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From Good to Great – Workshop 16.10

From Good to Great

Friday 16 October (17:30 – 19:30)

To enroll, please write to: emba@usi.ch

Inspired by Jim Collins’ renowned book Good to Great, this interactive workshop will explore how Disciplined People, Disciplined Thought, and Disciplined Action can drive sustained organizational success.

Speaker

Paulo Gonçalves is Professor of System Dynamics and Management at USI and Director of the Executive MBA. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) and a 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 System Dynamics and 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).

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