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On 21 October 2016, Geert Hofstede is to receive a Honorary Doctorate from Galati University in Romania. You can read more about is at this site. If your Romanian is substandard, you can first change the language to English.
On October 26, Gert Jan Hofstede will deliver a keynote speech at the 2016 Harmonization conference of FSSC 22002 in Amsterdam. See the conference site for more information or for registering. The speech will be about culture, food safety, and compliance.
On 6 October – last week- Geert Hofstede received a honorary doctorate in Prague, as announced here in a previous blog. On this page you can find his speech, ppt, and pictures. Note the colourful mix of professorial robes!
As said in a previous blog on this page, Gert Jan Hofstede will speak on numbers in HR in Helsinki on 27 October at a Finnish HR conference. This is not a new concern. In 1974, Guy Béart, the French master of light-footed clever songs, wrote ‘La Vénus mathématique’. The first verse goes like this: … Read more
This Thursday 8 November, Geert Hofstede is due to be awarded a Honorary Doctorate from the University of Economics in Prague. See http://pr.vse.cz/hofstede/english/about/ for details.