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• Critical questions help to perfect your product

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 7/9/2019

  Last May, the Nyenrode Alumni Talks kicked off in Amsterdam. A reoccurring event for alumni to start a dialogue on entrepreneurship and to exchange knowledge and experiences amongst each other.

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• Can social enterprises apply and use the ANBI-status?

  Type: Research

  Publication date: 7/5/2019

  Certain social enterprises in the Netherlands eligible to supporting tax facilities, such as the ANBI-status.

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• “Our lives are shaped by the decisions we make”

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 7/3/2019

  A lot of people victimize themselves, but the truth is this. We will be faced with hardship. There will be good and bad days. But how we decide to see them and what we decide to do is what shapes our life.

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• “Happiness” from education to business

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 6/28/2019

  Linsey van Oers completed her Master of Science in Financial Management at Nyenrode Business University five years ago. She is now an entrepreneur and has opened – within a short period of time – two locations of her Happiness restaurant concept: The Happiness Café and The Happiness Kitchen.

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• “Alumni represent a strong element of the Nyenrode Experience”

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 6/19/2019

  “I was captivated by the idea of claiming a chair. As an alumnus, you will be visibly connected to Nyenrode. I like giving back. A fun way of remaining connected,” alumnus Thomas Stassen said.

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• Machine learning for all: the new mindset in businesses

  Type: Education

  Publication date: 6/14/2019

  People in business management have to understand what machine learning is and how it differs from what they have been doing thus far in the realm of traditional software development.

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• “For a Nyenrodean you go the extra mile”

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 6/4/2019

  What are the foundations of a successful career? Nyenrodian Han Knooren has invested a lot in young leaders at his company. “I cannot help but share practical life lessons.”

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• Financial Times publishes 2019 Executive Education ranking

  Type: Education

  Publication date: 6/3/2019

  For the seventh time in a row, the Executive Education programs at Nyenrode Business University have been declared the best in the Netherlands.

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• Sharing Insights for the Sharing Economy

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 5/22/2019

  On May 14 2019, Nyenrode Amsterdam welcomed Harmen van Sprang, co-founder of shareNL and independent expert in platform economy to inspire students, alumni and the business community as part of the Nyenrode Amsterdam Breakfast Sessions.

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• Cooperative compliance programmes increases tax certainty of large businesses

  Type: Research

  Publication date: 5/21/2019

  Breukelen, May 21, 2019 – “A modern tax administration must include a trust-based regulatory approach in its compliance risk management strategy for large businesses. A so-called cooperative compliance program (CCP) – such as horizontal monitoring in the Netherlands – increases tax certainty and reduces aggressive tax practices.” This is one of the conclusions reached by Maarten Siglé RA in his dissertation titled “The effects of cooperative compliance programmes”, for which he will receive his doctorate from Nyenrode Business University on May 21, 2019.

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• ‘Nyenrode feels as if it is an additional family.’

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 5/7/2019

  Nyenrode Alumna Gayle included the Nyenrode Fund in her will. ‘When you have died, you cannot spend your money anymore anyway and this way, I can still make an impact.’

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• Disruptive innovations in a sustainable world

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 5/2/2019

  Marjolein Bakker, an alumna of the Full-time MSc in International Management, has recently embarked on a collaboration to publish her thesis as an article. Joining her in this effort are Prof André Nijhof and Dr Henk Kievit, both professors at Nyenrode Business University. Her Master’s thesis, “Exploring Encroachment: value propositions and the role of disruptive innovation in attracting new customers”, examines the type of innovation that drives new customers to buy a particular value proposition. The provocative title of Bakker’s forthcoming article reads: “Can the customer still be king in the era of sustainability?”

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• Responsible leadership comes from the heart

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 4/26/2019

  On April 9 2019, Nyenrode Amsterdam welcomed change manager Sherida Tdlohreg, Founder of TransActory and Nyenrode MSc & MBA Alumna to inspire students, alumni and the business community as part of the Nyenrode Amsterdam Breakfast Sessions.

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• Serious games and entrepreneurship with social impact

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 4/17/2019

  Executive MBA alumnus Sjoerd Wennekes (36) talks about his unique mix of educational qualifications. Wennekes began his student days at HKU University of the Arts in Utrecht and started his MBA at Nyenrode Business University a few years later. This combination has paid off. It has resulted in the success of his company Active Cues, which is responsible for the Tovertafel. The company now operates in 10 countries and has 45 employees (70 including all international partners). As far as Wennekes is concerned, there is no doubt they will keep expanding all over the world.

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• ‘I think it is important that education is accessible to everyone’

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 4/17/2019

  ‘Nyenrode has been formative for the rest of my life. That is why I think it is important to give something back.’ Alumna Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen claimed a chair on Nyenrode.

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• Competing in the John Molson Case Competition #lifeasanyenrodian

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 4/3/2019

  At the beginning of this year, four of our Full-time Master in Management students traveled to Montreal to compete in the John Molson Case Competition, a prestigious case competition for MBA and Master students. One of the participants, Asiya Suleimanova, shares her experiences with us.

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• Let umbrella organizations appoint and pay auditors

  Type: About Nyenrode

  Publication date: 3/29/2019

  On March 29, 2019, Prof Dr Henk Langendijk said goodbye as a professor at Nyenrode Business University. In Nyenrode’s Pfizer room, he delivered his farewell speech titled: ‘The (un)true and fair view of the annual financial statements and the position of the auditor.’ His most important advice is to have auditors appointed and paid by umbrella organizations in order to create more impartiality.

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• ‘My mother’s biggest dream was for me to go to university’

  Type: Community

  Publication date: 3/18/2019

  Scholarship student Elyas Razawi on the journey that led him to Nyenrode: ‘When I was little, I was determined to be the smartest one in the class.’

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