A fantastic welcome to our EMBA 9 participants!

Friday 11th October, 2019

12:00 – Registration and light lunch

12:30 – 13:30 – Welcome Address and General Introduction by USI EMBA Director Prof. Gianluca Colombo

14:00 – 18:00 – “Teaming up for the USI EMBA Experience”, Andreas Bernhardt, Executive Development Advisor and Lead Coach, ESMT Berlin

18:15 – 19:15 – Gianluca Tagliabue, Ermenegildo Zegna Group CFO: A dialogue about finance in luxury

20:00 – Social Dinner, Shaker, Lugano

Saturday 12th October, 2019

9:00 – 13:00 – Introduction to “Quantitative Methods” prof. Kostis Christodoulou, Phd LBS, USI Visiting Professor in Quantitative Methods

13:00 – 14:00 – Light Lunch with sandwiches

14:00 – 15:00 – Prof. Kostis Christodoulou, Intro to Data Science: Making sense of and presenting one’s data in a beautiful and truthful fashion

Keynote Speaker: Riccardo Braglia,

Helsinn Group Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

When: Friday, 18 October 2019
Where: USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Via Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano, Executive Center

Come help us celebrate the success of our EMBA#8 students and listen to an engaging presentation from Riccardo Braglia.

Skills and capabilities for an international family business

Riccardo Braglia is an entrepreneur and won the 2011 Best Entrepreneur of the Year in Italian-speaking Switzerland Award by Swiss Venture Club and the Ernst & Young Award for the best Swiss Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 for High Tech/Life Sciences.

Riccardo Braglia

Riccardo Braglia is Helsinn Group’s Vice Chairman and CEO, Managing Director and a member of Helsinn Holding’s Board of Directors and the Executive Committee for Helsinn Group’s strategic management. He is a Board Member of Helsinn Healthcare, Helsinn Advanced Synthesis and Helsinn Birex Pharmaceuticals and Chairman of Helsinn Therapeutics’ Board of Directors. Riccardo Braglia is an entrepreneur and won the 2011 Best Entrepreneur of the Year in Italian-speaking Switzerland Award by Swiss Venture Club and the Ernst & Young Award for the best Swiss Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 for High Tech/Life Sciences. Riccardo Braglia holds a degree in Business Economics with specialization in Industrial Management from Luigi Bocconi University, Milan.

Agenda:

17:00 – 17:10 Welcome Address
Prof. Gianluca Colombo Dean Faculty of Economics & Director EMBA

17:10 – 17:40 Keynote Speaker, Riccardo Braglia
Vice Chairman and CEO Helsinn Group

17:40 – 17:55 Conferring of Diplomas, Prof. Gianluca Colombo Dean Faculty of Economics & Director Executive MBA

17:55 – 18:15 Class Address EMBA8 Representatives

18:15 – 18:20 USI EMBA Teaching Awards

18:30 – 18:40 Closing remarks , Prof. Gianluca Colombo, Director Executive MBA

Making sense of and presenting one’s data in a beautiful and truthful fashion

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USI EMBA Presentation

When:  Saturday 12 October, 14:00

Where: Executive Center, USI

What:

Data Science provide tools to understand complexity and enhance communicating your data and ideas in a reproducible manner to a wide range of audiences and disciplines.

We will explore the meaning of data science and building models to understand data. In an interactive session we’ll guide you to explore beautiful and truthful visualizations with real world data and you will participate in exploring a dataset of improvements in life expectancy around the world over the last 70 years.

Speakers: 

Professor 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.

Professor Gianluca Colombo, Director Executive MBA

Presentation of the new edition of EMBA 

The event is held during the Weekend Zero, Introductive Weekend of the new edition.

Please, register at emba@usi.ch

Wait for acceptance. LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE!

