international action," according to the HSG Senate's statement of appreciation. Martti Ahtisaari maintains a worldwide network of contacts, which he uses time and again to promote peace. His personal qualities [...] Karachi. In 1965 he joined the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was Finnish Ambassador to Tanzania from 1973 to 1976, with responsibility for Zambia, Somalia and Mozambique. He was later appointed UN [...] Special Envoy for Namibia, and finally held the post of UN Under-Secretary-General from 1987 to 1991. From 1994 to 2000, he served as President of the Republic of Finland. In more than three decades, Martti
St.Gallen wants to establish itself as a startup location: To this end, the cantonal government has adopted a package with various measures. Central to this are, additional private investment funds of [...] professor of entrepreneurship and technology management. "This sometimes leads to start-ups migrating to other regions - for example to Zurich, Munich or Berlin." Grichnik and a team from the HSG's Center for [...] an important partner, says Müller. HSG experts have access to a dense start-up network To develop the start-up strategy, the HSG team was able to access a broad network in the start-up and investor scene:
and, “they were very critical of the idea to go into the States.” For Wühr and his co-founders, they always had a big ambition to go to the US and they wanted to build their company there. With their conviction [...] everyone always says that they want to expand into the US and wanted to learn from the entrepreneurs on stage how it happened for them and how the decision was made to enter the US market. What became i [...] one of her co-founders to San Francisco. The co-founder had experience in Silicon Valley, he had contacts, but for some reason, it just didn’t work. The third time Hein tried to expand, it finally worked
programme, HSG female students receive coaching to further develop their business ideas or startups. "We want to use it to encourage more young women to start businesses," says Maria Luisa Fuchs, who heads [...] support to dare to build a startup," says Fuchs, who is doing her doctorate on entrepre-neurship and gender at Bocconi University in Milan. As a highlight of the programme, female founders can pitch to investors [...] accessible. Not only do patients benefit from this, but also the entire health system thanks to lower costs, according to the jury's praise. Co-founder Rosenkranz has a Master's degree in Business Innovation
the "Board Essential" program are to address innovative topics, to derive strategic-practical recommendations for action and to point out new regulatory changes. All to promote "Good Corporate Governance" [...] but also on practical and innovative governance topics. "With our initiative, we want to make a relevant contribution to good corporate governance practice and professionalize board work in Switzerland," [...] place from October 2023 to June 2024 at SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich and at the University of St.Gallen. Highly qualified experts and speakers from academia and practice contribute to the unique learning
issued posters to exhort people not to waste energy. Now five HSG students have launched their own saving campaign: in an Advent calendar, the group presents 24 energy-saving tips that are easy to implement [...] 000 people. Also, the students may possibly want to address their colleagues with a stand campaign on the campus. “To spread the campaign, we’ve contacted various people at the HSG, ranging from the Adm [...] among 72 HSG students to find out how well-informed people were,” says Marc Bölsterli. Among other things, the results revealed that 93 per cent of the interviewees are already trying to save electricity,
the hand" "Unlike many productivity apps that require users to plan and prioritize on their own, we want to take the app users by the hand, so to speak," says Staub. This is particularly important for ADHD [...] analyses and discussions with experts, the two St.Galleners made the decision in 2022 to focus their app entirely on 10 to 20-year-old ADHD sufferers. Stretched resources for those affected Depending on the [...] "Therapy offerings currently have waiting periods of six months to one year," says Gladig. The Federal Council also wrote in May 2023 in its response to a motion from the National Council: "The psychiatric-ps
users. "We’re both of us about to conclude our doctoral studies. Afterwards we want to work for our start-up full-time and to grow," says Essbaumer. The plans are for the two to move into an office of St.Gallen’s [...] other things. MyConcentrAid intends to continue to place one particular focus on researchers at universities. In addition, they are talking to companies which would like to use the platform for employees on [...] leads to situations whereby unacquainted people sit opposite each other. "If you meet up to work with someone unknown, the effect is even stronger. You don’t use any pretexts for why you don’t want to do
key to creating more inclusive and sustainable organizations, said Anita Nowak. Empathy helps us to improve relationships with team members, customers and other contacts, to resolve conflicts, to promote [...] emotions, and an “eye gazing” exercise to increase connection with other people. The techniques can contribute to purposeful empathy by allowing conscious access to one’s own feelings as well as those of [...] In conclusion, Anita Nowak encouraged the participants to practise empathic leadership themselves and thereby contribute to positive change. True to the words of US anthropologist Margaret Mead: “ Never
conducted in order to bring the administrative procedure to a conclusion. Further steps may be taken on that basis. In addition, the University Council has instructed the President's Board to develop solutions [...] problems are reported via the regular procedures for internal complaints, or to the existing defined contacts. This led to Stefan Kölliker, President of the University Council, and President Prof. Dr. [...] anticipated. It has proved difficult to find suitable independent experts to carry out the review. After several rejected inquiries, two qualified external specialists agreed to work on the Commission until the
