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DruckerChallenge.org 2013 - Inviting the young generation to participate

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Inviting the young generation to participate in the 2013 Drucker Challenge Contest

As in previous years, the 2013 Drucker Challenge Contest will provide an opportunity for students young managers and entrepreneurs to win prizes and gain free access to the annual Global Peter Drucker Forum, set to be held on November 14 and 15 in Vienna. 
The Essay Contest continues in its known format, the Video Challenge brings a major innovation. Uploaded videos will be voted in an open online voting process starting on July 1. To learn more about the Contest Theme "Innovation - Inspiration - Lessons from Innovators from the Arts and Sciences" 

The judging Panel for the Essay Contest will be again Chaired by Professor Lynda Gratton from London Business School. 
The judging for the videos will be based on public voting using an elaborate online voting system. https://twitter.com/ 

Twitter: @druckerchlng Hashtag: #GPDC13 
www.druckerchallenge.org  

NSHMBA Case Competition Sponsored by PepsiCo

NSHMBA Case Competition Sponsored by PepsiCo

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The National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) is the premier Hispanic business organization dedicated to building and advancing Hispanic leadership through graduate management education and professional development. Recognized as the nation’s most prestigious Hispanic organization, NSHMBA has 39 chapters in the U.S. and Puerto Rico serving over 21,000 members since 1988.

ecch Case Awards 2013 produce new winners and new winning schools

ecch Case Awards 2013 produce new winners and new winning schools

25 February 2013

Excellence and innovation in case writing and teaching is spreading worldwide. An unprecedented seven schools from across the world were first-time winners in the 2013 ecch Case Awards and Competitions.

Summary of results: (Please see Notes for Editors for full details of each Award)

• For the first time, the Overall winning case was authored at Warwick Business School
• First-time award/competition winning schools: CEIBS, ENPC School of International Management, ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Geneva School of Business Administration, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, SP Jain School of Global Management and UCLA Anderson School of Management
• Innovation in Case Teaching (new competition) was won by faculty from Geneva School of Business Administration and SP Jain School of Global Management with a case tailored to the new, virtually connected, multi-location generation of students by building gaming and a ‘playful hunt for information’ into their case study through an on-line classroom
• New Case Writer went to Felipe Caro of UCLA Anderson School of Management also making history by winning a category award with the same brand new case
• Hot Topic – The Business of Sport went to Urs Müller and Ulrich Linnhoff, ESMT European School of Management and Technology, with Bernhard Pellens, Ruhr-Uni Bochum. ESMT also won a category award with another case co-authored by Müller
• Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method award went to Peter Killing, IMD
• Harvard Business School won three category awards
• INSEAD won one award and shared a second (with CEIBS)
• ENPC School of International Management and University College Dublin each won one category award.

New MBA Tournament website - 9-12 May, 2013

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Newly redesigned #HEC #MBAT website is officially live. Check it out: http://www.mbat.org @HECParis @hecparismba #MBA #sports#competition

MBA Games winner reveals strategy for success

The Globe and Mail, January 14 2013

Winning the 2013 MBA Games national competition was just the start for 40 students from the Schulich School of Business in Toronto. The York University-based business school team will have a busy competitive season, nationally and internationally.

The team beat 21 rivals from other graduate business schools to win its fourth MBA Games at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University in Hamilton, earning it the Queen’s Cup. Schulich, which had previously won in 2003, 2004 and 2010, will be the host next January...

INFORMS - World’s Best Analytics Teams Compete to Win INFORMS Edelman Award in Operations Research

December 18, 2012, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®)

SAN ANTONIO, TX, December 18, 2012 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®) today announced the six finalist organizations that will compete for the 2013 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences, a prize for excellence in advanced analytics, that will take place in San Antonio, Texas next spring.

The 2013 Franz Edelman Award finalists, who were named by CPMS, the association’s special interest group for operations research and analytics practitioners, are:

1. Baosteel, together with the Logistics Institute of Northeastern University (China), the RH Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University (United Kingdom) for “Operations Research Transforms Baosteel’s Operations.”
2. Chevron for “Optimizing Chevron’s Refineries.”
3. Dell, with Dell Global Analytics, for “Dell’s Retail Transformation through Analytics.”
4. ...

