classes at night, and about a friggin' HUGE Campus in Kuala Lumpur.
09 Nov 2018
Japanese student café offers a free drink every 90 minutes😄
Madina Balgabeks loves the perks of student life at Waseda University. Cafés that offer students a free drink every 90 minutes, free Wi-Fi, water and seating for as many hours as you want. And stimulating experiences in class, for example, where one of her professors brought tennis rackets to class, resulting in tennis balls flying around the room!
09 Nov 2018
University paper at CBS: 40 years of writing
A university paper has been sharing CBS’ stories for 40 years. Stories that have brought students and staff closer together, overthrown a president, and just made people smile. One of the founders, two former journalists, and the President of CBS Students tell the story about the university paper.
09 Nov 2018
Work-life-study balance? Interning in NYC has me figuring out who I am
Caroline Sølver, CBS student, is doing her internship at a Danish company that recently launched in NYC. It’s a valuable experience that is teaching her things she hadn’t expected and pushing her towards figuring out what she wants for her future and in which direction she wants to go.
09 Nov 2018
CBS gets new guidelines for good research communication in the wake of professor’s defense of Danske Bank
CBS professor Steen Thomsen publicly defended Danske Bank without making it clear that the very same bank funded his own research center. This has resulted in consequential action taken by CBS. The guidelines on good research communication will be renewed to ensure improved transparency on research funding, and the coming Vice Dean of Research Communication will be given an extended mandate.
08 Nov 2018
Ain’t no Sunshine when he’s gone
After ten years of service at CBS, Somchai Bronlow will no longer be juggling coffee mugs, warm croissants, white tablecloths and thousands of plates for meetings and events. Instead, a sustainable fish farm in Thailand awaits.
08 Nov 2018
Rikke thinks traditional case competitions are outdated, so she and her team made their own
Students are given limited preparation time in CBS’ new business competition, Business Battlefield, as the aim is to test their ability to think on their feet. CBS student and co-founder, Rikke Knudsen, explains why the old case competition format is outdated.
07 Nov 2018
How Twitter made Simon’s BA project the talk of the town
“It was like getting a virtual high five,” says Simon Carøe Aarestrup about Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler tweeting about the bachelor project that he and his fellow classmate, Frederik had worked on. But how does research communication work on social media in general? CBS WIRE talked to two professors about how they use social media.
01 Nov 2018
Professor’s defense of Danske Bank is to be discussed by Academic Council
The current policy on good research communication practice needs to be revised, argues Søren Hvidkjær, the Dean of Research. He has asked the Academic Council to discuss the matter in the wake of criticism raised by other researchers in the media, in light of CBS Professor Steen Thomsen’s defense of Danske Bank in the newspaper Børsen. Furthermore, he wants the council to give their input on the appointment of a new Vice Dean of Research Communication.
01 Nov 2018
Excited, gentle, hoarse, sarcastic: This is the sound of power
Researchers Anton Grau Larsen, Christoph Ellersgaard and Morten Fischer Sivertsen from CBS have investigated Denmark’s power elite for years. In a new podcast series on Radio24Syv, they explain their research and give listeners the unique opportunity to hear the voices of the most powerful people in Denmark.
01 Nov 2018
Eager to go back to summer? Here is Lukas’ guide to a magically laid-back and relaxed island
I can imagine that I am not the only person that might have similar thoughts when the semester had kicked off and the weather in the Danish capital had changed back to being rough and uninviting: A vacation right now, in a warm and sunny place would be ideal before returning back to 'reality'. CBS WIRE's blogger, Lukas Kohl brings summer back with his city guide to Catania and eastern Sicily. Enjoy!
31 Oct 2018