During the era of student protests in the late 1960s, five students at a Swiss business college launched a symposium to encourage dialogue between disaffected generations by inviting corporate leaders and other establishment figures to their campus.
After 30 years, the International Student Committee's International Management Symposium, held annually at St. Gallen University near Zurich, has become the longest-running student-run business management forum.
"Joined by 600 decision-makers from business, political and science circles, our symposium has grown into the second-largest business symposium next to the World Economic Forum at Davos," said Marco Hoffleith, a committee member from St. Gallen.