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About INFORMS

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS^®) is the leading professional association for professionals in advanced analytics. INFORMS is an international scientific society with 10,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, financial engineering, and telecommunications. INFORMS serves the scientific and professional needs of operations research analysts, experts in analytics, consultants, scientists, students, educators, and managers, as well as their institutions, by publishing a variety of journals that describe the latest research in operations research. Further information about INFORMS, analytics, and operations research is at www.informs.org.

The mai Bangkok Business Challenge® @ Sasin

www.bbc.in.th

The Bangkok Business Challenge^®, The Thailand's global new venture plan competition conducted in English, was created in 2002 to encourage post-graduate students in business administration programs across Thailand and Asia to become more entrepreneurial. Teams from business administration programs will not only be competing for the most prestigious prize of all, Thailand's H.M. The King's Award, but will also have the opportunity to acquire prizes with over $113,000 in total value, including over $29,000 in cash. The judging committee, including leading entrepreneurs, professionals and venture capitalists, will be looking for the most attractive new venture based on submitted written business plans, live presentations and venture exhibits.

Project Inspire. People’s Choice Award! - vote on the top nine finalists

Via @proj_inspire

Project Inspire: 5 Minutes to Change the World is back! Win USD25K to help empower women and girls through entrepreneurship. Call for entries opens on 8-March!

Global · http://5MinutesToChangeTheWorld.org

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We’re excited to unveil the top nine finalists of Project Inspire 2012:
• Carpets for Communities
• Cents for Seeds
• E-learning for Change
• Women’s Private Personal Marketplace
• Buffalo, Cows, and Leaves: Empowering Nepali Women
• The Gudri Project
• Project Stitch
• Project Light – Darkness/Interrupted
• LIFE – Livelihood Initiatives for Empowerment of Women
Which project is your favorite, and/or inspires you the most? Cast your vote now for the Project Inspire People’s Choice Award! http://bit.ly/PI12VOTE

Ferran Adria, El Bulli, awards prize to Harvard Business Students for El Bulli Foundation proposals

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(Ferran Adria, Wikipedia: was the head chef of the El Bulli

Gourmet Food: Ferran Adria has been called the world's greatest chef. He is certainly one of the most creative. Gourmet magazine referred to Adria  as "the Salvador Dali­ of the kitchen". His restaurant, El Bulli, was recently named best restaurant in the world by the prestigious Restaurant magazine.)

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Barcelona, 27 June 2012

The jury has awarded the first prize to the two teams from the Harvard Business School, Duende and Team A. The team from the London Business School wins the second prize.
• The two winner teams will get a prize of 10,000€ each
• The jury notes the winners’ creativity, innovation and groundbreaking ideas of the three teams that made it to the final after competing with 31 projects from prestigious business schools around the world..

EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2012 Recognise Outstanding Partnerships in Learning & Development

News of EFMD

www.efmd.org/eip-award-2012

Now in its sixth year, the 2012 winners include: BAE Systems, Goldman Sachs (Foundation), Leeds University Business School, Lonza, Merck, Saïd Business School, Siemens & Siemens Learning Campus, the Wharton School, University of St. Gallen.

There were also highly commended cases coming fromBSH Bosch and Siemens Home Appliance Group & Axialent Europe, Nexus & Newcastle Business School, Airbus &  AirBusiness Academy & The Open University Business School, DTEK & DTEK Academy & Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (KMBS), UBS & UBS Business University and Novartis International & Novartis Corporate Learning.

"Developing people, enhancing skills and providing a learning environment are essential components for any company and all of the winning cases and highly coommended cases show that investing in people is not a luxury; it is a key asset for business success if done well," said Dr. Richard Straub, Director of Development at EFMD.

The 5 winners were short-listed by an international jury-panel and the winning partnerships will be presented during EFMD's Executive Education conference hosted by the Instituto Internacional San Telmo in Seville, Spain on the 3-5 of October.

Excellence in Practice Award Winners 2012

Category: Organisational Development
Lonza AG & University of St. Gallen (Executive School of Management, Technology & Law)
“Business Unit Strategy at Lonza - Linking Executive Education and Strategy Development”

 Category: Executive Development
Merck & Co., Inc. & The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania)
“Merck Global Human Health Executive Development Programme”

Category: Talent Development
BAE Systems Inc & Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
“Trusted, Innovative, Bold - Building Global Mindsets for a Global Future” 

Category: Professional Development
Siemens AG & Siemens Learning Campus
“Senior Siemens Production System (SPS) Expert Program”
 

Category: Others
Goldman Sachs (Foundation) & Leeds University Business School
“Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses in Yorkshire & Humberside”

The 20 finalist projects for BBVA Open Talent & Red Innova are announced, Madrid 14,15 June, 2012

BBVA press room 08-06-2012

www.redinnova.com/en/, 14/15 June 2012.   

 is one of  "Supporters" (first in list at end of page).

