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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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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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12 September 2016
The School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has received a third international accreditation (AACSB). It thus becomes the only business school in Sweden that is what is popularly referred to as “Triple Crown” accredited. Such accreditation is held by only 0.5% of the world’s business schools. The members of […]
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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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15 April 2016
On April 11, 2016, GU School of Executive Education co-organized a networking event together with West Sweden Asia Gateway. The participants were specially invited as current or graduated students at the Gothenburg Executive MBA Programme, or members of West Sweden Asia Gateway. The theme “Lean – a Japanese Management Concept in Steady Evolution” was presented […]
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11 April 2016
Hugo Carlén, Marketing Manager at SKF and participant to the Gothenburg Executive MBA programme, is reporting live from the 10-day study trip to China. The trip, which includes both lectures at top-ranked Chinese Universities and company visits, is an integrated part of the Gothenburg Executive MBA programme. Text & photo: Hugo Carlén All major cities […]
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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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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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