We are still flashed about the enthusiastic feedback of our Dual Partners, Alumni, Lecturers, current IB students, and friends of the International Business program in Bad Mergentheim. Around 150 participants celebrated the last 20 years with us and we looked together into the future.

In the morning we started with the IB working group meeting with our Dual Partners, amongst others from Würth Group, ALDI SÜD, Schwarz Dienstleistungen, Knauf Integral, WITTENSTEIN Group, VS Vereinigte Spezialmöbelfabriken GmbH & Co. KG, NIVUS GmbH, F.S. Fehrer Automotive GmbH, Tecpoles GmbH and Franz Binder GmbH & Co. Elektrische Bauelemente KG.

After lunch the alumni of IB17 and IB18 were invited to dress in gown (Talar) and with a barett, to enter the stage and celebrate their graduation in presence which was not possible due to the Corona pandemic.

During the main celebration event we enjoyed very inspiring speeches and warm-hearted, personal reviews of life changing events of Prof. Dr. Gabi Jeck-Schlottmann (Rector Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) Mosbach), Deputy Mayor Andreas Lehr, District Administrator of Landratsamt Main-Tauber-Kreis Christoph Schauder, Prof. Dr. Axel Gerloff (Head of International Relations DHBW and first Head of Department of IB in MGH), Prof. Dr. Laetitia Radder - Doctor Commercii (D Com) Business Management (International Guest Lecturer), Prof. Dr. Jaideep Motwani (International Guest Lecturer), Karin Markert (Director Corporate Human Resources WITTENSTEIN Group), and Sebastian Behl (Alumnus IB07C, Head of Logistics & Services, ALDI SÜD, Helmstadt).

Video greetings from around the globe highlighted the international exposure of several of our Alumni (Dr. Felix Pretscheck, IB06B (from Tokyo, Japan), Christoph Janson, IB15I (from Panama City), Filip Wilczyński IB16II (from Poznan, (Poland), Martin Kroenig, IB08A (from Manila, Philippines), Lucie Schulz, IB08A (from St. Francisco), Julian Lange, IB15C (from Croatia, Slovenia & Austria), Anna Schneewind, IB15D (from Tokyo, Japan), Ericson David Rico Ramirez, IPB07 (from Valencia), Kasia Rogoz (aka Katarzyna Bierla), IB03B (from Poznan, Poland), Yoko Schmidt, IB15C (from Dubai), Sina Brand, IB13C (from Shanghai, China), Maximilian Englisch, IB05A (from Singapore), and Tim Janßen, IB07C (from Berlin, Germany)).

During the panel discussion on „Future Skills and Diversity“ Tanja Eggers, Prof. Dr. Eva Maria Boder and Prof. Dr. Seon-Su Kim shared their rich insights with us. One key take-away: International Business students are very well prepared for the VUCA world and future challenges.

We are very thankful for all participants of the Testimonial Video with statements of Thomas Garz, Laureen Dosch, Tim Fischer (Würth Group), Laura Duda (VS), Karin Markert (WITTENSTEIN Group), John Juhasz (The Facilitation Partners GmbH, lecturer of IB), the double degree students Fiorella Vargas and Maria Jaimes from Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, and the students from IB19C course. A BIG SHOUT OUT to Dawici and Daniel Wirth for producing this great video. For the link to watch the three testimonial videos please see first comment (below this post). This main part of the event was broadcasted and we had participants from all over the globe joining in.