Meet the ... Finance

Another event from our Meet the... series, prepared in cooperation with CEMS Club Prague, took place on 7th November at the premises of the University of Economics Prague. This time we have focused on Finance and were able to meet four very interesting speakers from different areas of this field of practice:

• Marketa Chrustova, Manager, Corporate Finance, PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Radka Kucerova, CFA Director, Avenida Research
• Lukas Puda, Manager, Global Markets, HSBC Bank Plc
• Jakub Zidon, Manager of Energy Derivatives Sales, Erste Group Bank

Great track record, international experience and seniority of our speakers, together with relatively small size of the audience alowed for very open discussion and gave room to a lot of questions. The environment was so friendly that even speakers gave each other questions and commented what others said. The event was concluded with an open discussion and networking at Sklep restaurant near-by the event location. All speakers very much appretiated a chance to listen to and understand what made their colleagues career succesful one.


Next Meet the... event will take place on 28th November and focus on the area of Human Resources. A topic which might not only be interesting for those who consider this as their dream-job, but basicaly to anyone as you will have a chance to ask high profile HR professionals all the questions you always wanted to get answered.

We are looking forward to meeting you at one of our next events.

Your CEMS Alumni Association

CEMS Online Store Open

The Student Board would like to draw your attention to a unique opportunity to buy CEMS-branded merchandise via the CEMS online store. In the online store you can find more information about the CEMS-branded mugs, iPhone covers, T-shirts and accessories this semester. You can collect your order at the Career Forum in Budapest on the 18th or 19th of November. In case you cannot attend the Career Forum, you can also pick up your merchandise at the Annual Events in Lisbon.


Please visit the store and choose products to be perfect CEMS ambassadors with the CEMS coffee mug on your desk or the CEMS T-shirt in the gym! The online shop will be open till the 25th of October; in this time you can place your orders either via PayPal or you can use your credit card. If you have any question, please contact the organizers at online-store@cemsclub.org

CEMS Sauna events this winter

As the weather gets chilly it is time to start thinking about some warmer places to gather. Besides our alumni drinks we would like to invite you to sauna which has already become a sort of tradition during the last two winters.

Meet the fellow alumni in a "warm atmosphere" and have a beer or dinner together afterwards.

Just come and enjoy the realaxing time! There is not only the dry (Finnish) sauna but also a small pools with cold water and a room for chill out. Towels are provided.

WHEN

The sauna "meetings" this winter will take place on the following dates:

• #1: Th 3 Nov (registration at Facebook) cancelled
• #2: Th 24 Nov (registration at Facebook)
• #3: Tu 22 Dec (registration at Facebook) changed date
• #4: Tu 10 Jan (registration at Facebook) changed date
• #5: Tu 7 Feb (registration at Facebook) changed date

We will always start at 7 pm.

WHERE - same as the last year, i.e. Svet pod Palmovkou.

REGISTRATION You may register at our FB group (see the links above) or just send me an e-mail (vojtech.oplestil@gmail.com).

FEE Note that those of you who have paid their CEMS Alumni membership fee will get 100 CZK or so discount on the entrance fee. The others will pay the whole entrance fee. We will make sure that the entrance fee will not be higher than a usuall fee (which is approximately 200 CZ) - so dont be afraid of paying 1000 CZK for one hour long sweating :-).

Should you have any questions or suggestions (e.g. another sauna venue) just let me know.

Looking forward to sweating with you :-).

Vojtech

2011 FT Ranking: CEMS Global Alliance one again on the podium

Dear alumni
let me share with yout a great news concerning CEMS FT Ranking.

Dear CEMS community,


The CEMS MIM is this year ranked the n°2 pre-experience Master’s in Management in the world in the global Financial Times ranking. 17 CEMS member schools appear in total, including 8 in the top 25, underlying the excellence of the CEMS alliance and all its members on the M.Sc. segment. Congratulations should be extended to our Swiss member school the University of St Gallen, whose Master in Strategy and International Management was ranked n°1 for 2011.

