CEMS Welcomes New Corporate Partner at Annual Meeting in Poland

CEMS welcomes new corporate partner at annual meeting in Poland

January 2006. Courtesy of Warsaw School of Economics, more than 1,300 students, businessmen, and academics from across Europe gathered in Poland’s historic capital city for the CEMS Annual Events 2005

The Community of European Management Schools and International Companies (CEMS) is a strategic alliance of 17 leading European business schools and 48 corporate partners. This highlight event of the CEMS year is hosted each year by a member school and specifically designed to provide an opportunity for personal and professional networking.

The CEMS events, was also an opportunity for the alliance to welcome a new corporate partner, the Royal Bank of Scotland, one of the world's leading financial services providers.

This multinational heavyweight has joined the CEMS alliance recognising the need to recruit the best graduates with an international outlook. CEMS corporate partners (please see full list below) play an active role in the academic programme and have representatives on its governing body.

The alliance also welcomed three new corporate representatives to its executive board:

-Mr. Kai Kristian Ekholm, HR Director, Eurofirm, PricewaterhouseCoopers

-Mr. Christopher Hagman, Managing Director Global Sales & Services Operations, Reuters

-Mr. David Pappie, Global Attraction and Recruitment Manager, Shell

600 CEMS students and over 100 alumni gathered to take part in the Graduation Ceremony and Careers Fair. Each student had the possibility of pre-scheduled interviews with up to six of the alliance’s multinational members. This year’s Graduation Ceremony saw 305 new CEMS MIM graduates of 28 nationalities, with the first generation graduates from CEMS Associate member schools (see list below). At the Corporate Partner Benchmarking Meeting, participants debated a series of topics ranging from talent management in international organisations to establishing a qualified workforce in Asia.

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CEMS is a strategic alliance of academic and corporate partners. After selection, students follow the CEMS curriculum to obtain the CEMS MIM, a pan-European standard of excellence in management education recognised throughout Europe. Central to the CEMS success is the fact that all partners contribute to the definition and the teaching of the curriculum as well as sharing other common activities including research.

Please find below a list of CEMS academic and corporate partners:

Academic Members:

Austria Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

BelgiumUniversité catholique de Louvain

Czech RepublicUniversity of Economics, Prague

Denmark Copenhagen Business School

Finland Helsinki School of Economics

FranceHEC, Paris

Germany Universität zu Köln

Hungary Corvinus University of Budapest

IrelandSmurfit School of Business, UCD

Italy Università Luigi Bocconi

NorwayNorwegian School of Economics & Business Administration

Poland Warsaw School of Economics

Spain ESADE

Sweden Stockholm School of Economics

Switzerland Universität St. Gallen

The NetherlandsRSM, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

United Kingdom London School of Economics (IIM)

Associate Academic Members:

ArgentinaUniversidad Torcuato Di Tella

BrazilFundaçao Getulio Vargas-EAESP

CanadaRichard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario

MexicoTec de Monterrey

Corporate partners:

Corporate partners:

BNPPARIBAS

BP
CALYON

DEUTSCHE BANK
DRESDNER BANK AG
EADS
ELCOTEQ NETWORK CORPORATION

ENI INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES Ltd.
GLAXOSMITHKLINE
GROUPE DANONE
HANIEL
HENKEL
HYDRO
INDEST COMPANY s.p.a.
ING GROUP
JPMORGAN
KERRY GROUP PLC
KGHM POLSKA MIEDZ
KONE
KPMG
L'OREAL
LVMH
MICHELIN
MOL RT

NESTLE
NOKIA CORPORATION
NOVO NORDISK
OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK
OMV AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
POLISH SECURITY PRINTING WORKS
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
PROCTER & GAMBLE
RANDSTAD HOLDING
REUTERS
RINGIER AG

ROLAND BERGER STRATEGY CONSULTANTS

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
SCHINDLER CORPORATION
SHELL
SIEMENS AG
SKODA AUTO A.S.
STATOIL
STORA ENSO
SWISS RE
UBS
WHIRLPOOL
WOLSELEY PLC