Briefings on current management practices and highlights from our executive education programmes
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8 April 2016
Executive MBA graduate Karin Broman looks back on the ten-day residency in Bangalore, which included a module on creative leadership and a crash course on how to do business in India. “The module in India was a true journey for all of us. We travelled to this subcontinent and learned so many things about Indian […]
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18 March 2016
Patrick Lexér of Bulten testifies to a demanding yet rewarding Executive MBA programme. On graduation day in June, 2015 he expresses excitement, but also sadness over that the programme has come to an end. “I would say that it has been a very rewarding experience, not only through classes and lecturers but also through the […]
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14 March 2016
One of the Gothenburg Executive MBA participants, Fredrik Wistrand, announces the launch of MyDentist – a new chain of dental clinics/shops (from now on referred to as shops). The first shop will open during the summer of 2016, somewhere in Sweden. Read an interview in Göteborgs-posten with Fredrik Wistrand (in Swedish, from March 14, 2016) […]
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26 February 2016
After almost two years of studies the participants of the Gothenburg Executive MBA-programme 2013-2015 graduated on June 15th, 2015. The presentations of the theses, with main topics such as leadership and organization culture, were followed by a traditional diploma ceremony. Some twenty managers have successfully completed the programme and honed their knowledge from strategic management […]
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The Gothenburg Executive MBA participants have diverse backgrounds and work in different business sectors. The common denominator is that they are managers, often with global roles in companies such as AstraZeneca, Husqvarna, Gunnebo, Stena and Volvo. The Gothenburg Executive MBA programme, which runs part-time over two years, focuses on emerging markets in Asia and aims […]
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8 February 2016
“Gung Hay Fat Choy” means “wish you fortune and wealth” in Cantonese. We would like to wish a very Happy and Prosperous Lunar New Year to all of our Chinese friends around the world. We will be celebrating the Year of the Monkey with a traditional Chinese New Year Dinner arranged by West Sweden Asia […]
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21 January 2016
I had a truly stunning laundry bill from the on-campus hotel here at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), where I stayed during the 10-day residency in Bangalore together with the Gothenburg Executive MBA class of 2014-2016: to have a long-sleeve shirt washed, ironed, neatly folded and delivered to my room cost me 2,31 SEK […]
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18 January 2016
Early in the Gothenburg Executive MBA programme’s fourth and last term, our participants spend 10 days in residency in Bangalore, located in the state of Karnataka in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent. Today, Bangalore has become the IT capital of India, but interestingly, since the early 20th century the city has been a center […]
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16 December 2015
Our Executive MBA participant Linda Engstrom-Condon was interviewed in today’s edition of Dagens industri, Sweden’s number one business daily. Since five years, Linda Engstrom-Condon is Head of Asset & Facilities Management Consultancy – Middle East at the US consulting giant AECOM. In the December issue of “Facilities Management Middle East” magazine Linda ranks as the […]
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27 November 2015
The Internet of Things was the topic for the November Executive MBA Alumni event co-organised by GU School of Executive Education and the enterprise software provider IFS. Johan Lundblad, IFS Sourcing Manager and Executive MBA graduate 2015, hosted the event together with Fredrik vom Hofe, IFS Group Senior Vice President Business Development. After an introduction […]
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23 November 2015
When Malin de Maré became a member of the divisional management team, she felt it was time to add business management skills to her engineering degree. The solution was the Gothenburg Executive MBA programme – a journey that gave her much more than skills, including a deep dive into her own fears and a personal […]
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10 November 2015
On October 25-28, our School of Business, Economics and Law debuted as members and participants at the Executive MBA Council’s annual global conference in Singapore. Based in the US, the Executive MBA Council aims to be the global voice of the Executive MBA industry. For the first time ever since its inception in 1981, the Council staged its global […]
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