Chapman University MBA Travel Course
June 12- June 13, 2014: Our class had the honor of attending one of Sweden’s most unique marketing conventions called Creative Summit located in Skellefteå, at the Nordanå Theater. The purpose of Creative Summit is to bring creative minds from … [Continue reading]
June 6, 2014, Angry Birds is the most successful mobile game App of its time. For example the game has 2 Billion unique smartphone downloads across all mobile platforms and has become a global sensation attracting a different array of target … [Continue reading]
On June 2, 2014, our team as well as our other classmates accompanying us on our Scandinavia trip recieved the opportunity to visit the Volvo Company, which is a Swedish multinational automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg, … [Continue reading]
"The past three weeks feels like a couple months. We had traveled to so many places in a short period of time and have seen, heard, and felt so much. Visiting Sweden and Finland, which are two countries I probably would have never had the opportunity … [Continue reading]
Scandinavian culture is incredible. I truly believe that the United States could learn a lot from the way Swedish people live, act, and do business. The most key take-a-ways about the culture are how humble they are and how much they care about the … [Continue reading]
If you visit Stockholm, you can visit the Nobel Museum. There is a 20 minute tour on Albert Nobel. He was born in Sweden and separated from his father at a very young age only to be reunited with him in Russia at the age of nine. Although … [Continue reading]
When you go to Stockholm City, You will be taken away by its beauty. The people are warm and friendly and most of the building are not just plane they have character, and tell a lot about the history of Sweden. One of the … [Continue reading]
The name Volvo comes from the Spanish verb verver which means to roll. Volvo means " I roll". Volvo was founded in 1924 By two visionaries Assar Gabrielson and Gustaf Larson. Volvo prides its self with safety. For them they can never under any … [Continue reading]
Well regardless if you are a hard core mobile gamer or not you should have heard about one of the most popular games in the world, Angry Birds! Once we got to Finland and dropped our luggage at the hotel we headed to Rovio Entertainment, the … [Continue reading]
It was very hard for me to properly pronounce the name of this city until my professor gave me the proper way to say it, it's pronounced “she left you.” Not the best selling point for the city but it was really funny that now I can say it perfectly. … [Continue reading]
We had just spent a couple days in Northern Sweden, particularly the small town of Skelleftea, and this may have been the closest me and Henry have experienced being nearest to the Arctic Circle since I don’t remember my Cruise to Alaska at less than 1 year old. Anyways, when riding over to the Wood […]
Hej! There’s something kind of wild about sitting in a room full of strangers — academics, business people, city planners, students — and being asked one simple question: What is a campus actually for? That’s exactly what happened today in Skellefteå, Sweden, as part of a workshop called Campus in 50 Years: Learning, Environments, and […]
Hi world! We are reporting from Stockholm inside the Radisson Blu hotel. We wanted to share our thoughts about the conference that we attended, as well as the city of Skelleftea itself. Overall, we liked coming to the northern part of Sweden, where it was calm, and everything moved at a slower pace compared to […]
