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

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

For this April’s module, our EMBA students will attend the Merger & Acquisition Management course.

When:
Thursday 26 April 10.00 – 18.00
Friday 27 April 8.30 – 18.00
Saturday 28 April 8.30 – 18.00
Sunday 29 April 8.30 -12.30

The course centers on the strategic management of M&A. The aim of the course is to give mid-level and senior managers the analytical and practical tools to manage mergers and acquisitions and to interact with external specialists involved in the M&A process.
The course will address the following issues:

> actual trends in M&A and relevant recent deals;

> scouting and strategic analysis of potential M&A targets;

> strategic analysis to evaluate the feasibility of a possible M&A transaction;

> financial assessment of the deal;

> teaser and management presentation development;

> origination and deal generation.

The course is a practitioner-oriented one, mixing traditional case discussion with the innovative format of the Executive Briefs-EB.

Guest speakers

Alessandro Santini: Thursday 26, 17.30

Head of Corporate Advisor Service
Banca del Ceresio SA 
Alessandro Santini, is the head of the corporate advisory service of Banca del Ceresio SA, he is active in the Lugano and Milan offices of the firm. Prior to joining Banca del Ceresio, Santini was the CEO of BSI Merchant SPA (the corporate finance arm of BSI Bank, now EFG International) since 2012. Formerly he worked for Ferragamo Group and for a leading Italian family office. He developed a strong experience in M&A deals for mid-sized and large firms and in corporate bond issue, completing a number of significant deals.
He completed his undergraduate education in the US and earned an MBA from LUISS Business School in Rome.

Antonio Vania Panizza: Friday 27, 17:30

Managing director Muzinich

Vania Antonio Panizza is a Managing Director in Muzinich Milan office targeting Growth Capital deals. Prior to joining Muzinich, Vania was a Director with H.I.G. Capital in Milan focusing on mid-market private equity deals. Before that Vania was a Director with AlixPartners where he worked on profitability improvement initiatives and restructuring cases for industrial and consumer goods companies. Previously, he was an Associate Director with 3i Private Equity, where he participated to midmarket transactions in Italy, Spain and France and was a member of the firm’s general industrial practice. Prior to that, he was with Bain & Company. Vania started his career as an operations engineer at Pirelli in Italy and in the United States. Vania holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Master of Science in engineering from Politecnico di Milano and ICAI in Madrid. He speaks fluent Italian, English, and Spanish.

The speech will be followed by a networking aperitivo.

Professor Carmine Garzia

Carmine Garzia is a Fellow of the AMC – Advanced Management Centre where he carries out applied research for primary companies and institutions. He teaches Business Strategy and Merger and Acquisition Management at USI – Università della Svizzera Italiana.
His main research interests include: Strategic Management, Industry Structure and Competition, Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
He is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Pollenzo Bra where he is coordinating research and teaching activities in the field of Management applied to the food industry.
He teaches Entrepreneurial Strategy at Bocconi University.
He was Assistant Professor of Management at University of Valle D’Aosta, Post-Doctoral Fellow at USI – Università della Svizzera Italiana, Research Fellow at The Department of Management of Bocconi University and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Information Science of the University of Bergen. He received a degree in Business Administration and a PhD in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University.

Space is limited, book now at: emba@usi.ch