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Thirty-six participants from 15 countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Nigeria, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Ukraine) gathered at the welcome reception for the start of their International Executive MBA studies.

On Friday, 9 February 2018, the graduation ceremony of Banku Augstskola, School of Business and Finance, and SBS Swiss Business School took place in Riga, Latvia. We are proud to have 118 new SB alumni. Ms. Izabela Karanfiloska, MBA and MSc program manager at SBS Swiss Business School, attended the event as main speaker.

The Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) of the University of Pretoria has been selected as one of the 38 global business schools that will be part of the 2018-2019 Champions Cycle of the United Nations Global Compact and Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). PRME officially announced the 2018-2019 Champion schools at the Global 100 Executive Roundtable in Davos, Switzerland on 23 January 2018, coinciding with the World Economic Forum.

Master in International Management program offered at SGH through Global Alliance in Management Education (CEMS) earns the school the title of CEMS School of the Year

We were saddened to receive the news that Prof. Ruth Alas, Head of Management Department at the Estonian Business School, has passed away on January 23 at the age of 57. For the last year and a half, she was fighting cancer while still keeping as active as possible with her teaching and research work.

The Balkans and Black Sea Cooperation Forum is an independent, non-governmental, non-partisan economic platform powered by private and public institutions and supported by a number of international and regional organizations, aiming at identifying, strengthening, and promoting economic relations, business opportunities, cross‐border cooperation, and sustainable growth and development across the Balkans, the Black Sea region, and beyond.

Prof. Danica Purg, Dean and President of IEDC-Bled School of Management and CEEMAN, gave a lecture on management development needs in the Central and Eastern European region. She presented recent research findings and highlighted the latest trends in management education. The lecture was attended by 41 human resource management specialist and Primož Šeligo, Slovenia's ambassador to Russia.

The respected Professor and public intellectual has passed away.

Dear friends, I am writing these words just before the holiday season, proud of what CEEMAN achieved in 2017.

"Society and the business sector have faced different challenges, characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. To tackle these challenges management education institutions have to develop managers and leaders who will be able to lead necessary changes in the business sector and in society, and make a difference that is desperately needed. To accomplish this mission management education institutions have to become change agents themselves and introduce a new model of management education, dedicated to educational offerings and research activities relevant to the needs and challenges of their stakeholders and respective environments". Dr. Alenka Braček Lalić, CEEMAN International Quality Accreditation director