The Search for Impact through Entrepreneurship

Meet Associate Professor Kristian Roed Nielsen, from CBS MSC, passionate about understanding human behavior. Kristian is studying tipping points in human behavior, how and when we act or not influenced by people around us. Celebrating with his research group one evening at a restaurant the frustration of splitting the bill triggered his entrepreneurial venture, SplitIT. Over the last 12 month...

Meet Postdoc at ITU, former Industrial PhD at CBS DIGI, Anika Schroder, a food nerd with a passion for tackling food waste. She’s working on how to turn food industry waste streams into high-value products using digital solutions to drive new forms of innovation. Her research focuses on digital sustainability: exploring how digital technologies can connect food producers with the right partne...

Meet Associate Professor Morten Holm from the Department of Accounting at Copenhagen Business School. Morten's research and former corporate career focused on financial value creation. Ten years ago, Morten's research helped a bank develop and implement a novel advisory concept in business banking. It worked so well, they still use it today. Then last year, another bank approac...

Meet PhD Henrik Axelsen from the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School.  In December 2025, he received an Innoexplorer grant for his project: "Decentralized AI utility for financial crime compliance." Henrik calls himself 'a corporate dropout'. After a long career in large corporations mainly within the financial sector, Henrik did a PhD, followed by a postdoc position wi...

Meet PhD student Sebastian Ahlstich, who, together with assistant professor Jan Stuckatz, has received the first-ever Innoexplorer Grant at CBS from Innovationsfonden. Their project explores how international trade agreements can be made more effective and accessible, with real-world implications for firms, policymakers, and global trade governance. Hear how Sebastian’s impact journey began and ho...

Meet Agnes Günther, PhD, founder of Netsocietal and ATELOS. Hear how Agnes is driven by making a positive difference to society. For her, economic prosperity and societal impact are inseparable. Yet, today, companies’ value creation and ‘doing good’ for society are seen separately and too often understood as opposites. Her ambition is to break down the siloed thinking, which is a barrier to solvin...

The Digital Frontier of Accounting with Joachim Elmegaard   Meet PhD Joachim Elmegaard, external lecturer at CBS ACC, and founder of Captier.   Hear how Joachim is developing a scalable, shelf-automated software for auditors to turn messy client data into smooth, automated workflows. Created by auditors for auditors with a special focus on SMEs.   Based on Joachim's domain expertise...

Micro changes are the small, everyday changes that often disturb employees much more than big strategic ones. The focus of Signe's work is to understand the mechanisms and how to navigate them. Signe is the founder of enlighten (in 2021), keynote speaker and writer of several books about micro changes in organisations. She holds a PhD from CBS, Department of Organization, where she did her industr...

Meet Vice Dean of Innovation & Impact at Copenhagen Business School, Morten Irgens. Morten is responsible for the Impact and Innovation Agenda at CBS. But he also has extensive startup experience and founded an AI company, way before it was hot.   Morten's career started in entrepreneurship. After ten years in Canada, the company was sold, and Morten returned to Norway, where he supp...

Meet Dr. Thomas Zöega Ramsøy, former CBS Marketing researcher and founder of Neurons. A profound interest in the human brain has driven Thomas’s search for answers for many years through several disciplines. Why are we – humans - behaving the strange way we are? Neuro phycology, study of consciousness, emotional responses, design of metrics to understand the mind and brain better, combined with ma...

Meet PhD Stig Strandbæk Nyman, postdoc at CBS DIGI and founder of Labour Analytics. In a nutshell, Stig’s work is to create data tools for workers. As our work is being increasingly digitised, data analytics is becoming part of any toolbox. However, until now, data has primarily been a tool for management. Labour Analytics aim at creating data tools for workers and their unions to improve wor...