Of particular significance to our alliance is the confirmation that the CEMS MIM is top in the 3-year ranking, which covers the period 2009-11 during which the programme has been ranked 1st, 2nd and 2nd. If we also take into account the fact that the CEMS MIM has featured permanently in the top 3 since the ranking began in 2005 we can be doubly proud of these years of outstanding achievement.

The CEMS MIM emerges once more as the n°1 programme for combined international results (international faculty, student and board diversity, alumni mobility and international course experience).

This year, the CEMS MIM improved in 8 categories of the ranking compared with the 2010 edition, including an “Aims Achieved” score of 86% and a Careers Rank gain of 9 places. You can look at all details on the CEMS homepage (including the full ranking table and report).

Congratulations to all of you for the excellent results – with a special mention to the CEMS Class of 2008 that was surveyed by the FT this year.

Warm regards

François Collin
CEMS Executive Director

New issue of the CEMS Magazine

This latest issue focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility as a new world of business, from the point of view of schools, students, companies and of course Alumni committed in the sector.

You can read the electronic version and also view back issues.

(You have not received it? Make sure your data are up to date on your profile on www.cems.org!)

Summer in the City - CEMS Alumni Drink

Alone and sweating in the summer city? So how about having a drink together? How about on Thursday July 28? Place to be determined (any tips?).



Looking forward to meeting you!

Offer Internships to CEMS students

This is an excerpt from the CAA Newsletter May 2011.

Do you remember when you were looking for your CEMS internship abroad? It may not have been easy to find the right one that met your expectations, but it was probably a very important experience at the beginning of your career which helped you to be where you are right now.
If you have ever asked yourself what you could do to give something back to CEMS, the answer is very easy: Post the internship offers of your company to the CEMS Job Market!

There are two options to post offers to the JobMarket.

• The preferred one is that your company registers and accesses the job market with its own company login. Corporate Partners can also screen the CVs of students and alumni.
• The other option is for you to directly access the Job Market using as company profile "CEMS Alumni offers for students". Simply access the JobMarket as a Company with the login name "alumni@cems.org" and password "offersfromalumni". On the left hand side under "Positions" -> "New position" -> "Internship", you can enter your offers. Please note: since the offer will be displayed with the company name: "CEMS Alumni offers for students" it is important that you put your company name at the beginning of the field "Position". In the fields "Contact name" and "Email", please put your name and your @cemsmail.org address. Otherwise we cannot validate your offer.

Video message from Executive Committee of CAA

Elected for a two-year mandate in December 2010, the new team of Alberto Frisiero (President), Torsten Röwekamp (Vice-President), Blandine Avot (Secretary General) and Nicola Spano (Treasurer) present themselves.

CEMS Alumni Association Executive Committee presentational film from CEMS on Vimeo.

CEMS Alumni Drink

Come and join us for an informal gathering of hard working alumni, meet some alumni you haven't met yet and also - let us celebrate some of the weddings in our community :-).
We will meet on Thursday May 26 at 19:30 in Jedova chyse.

The CEMS Alumni Sailing weekend

LC Netherlands kindly invites you all to join the longest standing CEMS Alumni event: The CEMS Alumni Sailing weekend in the Netherlands.

This year's event is marking the 18th anniversary of the Sailing weekend. So please join many others that have participated in the past, and enjoy the event yourself!

Find out more details in the official invitation (pdf, 334 kB).

Our plans...

As we have informed you the new Board of CAA Prague was elected. Since then we have had a meeting in order to discuss our plans in detail.

