News

• Kronberg family days

5/22/2012. HSG’s Sports Department and Luftseilbahn Jakobsbad-Kronberg invite you to Family Days on mount Kronberg June 2-3. Two days of fun and exercise are on the agenda. Day passes and single activities can be booked in advance.

• Lack of succession in family-owned companies

5/21/2012. The prospect of succession in their own company leaves most students from entrepreneurial families cold. That is what a survey of 28,000 students from 26 countries by HSG’s Center for Family Business and Ernst & Young reveals.

• May 2012 issue of HSGBlatt

5/21/2012. The final HSGBlatt issue of spring term 2012 includes an interview with the Czech economist Tomáš Sedláček: “The Economics of Good and Evil”. He was a guest of the 42nd St.Gallen Symposium.

• Press review 18 May 2012

5/18/2012. Nothing ventured, nothing gained – that is the message of this year’s St.Gallen symposium on “Facing Risk”. The media also covered the downside of audacity, and the discontent among students.

• The HSG: a value creation driver

5/15/2012. The University of St.Gallen (HSG) annually contributes CHF 201 million in value creation within the region of Appenzell Ausserrhode – St.Gallen – Lake Constance.

• Forum for the Management of Renewable Energies

5/15/2012. About 100 experts will meet on the occasion of the 3rd St.Gallen Forum for the Management of Renewable Energies. On Thursday, 24 May 2012, the general public will be invited to a panel discussion in Olma Hall 9.2.

• Jorge Volpi to lecture in the public programme

5/15/2012. The HSG’s public lectures in Spring Semester 2012 will end with a small highlight. In the last week of the term, the Mexican writer Jorge Volpi will give a lecture at the University of St.Gallen.

• Award for Best Teaching

5/14/2012. The HSG’s Student Union annually awards the Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching to excellent teachers. This year, the prize went to Dr Reto Schuppli, Lecturer in Mathematics.

• “Zeit Campus Dialogue” at the HSG

5/14/2012. On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 6 p.m., the German weekly newspaper "Die Zeit" will be staging a public panel discussion at the HSG. The topic of the discussion will be “Are we getting the education we deserve?”

• HSG celebrates Dies academicus

5/12/2012. On Saturday, May 12, HSG celebrated its traditional Dies academicus with members of the university community and numerous guests from science, economics and politics.

• Discussing the state of affairs in Syria

5/10/2012. Ribal Al-Assad, Founder & Director of the Organisation for Democracy and Freedom in Syria, discusses the current political situation in Syria and the ways to move forward. A video interview.

• Discussing the Economics of Good and Evil

5/9/2012. Dr. Tomáš Sedláček, author of the Economics of Good and Evil, discusses the links between the morality of economics, the financial crisis and the Matrix trilogy. A video interview.