The 20 finalists for the 4th BBVA Open Talent & Red Innova competition have been chosen. 500 projects from Spain and Latin America were submitted for the “Technology and innovation” and “Financial services” categories of this competition. This prestigious international programme for entrepreneurs and start-ups supports development of innovative technology projects.

The projects chosen will be presented to a specialist jury at Red Innova 2012, which will be held at Madrid’s Circo Price on 14 and 15 June. The entrepreneurs will have an opportunity to explain their projects to leading businesspeople and others interested in the digital world.

This year, the 20 finalists have been divided into two categories:

("Tieasy" blog post with links to finalists)

Technology and innovation

- MoveinBlue (Spain)
- Wideoos (Argentina)
- TeDa! GalaxyMovil (Colombia)
- Kalakai (Chile)
- Clic Educa (Chile)
- Buguroo Offensive Security (Spain) 
- AgentBot (Argentina)
- OxoBox (Argentina)
- Energywe (Spain)
- Socialare (Argentina)
- Meddoc (Colombia)
- Gamisfaction (Spain)

Financial services

- StartBull (Colombia)
- MProjects Soluções em Informática Ltda (Brazil)
- Bolsa.com (Spain)
- BULL4ALL (Spain)
- Ventura MatchMakers (Colombia)
- RinPay (Spain)
- Ahorro.net (Spain)
- Mykey Acceso Autorizações Virtuais Ltda (Brazil)

You can find out more about these projects on the BBVA Innovation Centre website.

BBVA will give 100,000 euros to two initiatives, in return for a 10% holding in their share capital. The two winners will be announced at the end of Red Innova. Through this competition, the Bank is demonstrating its commitment to technology-based projects and talent. Through programmes such as Open Talent, BBVA supports internationalisation and the development and visibility of projects and companies committed to new business models for banking, technology and the Internet.

Contact  
BBVA
Tel: +34 91 374 01 16
comunicacion.corporativo@grupobbva.com

For financial information on BBVA

Red Innova

Red Innova is an international meeting place for innovation, the Internet, creativity and the entrepreneurial spirit where Latin America meets the world. With presentations on the latest issues, Red Innova is an essential opportunity for finding out about the future of the digital world, developing international networking opportunities and getting to know leaders in technology, innovation and Internet.

Over 2000 visitors from Europe, Latin America and the USA will be able to attend presentations and workshops on the latest tools, new business projects, international investment opportunities and international success stories; there will also be a session dedicated to leading developers.

About BBVA

BBVA is a customer-centric global financial services group founded in 1857. The Group has a solid leadership position in Spain, it is the largest financial institution in Mexico and it has leading franchises in South America and the Sunbelt Region of the United States. Its diversified business is biased to high-growth markets and it relies on technology as a key sustainable competitive advantage. BBVA ranks among the leading eurozone banks in terms of ROE and efficiency. Corporate responsibility is inherent to its business model, and it promotes inclusiveness and supports research and culture. BBVA operates with the utmost integrity, long-term vision and best practices, and is included in the main sustainability indexes.

"What is out there?" Social Impact Finance video contest - SCIEF Center, with IE & King AbdulAziz University

www.scief.es/competition/

What is out there?’ is a call for participants from all over the world to submit a video and participate in a competition on how to finance entrepreneurs through non-conventional ways.

Tell us about it and win a: FREE trip to Madrid and €2000

SCIEF Center, with the collaboration of IE Business School and King AbdulAziz University, invite you to share your innovative ideas that could shape how the world finance systems emerge. All you have to do is make a short video (3 mins max) that showcases examples of social impact finance from your community and around the world. We ask you to be creative; use videos, photos, drawings, or whichever visual medium you like in order to transmit your ideas.

