Some thoughts from Professor Shahid Ansari of Babson College
26 Nov 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
A couple of weeks back, JIBS had a visit from Shahid Ansari, Provost and Dean of Faculty at Babson College.
Babson College, located in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA, is recognized internationally for its entrepreneurial leadership in a changing global environment, and JIBS are proud to have started discussions on collaboration with them.
Here are some words from professor Ansari:
“Babson has changed its global strategy to move away from specific and narrow relationships with a large number of universities to a few strategic partners that have the same world view and focus as Babson. I find JIBS to be attractive as a partner because they have a strong commitment to entrepreneurship and a similar world view about higher education.”
“Moving forward we see a number of complementary joint value creation opportunities within our schools. First, because JIBS has an emphasis on research we would like to rely on them for the education of doctoral students for the various global ventures that Babson has. For example, we might select promising graduate students in Asia or the Middle East and send them to JIBS to get a doctoral degree. Unlike JIBS, Babson’s primary focus is teaching and pedagogy, therefore JIBS could send prospective or current faculty members from various parts of the world to Babson for teacher training.”
“We also hope that jointly we will open several cohorts of our Fast Track MBA with JIBS as a partner.”
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29 Jun 2010 | Posted By: JIBS Stories
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Students start their own business during summer holidays
29 Jun 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
By Maria Nordström
They are called ”summer entrepreneurs” and with the help of Science Park Jönköping they start up their own businesses during the summer holidays.
Science Park, partly owned by Jönköping University, stimulates and contributes to the creation, development and growth of knowledge-intensive business. One of the ways to do this is to provide free coaching, workshops and counselling for students who want to start their own businesses. During summer, Science Park accepts applications from students who are interested in starting their own business, and at the same time finds companies who need help with specific tasks. The companies are then matched to the students, who form their business and start to work as consultants.
”I have been thinking for a long time about starting my own business, and this is a very good way to get going, says Johan Jonzén, who studies Business Administration at JIBS.
The tasks that the new consultants are assigned can be anything from market research and customer analysis to programming and graphical work. Science Park supports them with questions regarding taxes, keeping the books and other practical issues, and there are also office premises that they may use free of charge.
This summer, Science Park has received 90 applications from students, and this has resulted in 15 new businesses.
”We continously match new students to companies, so the number will increase as summer progresses,” says Gustav Österström, business developer at Science Park. ”This project has been running for a few years now, and there is a lot of interest both from companies and from students. The companies are very satisfied with the work of the students, and many of them return year after year.”
Johan Jonzén, Lisa Josefsson and Karl-Johan Timbäck are all students at JIBS. They have each started their own business but they will work together on their summer project for Kinnarps Interior.
”Their expectations of us are really high,” says Lisa Josefsson. ”What we do will form the basis for their future work.”
Kristofer Larsson was a summer entreprenur last year. During his last year of studying at JIBS, he has gotten more assignments and has been working in parallel with his studies. Now he will work with his own business full time. The help from Science Park has been invaluable, he says. In the future, he hopes that his business will do so well that he can employ more people.
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29 Jun 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
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JIBS welcomes International Summer Programme Students
17 Jun 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
By Leticia Lövkvist and Vaida Vysniauskaite
JIBS is running its Summer Programme for the fifth time! The programme has welcomed students from JIBS’ summer partners, as well as JIBS’ programme students. Internationalization is an important component of the program, as well as the diversity in students’ academic backgrounds. Participating students come from a number of different countries – China, France, India, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden, Tajikistan and Vietnam.
The courses that are run are International Entrepreneurship and Venturing and International Logistics and Supply Chain Management. They are taught in conjunction with the Centre for Innovation Systems Entrepreneurship and Growth (CISEG) and the Centre of Logistics and Supply chain Management (CeLS). Course coordinators and administrators are Tomas Karlsson and Magdalena Markowska, and Helgi Valur Fridriksson and Lianguang Cui, respectively. Besides the academic content, students are able to experience the Swedish culture through cultural and social activities included in the programme, such as the reception at the Municipality of Jönköping, a bus tour of Jönköping and Huskvarna, a visit to Vadstena’s castle and Gränna.  In addition, students will have a company visit to IKEA’s Distribution Centre in Torsvik, which will give them a picture of a successful Swedish company working globally. The programme will end with a farewell dinner in the beginning of July.
For more information please contact JIBS’ International Office.
Please find below some pictures taken so far from JIBS’ Summer Programme.
A visit to Vadstena Castle – together with the queen.
Exploring Gränna…
… and taking in valuable knowledge during the lectures.
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