Greeting from Jared Dean and Emily Hormuth, aka Team Malmö. Jared is a first year MBA student at Chapman emphasizing in finance. Emily is a first year MBA student at Chapman interested in human capital consulting. Visiting the ABBA museum in Stockholm @jareddean23 #bizscand #chapmanu twitter.com/LMBRLADY/statu… — Emily Hormuth (@LMBRLADY) June 1, 2013 We arrived […]
Chapman Business in Scandinavia – Team Ystad – Pre-Departure
Posted on May 30, 2013 Written by
Scandinavia, are you ready for us? Because here we come! We are Jessica and Gerald representing Ystad. Chapman University’s MBA Program has given us the unique opportunity to see Scandinavian’s business culture first hand and converse with a number of executives in multinational companies based in Scandinavia. Prior to departing, we learned about some of […]
Meva Innovation Lab: Clean Power for Public Use|
Posted on June 25, 2012 Written by
While visiting Solander business park we were taken through the process a new clean technology called vortex gasification which creates green energy. This plan creates heat for over 80% of Pitea, Sweden. The company MEVA is owned by a three groups both private and public, proving that the best technologies come from both the […]
Scandinavian business culture
Posted on June 22, 2012 Written by
On our visit to Scandinavia we observed certain peculiar aspects of Scandinavian business culture. After visiting KONE corporation in Helsinki, Finland, we gained some interesting insights about Finnish culture. We observed that Finnish prefer more open and direct style in communication. Their conversation style tend to be more liberal and to the point. Interestingly, Finnish […]
The Future of Organizational Behavior
Posted on June 22, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
From some of our recent meetings it appears that the future is looking bright for those who prefer to work away from their offices. Geographical freedom is gaining traction as the internet allows everyone to do everything from everywhere. While at the Center for Internet Excellence we were presented their work on “3D Internet”. This […]
Globalization of Mobile Phones
Posted on June 22, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Today’s society is one of infinite connectedness. There are no longer places in the world out of reach from that annoying ringing of a telephone. Some of the more privileged in our society have had the ability to make calls from anywhere with satellite phone technology. Now it is possible from nearly everyone to make […]
Probably the Best
Posted on June 22, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
In Scandinavia, modesty is the best policy. We first noticed this upon our arrival in Europe when we observed that the streets and restaurants in Helsinki were relatively quiet, even though there were plenty of people around. As a group of American students, we had the tendency to be the loudest group of people everywhere […]
Talking Trees and Roaming Phones…and no, those aren’t just cool band names
Posted on June 21, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Before being swept away to the wonderful world of Social Media by Prof. Myhr, we were lucky enough to tour Ericcson Studio. Sure they had trees that talk to you, but the most useful thing they design are cell phone towers. Not only do they design normal ones you could find along the freeway or […]
Cafe Opera – Stockholm
Posted on June 21, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Like most great cities in Europe Stockholm has a very active nightlife with many bars and nightclubs to keep you entertained and engaged with the locals. At the forefront of the nightclub scene is Café Opera, labeled as the best nightspot in all of Stockholm. Unfortunately, my stay in Stockholm was accompanied by a heavy […]
Piteå – A small town against Luleå
Posted on June 21, 2012 Written by
SJS Thinktank reporter Sam Lahham last discussed the merit of Luleå’s ambitions to become a fully integrated RFID city. As the project director claimed that the city would go “full steam ahead” and worry about the concerns of privacy later. One has to wonder if the Swedish people were so permissive within a laissez-faire culture, […]
