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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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12 November 2013
Samsung is the Korea’s largest conglomerate and consists of more than 60 companies. The revenues in 2012 were USD 268 billion, which corresponds to 23% of Korea’s GDP.
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19 September 2013
The notion of “business model” has a long history. In short a business model defines the “architecture” of your business, i.e. it defines how your business is structured and how revenue, value and information flow between your company, your suppliers, your partners and your customers. There is a growing interest in looking into how business […]
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24 March 2013
The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care (GPCC) conducts research of how patient care can be improved, regarding the quality of care and the care efficiency. We work together with GPCC to develop and deliver customized training programmes to medical departments at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The training programmes, called Person-Centred Care in Practice, are […]
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8 February 2013
The Executive MBA programme includes two overseas modules in China and India, respectively. The first overseas module takes place in the second term. The Executive MBA students that begun the programme in October, 2012 will go to China in April this year. We will be on the east coast of China in Shanghai and Hangzhou. […]
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20 January 2013
Hong Kong is a small country with 7 million inhabitants and much traffic. Notably in the city itself, the air quality may suffer. Now, the new Chief Executive Mr C Y Lueng gave a policy address on January 16. One of the topics addressed was the environment. In an effort to remove 80,000 polluting, old, […]
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12 September 2012
In India, 22 million babies are born every year. Of these, some 10% are prematurely born or underweight. A severe risk for these babies is to become blind due to badly developed blood vessels in the eye – Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). And such blindness develops early, first symptoms come after four weeks after birth […]
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6 August 2012
The particle-physics laboratory CERN in Geneva has announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. This particle has been very much sought for and its existence was predicted Peter Higgs already in 1964. According to the prevalent theory of the universe, this particle is needed to explain why particles have mass. Without mass, all particles would […]
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