Testimonials

"As an Australian studying energy & environment economics in Norway, making my way to the HSG with CEMS led to so much more than I expected. Life defining, career shaping and memory making – the only way to adequately describe what CEMS really is. Happily living in Switzerland for almost three years now, it’s clear that CEMS is a unique community and foundation for a truly international career which gives you access to opportunities all around the world."

- Leeor Groen, NHH and HSG CEMS Alumni, graduated in 2016

"Thanks to the very ambitious and highly motivated CEMS students the "Zurich - to go!" project resulted in intensely valuable lessons for the whole Zurich organisation. Their elaborate and creative approach of combining several research methodologies to systematically challenge each individual result enabled them not only to gain new insights, but also to disprove existing misconceptions within our company regarding our customers and our products."

- Tabea Nägeli - Zürich Versicherungs-Gesellschaft AG, Portfoliomanager Haushalt-/Assistance-Versicherungen


"The results of the business project are fantastic and of great value for ABB. Not only the ABB team that closely worked with the team was impressed by the results but various stakeholders within ABB shared the same thoughts and are eager to take the work to a deeper level."

- Miriam Jarrouj, ABB

"I can truly say (and I think I am speaking of many people) that this semester was one of the best in my life. We had an amazing group, a perfect CEMS Club, awesome support from the CEMS team and I am very grateful for the experience. I am sad to leave but I guess that’s life being a CEMSie."

- Marlisa Schoppe - Incoming CEMS student, home school UCD

"We try to take CEMS students beyond the technical knowledge at which they excel, and to think about the leadership dilemmas they might encounter in one or two decades should they pursue a corporate career, or even right away if they become entrepreneurs, politicians, activists or disrupters in their own right. The importance of strategic narratives, political economy, stakeholder theory and systems leadership is meant to push the students out of their intellectual comfort zone. Their presentations have left always left a great impression with the leadership team at the World Economic Forum and the executives at the companies we visit with the students."

- Prof. Dr. Tomas Casas i Klett, Director HSG Competence Center for Top Teams and lecturer of the CEMS course “Disruption and Innovation in International Business”  

Testimonial von Prof. Ph.D. Joakim Wincent und Torben Antretter