So what are they the like? We will focus both on alumni and students as we believe they form an inseparable part of the whole CEMS community. Right now we are planning to organize the following events:

• In the autumn we will organize an ALUMNI BOAT PARTY ON VLTAVA. The goal is not only to have fun with people you already know but also to gather as much alumni as possible and create new friendships as well as professional relations.
• We would like to spend one weekend in the summer on one of the CZECH RIVERS ON CANOES.
• We will organize a PREGRADUATION DINNER FOR STUDENTS to inform them about their upcoming graduation event as well as gain some new active and fresh alumni :-). This is how the dinner liked like last year.
• We are considering organizing a PANEL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PROFILE OF CEMS STUDENTS, i.e. what they study, what they are good at and where are the areas of possible improvement. We believe such a discussion should involve students, alumni, CEMS academia, corporate partners as well as HR professionals.
• In the autumn we will re-start our MEET THE... EVENINGS FOR STUDENTS where experienced professionals share with students details about their particular field of business such as consulting, marketing, or corporate finance.
• We will continue with our THEATRE VISITS as well as with our traditional SAUNA SWEATINGS :-). If you don't know what a theatre visit is like read this article.
• Additionaly we will also like to test a CEMS ALUMNI DRINK - or a monthly gathering of alumni who would like to see each other again, have fun and share their newest news.
• Besides that we will also try to EXPAND THE NUMBER OF ACTIVE CEMS ALUMNI here in Prague.

And last but not least - we will continue informing you about all our activities via mail, Facebook, Linkedin and this blog.

Are you missing something? Is there anything you would like to suggest or organize on your own? Then just let us know. We are looking forward to reading your suggestions as we want to meet your needs.

Marie, Vojta, Jana, Vasek, Richar, and Honza (group picture)

CEMS Store is open

Dear Alumni,


The Student Board announces the launch of the CEMS online store where you can buy some CEMS merchandise. What you can expect: key chain, mug, cuff links, pen, laptop case, umbrella, business cards, i-phone cover, USB Hub, T-Shirts, and hoodies.

Sales are open from Friday, March 25th to Saturday, April 9th.

Once you pay by credit card or Paypal the ordered items will be delivered to Prague to the Board of CAA and then based on personal agreement delivered to you.

Should you have any question do not forget to contact us.

New Board of CAA Prague elected

On 22 February the new Board of CEMS Alumni Association Prague was elected.
As announced last Tuesday the election took place in Sherwood restaurant where some 15 alumni were present. You can see the new Board on the picture below.

From left: Jana Dostalova (Regular Board Member), Vojtech Oplestil (Vice-President), Marie Biancon (President), Jan Sach (Regular Board Member), Vaclav Duda (Regular Board Member)

Richar Bejlek (Treasurer) is missing (he came later - probably because he had to take care of his newly born daughter).

We will inform you about the specific goals of the new Board and the way you can benefit from the activities of the Prague CAA soon. And we will also be glad if you join us in the effort to make the alumni community more and more active!

CAA Prague Board Election

The elections of the new CAA Prague Board will take place on 22 February during our traditional CEMS Drink in Sherwoord restaurant from 18:30.
It is a moment at which you can shape the future of CEMS Alumni in Prague. You can send your candidacy application by 15 February. You can read more in the Call for the candidates for the Board of the CEMS Alumni Association Prague.

Come and join us - either for the drink or in the Board. Or both :-)

Honza, Jana, Vasek, Richard, Vojta

Shakespear´s digest in Divadlo v Dlouhé

Do you know how many pieces wrote William Shakespeare? Do you think its possible to get to know all of them in two hours? In Divadlo v Dlouhe it is!

In the first week of January a group of 12 CEMS Alumni visited a popular play by famous Divadlo v Dlouhe: Souborne dilo Williama Shakespeare ve 120 minutach. Only 3 actors: Miroslav Taborsky, Jan Vondracek and Martin Matejka guided us through Shakespeare´s 37 tragedies, comedies, historical plays, romances, on top of that adding the 154 sonets. The show was full of action, funny sketches and amusing singing & dancing performances. The evening then continued in our favourite Lokal restaurant with a long after party :)

Next CEMS Alumni theatre visit will be Dealer´s Choice in Dejvicke divadlo, date to be confirmed soon. Stay in touch through Facebook and join us next time as well!