Tuck 1st place in the GBSN 2012 contest! with "$300 house"

www.gbsnonline.org

INSEAD Wins Top Global Case Study Award: ecch Case Awards 2012

(Financial Times, Della Bradshaw, "Insead scoops top award with tale of toilet paper", February 2, 2012)

ecch Case Awards 2012 produce winners from across the globe

20 February 2012

An unprecedented thirteen schools from seven countries in four geographical regions have produced winners in the 2012 ecch case awards and competitions. The annual case awards are made in Nine Categories, plus One Overall Winner, and one prestigious award recognising an Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method. The two competitions are for a new case in a Hot Topic (this year Social Media and Change), and for a New Case Writer.

• The Overall Winning Case was authored at INSEAD
• The Richard Ivey School of Business’ James A Erskine, Michiel R Leenders and Louise A Mauffette-Leenders scooped the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method award
• Harvard Business School won Two Category Awards and the Hot Topic Competition
• Cambridge Judge Business School, Cranfield School of Management and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University each won a Category Award
• IBS Research Center and ICMR Center for Management Research each won a Category Award
• An Ivey Publishing case authored at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business won a Category Award
• Stanford Graduate School of Business won a Category Award
• MIT Sloan School of Management, in partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital, shared the award for a New Case Writer with London Business School.

Please see Notes for Editors below for full details of award winners.

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Overall winner
ecch, Renova Toilet Paper: Avant-garde Marketing in a Commoditized Category
Yakov Bart, Pierre Chandon, Steven Sweldens and Raquel Seabra de Sousa
INSEAD

A INSEAD video case study focusing on the marketing strategies of Portuguese paper company Renova has won the overall global award for the best case study from ECCH (formerly European Case Clearing House). Renova differentiated itself from its peers -- some of whom are international paper companies such as Georgia Pacific -- through innovation...and the creation of Renova Black toilet paper, launching the rolls from supermarket shelves into fashion shows and designer boutiques. The project was directed by marketing professor Pierre Chandon and the video component was produced in-house at INSEAD. Professor Chandon and Renova CEO Paulo Pereira da Silva introduce the first video segment of the video case study...

 

 

Video Contest for MBA Students and Recent Grads

Here at the Global Business School Network, we are dedicated to the idea that MBAs can change the world.  Whether through their volunteer work, student projects, new enterprises or blossoming careers, many of your students are making a difference in the developing world.  Our MBA Challenge Video Contest was designed to celebrate and reward their efforts.

The MBA Challenge Video Contest welcomes video submissions from current and recently graduated (in the past 5 years) MBA students from any business school around the globe.  Individuals or teams are encouraged to make an innovative and powerful video of no more than 6 minutes, demonstrating how they are applying their business skills to impact lives in the developing world.  

First prize is an all expense paid trip for one team member to the GBSN Annual Conference at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi, India, June 11 - 13, 2012.

Click here to watch last year's winning videos (click on the "2011 Winners" tab)

The contest will open for submissions March 1st - 31st.  Online voting will occur April 1 - 15th, after which a panel of judges will select a winner and two runners up from the top 5 videos, based on online voting.

Please help us spread the word to your network! Information on the contest is available at http://www.gbsnonline.org/mbachallenge/.  

You (and they) can stay up to date on the latest information on the MBA Challenge, as well as information on MBAs making a difference by following @MBAChallenge on Twitter. (You can find GBSN @GBSNonline and on Facebook)

Here is a flyer for you to share . 

Global Business School Network
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Washington, DC  20005 USA
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GBSN is an international non-profit organization working to strengthen management education for emerging markets through a unique global network of business schools.

