ROADS TO DISRUPTION

02 July at 18:45 on Zoom

USI EMBA opens its doors for a complete virtual presentation of its new program

This is an opportunity to learn about the master, application requirements, and details regarding financial aid and scholarships.
USI EMBA gives you the right tools to take your career to the next level.

In today’s world, entrepreneurs and executives must face two new factors that affect political and economic environments, alter social relations and deeply impact businesses, their operations and their processes:
Digital Revolution: The advent of big data, machine learning, and new technologies require new organizational approaches and competencies.
Sustainability: The need to create and maintain a sustainable society for future generations must be an integral part of a successful business strategy.

LET’S HEAR FROM THE EXPERT

Professor Gianvito Lanzolla

Gianvito Lanzolla is Professor of Strategy at Cass Business School, City University London, which he joined in April 2006. He currently serves as the Head of the Faculty of Management and he is the Founder and Director of the Cass’s Digital Leadership Research Centre (DLRC). Before joining Cass Business School, Professor Lanzolla served on the faculty of the London Business School. Over the years, Professor Lanzolla has had several visiting appointments at leading business schools including Hyderabad’s Indian School of Business, Berlin’s ESMT and University of Bologna.

SO WHAT?

Each function, in every organizations, must understand their implications and apply the appropriate transformations to obtain a competitive advantage in their markets.
In today’s environment simply closing the managerial skills gap is not enough anymore. In order to prosper in this new reality an innovative and visionary approach is required. It is essential to question the validity of existing models with a pioneering, and not merely adaptive, spirit and develop new paradigms. EMBA10 embraces this spirit of innovation and is constantly evolving to ensure the highest education standard to the participants.

THE NEW WEEKEND FORMAT

1 course per month
3 days:
1 day self-learning
2 days Saturday and Sunday, in Lugano

THE NEW PROGRAM

Core courses will be integrated with a digital and sustainable part, aimed at understanding how these trends influence each function in the organization, and generally the impact on a business strategy.

Core Courses:

Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Business Analytics
Accounting
Economics
Digital Marketing
Human Resources Management
Digital Transformation
Finance
Strategy
Operations Management
Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
Negotiation

Advanced courses:

2, chosen by the class, among:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) And Machine Learning (Ml) For Business
Leading and Organizing Digital Transformation
Risk and Governance For The Digital Age
Sustainability Management
Valuing the Intangibles
Leadership and Corporate Accountability

EMBArk with us on this faboulous journey!

Book your place: emba@usi.ch

Take advantage of this opportunity and book your online free-day lesson for the upcoming session.

May 14,15,16

Human Resources Management

Professor Filippo Wezel
PhD (Bologna), M. Sc. (Bologna)

Economics

Professor Marco Ottaviani
PhD(MIT)

Professor of Organization and Management at USI.

PhD (Bologna), M. Sc. (Bologna).

Filippo was appointed Professor of Organization theory at the Faculty of Economics in September 2009. He is also Permanent Visiting Professor at EM Lyon (France) and Senior Extra-mural Fellow of CentER (Netherlands). With a PhD in Management from the University of Bologna, he previously held appointments at the University of Groningen (post-doc) and at Tilburg University (assistant and, then, associate professor). He acquired further academic experience as visiting researcher/professor at the Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania, USA), at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and at Lille I (France).

His teaching interests include organizational theory and organizational behavior, which he has taught at the undergraduate, master, PhD and executive levels. His research focuses on organizational diversity, inter-firm mobility, and industry emergence. He won the Credit Swiss teaching award in 2008.

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT – Course Description

The course focuses on the management of human capital, which in today’s economy appear as essential for the success of a company as much as an effective production systems or a well-designed marketing strategy. Indeed many managers now recognize that a critical source of competitive advantage comes having an effective system for obtaining, mobilizing, and managing the organization’s human assets.

The purpose of the course is not to get into the technical detail of issues such as the psychometric of test validation, the specifics of doing job evaluations, the mechanics of interviewing – issues well covered by many human resource professionals. Rather, the course adopts the perspective of the general manager and addresses human resource topics from a more strategic perspective – i.e., as a source of competitive advantage.

