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31 October 2017
This year’s Executive MBA Council Global Conference took place during four days last week in Seattle. The presence of 436 participants from 160 schools in 28 countries is ample testimony to the value our global executive education business attributes to this possibility of meeting to share best Executive MBA programme practices, take part of the […]
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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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13 February 2017
Emerson has an established process for nominating its key talents to the Gothenburg Executive MBA programme. Once a year, all department managers nominate their most promising managers, and the top nominees are interviewed by members of the leadership team. The best candidate is then selected to attend the Gothenburg Executive MBA programme with full financial […]
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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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8 November 2016
Our Executive MBA participant Linda Engstrom-Condon was recently interviewed by Fastighetstidningen (in Swedish only). She is currently Head of Asset & Facilities Management Consultancy Middle East at the US consulting giant AECOM and Chairman of BIFM (British Institute of Facilities Management) in the United Arab Emirates. In 2015 she was ranked as the 18th most […]
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4 November 2016
October 24-26 saw an impressive 438 delegates from 150 business schools in 27 countries gather in New Orleans for the 2016 Executive MBA Council global conference. As the conference theme was ”Redesign & Renewal” in the broader sense, three most interesting plenary session keynote speakers approached the theme, each from their different personal angles. Let […]
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24 October 2016
On October 6, the Gothenburg Executive MBA programme 2016-2018 kicked off, with 30 highly motivated executives from both small and medium-sized companies as well as multinational corporations. The Gothenburg Executive MBA programme is a 21-month part-time management programme in English. It is the only MBA in Sweden accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA). With its Nordic-Asian focus, […]
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21 October 2016
On October 20, 2016, some 50 Executive MBA alumni and current Executive MBA participants joined the School’s Executive MBA Alumni Event on the theme “Managing Global Talent”. This time we were honoured to have Dr. Jessica Bagger, Professor of Management at Sacramento State, and Mats A. Vilander, MBA, MSc, International Strategy Advisor with 24 years of experience from […]
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22 August 2016
The Executive MBA programme is designed to provide deeper insights into the complexity and dynamics of contemporary business, where few parameters remain static for long. In this environment, where change is perceived as the only constant, managers tend to succumb to the temptations of simplistic, ‘quick-fix’ management models and fads that seldom lead to meaningful […]
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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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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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