EFMD Case Writing Competition – submit your case by Sept 17th

EFMD Case Writing Competition – submit your case by Sept 17th  The EFMD Annual Case Writing Competition is one of the most important competitions of its kind globally that supports case writing and in 2010 we had winning cases from INSEAD, IMD, IE Business School, CEIBS, Tsinghua University, MIT Sloan School of Management, IBS Center for Management Research, ENPC School of International Management, Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), INCAE Business School. This year we have fourteen categories, which have been generously sponsored by the schools and institutions listed: EUROPEAN CATEGORIES •    Corporate Social Responsibility: Sponsored by IE Business School, ES •    Entrepreneurship: Sponsored by E.M. Lyon, FR •    Finance and Banking: Sponsored by Toulouse Business School – Groupe ESC Toulouse, FR •    Supply Chain Management: Sponsored by BEM Bordeaux - ISLI Global Supply Chain Management, FR SPECIAL CATEGORIES •    NEW Latin American Business Cases: Sponsored by Universidad Externado de Colombia, CO •    NEW MENA Business Cases: Sponsored by HEC Paris in Qatar, QA •    Responsible Leadership: Sponsored by University of San Diego, School of Business, US •    Family Business Sponsored by The Family Business Network International, CH andInternational Family Enterprise Research Academy, CY •    Sponsorship Opportunity Emerging Chinese Global Competitors •    Euro-Mediterranean Managerial Practices and Issues: Sponsored by Euromed Management, FR •    Public Sector Innovations: Sponsored by Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, CA •    African Business Cases: Sponsored by China Europe International Business School, (CEIBS), CN •    Indian Management Issues and Opportunities: Sponsored by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, UK •    Sponsorship Opportunity Inclusive Business Models Also for the first time in 2011 and in collaboration with ecch, we will have a “best of the best” award where an overall winner will be selected. For more information and to submit your case, please visit: http://www.efmd.org/case We hope that your school will take part and support this important initiative and ask you to please pass this email onto any of your colleagues / faculty members who might be interested in participating.   If you would like to access the winning cases of 2010, you may do so by visiting the following link:Case Winners

Global Social Venture Competition 2011 - Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley

www.gsvc.org

GSVC's mission is to catalyze new sustainable ventures that address significant social issues, build awareness of the social entrepreneurship field and educate future leaders

2011 EFMD Excellence in Practice Award

Download "List of winners and highly recommended - EiP 2011.docx"

Last Thursday, the winners were announced of the 2011 EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards

• Royal Bank of Scotland, INSEAD & Wharton (category: Organisational Development)
• Microsoft & Emerging World (formerly Adopt a Business)  (category: Executive Development)
• Royal Philips Electronics & Center for Creative Leadership & Wharton (category: Talent Development)
• ING & 'the world we work in' (category: Professional Development)
• ArcelorMittal & TMA World (category:  Special Cases)

ecch Case Awards 2011 (First global awards, succeeds the annual European Case Awards)

Winners

MIT Sloan and Cambridge Judge Business School Announce First Worldwide Time Critical Social Mobilization Experiment / Competition

Marketwire press release, June 22, 2011

Cyber Aspect of the Competition Is Open to the World (on Google Maps or Google Earth)

A first ever worldwide Time Critical Social Mobilization Experiment, which will unfold in the form of a worldwide competition, will debut on July 2, 2011...www.LangleyKnights.com

Explanation by MIT Sloan experts

Think of it as a high-tech treasure hunt. The award is up to $16,500 and it goes to the first person or group of people who determine the whereabouts of up to five knights we’ve placed in public parks throughout Great Britain. Three of the knights are real – actual people dressed in shining armor – but two of them are of the cyber variety, represented by photographs that can be seen on Google Maps or Google Earth.

It may sound silly, but this is not a game; it is an experiment in time-critical social mobilization. That is, our objective is to understand more about the different ways in which large, geographically diverse teams use social media networks to organize and solve problems rapidly.

The inspiration for our grand experiment came from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s research outfit (Red Balloon challenge)...

2011 EFMD Case Writing Competition

In addition, and for the first time this year we have partnered with ecch to introduce the Best of the Best Category where an overall winner will be selected from the 14 winning cases. The winner will be featured in the EFMD’s Global Focus Magazine, will receive visibility across the EFMD and ecch networks and be awarded with an engraved plate stating their achievement at the EFMD Annual Conference Awards Ceremony in 2012

The deadline for the submission of cases is September 17^th, 2011. 

For more information and for submitting your case, visit the 2011 EFMD case Writing Competition page at the following link: www.efmd.org/case

EUROPEAN CATEGORIES

• Corporate Social Responsibility: Sponsored by IE Business School, ES
• Entrepreneurship: Sponsored by E.M. Lyon, FR
• Finance and Banking: Sponsored by Toulouse Business School – Groupe ESC Toulouse, FR
• Supply Chain Management: Sponsored by BEM Bordeaux - ISLI Global Supply Chain Management, FR