The flow of the course follows a macro-to-micro approach. In the first block we will discuss the overarching framework of the course and we will deal with motivation, job design and compensation. In the second block, the ways to improve recruiting, reducing the outflows of personnel within an organization and properly manage retention will be discussed.

Marco Ottaviani
Professor of Economics

Marco Ottaviani teaches Economics at Bocconi and Managerial Economics at SDA Bocconi. He recently returned to Italy after globe-trotting for some twenty years. After earning a doctorate from MIT, he became tenured professor of economics at the London Business School and professor of management and strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. His research focuses on information aggregation in markets and organizations. Recently, he has been working on the provision of incentives for information intermediaries, the development of prediction markets to improve corporate and public decision-making, and the rationale for government policies intended at protecting consumers. He is currently principal investigator of a five-year European Research Council research grant on Designing Institutions to Evaluate New Ideas.

ECONOMICS – Course Description 

• Master the basic tools of microeconomic analysis and apply them to business decision making
• Have a clear understanding of how firms price their products depending on their cost structure and the competitive environment in which    they operate; gain expertise in cost accounting system design
• Understand and be ready to apply the strategies that firms use to gain and sustain competitive advantage
• Analyze the performance of markets both for competing firms and in terms of social welfare

Book your FREE online session today by simply sending an email to: emba@usi.ch

DUBAI 2020: Cross Cultural Diversity & Negotiations

Our USI Executive MBA is not only about formal lectures, project development, testimonials by leading managers; it is also about experience.
This is the purpose of this three-day Study Tour in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 15 until 17 March 2020.

Why Dubai?

Dubai is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and has a reputation for being a forward-thinking and visionary city.
Expo 2020 Dubai will be a great occasion to create, innovate and collaborate.

Dubai is a global hub for financial services, logistics, tourism, hospitality, and trade, and is steadily growing other sectors including healthcare, technology and clean energy.

The USI EMBA international module is the perfect opportunity for our students to get inspired by the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of the city.

Kandarp Mehta

Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship and Negotiation, Kandarp Mehta, PhD IESE Business School, Barcelona.

He has been with the Entrepreneurship Department at IESE since October 2009.His research has focused on creativity in organizations and negotiations.

He frequently works as a consultant with startups on issues related to Innovation and Creativity. His doctoral thesis was about the process of creativity in the context of motion picture industry.

He has conducted several Negotiation and Creativity Workshops for corporate executives and management students in Europe, USA, and India. Before coming to Spain, he was at ICFAI Business School in India where he taught Corporate Finance.

He is also actively involved with Creative Industries.

Don’t miss the opportunity, Dubai is calling!

Enroll here: https://www.emba.usi.ch/#contact

VISION

USI EMBA’s vision is to empower the next generation of global business leaders, instilled with unwavering ethics to drive transformative- positive change in the world.

MISSION

USI EMBA’s mission actualizes its vision to shape ethical global business visionaries, through an unwavering commitment to excellence in education, led by our experienced international faculty who bridge theory and practice in intimate class settings. We embrace cutting-edge innovation, champion values and ethics, and commit to sustainability, nurturing strategic alliances. This empowers our students to lead by example, catalyzing profound, positive change in the relentless pursuit of a more sustainable and harmonious world.

TRANSFORMATIONAL WEEKEND

1 course per month
3 days:
1-day asynchronous
2 days in Lugano, Saturday and Sunday

Core Courses:

Analytics
Accounting Economics
Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Digital Marketing
Human Resources Management
Digital Transformation
Finance
Strategy
Operations Management
Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
Negotiation

Advanced courses:

2, chosen by the class, among:

• Managing economic crises and global risks
• Leadership – Leading today and preparing for tomorrow
• Corporate development strategies
• Finance and sustainability
• Business Dynamics
• Project Management
• Business applications of artificial intelligence
• Leading organizational change
• ESG4 Climate change mitigation
• Strategic & creative decision making
• ESG Reporting