Your CEMS Alumni board
Honza, Jana, Richard, Vasek a Vojta

Pre-graduation dinner

The pre-graduation dinner organised by CEMS Alumni club for new CEMS MIM graduates took place in Lokal at the end of November. Students with completed CEMS programme met together with Ms. Subrtova and Mr. Hnilica to discuss not only their plans for the Annual event. As usually, the CEMS dinner was firstly a networking event, where you could get new, useful business and personal contacts, share your experience and find out how other school mates are doing.

The CEMS Alumni club organised a raffle for one year free membership in the Alumni Association: it was won by Martin Klimeš, congratulations!

The more people come, the bigger network – so hope to see you next time at our CEMS Alumni drink!

Your CEMS Alumni board
Honza, Jana, Richard, Vasek a Vojta

Call for the candidates for the Board of the CEMS Alumni Prague Club

The current board of CEMS Alumni Prague is looking for the candidates for the Next Board (2011-2012).

• Time & term: The election for the new Board will take place on 22 February at our meeting. The term of the new Board will start on 1 March 2011 and will last one year.
• Requirements: Candidates must be CEMS graduated alumni. Ideally they should work in Prague during their term (business trips are ok).
• Candidacy: The candidacy must be sent no later than one week before the election. Only if there is no candidate for a particular position, later candidacy is allowed.
• Positions: The call is open for the following positions: president, vice-president, treasurer, two regular board members. The description of these positions is below.

It is noteworthy that the current members of the Board want to remain active so appropriate continuity is ensured. If you want to candidate for any of these positions or would like to ask any questions concerning the elections please contact the current president Jan Kubik (mail).

The activities of the respective positions are as follows.

President

• Coordination of activities
• Representation at official events, EC Meetings
• CEMS.org administration
• Communication with CEMS Alumni EC
• Coordination and communication with CEMS Club Prague

Treasurer

• Financial settlement, book keeping, taxation and audit
• Coordination of financial matters with Paris head office

Other positions

The activities are split among the Vice-President and Regular Board Members positions according to their preferences and mutual agreement.

• Organization of Professional Events - Meet the.., Soft skills workshops
• Coordination of professional and socializing events (theatre, other culture, sports, drinks, sauna), communication
• Promotion of our activities on Facebook, LinkedIn and blog (which usually means transformation of mails from the president to a suitable format).
• Optional – participation on CEMS EC meetings
• Other add-hoc activities (emails, website, networking)

These activities are based on our current experience so they may widen during the term.

We are looking to receiving your candidacies :-)!

Honza, Jana, Vasek, Richard, Vojta

Pre-election CEMS Drink

A year passed since our election and our term is almost over. It's time to assess the past and set the direction for the future! We would be happy to meet you at the first CEMS Drink of this year, that will be focused on the future direction of CEMS Alumni organisation in Prague.

The CEMS Alumni board election will take place next month and we hope to see some fresh candidates! Anyone thinking about applying for a board member is welcome to come and share his/her thoughts with us!

So please come and see what you can do for CEMS! (or "Don't ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" :-))

•  When? 19:00, 20th January 2011
• Where? Cafe Colore, http://www.cafecolore.com/, corner of Jungmanova and Palackeho

Honza, Jana, Richard, Vasek, Vojta

4th CEMS Sauna this year

The already 4rd CEMS sauna this season will take place on Feb 2 from 7 PM at the same venue as the last three sauna events (Svet pod Palmovkou). You may register at our FB group or just send me an e-mail (vojtech.oplestil@gmail.com). Note that those of you who have paid their CEMS Alumni membership fee will get 100 CZK or so discount on the entrance fee. The others will pay the whole entrance fee. We will make sure that the entrance fee will not be higher than a usuall fee (which is approximately 200 CZ) - so dont be afraid of paying 1000 CZK for one hour long sweating :-).