SPECIAL CATEGORIES 

• NEW Latin American Business Cases: Sponsored by Universidad Externado de Colombia, CO
• NEW MENA Business Cases: Sponsored by HEC Paris in Qatar, QA
•  Family Business Sponsored by The Family Business Network International, CH and International Family Enterprise Research Academy, CY
• Sponsorship Opportunity Emerging Chinese Global Competitors
•  Euro-Mediterranean Managerial Practices and Issues: Sponsored by Euromed Management, FR
•  Public Sector Innovations: Sponsored by Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, CA
• African Business Cases: Sponsored by China Europe International Business School, (CEIBS), CN
• Indian Management Issues and Opportunities: Sponsored by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, UK
• Sponsorship Opportunity Responsible Leadership
•  Inclusive Business Models: Sponsored by United Nations Development Programme, Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative

GMAC MET Fund, Ideas to Innovation (i2i) Challenge, Winners

Winners

Management Education for Tomorrow (MET) Fund

Created in 2008 with a US$10 million commitment, the GMAC® Management Education for Tomorrow (MET) Fund formalizes and enhances the Graduate Management Admission Council's long-standing commitment to investing in strategic philanthropic initiatives that benefit business and management education globally.

Ideas to Innovation (i2i) Challenge

The GMAC MET Fund Ideas to Innovation (i2i) Challenge seeks to find the world’s best ideas for improving graduate management education and then to fund the top proposals, turning the best ideas into active innovation.

Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2011 - Steven Klepper - "birth and growth of new industries"

"Since its inception in 1996 the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research (on Wikipedia) has become firmly established as the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship. This Prize is awarded annually and it consists of the statuette "The Hand of God”, created by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, and a Prize sum of 100,000 euros".

According to the statutes the Award should be given to “a person who has produced scientific work of outstanding quality and importance, thereby giving a significant contribution to theory-building concerning entrepreneurship and small business development, the role and importance of new firm formation and the role of SMEs in economic development"

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2011 award winner Steven Klepper presented 2011-06-16.

Steven Klepper is professor of economics and social sciences at Carnegie Mellon University´s Tepper School of of Business in Pittsburgh, USA. (Faculty page)

...In looking at the evolution of industries, Klepper explores regularities in the time paths of entry of new producers, exit of incumbent firms, industry output and price, and the rate of product and process innovation. To explain these regularities, he develops theories that feature differences in firm capabilities and the advantages of large firms in appropriating the returns from their innovative efforts. The theories are also used to explain differences in firms' innovative efforts, the composition of their innovative effort and their innovative success...

Olivia Lum of Hyflux named Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011

First woman to win the award in 11th year of the competition

Monte Carlo, 5 June 2011 – Olivia Lum, Group CEO and president of Hyflux Limited, from Singapore, was last night named the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 at an awards ceremony held in Monte Carlo's Salle des Etoiles. Olivia was picked from among the 49 country finalists vying for the title, each of whom had already been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year in their home countries. This year saw more female finalists - six in total - than ever before.

Olivia founded Hyflux in 1989 with two staff and start-up capital of $US15,000. Today, Hyflux has become one of the world's leading desalination suppliers. It is publicly traded with revenues of US$450m, employing more than 2,300 people in operations and projects in Southeast Asia, China, India, the Middle East and North Africa.

Tan Sri Francis Yeoh Sock Ping, Managing Director, YTL Group of Companies and Chairman of the judging panel said, "Olivia's entrepreneurial spirit and the immense social and health benefits her work brings make her an exceptional winner of World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011."...

The Mix: The Management 2.0 Challenge

About

In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we’re inviting management innovators from around the world, in every realm of endeavor to share the most progressive practices and disruptive ideas that illustrate how the governing principles and tools of the Web can make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Do you have an instructive case study (a Story) or an experimental design (a Hack) that demonstrates how Web 2.0 values (including transparency, collaboration, meritocracy, openness, community and self-determination) can be unleashed to overcome the design limits of Management 1.0—and help to create Management 2.0?

The Management 2.0 Challenge will unfold in two stages: a preliminary stage (Deadline: July 18, 2011) and a final round for several finalists or finalist teams (Deadline in late summer).

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All entries will be judged by our panel of leading management thinkers and progressive practitioners, including:

• Lynda Gratton, Professor, London Business School and author of The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here,
• Gary Hamel, cofounder, The MIX, author of The Future of Work,
• Umair Haque, Director of the Havas Media Lab and author, The New Capitalist Manifesto,
• Eric Hellweg, Editor, Harvard Business Review Online,
• James Manyika, Director, McKinsey & Company,
• Mark McDonald, Group Vice President, Gartner,
• Tim O’Reilly, founder & CEO, O’Reilly Media,
• Clay Shirky, Internet thought leader and author Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.

