European Management News
- Guest lecture: HR Development Strategy at Volkswagen Group
- Kick-Off Berlin MBA Full-time
- European Study Visit to Paris and Rennes
- MBA Full-time: Career week
- Excursion to Frankfurt am Main
- Berlin and UK MBA Team Gave "First Class" Presentation to IBM London
- MBA Reunion: European Management Graduates 2001
- Integrating a Norwegian Company into a South Korean Conglomerate – Berlin MBA Prepared the Project Management Officer
- Towards a Smarter Planet - Berlin/UK Student Team Will Present to IBM
- Guest lecture: "European Management in Practice"
Guest lecture: HR Development Strategy at Volkswagen Group
On February 13 our MBA full-time students received a guest lecture from Oliver Kuessner, MBA on the HR development strategy at Volkswagen Group. Mr Kuessner who is a manager at the Volkswagen Group Academy spoke about the career development path and instruments of HR development. Students were also able to discuss individual opportunities at Europe's largest car manufacturer.
Kick-Off Berlin MBA Full-time
On 17 September our new MBA Full-time students from 24 different nations all accross the globe started their journey on the Berlin MBA programme at the IMB Institute of Management Berlin.
European Study Visit to Paris and Rennes
The full-time Berlin MBA students have spent six days in February 2012 during a study visit to France. They have participated in company presentations in Paris and have taken part at a three-day MBA case study course on international strategic management at ESC Rennes. Sightseeing tours and social get-togethers in France's capital as well as in Brittany have completed the programme.
MBA Full-time: Career week
Following the Kick-off of the full-time Berlin MBA programme on Monday 12 September, the students spent the first days focussing on defining more clearly their future career path.
Using Team Management Systems® they identified their personal work preference role, personal motivation in a working environment, got a better understanding of their strengths and areas of limitation and how they could optimise working with teams. Each student now has a set of tasks to work on over the next couple of months supported and guided by the IMB Career Service.
Excursion to Frankfurt am Main
On 15th of June students of the MBA European-Asian Management and MBA European Management were given the opportunity to visit Germany's financial centre FRANKFURT AM MAIN with Prof. Hellmann.
After an interesting visit at the MONEY MUSEUM OF THE DEUTSCHE BANK - where the students had the chance to view selected exhibits from the Bundesbank’s valuable collection, and were able to discover the role of money and the consequences of inflation and deflation and spot the connections between monetary and foreign exchange policy - the study group enjoyed a spectacular view over the city of Frankfurt from the 200 metre high MAIN TOWER.
The trip to Frankfurt concluded with a visit to the stock exchange DEUTSCHE BÖRSE GROUP and a VIP programme including an informative lecture about the History of Frankfurt Stock Exchange, tradable products, listing, indices, xetra and floor trading. At the visitors gallery students were able to see the trading floor live and take in the exchange atmosphere.
Berlin and UK MBA Team Gave "First Class" Presentation to IBM London
The final presentation on the electronic enhancement of Generation Y's buying behaviour was commented by IBM Manager Gary O'Leary to have been "excellent" and "first class". A combined team of Berlin and Hertfordshire MBA students had conducted research on the UK and Germany and presented their results at the IBM Forum in London on May 27.
MBA Reunion: European Management Graduates 2001
Last month it was our turn. One always reads about others celebrating their 10th anniversary reunion and then all of a sudden your group is up. Our intake year was October 1999 and graduation April 2001.
The seventeen of us drawn from three continents, six countries, and a host of different cultures and languages made for a wonderfully diverse group. The great thing was that many of us did not come from a business back-ground, in fact it was a very broad spectrum ranging from agriculture, via engineering and human-genetics to psychology and social work to name but a few. All in all a real melting pot. more
Integrating a Norwegian Company into a South Korean Conglomerate – Berlin MBA Prepared the Project Management Officer
Interview with Mats Hustad Hakebo, MBA European Management Graduate of 2010
1. Could you briefly introduce your company and the position you are holding?
The company I represent is Doosan Moxy, a part of Doosan Corporation in South Korea. Doosan is in the infrastructure support business, offering a wide range of products from agriculture and water cleaning to nuclear power plants and heavy construction machinery. The Doosan Moxy business unit in Norway produces articulated dump trucks for Doosan's heavy construction equipment portfolio and has approximately 120 employees. My position as Project Management Office entails to be locally in charge of the sales, inventory and operations planning process (SIOP), and also to implement the Doosan product development process (NPD), making sure that everything runs systematically and on time.
2. What are the key challenges your company has to cope with?
After the acquisition of Moxy by Doosan there has been no shortage of challenges. Our factory is introducing lean manufacturing. This is not only a technical challenge, but also a cultural one. Furthermore we are exposed to FX rates as we produce in NOK and get paid in USD. We also work a lot with fitting this business unit with the Doosan system, systematically streamlining procedures and processes.
3. What are you personally excited about at your current position?
What excites me the most about my current position is that I am involved in the business development process and that I am in the loop on all decisions. I get to see and help shape the big picture of this business unit, and that is very motivating and interesting. Perhaps most importantly I get to be a part of a large turnaround and in this process utilize almost everything I learned in my MBA, including the extracurricular skills of cooperating in a culturally diverse atmosphere.
Towards a Smarter Planet - Berlin/UK Student Team Will Present to IBM
How can new technologies foster the retail buying process of young consumers in Germany and the UK? That is the challenge that a combined team of Berlin and Hertfordshire MBA students tackle in Prof. Tomenendal’s course on management consulting. From February until March the students will conduct research in the two countries before they will present their common results to IBM executives in London in May.
Guest lecture: "European Management in Practice"
by Michael Donat, Director Human Resources at Bearing Point
During the welcome session of our MBA class of 2010 Michael Donat, Director of Human Resources at Bearing Point Management & Technology Consultants and member of our company advisory board, gave a speech on "European Management in Practice" to our MBA students. He explained the recent developments at his company as well as the recruiting and personnel development process. The lecture was also a great first-hand opportunity to get the students' questions answered on the recruitment of an international management consultancy. (September 2010)
