CBS staff and students are prized

The winners at ”The Prize Winners' Reception”. Photo: Henriette Frausing.

Prizes, a celebration of the dedicated work effort and a presentation by last year's winner of the DSEB Research Dissemination Prize - Ravi Vatrapu, Professor with the Department of IT Management - were the highlights when the Danish Society for Education and Business (DSEB) and CBS presented prizes to CBS students and staff. This year, there were three new prizes. One of them is the ”Fonnesbechs TAP/VIP Employee Prize 2016” which was awarded to a group of CBS staff on Friday afternoon.

Christina Merolli Poulsen, Project Manager, had nominated the research project ”Driving Competitiveness through Servitization” and the project group won the prize and were awarded with DKK 75,000. Among the reasons for awarding the prize, was that this group has set a good example for other CBS employees.

Christina Merolli Poulsen is part of the team behind the project, which includes researchers, student assistans and herself as project manager:

"One of the advantages of having a team comprised of different roles is the resulting diversity. You will have a project group that can contribute with different ideas, input and skills, and everyone is working towards a common goal."
 
She offers a specific example:

"Because of the project's focus and working method, we have had a great need to establish and strengthen relations with industry partners, host events with content aimed at businesses and employees, and hold corporate development courses. These activities of course require a professional approach based on research, but also a number of skills where you really see how  the VIP/TAP staff-cooperation strengthens the project."

An eye for detail, relational skills and a deep understanding of practice is decisive, Christina Merolli Poulsen explains.

The project's aim is to strengthen competitiveness in the Danish corporate sector, deliver new research on servitization, and thereby make CBS one of the central knowledge environments in this research area.

The prize will be used to give the team a good experience together outside the office and celebrate the essential cooperation.
 
The following CBS staff and students were honoured at ”The Prize Winners' Reception”:
 
DSEB Research prize 2016 – DKK 50,000  – divided between two
Marcus Møller Larsen, Associate professor, SMG
Fane Naja Groes, Associate professor, ECON
 
DSEB Research Dissemination prize 2016 – DKK 60,000 divided between 3
Ole Helmersen, Associate professor, ICM
Edward Ashbee, Associate professor, DBP

HCA Group, SMG – consisting of
- Dana Minbaeva, Professor
- Iben Sandal Stjerne, Post.doc
- Sara Vardi, Research assistant
- Saskia Menke, Student assistant
- Larissa Rabbiosi, Associate Professor, INT
- Valentina Tartari, Assistant Professor, INO
- Wolfgang Sofka, Associate Professor, SMG
- Francesco Di Lorenzo, Assistant Professor, SMG
- H.C. Kongsted, Professor, INO
- Allan Hansen, Professor, OM
 
DSEB Education prize 2016 – DKK 50,000 for each
Christina Lubinski, Associate professor, MPP
Christian Geisler Asmussen, Professor WSR, SMG
Diego Stea, Assistant professor, SMG
 
CBS Student Prize 2016 – DKK 20,000 for each
Marie Thurøe Lykke-Jensen
Siri Rygh Jerndahl
Marcus Orloff Søemod
 
CBS Administration Prize 2016 – DKK 50,000 for each
Anja Frederiksen, Departmental Secretary, MPP
Lars Nondal, Chief Adviser, The Library
 
Fonnesbech PhD Prize – DKK 140,000
Julie Marx, Ph.D student, FI
 
Fonnesbech Student Prize – DKK 75,000
Jannick A. Pedersen, Student in BSc in Business Administration and Psychology
 
Fonnesbechs TAP/VIP Employee Prize 2016 – DKK 75,000
Driving Competitiveness through Servitization, OM
The team consists of:

VIP:
- Christer Karlsson, Professor, OM/Competitiveness Platform
- Juliana Hsuan, Professor (WSR), OM
- Jawwad Raja, Associate professor, OM
- Thomas Frandsen, Assistant professor, OM
- Lauren Pflueger, Scientific assistant, OM
- Sofie Boa, Scientific assistant, PhD, OM
- Kai Basner, PhD student, OM

TAP:
- Morten Bjerrum Seerup Haagensen, Student assistant, OM
- Steefan Wallin, Student assistant, CBS Competitiveness Platform
- Christina Merolli Poulsen, Project Manager, CBS Competitiveness Platform
 
The Fonnesbech PhD Prize, Fonnesbech Student Prize and Fonnesbech TAP/VIP Prize were awarded for the first time this year.