I thoroughly enjoyed WELLcontest 2007, and I am quite impressed with the results the students achieved in just 48 hours. For Grundfos there were a lot of "take aways" in their assignments, new ideas and angles that we had not thought of. We will now consider how we can incorporate those ideas into the CSR work we do internally in Grundfos."

Niels Møller Jensen, Group Vice President, Group Quality & Group Environment, Chairman of the CSR Council, Grundfos

It was very beneficial for Shell to participate in a seminar with WELL in connection with WELLcontest. It is always good for us to engage with people in the “real world”, and I also felt that the students benefited from the exchange. I had a great time and was challenged by the students at the same time.

Regitze Reeh, Head of Communications, Shell Danmark

Danisco wants to engage in dialogue with stakeholders on all levels. Students who take interest in Danisco as a company, as well as the CSR-complexity are naturally stakeholders of ours.

We find WELL to be an interesting initiative amongst committed students, who not only dare, but also are willing to raise challenging questions to our position and opinion.

Moreover, it is our wish to profile Danisco to students as a progressive company, in and with which it is interesting to work or co-operate.

Søren Hjuler Vogelsang, Vice President, Sustainable Development, Danisco

Thank you for a great WELLcontest week! I was very impressed with all the students that were working so hard for this event. WELL seems like a very well organized and professional student organization, and I hope that we soon will see something like that in Finland too. The fact that there were so many of you activated in the competition week was very inspiring. So a big THANK YOU to all of you.

Emma Storbacka, Graduate Student, Helsinki School of Economics

WELL ran a fantastic competition last year - and I am not just saying that because the CBS team won! It was an excellent case and they brought in very impressive judges directly from the case company (Shell).

Stephanie Wold Hadler, International Relations, Copenhagen Business School

Co-operating with students and educational institutions like CBS is important to Novozymes in various ways: It is essential for us to follow what is going on; we place great importance in telling what we are doing, and thereby getting response; we would like to be open to the possibility of well-conducted collaboration; and we have a need to create attention to ourselves and attract good employees.

Claus Frier, Sustainability Development Center, Novozymes A/S

When Banco co-operates with WELL it is bound with the fact that we see WELL as an organisation that represents the trend and attitude of the youth to CSR. To a large extent this attitude is the same that underlies the concept og Banco, which is also why the co-operation comes naturally.

Kirsten Fjord, CEO, Banco – specialist in ethical investments

It is important to The Red Cross to participate as an active partner in relation to the development of CSR. Among others, this happens through activities conducted by WELL with the participation of companies, Copenhagen Business School and its students. This setup serves well for the mixture of the newest theoretical approaches, the status of what is going on in business life right now, and the ideas, demands and expectations of students.

Christophe Kirkegaard, Director of Communication, Danish Red Cross

Within the field of sponsorship, we at MEC:Sponsorship feel the increasing focus on corporate social responsibility in the building interest for social and humanitarian sponsorships. The development proceeds at a rapid pace, and as sponsorship consultants it is important to stay updated - also in the theoretical field. Co-operating with enterprising and committed students, like those leading WELL, is therefore very valuable to MEC:Sponsorship. Moreover, the co-operation contains the possibility to inform about our competencies and approaches to the subject to an interesting, inspiring and challenging target group.

Rikke Lind, Sponsor Planner, MEC:Sponsorship

IBM participated in a seminar with WELL because we think that we through many years of work have built considerable experience with CSR in Denmark and internationally. IBM wants to share this knowledge with the participants in the seminar. Besides, IBM wants to support initiatives that make students at CBS obtain better understanding for the importance of the social responsibility of the company and its many stakeholders.

Kim Østrup, Vice President IBM Danmark A/S

As a member of the jury of WELLcontest, I have experienced first-hand the amazing talent and creativity offered to a company with students contributing to solving its CSR challenges! My advice to companies out there: Save on consultancy expenses and join as sponsor and case company of WELLcontest! And that does not even begin to describe the PR value and contact to potential future employees!

Ole Kirkelund, Research Manager, PhD, The Copenhagen Centre

"It has indeed been a great pleasure and a great challenge to work with the students of WELL. They have managed to grow from a small exclusive interest group of ambitious CSR-interested students to embrace a large number of CBS students from a variety of our study programmes, but they have also shown their capacity to extend beyond a narrow CBS-focus in their strive to engage a Danish and a Scandinavian community of students as they collaborate with students from other business schools and universities. I am impressed."

Mette Morsing, PhD, Professor affiliated with the CBS Institute for Intercultural Communication and Management and Director of the CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility