Boldbrain challenge

Ever think to turn into a reality your great idea?

Take the opportunity! Participate at Boldbrain Startup Challenge and win a USI EMBA scholarship!

Boldbrain Startup Challenge: a new Swiss accelerator for innovative projects which born from the evolution of the StartCup Ticino.
Organized by Agire Foundation and the Start-Up Promotion Center, it is aimed as a support to 20 start-up companies, with a three-month training course that allows them to assume an identity and to continue with their business plans.

Strongly wanted by the Division of the Economy and supported by the bank EFG, the program starts in September and ends on December 4 at USI in Lugano, where the five most innovative ideas will be awarded. The program is for the first time open to applications from outside the Canton Ticino.
Prizes consist in a total of 120,000 CHF and other benefits for 50,000 CHF.

Official Boldbrain website: http://boldbrain.ch/

Official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BoldbrainCH/

Lugano: Press conference. In the picture from right:  Stefano Rizzi (Director of Department of Finance and Economy) Barbara Vannin (Project Manager Fondazione Agire), Alcide Barberis (Director Centro Promozione Start-up CP Start-UP ), e Fiorenza Trento ( Fondazione Agire, coordinator of communication). © Ti-Press / Francesca Agosta

Dicronis wins the Young Entreprenuer 2018

On 5 June 2018 there was the deliberation by the grand jury to select the Young Entrepreneur out of the projects presented by the school winners.
The winner for this 2018 edition is Patrizia Marshalkova, EMBA candidate, with her start up Dicronis.
The objective of the competition, submitted to students, is to award the best entrepreneurial project in connection with France or Switzerland, whatever the field of specialization: service, product or trademark.

About Dicronis

The first product of Dicroni’s pipeline, Lymphit, measures patient’s lymphatic function in a safe, home-based and highly scalable manner. The initial indication of Lymphit is the earliest possible diagnosis of secondary lymphedema, a serious side effect of many cancer therapies.

By remotely monitoring the lymphatic function, the physician is enabled for the first time to perform an early diagnosis, before the swelling has occurred, and evaluate the best conservative treatment for the patient.
This leads to a great improvement of the prognosis and quality of life of the patient and important savings for the healthcare system and society.

In the picture, Patrizia Marschalkova with the Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France and the French Ambassador.

When: Wednesday 6th June 2018

Where: Hotel Pestalozzi

USI EMBA is glad to be present at the press conference for the launch and presentation of the new BOLDBRAIN Startup Challenge program, jointly organized by the Fondazione Agire and CP Start-UP, with the institutional and financial support of the Department of Finance and the Economy.

This is the new Ticinese acceleration program for innovative startups, which replaces the historic and famous StartCup Ticino.
All the news, the new brand, the evolution of the program and the objectives of the ambitious project will be presente on this occasion.

FULL EMBA Scolarship

The USI Executive MBA is a winning choice for companies, managers and start-ups. It is an international advanced general management program and its flexible format allows managers and executives to complete all the courses while working fulltime.
The USI Executive MBA reflects the extraordinary nature of the teachers: the program takes place in Lugano, a strategic location, representative of Swiss academic excellence, and is enriched with an International Business module in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

USI EMBA plays a fundamental role in wanting to transform Ticino into an active society, which is why it rewards the most innovative project of Boldbrain with a full scholarship, trying to recognize and give merit to the entrepreneurial spirit and continuous education.

Attend one of our EMBA courses for a day!

Have an espresso, take a tour of our Executive center, and talk with your future professors and current program participants.
This session we are offering two courses:
Quantitative Methods
Organizational Behavior

Quantitative Methods

• Learn the most frequently used quantitative methods for analyzing data and solving decision problems.
• Use these methods to solve a number of business cases from a variety of contexts.
• Learn how to use Excel spreadsheets and other software to implement these quantitative methods.

When:

Thursday May 24, 10:00 -12:30
Friday May 25, 8:30 – 12:30
Saturday May 26, 8:30 – 12:30
Sunday May 27, 8:30- 12:30

Prof. Kostis Christodoulou

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.

Organizational Behavior

• Learn how to develop a vision and inscribe it into your organization’s culture.
• Energize and influence others when authority is lacking and conflict looms large.
• Learn how to build a network of trusted contacts across organizational roles and boundaries, and to make painful choices when needed. This course aims to increase the personal and situational awareness needed to both develop and deploy one’s leadership skills.

When:

Thursday May 24, 13:30 -18:00
Friday May 25, 13:30 – 18:00
Saturday May 26, 13:30 – 18:00

Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci

Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci holds a Ph.D. in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is Associate Professor of Organization and Management at the University of Lugano, Switzerland, and Professor at SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy. His research focuses on the role of collaboration, interpersonal relations and social networks on the performance of individuals and organizations. He has taught and teaches Organization Theory and Organizational Behavior at the undergraduate level; Networks and Organizations at the graduate level; Knowledge & Organization at the PhD level; Organizational Design, Change Management, Leadership and Negotiation at the executive and MBA level.

Please enroll at: emba@usi.ch

USI EMBA Advisory Board meets 22 May at Executive Center, Università della Svizzera italiana.

Giorgio Berner
President of Camera di Commercio Svizzera in Italia

Maurizio Camponovo
Honorary Chairman HR Ticino

Gianluca Colombo
Professor and Director EMBA, Faculty of Economics, USI

Umberto Giovine
Entrepreneur and Founder of the “Associazione Talento nella Vita”

Paola Franzetti
Usi Emba Representative, Senior Legal Counsel

Daniele Lotti
Head of EOC Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale and President of SES, Società Elettrica Sopracenerina SA

Jean Pierre Pedrazzini
Egon Zehnder International (Suisse) SA

Franco Polloni
Head Central Switzerland, Ticino & Italy Region, EFG Bank, Switzerland

Julia Renaux
USI EMBA Representative, Client Relationship Manager

Join us for the unique opportunity to attend one of our EMBA courses!

When

Thursday 17 May 10.00 – 18.00
Friday18 May 8.30 – 18.00
Saturday 19 May 8.30 – 18.00
Sunday 20 May 8.30 -12.30

This May’s module our EMBA students will start Managerial Decision Making course.

Course description and goals

We all continuously have to make judgments about various risks and uncertainties, and make decisions to obtain the outcomes we desire, often under time pressure. To succeed in today’s rapidly
evolving business landscape and complex socio-economic environment, we need to excel as decision makers. Yet, behavioral economists and psychologists have convincingly demonstrated that our reasoning is often prone to mistakes, biases and narrow frames, which inevitably lead to losses
and shortfalls.
This course improves reasoning, persuasion, creativity and decision making skills by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of human judgment and thinking patterns. The sessions involve class exercises, cases, group activities, puzzles, readings and individual reflections which ensure that participants experience first-hand a variety of interesting and relevant decision situations.

Learning outcomes

▪ Being aware of your own decision style and tendencies
▪ Recognizing predictable decision traps to avoid mistakes
▪ Learning the correct lessons from your experience
▪ Acknowledging and correctly assessing uncertainty
▪ Using experiments to gather actionable insights
▪ Better predicting and influencing others’ judgments, decisions and behavior
▪ Expand options and choices through creativity

Please enroll at : emba@usi.ch