Beta Gamma Sigma - The International Honor Society

www.betagammasigma.org

@BGSHonorSociety

Beta Gamma Sigma (About) is the international honor society serving business programs accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in a business program accredited by AACSB International.

Gary Hamel: Crowdsourcing The Reinvention Of Management

Article of Forbes, May 9, 2011.

The winner of the world’s first MBA contest for management innovation was announced last week. The competition, the HCL MBA M-Prize, was organized by the Management Information Exchange (MIX), an open innovation platform seeking to “crowd-source the future of management.” It relies on idea-challenges called “M-Prizes” to stimulate contributions from their community of management practitioners.

In this competition, with 114 teams competing from business schools around the world, the winning team was from Harvard Business School. The team won an opportunity to implement their business idea at HCL, a real-life $3.1 billion IT global services company, with $50,000 to fund the initiative...

InnoCentive - Challenge Driven Innovation

Challenge Browser

About: Facts and Stats + News and Events

e.g.

The Economist-InnoCentive Entrepreneurship Challenge (May 5, 2011: "Yale School Of Management Student Wins Entrepreneurship Competition")

or

POSTED: 5/06/11

InnoCentive and The Economist are teaming up to connect InnoCentive’s talented community, The Economist’s millions of readers and the rest of the world with The Economist conference series entitled the Ideas Economy. Solvers are asked to provide well thought-out concepts for novel and useful metrics or indices that quantify important trends that affect humanity. The winning solution will receive a substantial cash award and be highlighted at the upcoming Economist Ideas Economy: Human Potential conference in September 2011.

AWARD: $10,000 USD  |  DEADLINE: 6/20/11

GBSN Congratulates MBA Video Challenge Winners - Haas School of Business

29 April 2011, GBSN’s MBA Challenge Winner Announced!

The first MBA Video Challenge drew to a close earlier this month and the selection committee had the difficult job of choosing a winner from nine fantastic submissions. GBSN was pleased to receive videos from Haas, IMD, MIT Sloan, Thunderbird, UDD, Tuck and Strathmore which highlighted the innovative work of MBA students in Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Mongolia, Panama, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Projects included the development of new technologies, the creation of new growth strategies, the provision of technical assistance, and the identification of new income-generating projects.

And the winner is… the eight students of Haas School of Business (USA) led by Hrishika Vuppala! These eight students spent one year working with Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) and the Wildlife Conservation Society to produce an independent organizational audit, a three-year strategic plan, and a geographic expansion strategy. COMACO provides a market-based solution to wildlife conservation by combating food insecurity through the creation of markets for rural farmers who might otherwise practice destructive land use or poach wildlife.

The Haas team identified and recommended the investments necessary to overcome historical difficulties, act more swiftly in the pursuit of opportunity, and shift from tactical considerations to concerted strategic maneuvers. By doing so, COMACO is better positioned to reach profitability in a sustainable manner and achieve long- term success.

Congratulations to the following Haas students – Hrishika Vuppala, Lauren Gellman, Kristin Mannix, Dan Parker, Paul Collins, Ciera Ashley, and Ricardo de Paula. We look forward to celebrating your success at GBSN’s annual conference in Mexico City!

European Business Awards 2011 - Last call for entries

www.businessawardseurope.com

Group 2 Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.

June 23rd
- Entry closes for Group 2 of the competition, candidates are short-listed.

UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School (Dublin) - MBA Rugby World Champions

"World masters: UCD Smurfit take title", The Irish Times, April 18, 2011

THE UCD (University College Dublin) Smurfit School were recently crowned MBA rugby world champions after winning a bruising tournament in America.

The team captained by Robert Downes and coached by Barry Gibney cut a swathe through several American universities and one English one to take the title.

They beat their hosts Duke (22-12), the University of Texas (35-12), UCLA Cal state (22-7) before holding off Wharton (17-14) in a hard fought quarter-final, literally as two Smurfit players required hospital treatment, while the Pennsylvania team also had two players receive a red card.

Tight encounters were to become a feature of the knock-out stages as the Dublin college edged past the London Business School 12-8, claiming victory with a last-minute try.

The final, against Harvard, was another nail biting affair with UCD Smurfit holding out following a series of five-metres scrums to prevail 13-10.

