When: Tuesday 5th December at 18:30
Where: USI Via G. Buffi 13, Lugano

Keynote Speaker: Paolo Tacconi, Digital Expert
Senior Consultant, Lifeware A.G.
Senior Vice President Digital, Ferrari
Executive Producer, Microsoft

Moderator: Eleonora Cattaneo
Professor of International Marketing
Ph.D. University of Pavia

Most organisations are embracing technology and digitalisation as an opportunity for growth and change. But change can be painful, and there aren’t any free lunches at the table of technology. Even one of the most successful leaders in the industry, the founder of Alibaba Jack Ma, foresees that the role of CEO will be taken over by robots. Paolo Tacconi will share his expertise in managing the transition process, how to embrace digitalisation in a modern organisation, and how to lead through transformation.

Examples from Ferrari, Microsoft, Fintech and media will be discussed with help from people in the audience.

Are you ready for change?

Agenda:
18:15-18:30 Registration
18:30-19:00 Keynote Speaker: Paolo Tacconi
19:00-19:30 Interactive Discussion
19:30 Aperitivo

RSVP here: https://mybossisarobot.eventbrite.com/

Paolo Tacconi is a digital transformation professional with 25+ years of experience across different industries, Countries, products and teams. Making business – and customer – sense out of the mess of accelerated technological changes is his job and passion. He managed successful projects in the media industry, in software companies and in manufacturing, working extensively and on a global scale for companies like Microsoft, Ferrari and RCS/Corriere della Sera. He grew in a small Italian town from a family of entrepreneurs, studied Economics and Philosophy at Bocconi University in Milan and is a professional journalist. When asked, he says he is proud of two things: his family, and the impact on people he helped to grow in their leadership assignments across the world.
A few professional highlights: growing a digital team from startup to 200 people in the early 2000; taking a newspaper from laggard to digital leader in 2005; building the most profitable and engaging network of web portals in Western Europe in the late 2010; taking the Ferrari brand to the future with a tailored digital platform, engaging both luxury customers and fans. His latest project is an AI driven insurance platform, developed with a group of mathematicians and programmers in Switzerland.

Eleonora Cattaneo’s areas of expertise include strategic and international marketing as well as brand management and communications. She has global consulting experience in a variety of Fortune 500’s: Fiat, CNH Industrial, Renault and Nestlé among others. She has acted as in-house advisor to CMOs providing insights as well as support in deployment of new market entry strategies, brand repositioning and new product launches. She has been visiting a professor at EM Lyon, the Helsinki School of Economics and Cranfield School of Management.

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

This month’s module our EMBA students will begin their Advanced Courses in Finance and Strategy. Have you been thinking about getting an EMBA? This is the perfect moment to take your career to the next level.

This session our students will be learning about Finance and Strategy:

Finance
• Learn about corporate finance
• The concept of value
• The discounted cash-flow (DCF) method in theory and practice
• Capital budgeting decisions
• Market efficiency and financial policy
• Financial structure and the Modigliani-Miller theorem
• Payout policies: dividends and share repurchases

When
Friday, 17th November / 13:30 – 19:00
Saturday 18th November / 13:30 – 19:00
Sunday 19th November / 8:30-12:30

Erik Nowak
Full Professor of Financial Management and Accounting at USI since 2003, Erik Nowak studied at the Universities of St Gallen and Bocconi in Milan and completed his PhD at the University of St Gallen in 1997 after a research period at the University of Chicago with a fellowship of the National Science Foundation. Subsequently, he was assistant professor of finance at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he received his venia legendi in 2002. Erik Nowak was visiting professor at the Universities of Hohenheim, COPPEAD Rio de Janeiro, CEIBS Shanghai, and Witten/Herdecke, a fellow of the Center for Financial Studies (CFS), an affiliate member of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI), and adjunct professor at the Université de Luxembourg School of Finance (LSF). He has published in the top journals of fields as diverse as finance, entrepreneurship, and business history, among them the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business Venturing, and Business History. He was the national coordinator for the European Research Network ‘Regional Comparative Advantage and Knowledge Based Entrepreneurship’. During his sabbatical academic year 2010-11 he was the Rock Center for Corporate Governance Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Since 2016 he is the Director of the Master in Financial Technology and Computing (FinTeC).

Strategy
• Environmental Analysis
• Resources and Capabilities
• Competitive positioning
• Corporate Strategy
• Vertical Integration
• Competitive Dynamics
• Strategic Innovations

When
Friday, 17th November / 8:30-12:30
Saturday 18th November / 8:30-12:30
Sunday 19th November / 13:30-18:00

Erik Larsen 
During the period 1996 -1998 he was an EU Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Bologna. He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Economics, Copenhagen Business School and his MSc from the Technical University of Denmark. He has taught a range of different courses in management, strategy and decision sciences at undergraduate, graduate (MBA) and PhD level. He has also taught executive programs at leading universities and companies, in systems thinking, system dynamics, strategy and energy deregulation (in Europe, North and South America and Africa). He has consulted for companies and governments in strategy, deregulation of utilities, and modelling. He has published widely in the areas of computational organizational theory and strategy, energy deregulation, and nonlinear dynamics. He won the Credit Suisse teaching award at USI in 2010.

The Global STEP Summit is a meeting of enterprising families connected to the most important research centres all over the world once every 3 years to share their experiences, discuss the best practices and enrich one another.
The event is organized by EMBA Director Gianluca Colombo.
The main topic of the Summit will be the turbulent global economic situation: Thriving on Chaos, with interesting information on how family businesses cope with economic trends, innovation and social changes. Enterprising families come from all over the world giving the chance to gain regional insights.
The Global STEP Summit is sponsored by the Association of Family Businesses Ticino (AIF Ticino) that counts around 80 family businesses in the region and fosters the interests of this economic group by supporting family values.

Where: USI
When: The event starts on the 8th November 2017 and the first day is only for STEP Board Members.

On the 9th of November 2017, the event opens for STEP Academics.
The 10th and the 11th of November are Family Business Days.
During the last day (11th of November) some hours are open to the general public and will see a broader participation.
Don’t miss the event!

Discover the program here

The 3rd edition of the Long Night of Careers will be taking place this November 16th. The event is organised simultaneously in 14 academic institutions all over Switzerland.

In addition to the traditional moments of interaction between students and field experts, this year the Long Night of Careers presents a series of roundtables in which students can participate.
This new feature of the event represents a unique opportunity to gain insights on labour markets.

Participate in our workshop “USI EMBA BOOST YOUR CAREER: NEVER STOP LEARNING”
In today’s competitive business environment updating your professional skills has never been more important. Come and learn how to rise above the status quo in this engaging workshop!

With EMBA Alumni:

– Sergio Napolitano, General Manager Vas Division, TekkaDigital
Sergio Napolitano graduated with an EMBA degree in 2012. He is an Area Manager for Tekka Group, a business consultant, and co-founder of start-up Karinas Beauty and Wellness. He has additional competencies in project management and software engineering.

– Michele Matis, Chief Executive Officer at Plastifil
Michele Matis is director of Plastifil from September 2015, with years of experience, competencies in general management, human resources, sales, marketing, project management, quality, supply chain.

– Anna Maggio, Head of Banking Operations VIP Service Desk Avaloq Sourcing (Switzerland & Liechtenstein)
Anna Maggio worked as an advisor for VIP Service Desk and as a Middle Manager. She is now Head of Banking Operations VIP Service Desk. She served as a Vice President of Institutional Clients for Deutsch Bank from 2000 to 2007.

– Elena Giordano, Partner, Albacore Wealth Management
Albacore is a society of consultancy that offers experience, competencies and professionalism for entrepreneurial families and high net worth individuals. Elena Giordano’s quote: “Help and you will be helped and turn problems into opportunities“

Moderator: Prof. Gianluca Colombo, Director EMBA

When: 16th November 2017, from 20.00 to 21.00
Where: Room A-33, Red Building, USI Campus
Language: IT/EN

On Saturday October 21st the EMBA6 graduation ceremony was held in the USI auditorium.

The guest speaker of the ceremony was Karl Heinz Salzburger, CEO of VF International and Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer at VF Corporation.

The event was a great success: EMBA students celebrated with their colleagues, relatives and friends at a special aperitivo in the USI Executive Center, followed by an exclusive gala dinner at Metamorphosis.

Congratulations to our new EMBA graduates! We wish you the best for the next step of your careers!

Read the press article 

Interested in our Executive MBA?

Come and join us for a one-on-one lunch with program director Prof. Gianluca Colombo!
This is a special occasion to learn more about what the USI EMBA program has to offer and to ask any specific questions you might have.
Small class sizes, customized approach, and international faculty make the USI EMBA experience one-of-a-kind. Don’t miss this unique opportunity!

To reserve your space contact us at emba@usi.ch