When: 15, 16,17 & 18 December 2016
Where: USI, Executive Center, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13,6900 Lugano

The session is divided into two courses

Course: Strategy

Professor Erik Larsen

Professor of Management

Course Description and goals

This course focuses mainly on business strategy, examining issues central to its long and short-term competitive position. We will explore a variety of conceptual frameworks and models to analyse and gain insight about how to achieve or sustain competitive advantage.

The journey starts by analysing the external environments influence on a firm’s performance and subsequently analysing the impact of the internal context (resources and capabilities) on firm performance.

After covering both the external and internal perspectives, we bring these concepts together to discuss firm level competitive advantage.

The first part of the course focuses on single business or business unit strategy while the second part of the course explore corporate

Course: Finance

Professor François Degeorge & Professor Eric Nowak

Professor François Degeorge
Professor of Finance

Prof Eric Nowak
Curriculum
Full Professor of Financial Management and Accounting at USI since 2003, Eric 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. Eric 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), and an affiliate member of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI).

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.

Course Description and goals

This course teaches the logic underlying the firm’s financial decisions: investment, financing, and payout policies. The main themes will be:

• What is 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.
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Our Executive MBA is hosting Anna Maria Rugarli, Director Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility at VF International, after her interesting testimonial we will have Open Day with our master’s co-director Prof.Colombo.

SCHEDULE:
6pm to 7pm

Making Sustainability Happen @ VF

Event Details:

This presentation will give an overview of VF Corporation’s business and explain how the Sustainability & Responsibility (S&R) strategy is integrated at its core. We will go through some real-life examples of the benefits that S&R brings to the business with a specific focus on the programs carried out in the region Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA).

Anna Maria Rugarli is Director Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility at VF for EMEA region. She is responsible for developing and implementing the Sustainability and CSR corporate strategy in the Region.

She joined VF in December 2010 and holds a strong track record of successfully creating Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility programs at Nike, a global leader in the field, where she worked for 11 years holding a variety of positions within the Sustainable Innovation team.

In July 2015, Anna Maria has been appointed as President of the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) whose mission is to support valuable conservation work by raising funds from within the European Outdoor sector and promoting care and respect for wild places.

OPEN DAY
7pm to 7.30pm
Prof. Gianluca Colombo
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at USI USI EMBA Director

Prof. Laura Zoni
Professor of Accounting

Event Details:
you are invited to meet our Director of the Master and EMBA Team. This is an opportunity to learn about our Master Program, to find out details about application process and all the possibilities offered from scholarship to financial aid support.

7.30 pm to 8.30pm
Networking Aperitif

After a presentation of the program, the EMBA Director and Alumni will be available for personal consultations to help answer any questions you may have.

When: Thursday 10 November 2016

Where: Executive Center, Università della Svizzera italiana, Main Building, Via G. Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano

Global Business Knowledge At Your Fingertips

USI EMBA is a part-time, 18-month Executive Master in Business Administration designed to form 360-degree management professionals with a strong Swiss and international network. USI EMBA integrates frontier, global business knowledge taught by internationally recognized management scholars, with a specific focus on the individual needs and objectives of each student.

For further information feel free to contact us

Limited places, book now at emba@usi.ch

USI EMBA Graduation Ceremony 2016

When: 8 October 2016

Where: USI EMBA

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gianemilio Osculati

Gianemilio Osculati BIO

Mr. Gianemilio Osculati is Head-Wealth Management Operations at Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, a Member at Ordine dei Farmacisti delle Milano, Lodi, Monza e Brianza, Chairman at Intesa Sanpaolo Assicura SpA, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Eurizonvita SpA, Deputy Director at Intesa Sanpaolo Previdenza Societe di Intermediazione and a Member of Ragioneria Generale dello Stato.

He is on the Board of Directors at Italmobiliare SpA and Ariston Thermo SpA. Mr. Osculati was previously employed as an Independent Director by Société Générale SA, a Managing Director by McKinsey & Co., Inc. (Italy), Chief Executive Officer by Banca d’Italia, Chief Executive Officer by Bank of America, NA (Milan Branch), an Independent Director by Gas Plus SpA, a Managing Director by Intesa Sanpaolo Vita SpA, Chairman & Owner by Osculati & Partners SpA, and Chairman by Valore SpA.

He also served on the board at Banca Fideuram SpA, Gas Plus, Inc., Intesa Sanpaolo Life Ltd., Miroglio SpA and MTS Group (Italy).

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Bocconi and an MBA from Indiana University.

What do CEOs expect from their managers?

In today’s business environment, where the achievement of results is often only a premise for a good individual assessment, what do CEOs expect from their managers?

Gianemilio Osculati, founder of Osculati & Partners SpA, will be focusing on that topic in the Executive MBA Graduation’s speech.

The Graduation Ceremony is open to the public and will take place at 4:30 pm on Saturday 8^th October 2016 at USI Auditorium (Lugano Campus).

Dr. Osculati will share his managerial experience to the EMBA graduates, candidates and the audience.

AGENDA

16:30 – 16:45 introductory remarks: Prof. Patrick Gagliardini, Dean, Faculty of Economics

16:45 – 17:15 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gianemilio Osculati

17:15 – 17:30 Conferring of Diplomas

17:30 – 18:00 Class Address: EMBA5 Class Representatives

18:00 – 18:05 USI EMBA Teaching Awards

18:05 – 18:20 USI EMBA CLUB / EMBA Alumni Representatives

18:20 – 18:30 Closing remarks

Prof. Gianluca Colombo, EMBA Co-Director

Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci, EMBA Co-Director

18:30 APERITIF @USI Executive Center

The ceremony will be held in English.

EMBA is hosting dr Paolo Ciccarelli for a public speech:

Topic:

We will analyze the role of Schmid Spa in the fashion industry, the reasons for the turnaround (2009-2013), the new business plan and its drivers, focusing on the main issues: people and culture.

Mr. Ciccarelli will describe also the changing process and give some insights about the future steps.

Keynote Speaker is Paolo Ciccarelli, SCHMID SpA Milano,Chairman & CEO. In 1994 he became the Head of Administration, Finance and Control of “Consiglio di Borsa”, working on the privatization of the “Consiglio” and the constitution of Borsa Italiana S.p.A. February 1997.

In Borsa Italiana Group he was Director of Administration of the MIF S.p.A. and of the Clearing and Guarantee S.p.A. During the acquisition of the Borsa Italiana by the London Stock Exchange he was the Group CFO, Managing Director of BIt Systems S.p.A. and Securities Services S.p.A., Member of the Supervisory Board of MTS S.p.A. and Chairman of its Audit Committee.

Director of Finance of the London Stock Exchange until 2008, from 2008 to 2010 he was Chief Financial Officer of Barclays in Italy and President of Barclays Family S.p.A. Self-employed since 2011 ( www.studio-ciccarelli.it ), with the role of CEO has successfully completed some turn around in Bakery and Fashion sectors. He also followed a start-up in the Energy sector and has recently concluded an assignment of Temporary management for a private bank in Milan.

He is currently Chairman & CEO of Schmid S.p.A. (Fabrics and accessories for high fashion footwear) and non-executive director of Almaviva – The Innovation Company SpA , Lombardia Srl Management and member of the SB Metroweb Sviluppo SpA.
He is part of the pannel of Gerson Lehrman Group for Banking and Financial sector.

In the academic year 2012/2013 he has been holder of the Chair of Economics at the Faculty of Engineering of the Polytechnic of Turin and author of articles published in specialized magazines.

When: 6th October 2016, 6pm-7pm

Where: Executive Center, Università della Svizzera italiana, Main Building, Via G. Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano

FREE registration at emba@usi.ch

Take advantage of this opportunity and book your free-day lesson for the upcoming session.

When: 6, 7, 8 & 9 October 2016
Where: USI, Executive Center, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13,6900 Lugano

The session is divided into two courses. You can find all courses details below.

Human Resources Management

Professor Filippo Wezel
PhD (Bologna), M. Sc. (Bologna)

Accounting

Professor Laura Zoni
PhD(Bocconi)

FREE registration, simply send an e-mail to emba@usi.ch

Professor of Organization and Management at USI.

PhD (Bologna), M. Sc. (Bologna).

Filippo was appointed Professor of Organization theory at the Faculty of Economics in September 2009. He is also Permanent Visiting Professor at EM Lyon (France) and Senior Extra-mural Fellow of CentER (Netherlands). With a PhD in Management from the University of Bologna, he previously held appointments at the University of Groningen (post-doc) and at Tilburg University (assistant and, then, associate professor). He acquired further academic experience as visiting researcher/professor at the Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania, USA), at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and at Lille I (France).

His teaching interests include organizational theory and organizational behavior, which he has taught at the undergraduate, master, PhD and executive levels. His research focuses on organizational diversity, inter-firm mobility, and industry emergence. He won the Credit Swiss teaching award in 2008.

Take this opportunity to be part of our HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT course at USI EMBA for one day.
FREE registration at emba@usi.ch

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT – course description

“HR should be every company’s “killer app.” What could possibly be more important than who gets hired, developed, promoted, or moved out the door? Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It’s that simple.” (Jack Welch, Business Week, 2006)

The course focuses on the management of human capital, which in today’s economy appear as essential for the success of a company as much as an effective production systems or a well-designed marketing strategy. Indeed many managers now recognize that a critical source of competitive advantage comes having an effective system for obtaining, mobilizing, and managing the organization’s human assets.

The purpose of the course is not to get into the technical detail of issues such as the psychometric of test validation, the specifics of doing job evaluations, the mechanics of interviewing – issues well covered by many human resource professionals. Rather, the course adopts the perspective of the general manager and addresses human resource topics from a more strategic perspective – i.e., as a source of competitive advantage.

The flow of the course follows a macro-to-micro approach. In the first block we will discuss the overarching framework of the course and we will deal with motivation, job design and compensation. In the second block, the ways to improve recruiting, reducing the outflows of personnel within an organization and properly manage retention will be discussed.

Laura Zoni
Professor of Accounting and Control

Ph.D. in Accountancy, Bocconi University. She he is currently Full Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Senior Professor at SDA Bocconi, and MISB Bocconi. She has been Associate Visiting Professor at STERN School of Business, New York University (1995-1998 and 2008-2012) and at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1999-2000).

Sometimes consultant to the United Nation Development Program and the European Union for management training projects in Eastern Europe, Russia, Kirghizstan and Kazakhstan. She has been consulting to the industry on performance measurement systems design and implementation.

Research interests include the role of CFO, innovation and control, management of change and accounting change, role of performance measurement systems and international development, CEO compensation and incentives. Independent Board Member of Yoox Net-a-Porter since 2015.

Course Description and goals

This course provides the necessary information and tools to understand accounting principles and methodologies. Successful completion of this course will result in the ability to read and meaningfully interpret financial statements that are prepared and disseminated by business entities as well as rationally structure accounting information to inform and support managerial decision-making.

In terms of skill objectives the participant will gain:

• Command of “language of accounting”
• Awareness about the strengths and limitations of financial accounting systems
• Knowledge about implications of alternative accounting principles and methodologies
• Ability to examine financial accounting information
• Expertise in cost accounting system design
• Ability to prepare accounting information to support managerial decision (capacity allocation, pricing decision, make or buy etc.)

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How to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in Family Business. Toward an enterprising family approach.

This workshop is based on a research program ongoing at USI (IMA) in cooperation with a global research network
STEP: http://www.babson.edu/Academics/centers/blank-center/global-research/step/Pages/home.aspx

When: Thursday 20.11 from 18:30 to 20:00
Where: @USI, A23 Room, Red Building 2nd Floor, Via Buffi 13, Lugano

AGENDA

18:30 Registration and Welcome

18:40 Prof. Gianluca Colombo
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at USI.
USI EMBA Co-Director

19:10 Dr. Flavio Audemars
President of CDA Audemars Group

19:40 Open Panel Discussion

20:00 Aperitif

Want to join this event ?
Limited places, book now at emba@usi.ch