USI EMBA is proud to announce that the ninth edition brought together 20 students, coming from all different sectors, including banking, public utilities, agribusiness, communication, pharma, hospitality and neuroscience.

This professional melting pot highlights how an Executive MBA is a key to success in a variety of business activities.

Embark with us on this fabulous journey!

The EMBA approach is interactive, emphasizes group work, practice-based learning and creativity. It will result in career development opportunities, through the acquisition of strategic vision and immediate applicable knowledge.

The USI Executive MBA promotes win-win situations for our participants and their organizations.

Invest in yourself, boost your career and become an active member of our big international community.

NIO: A SUCCESSFUL AND INNOVATIVE START-UP

When: 24th January, from 17:30 to 18:30

Where: USI Executive Center, Blue Room

Keynote Speaker: Alessandro Palmarin

What:

NIO Cocktails is a start-up that was born from the idea to change consumer behaviour of cocktails amongst the public. Their ambitious mission is to make the perfect cocktail for every occasion and every place.
After years of experience in the sales realm of multinational corporations, with a particular focus on the retail word, Alessandro Palmarin decided to develop his business idea in creating a product aimed at satisfying this mission.
From this ambition, NIO Cocktails was born. The perfect drink in an ironic and innovative packaging, that permits consumption in every place. No experience necessary. All you need is a glass full of ice.
The product is for both the consumer and the professional market: both for the individual and hotel, restaurants, catering, wedding, communication agencies and event organizations.
NIO really represents an innovative and creative solution for their business.
Alessandro Palmarin is taking care of the coordination and development of the national and international market.

For reservation: emba@usi.ch

Biography

Alessandro Palmarin studied Economics and Business Management at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
He has an experience of 10 years in retail and corporate direction.
He started his career in 2008 at Calzedonia, then in 2012 moved to Levi’s and Vodafone.
In 2015 he covered the role of Sales director Monobrand Italy for Swaroski.
In July 2017 he decided to leave his comfort zone and the corporate world to follow his startup “NIO Cocktails “ created some months before with 3 associates.

EMBA Scholarship

Boldbrain Challenge is a new accelerator program in Ticino organized jointly by Fondazione Agire and Centro Promozione Start-Up USI. December 4 at 18:00, the second edition was concluded with an award ceremony at the Aula Magna at Università della Svizzera italiana.

The event attracted more than 300 participants.

The winner of 50.000 CHF and of the full EMBA Scholarship is Orchestra, an app to coordinate emergency response services.

Unfortunately, firefighters, medical services, civil protection and other public services still work supported by old standards. The alarms are sent manually by telephone and the rescue operations are managed through long chains of command.

Orchestra is a platform that helps to optimize workflows in emergency situations in daily operations.

Rapid alerting, targeted information transfer, efficient task management  are just some of the key functions developed in close collaboration with the leaders of these organizations.

USI EMBA Advisory Board warmly welcomes the new members:

Tamara Erez

Director Centro Studi Villa Negroni

Center for interdisciplinary training and continuous updating of banking, trust and insurance professions

https://www.csbancari.ch/

Glenda Braendli

Assurance Partner, PwC Switzerland

PwC Switzerland is the leading audit and advisory company in Switzerland. As an independent member of the international PwC network, it helps organisations and individuals create the value they are looking for.

Whether the needs are international or local, large or small, they are on hand to serve as a partner for assurance, tax and advisory.

https://www.pwc.ch/en.html

Christmas Gala Dinner

29th November

Catch up with former colleagues, make new contacts, and celebrate the holiday season in the magical ambience of the Splendide Royal Hotel, Lugano.

On Friday 29th November the EMBA Club will hold its annual Gala Dinner at Hotel Splendide Royal, Lugano.

A breathtaking view of the lake and Chef’s gourmet creations will give you an unforgettable gastronomic experience, between Mediterranean flavours and local ingredients.

Christmas Aperitif
Music & Drinks

12th December

Come and join us for an aperitif the 12th December at Executive Center, USI, Lugano, 18:00.
Let’s celebrate Christmas time together!

Feel free to invite your friends and family!

Take advantage of this opportunity to experience an exceptional free overview of the courses, campus, and the academic body.

When: 12,13,14 December 2019

Where: USI, Executive Center, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13,6900 Lugano

Quantative Method

– Develop analytical skills in structuring and analysing business decision problems.
– Build analytical models for a variety of problems in a number of functional areas.
– Understand usefulness and limitation of selected techniques.
– Use software to generate computer solutions of the models.
– Demonstrate skills in communicating the analysis and results of business decision problems and to work as a member of a team.
– Use the knowledge gained from this course to continue life-long learning in decision technologies to aid business decision making.

Prof. Kostis Christodoulou

Visiting Professor of Quantitative Methods. PhD (London Business School), M. Sc. (LSE).
Prof. Kostis Christodoulou has been teaching courses on Quantitative Methods, Decision Analysis, Business Statistics, Risk Management and Financial Modelling to MBA students and business executives at London Business School, City University Business School (where he received the MBA teaching award) and at ALBA Graduate Business School.He holds a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from London Business School, a M.Sc. in Mathematics & Operations Research from the London School of Economics and a ΒΑ in Mathematics & Computer Science from Swarthmore College.His research has been published in the Telecommunications Policy, the Journal of the Operational Research Society and Technological Forecasting & Social Change.He is currently Director of Finance at the private equity firm Curzon Consulting. Before that he was Director of Consulting Services at Velti SA, the first Greek technology firm to list in the AIM of London Stock Exchange, and also worked at McKinsey & Co with telecoms and financial services clients.Research and teaching interests include regulation, “big data” and health care. He has extensive consulting experience in financial services, telecommunications and media. He sat on the board of the Greek Energy regulator from 2007 to 2009.

Organization Behaviour

This course explores how to lead and get things done in organizations, using an organizational behavior perspective that helps understand issues involved in both managing and being managed at work. We all develop our own understanding of what organizations are and how to act effectively as organizational members. But our understanding is often limited by our current position, functional area, or individual interactions and experiences with other organizational members. A narrow view can lead to costly misunderstandings and damaging managerial decisions. In this course, we seek to enhance participants’ understanding by studying the human aspects of organizations. More specifically, we look at organizations through the lenses of leadership, power, structure, culture, and change. Each lens provides explanations of why some organizations flourish whereas others collapse, and why people within organizations behave the way they do. I will discuss the managerial implications of each lens and provide you with the skills and tools to thoroughly diagnose organizational problems and to tackle them with the appropriate ethical actions.

Frédéric Godart

Frédéric Godart is an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Management & Human Resources at HEC Paris. He is also the Academic Director of the HEC Paris luxury certificate, sponsored by Kering (owner
of Gucci, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent…) Before that, he was an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD. He teaches in various programmes, notably at Lugano and SciencesPo in Paris.
At HEC Paris he teaches Leadership and Strategic Talent Management in the EMBA program and Leading Organizations in the Grande Ecole Master in Management. He received his PhD from Columbia University in the City of New York. He also holds an MPhil in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) in the United Kingdom, an MSc in Management from Sciences Po Paris, and was a fellow of the École Normale Supérieure in France. His research explores the dynamics of creative industries, and he focuses on fashion and luxury (e.g., design, modeling, watchmaking, footwear). He is the author of Unveiling Fashion (2012, Palgrave-MacMillan).

Limited places, book now at: emba@usi.ch