Be an EMBA for a day: 1,2 July

Take advantage of this exceptional opportunity and join us for the BE AN EMBA for a day experience, at Executive Center, Università della Svizzera italiana.
Saturday – Sunday: 08:30 – 17:30

Digitizing the business is not the same thing as becoming digital-ready.
The former is about improving the existing operations of the organization through the adoption of digital technologies.
By contrast, becoming digital-ready is about redefining the company’s business so as to articulate a new value proposition for the digital age and transforming the company’s business model to deliver on this new value proposition.
Through this immersive programme you will:

• Develop a systematic understanding of the business and entrepreneurial opportunities and challenges related to the “new normal” enabled by digital technology diffusion;
• Develop a systematic understanding of the strategic and organizational trade-offs to respond to digital transformation;
• Develop a systematic understanding of the key leadership, cultural and organizational hurdles and practices to make the transformation happen;
• Reflect on the personal leadership traits required to lead the digital transformation;
• Sharpen the skills to develop a digital transformation roadmap and lead its execution.

Lecturer:

Professor Gianvito Lanzolla 

Gianvito Lanzolla is Professor of Strategy at Cass Business School, City University London, which he joined in April 2006. He currently serves as the Head of the Faculty of Management and he is the Founder and Director of the Cass’s Digital Leadership Research Centre (DLRC).
Before joining Cass Business School, Professor Lanzolla served on the faculty of the London Business School. Over the years, Professor Lanzolla has had several visiting appointments at leading business schools including Hyderabad’s Indian School of Business, Berlin’s ESMT and University of Bologna.

For more information: emba@usi.ch

Negotiation – An essential skill for executives

When: 17-18 June 2023

Where: Executive Center, Blue Room, Università della Svizzera italiana

Lecturer: Kandarp Mehta

This session looks at the fundamental elements of the negotiation skill of an executive.

Given that a huge percentage of your working day is spent negotiating, you have already developed a negotiation style through your own experiences. In this program we will create a framework that will help you to formalize your experiences, and to take some time to think critically about what may now be an intuitive process for you.
Consequently, this will allow us to establish a framework that will help you increase your learning every time you are involved in a new negotiation.
The session will provide practical tools and tips that managers can use in their day-to-day negotiations and become more effective.

Come join us in a transformational weekend!

Limited places, book now at emba@usi.ch

Kandarp Mehta BIO

Kandarp Mehta is a PhD from IESE Business School, Barcelona. He has been with the Entrepreneurship Department at IESE as a Lecturer since October 2009. His research has focused  on creativity in organizations and negotiations. He has been awarded fellowship for Dispute Resolution Research Center of Kellogg School of Management and has been a scholar there. He did his MBA from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India. He is also a member of Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.
He frequently works as consultant with startups and family businesses on issues related to Innovation and Creativity. He has published several articles, book chapters and a book on the subject. He has conducted several Negotiation and Creativity Workshops for corporate executives and management students in Europe, USA, Latin America and India. His work has been cited in media including in BBC America and GQ magazine.
Being a polyglot he has taught extensively in English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brasileiro), Catalan, Hindi and Gujarati. He is also actively involved with Creative Industries. He has worked for prestigious production houses such as TV3 (Television), El deseo (films) and La Cubana (theatre).

Next BE AN EMBA For a day: Digital Trasformation,1-2 July, 2023

Due to unforeseen circumstances, it has become necessary to reschedule the event to a later date, which is currently to be determined. Stay tuned!

Navigating Uncertainty in a Changing Economic Landscape
Lessons from California

Survival of the fittest: Navigating macroeconomic changes in a shifting business landscape.
Join us for a dynamic roundtable discussion where we’ll explore the latest strategies for success in an era of economic uncertainty.
From plummeting prices to evolving trade policies, Swiss companies face unique challenges as net exporters.
Our expert panelists will share insights and perspectives on how to adapt and thrive in this new normal.
Don’t miss this opportunity to network with industry leaders and gain valuable knowledge that can help you stay ahead of the curve.
After the event, a networking aperitivo will be offered in Executive Center.

Guest speakers

• Professor Paulo Goncalves: Moderator of the event
  Paulo Gonçalves is Professor of Management at USI and Director of Executive MBA11. He is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) and former Research Affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research combines System Dynamics Simulation, Behavioral Experiments and Econometrics to understand how managers make decisions in humanitarian settings. Currently, he has been developing supply chain experiments to understand and improve managerial decisions in humanitarian operations. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from MIT Sloan and a M.Sc. from MIT. Prior to USI, prof. Gonçalves held appointments at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of Miami Graduate School of Business.
  While at Sloan, Paulo worked with Intel’s Strategic Capacity group as an Intel scholar. For his work, he has received the Intel Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award (2003-2004). For his dissertation, he has won the 2004 Doctoral dissertation award given annually by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP).

   

  

• Professor Gianluca Colombo
  Professor of Management an entrepreneurship, Director Executive MBA. 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.

   

  

• Professor Laurent Frésard
  
  Prof. Fresard earned a PhD in Finance from the University of Neuchatel in 2009. He was an assistant professor of finance at HEC Paris between 2008 and 2011, and an assistant and then a tenured associate professor of finance at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland between 2011 and 2017. He is a professor of finance at USI, where he holds a senior Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) chair. His research focuses on corporate finance, and specifically on the interactions between firms, financial markets, and the real economy. His latest research investigates the effect of stock prices on firms’ actions, and the role of the financial sector in the allocation of talents in the economy.

• Professor Lorenz Kueng
  Prof. Küng joined the economics department of USI in 2019. He earned a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, both Bachelor and Masters degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Fribourg in 2005, and a diploma in economics from the Swiss National Bank’s Study Center Gerzensee in 2006.
  Before joining USI, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Boston, and served as a Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is a Research Affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and a Faculty Member of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI).