Principle 5: Partnership

Prme

We will interact with managers of business corporations to extend our knowledge of their challenges in meeting social and environmental responsibilities and to explore jointly effective approaches to meeting these challenges.

Cems

CEMS was built on the vision of creating a bridge between the academic and corporate worlds. The core success from CEMS stems from a solid partnership with academics, corporates and NGOs in the alliance.

The strength of CEMS is the recognition that individual organizations become stronger, more inspiring, and more interesting when they team up together. Partnership helps us achieve things we are not able to in isolation. Partnership also helps us pool our strengths, share our work, and leverage each other’s capabilities.

Academic, Corporate & Social Partnerships

Academic Partnership: The CEMS Global Alliance comprises 33 member schools on 6 continents, delivering the CEMS MIM programme around the world. Only one school per country is allowed to join CEMS and all are top schools within their respective countries.

CEMS Corporate Partnership: CEMS Corporate Partnership is an exclusive academic-corporate partnership based on Corporate Partners contributing to the alliance and the CEMS MIM programme and benefitting from privileged access to a global pool of top talent from the world’s leading business schools. Today, over 70 worldrenowned companies operating in a variety of sectors work together with students, alumni and faculty as a part of this global business network.

CEMS Social Partnership: CEMS Social Partnership is an exclusive social-academic partnership based on the Social Partners contributing to the alliance and the CEMS MIM programme. Social Partners have an impact on the curriculum, the alliance and the thinking of the next generation of business leaders. Today, 8 non-profit organizations work together with students, alumni and faculty as a part of this global business network.

CEMS Corporate & Social Partners are active contributors to the CEMS network, interested in the development of international management education and recruitment. With the support of Corporate and Social Partners, CEMS is developing business leaders with professional responsibility and accountability in relation to society and the environment.

CEMS Corporate Events

The key CEMS signature corporate events that bring corporate and/or social partners together include the CEMS Corporate Partners’ Conference, CEMS Career Forum, CEMS APAC Week and CEMS Global Recruitment Event.

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Spring 2021 host

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business (US) topic event highlights

Future of the Workplace: What happens next?

Involved CEMS Corporate Partners include Gartner and Richemont.

For details, please refer to full event summary date

9-19 March 2021 host event highlights date

CEMS Asia-Pacific schools: The University of Sydney Business School, HKUST Business School, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Keio University, Korea University Business School, National University of Singapore.

Involved CEMS Corporate Partners include AlphaSights, Amplifon, China CITIC Bank International, Daimler, Hilti, Jardine Matheson, McKinsey & Company, Richemont, United Overseas Bank.

For details, please refer to full event summary.

4-5 November 2022 host

ESADE Business School in (Barcelona, Spain) event highlights date

Almost 1,000 students and alumni from 70+ nationalities together with 300+ recruiters from 45 Corporate Partners have participated.

For details, please refer to the full event summary The video recap gives a glimpse of the event highlights in 2022.

7-11 March 2022 event highlights

Involved CEMS Corporate Partners include AlphaSights, Beiersdorf, DHL Consulting, Google, H&M, Kearney, LVMH, Novo Nordisk and the CEMS Entrepreneurs.

For details, please refer to full event summary date

1-4 March 2022 event highlights

Over 20 CEMS Corporate Partners have offered pre-scheduled interviews and 1-on-1 chat to provide students with exclusive hiring opportunities in consulting, technology, consumer goods, finance, manufacturing and more. Please refer to the event highlights

Estoril Conferences

Established in 2009, the Estoril Conferences look to engage a multitude of high-profile leadership at the political, business, academic and civil society levels in inspiring new generations to, together, find possible solutions for our common challenges.

They are a platform to promote an open and impactful dialogue on global challenges to co-create effective coalitions for innovative solutions towards a sustainable and inclusive future for all. The main mission is to bring in the purpose generation and inspire all who want to create meaningful impact and push the world forward, creating an active and worldwide community of global citizens willing to take the lead for action.

This initiative explores the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) like climate action, purpose economy, artificial intelligence, and social inequalities to change our world. As drawn out in SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals - the UN SDGs represent an unprecedented political and international agreement on the world’s greatest challenges and the desired global level of progress and collaboration.

In cooperation with the founding community of Cascais (Portugal), NOVA School of Business and Economics took over organizing the Estoril Conferences in 2022. The CEMS Global Alliance contributes as a strategic partner in this mission.

into action. The conference had an audience of 2,000+ in-person plus 2,000+ online participants on both days of the event and was picked up by 180+ news media.

NOVA School of Business and Economics, the CEMS member school in Portugal, hosted the 7th edition of the Estoril Conferences on 1-2 September 2022.

Respecting the motto “Rebalancing Our World: A Call to The Purpose Generation”, the twoday programme brought together 100+ global thinkers, innovators, activists, and agitators with the intention to transform knowledge

Supporting the Estoril Conferences and running parallel events to reverberate the topic of “Rebalancing Our World”, were CEMS member schools Aalto University, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Ivey Business School at Western University, and Universidad de Los Andes. Aspirational CEMS MIM students were also involved in this event by giving their voice to poetic declarations for the purpose generation and extending their efforts as panel moderators. The event highlights were summarized in the “Best of Estoril Conferences 2022” video.