Business & Education

  • Green space and quality housing: Copenhagen’s future-minded urban planning

    Green space and quality housing: Copenhagen’s future-minded urban planning

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    Bernardo Basilici Menini

    Liselott Stenfeldt, Director of R&D at the renowned architecture firm Gehl, discusses Copenhagen’s strategies for maintaining its thoughtful urban planning while addressing the challenges posed by rising housing prices, environmental changes, and increasing population.

  • Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    Come and join us at Citizens Days!

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    The Copenhagen Post

    On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of September, The Copenhagen Post will be at International Citizen Days in Øksnehallen on Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Admission is free and thousands of internationals are expected to attend

  • Novo Nordisk CEO: “We can’t solve the problem of expensive medicine alone”

    Novo Nordisk CEO: “We can’t solve the problem of expensive medicine alone”

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    The Copenhagen Post

    On Tuesday, Novo Nordisk’s CEO, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, took critical questions about the company’s prices at a Senate hearing in Washington. Senator Bernie Sanders wants Novo to “stop cheating”.

  • Diversity is strength at Høiberg, where most of the partners are women

    Diversity is strength at Høiberg, where most of the partners are women

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    Bernardo Basilici Menini

    With six out of its ten partners being women, Høiberg exemplifies how businesses can lead the charge toward equal opportunities: it’s one the very few companies – if not the only one – in Denmark where the majority of the partners are women.

  • China can learn from Denmark’s green transition

    China can learn from Denmark’s green transition

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    Jesper Skeel

    China’s newly appointed ambassador to Denmark, Mr. Wang Xuefeng welcomes the growing number of Chinese employees in Danish companies who are using their skills in a global world. China can learn from Denmark in several ways, he says – especially for the green transition.

  • Novo Holdings: “The challenges we face are too large for any single institution”

    Novo Holdings: “The challenges we face are too large for any single institution”

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    Bernardo Basilici Menini

    Marcus Remmers, partner of the Planetary Health Investments team of Novo Holdings, the holding company of pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, discusses promising sectors for investment and innovation and reflects on why Denmark has a strong technology talent base.

  • DSV buys German giant for 107 billion – becomes the world’s largest logistics company

    DSV buys German giant for 107 billion – becomes the world’s largest logistics company

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    The Copenhagen Post

    It started with nine truck drivers in an inn on Sjælland in 1976. Now, with the purchase of German DB Schenker, Danish DSV has become the world’s largest freight operator

  • Nordea, Deloitte and McKinsey know it: Diversity is key to success

    Nordea, Deloitte and McKinsey know it: Diversity is key to success

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    Why and how does increased gender and ethnic diversity boost corporate performance? Here, we take a look at the data, and hear from DEIB experts at Nordea and Deloitte Denmark about how they’re building diverse teams in the Nordics’ biggest companies.

  • Moving to Copenhagen to study? Top tips from a student community manager

    Moving to Copenhagen to study? Top tips from a student community manager

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    Christina Kronback

    Laura Lombardi came from Italy to Copenhagen in 2015 as an international student. Almost a decade later, she is the community and operations manager at Basecamp, a student house accommodation in the very heart of Copenhagen city centre

  • Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

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    Chisom Udeze, the founder of Diversify – a global organization that works at the intersection of inclusion, democracy, freedom, climate sustainability, justice, and belonging – shares how struggling to find a community in Norway motivated her to build a Nordic-wide professional network. We also hear from Dr. Poornima Luthra, Associate Professor at CBS, about how to address bias in the workplace.

  • Intro week is not easy for introverts

    Intro week is not easy for introverts

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    Christina Kronback

    Pub-crawls, clubbing and icebreakers planned by extroverted senior students for new first-year students can be fun for extroverts, but too much for introverts who feel pressured to participate.

  • This workshop makes it easier for SMEs to hire internationals

    This workshop makes it easier for SMEs to hire internationals

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    A specialist mechanic shop in Hvidovre has interviewed its first foreign jobseekers in company history after taking part in a new workshop aimed at helping SMEs to recruit skilled international labour. “We are no longer reluctant to hire people, even if they don’t speak Danish – as long as they are skilled, we will find a solution,” the HR manager tells Dansk Industri.