Partner testimonials
The advantages of a Corporate Partnership
Read more about what the individual companies have attained through a Corporate Partnership.
”It is important that there is a close cooperation between Danish companies and the educational institutions that form the future key employees. It is of great value to Carlsberg that the students are being introduced to the company, and that they get insight into the world that may be their future workplace. In the long run, the link between students and the corporate world is of utmost importance when it comes to creating dynamism in the Danish companies."
Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen, Group Managing Director and Managing Director, Carlsberg Group
"Of course we believe that we should involve ourselves in research and higher education, and we have the opportunity to do this as Corporate Partners to CBS. We have a good relationship with the management at CBS, and we follow its work and visions with interest. We have members of staff who teach at the school. We employ many graduates from CBS, and many of our staff are enrolled in degree programmes at the school. We employ a number of students on a part-time basis during their studies, we offer some internships and placements for students working on theses."
Peter Straarup, Chairman of the Board of Management, Danske Bank
”To us, the CBS partnership is a natural continuation of the cooperation we have already established by virtue of our employees. Either, they are CBS graduates or they have combined their CBS studies with an education at Deloitte. As a Corporate Partner we have the opportunity to follow closely the students, their educations and their everyday life, and we benefit greatly from all the new knowledge available to us through this network. Just as any other large company, we are always in need of young talented employees, and the cooperation with CBS gives us many unique advantages when it comes to getting in touch with the students”.
Jens Rudkjær, Office Managing Partner
"The foundation for our success is skilled employees. We know that graduates from CBS offer many of the specific qualities we are looking for in Dong Energy and for whom we in the future will have a much higher need. Currently, we have many CBS alumni employed and are aware that we will need even more in the future to support our business area. With the partnership we wish to bond with CBS, so that we have a seat in the front row when it comes to telling about our interesting business and demonstrating, which career directions we can offer."
Anders Eldrup, Group Managing Director, DONG Energy
“DSB perceives its partnership agreement with CBS as an excellent and straightforward opportunity in establishing direct contact to CBS students, simultaneously enabling us to contribute to the mutual development and inspiration between the educational institutions and the companies.”
Chief Financial Officer Bartal Kass
"Ernst & Young is a company full of opportunities for graduates. Our work is characterised by challenging and knowledge-based tasks, and we therefore see the cooperation with CBS as a natural development - just as it is natural for us to be an active player in the environment that forms the future knowledge employees. At the same time, the cooperation gives us a unique possibility, that is the students, to start a dialogue about our future. We see the dialogue as a crucial element in Ernst & Young as it adds dynamism, knowledge and new thinking to our further development. These are all elements that will ensure our future competitiveness."
Peter Haugaard-Rosenfeldt, HR Manager
"We see the partnership with CBS as an essential part of our Employer Branding strategy, and we are convinced that both parties have a lot to offer each other in the long run. Euler Hermes works for disseminating the knowledge about insurance as an important tool within the field of Credit Management. Our success depends completely on our ability to attract young candidates with an international perspective and with the skills and engagement to work with different areas within the economic disciplines. Furthermore, we believe that the cooperation with an educational institution such as CBS is the best platform when it comes to establishing a constructive dialogue with future decision-makers.”
Peter Hecht-Hansen, Managing Director, Euler Hermes
"We attach great importance to working with talents and talent development. The Corporate Partnership gives us the opportunity to have a dialogue with some of the best candidates in the country and thereby increase the knowledge of our company. At the same time, we have the possibility to get access to CBS' research and international networks within the fields of CSR, Innovation and Business Development, among other things, which are all essential areas in relation to the future development of our company."
Carsten Bjerg, CEO, Grundfos
"CBS demonstrates knowledge, talent and ambition at an international level that appeals to KPMG. Over the years we have had a natural cooperation with CBS, which gives us access to numerous advantages such as networking opportunities at high-profile events, privileged access to talented and committed students, front row access to interesting research and valuable educations and courses for our employees. In short, everything we wish to be close to in order to be among the best in our business."
