Meeting, Sharing & Growing – The KLU Internship & Study Abroad Welcome Back Meet-up
first Welcome Back meet-up. The Welcome Back meet-up is the third in a series of events aimed at consolidating our student community. Over 40 students participated in the meet-up: meeting for the first [...] partner institutions abroad, as well as students from KLU, were part of this special event. The event started off with a fun team-building activity and moved on to an internship speed dating session. Each of
How to start a university
official start of KLU – receiving the approval of the state authorities and the arrival of the first students –marked the end of a job that had already begun many months earlier. What do you need to start a [...] helped to get one of today’s leading private universities started early in his career. He knew how international business schools function – and he was up for a new challenge. He became our first full professor [...] , taking chances and archieving change On September 27, 2010, KLU opened its doors. This was the start of a successful development – but was it really the beginning of the story? As with many successes
Small is beautiful
every Hollywood college movie in your head. Sky shot of the huge university campus, followed by a close-up of the big green fields surrounding the building, focusing on the hundreds of people there – some in [...] would have missed the opportunity to make what I consider to be the best choice of my life so far –starting “real life” at a small, young university in the process of building its own tradition. This might [...] personal training for the students. This is what makes the program so successful. Two years after starting in the BSc program at KLU, I can say that studying at KLU has shown me how a small university can
Help when and where it's needed
cases nurses, for instance, would take care of the logistics. After some time, the NGOs and donors started to realize that they needed to professionalize this aspect more and began employing people who had [...] going to be, but aid organizations do not enjoy this luxury. “For example, you cannot say that you’ll start sending one million tons of food aid to Haiti because you know tomorrow an earthquake will take place [...] Washington, DC this year. It’s not the first time that she’s been honored by the society: Besiou picked up the HOCM POMS “Best Paper” award in 2012 together with Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez and Luk Van Wassenhove
On the move
in Global Logistics from KLU in 2015, the 34-year-old recently returned to his native Brazil to take up the role of chief business development officer at Contrail Logistics SA, a logistics operator specialized [...] Brazil led Gerdau to persuade him that the best place for his career was at home. “After that, I started to pursue the dream of having an international experience on my own,” he said. He planned and co [...] distributed to companies around the world. “We began negotiations at the end of July 2015 and I started at the Eurogate container terminal in Hamburg on the first of October that year,” he said. “Our objective
Online, offline, no line
first half-day on presentations from cross-channel retailer Tchibo, DHL and a young app development start-up called APPSFactory. We put the students into fields of ideas, impulses, developments, and challenges [...] transformation process? What role do mobile devices play?” The ideas and solutions the students came up with reflected the actual approaches to dealing with the problems utilised by the companies they were [...] very similar to the students’ approaches to their solutions. But the companies were also able to pick up new ideas from the students, a generation that naturally integrates the online and offline world into
New Dean Appointments
With the start of academic year 2016/2017, Professors Jan Becker and Christian Barrot are taking over more responsibility at KLU. Becker will succeed Professor Sönke Albers as Dean of Research and Barrot [...] His predecessor looks forward to handing him the reins. “I am planning to devote the time this frees up to my role as Academic Director of Executive Education at KLU and improving my teaching,” said Professor [...] Research, plans to spend more time on research and will finish some publications. The 68-year-old started to work for KLU in 2010 as the very first KLU professor with the main task of launching KLU. “The
Jakarta meets Hamburg
for the Indonesia Port Corporation (IPC) and came to Hamburg to attend their last courses before starting their master thesis. Sophie Wattimena and Urip Nurhayat share their experience of the KLU campus [...] social events for us. Urip: The lectures were very interesting. On the one hand they gave us a wrap-up of the whole program. On the other hand they provided us with a guideline to writing our theses. After
Library Collection
available e-journal articles, e-books and print materials using only one search field. It is perfect to start any literature search because it, just like a search engine, picks and sorts the most relevant search [...] based on the keywords and search operators you enter. By submitting a search query, a metasearch is started including the library catalog, our online resources, and meta data. The tool uses a complex ranking [...] students, faculty and staff have remote access (when off-campus) through VPN . Find journal articles: Start with using our library search engine , look for specific journals and browse available issues of our
More than Logistics
has no special features in comparison to other functions. Graduates can use the usual channels to start out in this field: help-wanted ads, career events, and trainee programs, for example. An internship [...] most important competency, followed by analytical ability. The third most important criterion ended up being good social skills. Sector experience and management skills were relatively unimportant. We also [...] manufacturing, analytics, and smart devices. These are exciting times, because many companies are just starting to find out exactly which technologies will be decisive for them in the future. Getting employees