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3 May 2017
April 22-29, the Gothenburg Executive MBA 2016-2018 class experienced executive education, business and culture in China first-hand, during a residency shared between the Chinese cities Hangzhou and Shanghai. Two of our participants, Jens Björkman, Head of Ferrous Trade at Stena Metal International AB and Johan Burtus, CEO at Kaifa AB, share their impressions from their […]
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28 April 2017
April 22-29, the Gothenburg Executive MBA 2016-2018 class experiences executive education, business and culture in China first-hand, during a residency shared between the Chinese cities Hangzhou and Shanghai. Two of our participants, Jens Björkman, Head of Ferrous Trade at Stena Metal International AB and Johan Burtus, CEO at Kaifa AB, share their impressions from their […]
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5 December 2016
Thursday December 1, GU School of Executive Education hosted an Executive MBA Alumni Event on the theme “How West Sweden can develop”. Johan Trouvé, CEO of the West Sweden Chamber of Commerce, talked about the challenge of – and vison for – attracting competence and investments to West Sweden in order to further strengthen the […]
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4 May 2016
Since joining the Executive MBA programme in 2009, Julie Maes has accelerated her career within Volvo Group. Today she is responsible for a function employing 60 people. When Julie joined the programme in 2009, she was a global purchaser. She had shown a great deal of development potential and had the possibility to adjust the […]
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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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9 October 2015
On October 1, the Gothenburg Executive MBA programme 2015-2017 kicked off, with a group of animated executives from both small and medium-sized companies as well as multinational corporations. The Gothenburg Executive MBA programme is a part-time management programme over 21 months. It is taught entirely in English, and is the only MBA in Sweden accredited […]
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19 November 2014
Executive MBA graduates in 2014, Björn Axelsson and André Knüppel developed their joint Executive MBA thesis into this book, which explains the complexity of how multinational corporations manage their subsidiaries. By using qualitative research methods the authors present a conceptual framework, which makes it possible for decision makers to understand and manage improvement areas in […]
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7 November 2014
Ulrika Bromander, Nordic Business Unit Manager of Pedab Group AB, Executive MBA graduate class 2011 While participating in the Executive MBA programme Ulrika Bromander had become the CEO of a family-owned company. She had reached ambitious goals, partly thanks to what she learnt during the Executive MBA programme. Already before joining the programme, Ulrika and […]
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25 September 2014
Daniel Peterson, CEO, Markslöjd Lighting Group, Executive MBA graduate class 2012 Markslöjd Lighting Group (MLG) is one of Northern Europe’s leading lighting companies with operations in a large number of countries. MLG develops, manufactures and markets lighting for both homes and public spaces. Design and development of lamps are kept in-house while production is outsourced […]
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8 September 2014
Elisabet Jansson Strömberg, CEO, Swedish Ski Lift Association (SLAO), Executive MBA graduate class 2013 When Elisabet Jansson Strömberg joined the Executive MBA programme in 2011 she was Communication & Fundraising Manager at the Swedish Sea Rescue Society, a non-profit organisation that saves lives at sea. The society runs 66 lifeboat stations, with over 160 boats […]
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