This year’s CEMS Annual Events and MIM Graduation Ceremony took place in Cairo, Egypt. A total of 1,200 students from 78 nations, including Koç University, from the 34 best business schools around the world, graduated in a magnificent ceremony held at the Giza Pyramids in Cairo.

Global Network Week at Koç University took place on October 17-20, 2022 This year KOÇ GSB hosted participants from the following member Business Schools of Global Network for Advanced Management: UNSW Australian Graduate School of Management Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Koç University, Graduate School of Business Lagos Business School EGADE Business School Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business Yale School of Management Participants successfully completed the week on October 20th, Thursday with a company visit to Arçelik Garage Innovation Hub in Istanbul and celebrated their completion of the program on the Bosphorus Tour. This October's theme at Koç GSB was: "Design Thinking for Disruptive Innovation" by Prof. Oğuzhan Özcan.

Koç Üniversitesi İşletme Enstitüsü, en prestijli yayınlardan biri olan Financial Times’ın tüm dünyadaki işletme okullarının “Executive MBA” (EMBA) programlarını değerlendirdiği sıralamada sağladığı olağanüstü yükselmeyle 31’inciliğe yerleşerek bu yıl da Türkiye birinciliğini korudu. Dünyanın en iyi işletme okullarının yer aldığı bu devler liginde Koç Üniversitesi İşletme Enstitüsü, bir kez daha Türkiye’den ilk 100’e giren tek okul oldu. Kadın öğretim üyesi oranında %50’ye ulaşan Koç Üniversitesi İşletme Enstitüsü, bu kriterde ise üç üniversiteyle 1’inciliği paylaştı.

The European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), which has been established for the quality assessment and development of higher education institutions operating in the fields of the administrative sciences and business management, has renewed its accreditation for Koç University. Koç University is the only academic institution in Türkiye to attain this accreditation.

A survey of more than 2,000 students in the Global Network for Advanced Management released recently finds that business students are increasingly concerned about the climate crisis and want sustainability to be more integrated into their education and their professional lives.

CEMS Club Istanbul's Student Board Representative Natan Saraf organized the CEMS Club Conference with two other Global Student Board members. The Conference took place on 8-10 October in Bocconi University, Milan. The CEMS Club Conference is organized once per semester by the CEMS Student Board to allow Presidents from all 32 CEMS Clubs to meet, discuss current issues and develop cooperative initiatives in order to improve the CEMS experience at their respective schools, as well as internationally. The conference also allows presidents to gain a deeper insight into the different stakeholders of the CEMS network and thus better align their clubs with global trends within CEMS. CEMS Club Istanbul's president Julia Schrammel represented our university during the conference. In addition to president discussions, an alumni talk session with the participation of 2 local CEMS alumni was organized. During the weekend, the CEMS Club Awards also took place with the participation of 3 consultants from the awards ceremony sponsor Zeb Consulting, where the top 3 CEMS Clubs were rewarded for their best practices in each of the 6 different categories and an overall category.

We congratulate our students Aleksander Tomala, Ece Mercan Yüksel, Özge Hamamcıoğlu and Saygın Tutaş to their contribution to the global #SpeedUpTalent initiative within the framework of their CEMS Business Project under the academic supervision of Professor Melike Mermercioğlu and with coaching from volunteers from McKinsey & Company. We thank the volunteers from McKinsey & Company for their precious support and the academic growth opportunity, particularly in the field of diversity.

The Koç University College of Administrative Sciences and Economics and Graduate School of Business have been granted accreditation by the global accreditation institution AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). Having previously attained AMBA and EQUIS accreditations, Koç University has become the first and only academic institution in Türkiye to have the “Triple Crown” of the three most prestigious accreditations in this field.

Yeni dönem liderlerinin sahip olması gereken iki değer: Empati ve değişimle başa çıkabilme becerisi. CEMS programı hakkında ve CEMS kapsamında yapılan araştırma ve sonuçları üzerine, Dünya Gazetesi’den Didem Eryar Ünlü’nün, İşletme Enstitüsü Yönetici Direktörü Nida Bektaş ile gerçekleştirdiği röportaj için tıklayabilirsiniz. https://www.dunya.com/genc-dunya/yeni-donem-liderlerinin-sahip-olmasi-gereken-iki-deger-empati-ve-degisimle-basa-cikabilme-becerisi-haberi-618968

Marenostrum ("Our Sea" in Latin) was a Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea. Today, it is amongst the most important regional Business Forums organised by CEMS students from four top business schools in the Mediterranean Region: Bocconi University, ESADE Business School, Koç University, and Nova School of Business and Economics.

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