Discover the role of Finance in Fashion Industry

Guest speakers: Gianluca Tagliabue, CFO & Head of Business Development for Ermenegildo Zegna Group

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Gianluca Colombo, Director of Executive MBA, Dean of the Faculty of Economics

When: 11 October, 18:15

Where: Executive Center 

What:

The Ermenegildo Zegna Group today is one of Italy’s most famous family driven enterprises. Over the last century the business gene and entrepreneurial spirit has been passed down through the generations, ensuring that the name Zegna remains synonymous with pioneers of business. Growth has been possible through shrewd diversification of the offering, which now ranges from clothing to accessories, and strategies which have enabled the Ermenegildo Zegna brand to grow successfully throughout the world.

There is far more to Zegna’s success than this though: a strong and consolidated business culture that allows young talents to emerge in the company-wide quest for quality, and a constant focus on customers and people.

Zegna Group’s philosophy is based on three principles:
– long-term objectives
– family ownership to ensure continuity
– a sound ethical commitment enshrined in a rigorous corporate governance system

About the guest speakers

Gianluca Tagliabue

Gianluca Tagliabue is CFO and Head of Business Development for the Ermenegildo Zegna Group, in the areas of Finance, IT, Legal, Real Estate and Business Development. Previously he was Head of Business Development (Strategy, M&A, Special Projects), CFO and SVP Strategy & Central Functions of the Oakley Group at Luxottica.
Before that, he worked in strategic consulting for 12 years, including 4 based in Brazil, São Paulo.

Gianluca Colombo

Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship. Former Head of the Department of Management.

He is member of the SMS (Strategic Management Society), the AIMS (Association Internationale de Management Stratégique), the EURAM – European Academy of management), the SDS (System Dynamics Society). His field of research are: Merger & Acquisitions, Family Business, System thinking and complexity in management, Logic and rhetoric of strategic conversation.

The event is held during the Weekend Zero, Introductive Weekend of the new EMBA edition.

You can register by sending an e-mail at: emba@usi.ch

Please, wait for acceptance. LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE.

The Faculty Council of the USI Faculty of Economics has appointed Prof. Gianluca Colombo as Dean for the period 2019-2021. He shall be deputised, as Vice-Dean, by Prof. Giovanni Pica. Both have started their new roles on September 1, 2019, taking over from Prof. Gagliardini, Dean from September 2015 to August 2019, and, respectively, from professors Mario Jametti and Paul Schneider.

“Studying economics is a rewarding and fascinating experience. Theories, models and tools in the subject areas of microeconomics and macroeconomics, finance, management, law and quantitative methods not only provide the means to address the economic challenges of modern societies, but also allow a better understanding of the problems and opportunities that future generations will face as responsible citizens, workers, entrepreneurs, or volunteers of non-profit organisations”, says the new Dean in his welcome address. “To all those who are and will be part of our Faculty, and especially to our students, I hope that you will appreciate the inclusive nature of this Faculty, which enables and encourages the interaction with professors who conduct research at an international level and who are passionately committed to teaching.” 

Gianluca Colombo is Full Professor at the Institute of Management and Organisation (IMO). Previously he was Full Professor at Università dell’Insubria, and Associate Professor at Bocconi University in Milan and at Università degli Studi in Pavia. His other previous roles: Deputy Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome; Visiting Professor at the EM Lyon business school, at Aix-Marseille III University, and at Università Federico Santa Maria di Valparaiso (Chile). Prof. Colombo is member of EURAM (European Academy of Management), and of the Academy of Management. He has published several books and academic articles in the fields of strategic management, M&A, complexity theory, entrepreneurship, and family business –the latter for which he is a consultant. Prof. Colombo is the Director of the USI EMBA – Executive Master in Business Administration.

Giovanni Pica is Full Professor at the Institute of Economics (IdEP). After completing his Ph.D. at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, he held positions at the University of Southampton, the University of Salerno and the University of Milan. He is also affiliated with Centro Studi Luca D’Agliano, CSEF, Centro Baffi and fRDB. His research concentrates on the labour market effects of financial market imperfections, globalization and labour market institutions. He is currently working on the role of internal capital and labour markets within organizations, on the labour market impact of the financial crisis, on the link between social mobility and macroeconomic outcomes, and on occupational licensing. His work has been published, among other journals, in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of European Economic Association, the Journal of International Economics.