BI MBA Alumni
This is the page where you find all events organized by the MBA Alumni Board, and additional benefits you have available as a BI MBA Alumni.
Hybrid Seminars
The Hybrid Seminars are all streamed and followed by networking, light food, and drinks for those who are physically present. They take place at BI Oslo from 18:00 - 21:30. You can join these workshops either in person or online.
The next hybird seminars take place April 3 and November 13 of this year.
After Work Mixers
The after work mixers takes place informally at different locations in Oslo. This informal gathering is the perfect chance for MBA alumni to connect - no registration required. Just drop by anytime between 17:00 and 20:00. You’re guaranteed to meet some fellow alumni!
The next after work mixer takes place on March 13, at Bardot. When you arrive, ask for the MBA Alumni table.
There will also be after work mixers on June 6 and September 11 in 2025.
Partnership Seminars
BI has entered into a partnership with NEOMA Business School in Paris and Polimi Graduate School of Management in Milan, where each of the three schools will organise a three-day seminar focusing on a specific topic.
The seminars are open to MBA alumni and students from the three schools, as well as EMM Energy and BI-Fudan alumni and students.
Innovation Symposium in Paris
NEOMA Business School will host this year’s first seminar, the Innovation Symposium, taking place at the NEOMA Campus in Paris from 22–24 May 2025.
The Innovation Symposium will gather leading voices from academia and industry for an engaging three-day program featuring keynote lectures, panel discussions, workshops and company visits. The event also offers a dynamic mix of networking opportunities and social events.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required by May 14.
See full program details and sign up for the seminar here.
Sustainability Seminar at BI, Oslo: ESG 1.0 - ESG 2.0: Implications and Practise
BI will organise a seminar focusing on Sustainability from 22–24 October at BI Oslo.
The seminar will include lectures, panel discussions, and company visits. Per Espen Stoknes will serve as both keynote speaker and moderator throughout the seminar.
A dinner will be held at the end of the second day, on 23 October.
Participants can register for specific parts of the seminar, including the dinner. Registration and a detailed programme will be announced here as soon as they are finalised.
This event will replace the MBA Annual Conference and Party.
Join an Elective with the ongoing EMBA class
As a BI MBA Alumni you can benefit from participating in the BI EMBA electives alongside the ongoing EMBA-classes.
Whether you had to prioritize between two electives during your student days, new electives have been added to the portfolio, or you simply miss being an EMBA-student, you now have a second chance!
Practical information
- Course length: Five days (Monday – Friday)
- Registration deadline for Spring electives: April 1st
- Registration deadline for Fall electives: September 1st
- Number of seats available: Spring 5 seats, Fall 2 seats.
- Evaluation: Group and/or individually. Minimum 75% attendance is required to pass the exam.
- Course material: Included in the course fee, except for books which must be purchased by the participant.
- Price: NOK 16 500
If you wish to sign up for a course, please contact the EMBA administration at may-britt.moxness@bi.no and we will send you the application link.
Electives Overview
This course exposes you to new business contexts to learn about regional integration as well as EU and Latin American business trends. The content is taught by leading academics at IE, our partner institution in Madrid. This unique experience of physically visiting our partner institution allows participants to tap into local competence and connect with regional businesses.
This course focuses on how you can develop smart green ideas and make business models for sustainability innovations. We will visit leading Swedish entrepreneurial networks and meet leading impact entrepreneurs, business angels as well as investors. We delve into entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, how new green ventures go from seed to growth stage - and from start-ups to scale-ups.
Digital organizations excel at rapid-fire development of products and services adapted to user needs. This module, provided in partnership with Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, provides participants with an intense introduction to Design Thinking. Participants will be able to apply Design Thinking to digital development and creative problem-solving efforts, as well as critically assess how to apply Design Thinking in different organizational contexts.
Participants will learn about how the traditional role of leadership needs to adapt to the changing nature of work in the digital age, agile ways of organizing, how leadership relates to learning and innovation, and how digital technologies, as a value-creating resource, may affect leadership.
In this course, we focus on how you can create and lead green organizations, both in terms of co-creating directions for sustainability and mobilizing people. Participants will learn about state-of-the art change management in terms of nurturing a culture of green growth
marked by high levels of engagement, mastery climates and distributed agency. You will will also learn about green finance, climate risk, reporting and work with developing a green business plan.
Digitalization creates high speed, high volume digital activity traces – Big Data. This course develops these foundational skills through hands-on experience with cutting edge analytics tools and techniques, and through case discussions designed to reflect on the technical foundations of ML/AI successes and failures and the implications for strategy and leadership.
* This course runs every second year
The global pandemic has highlighted challenges facing global organizations where the delivery of products and services are dependent on geographically spread organizational units and global external networks. This course focuses on how to navigate the increasingly
turbulent global business context. We identify key strategic business decisions in a global context and the challenges of organizing and managing global organizations.
* This course runs every second year
This course covers digital business models in manufacturing, networks, resource access, and problem-solving businesses as well as digital ecosystems and the business model implications of new technologies such as blockchains and AI. It provides participants with capabilities required to develop and strategically manage both digital transformation of established businesses and create new businesses that arises from digital technologies.
* This course runs every second year
This course focuses on the Asian Business context, with an emphasis on China’s role and influence in the region and global competitive landscape. We discuss the Asian competitive landscape and focus on the growth and internationalization of multinationals from this region. BI has a partnership with Fudan University, where our joint MBA program ranks
among the world’s best part-time MBA programs.
* This course runs every second year
MBA Alumni Career Development and Coaching with AS3
An additional benefit for you is coaching sessions with AS3
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