Stig Due, CEO, KPMG
"We wish to attract, develop and retain excellent employees in order to be competitive - also in the future. We see this cooperation as a good opportunity to make ourselves visible to the CBS students and invite them to a dialogue about the world of possibilities that we offer."
Thomas Thune Andersen, Partner
"A close cooperation between the business and the academic world is even more important, if the Oeresund region and the Nordic countries are to become attractive development areas for corporations in the future. A partnership with CBS is a good way to realise this. It ensures a continuity that is otherwise difficult to achieve, and a closer contact to the management, teachers, and students at CBS."
Peter Schütze, Chairman of the Board of Management, Nordea
"The partnership with CBS gives us the opportunity to participate in the Community of European Management Schools, also known as CEMS. This links us directly to some of the most excellent graduates who are taking the European CEMS's degree at the most recognised business schools in Europe. At the same time, we have influence on the students' educations."
Kåre Schultz, Group Director, Novo Nordisk
"Our cooperation with CBS is interesting from several angles. Novozymes wants to be visible to CBS students who are potential future employees. The fight for the best candidates is intensifying these years, and this partnership helps assuring that candidates think of us when they are to choose an exiting future workplace. Furthermore, we would like to share knowledge and extend our already existing contact with students, teachers and professors. We have worked closely with CBS for many years, and we therefore see the partnership as a natural prolongation of this cooperation."
Steen Riisgaard, Managing Director, Novozymes A/S
"We make a great effort to attract and retain talented and ambitious staff from educational institutions as we see great benefit in getting fresh innovative minds on board. At the same time, we offer students the opportunity to bridge the gap between the academic and business worlds. Nykredit is one of Denmark's largest providers of student jobs today, employing a total of approx 550 students. Everybody talks about the importance of cooperation between businesses and educational institutions. Our partnership with CBS is therefore based on the importance of good relations between universities and businesses as well as the aim to strengthen our profile with CBS students."
Eva Søndberg, recruiting lead, Nykredit
"In PricewaterhouseCoopers, we focus on learning and education. Since Solbjerg Plads was established in 2000, we have had a corporate partnership with CBS, because we wish to support students and to ensure a flourishing study environment. Our most important resources at PWC are talented and well-educated employees, many of whom come from CBS. It is therefore very important for us to continue to enhance our corporation with CBS and to support the further development of the business educations. Further, we wish to establish a good dialogue with the students and to be part of their future dreams."
Carsten Gerner, CEO, PricewaterhouseCoopers
At TrygVesta, we emphasise the importance of being involved and interested in the society, which we are a part of. With a CBS Corporate Partnership, we are provided with the opportunity of being part of the students’ daily life, staying close to the rethinking and innovative environment, that originate from numerous, exhilarating CBS activities.
We at TrygVesta value particularly the ability to think innovative and create the framework for generating good ideas, which is why we would like to attract even a greater number of CBS students. Thus, we perceive the partnership as an excellent opportunity of entering a dialogue with our future employees.
Stine Bosse, Group CEO, TrygVesta
"The students at CBS get to know the VKR Group during their studies. Our largest company, Velux, has worked with CBS for many years. The partnership enables us to create even closer links with the students, so that they really understand our corporate values. Through the programme we can participate in the teaching, drawing upon concrete cases that give the students a real insight into the operating conditions of a large international corporation."
Leif Jensen, Managing Director, VKR Holding A/S
"Vestas wants to strengthen the mutual competence development and knowledge sharing between the students and Vestas. We want to learn. We are open to new possibilities and challenges, open to new talents who can strengthen and maintain our position as market leader within wind power – also in the future. We are very pleased that the business life and the universities together can create the framework to ensure the future development of talents along with their competences and their global opportunities."
Ditlev Engel, President and CEO, Vestas
Last updated by Corporate Relations 09/02/2010
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