It was definitely a thoroughly merited and hard-earned success following 320 minutes of uncompromising rugby over three days. Seapoint’s Stephen Verso was the only member of the squad who regularly plays AIL rugby...

2010 EFMD Annual Case Writing Competition and the winners are.........

2010 EFMD Annual Case Writing Competition
and the winners are.........

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Corporate Social Responsibility
Agility: A Global Logistics Company and Local Humanitarian Partner (PDF exec. summary)
Winner:  INSEAD
Luk VAN WASSENHOVE, Margaret HANSON, Rolando TOMASINI

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Entrepreneurship
JMC SOUNDBOARD: CROSSING THE SOUND BARRIER
IMD
Benoit LELEUX, Laure LE HARDY DE BEAULIEU

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Finance and Banking
Hyflux Ltd: Progressive Project Financing
INSEAD
Pierre HILLION, Jean WEE

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Supply Chain Management
The Yogyakarta Earthquake: IFRC's Experiences with the Regionalized Supply Chain
INSEAD
Aline GATIGNON, Luk VAN WASSENHOVE, Aurélie CHARLES

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Euro- Mediterranean Managerial Practices and Issues
Novartis, Commercial strategy for success
IE Business School
Claire BASTIEN, Teresa SERRA

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Family Business
THE MERCKS OF DARMSTADT SERIES
IMD
Benoit LELEUX, Anne-Catrin GLEMSER

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Emerging Chinese Global Competitors
Shanghai Automotive and Ssangyong Motor: A Tale of Two Dragons (A)(B)
CEIBS
Raymond XU

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Indian Management Issues and Opportunities

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African Business Cases

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Responsible Leadership

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Public Sector Innovations

Management Principles and the Washington, DC Public Schools (A): Choosing a Chancellor, Management Principles and the Washington, DC Public Schools (B): Race to the Top

MIT Sloan School of Management

Leigh HAFREY, Cate REAVIS

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Inclusive Business Models
Fabio Rosa “Bridging the Electricity Divide in Brazil”
IBS Center for Management Research
Vivek GUPTA, Harish AYTHA

2011 EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards - Submit Cases Now

The EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards attract case studies showcasing outstanding Learning and Development (L&D) partnerships. Fields might include Leadership, Professional, Talent or Organization Development and the programme described in the case should be deployed by an organisation either together with its in-house L&D unit or with an external L&D provider (Business School, Exec Education Center, etc...).

Case-studies must demonstrate Operational Excellence (e.g. sustainable partnership & effective learning environment etc.); Excellent Programme Management (e.g. design, delivery, evaluation, selection methodology of participants etc.); and above all Strong Business Impact (e.g. alignment with corporate strategy, impact for company, incorporation in corporate HR processes etc.).

The 2010 winners included:
Sustaining Partnership - Ashridge and the National Trust
Transforming IT managers - HSBC and LFGSM
Leveraging the University Classroom - Prism, KickApps and Bentley University
Search for leaders starts at home - Pon and ORMIT
Engineering the future - MAN ,WHU and Saïd Busines School

The Global Focus Special Issue provides an executive report on the 5 winning cases of 2010 click here. The EFMD Research Report "Partnerships in Learning and Development" provides an insight into the ideas and methods behind successful partnerships click here.
Are you interested in participating in 2011? Please consult the detailed assignment brief and submission guidelines.  The deadline for the submission of cases for the 2011 Award is: 1st May 2011. An information session webinar will be organised on the 3rd March. Registration is required.
www.efmd.org/eip

The EFMD Excellence in Practice Award attracts case studies describing an effective and impactful Leadership and Development intervention.  These programmes can be deployed by an organisation (company, public sector, charity etc..) either together with their inhouse L&D organisation or with an external L&D provider.  

The specific Learning and Development domain in which the intervention is situated can be:

• Leadership Development
• Professional Development
• Talent Development
• Organisation Development

All partners must act as a team and contribute to the case study to ensure a balanced view.

Winning cases will be featured extensively across the EFMD network and published by Emerald Group Publishing.

For any additional information, please contact:
Florence Grégoire, Manager, Corporate Services, +32 (0)2 629 08 37  

MBA Challenge Video Contest Launches TODAY (Feb1) - Global Business School Network

Business schools play a key role in achieving development goals - from creating social innovation to improving health care to achieving shared economic growth - and we're looking for MBAs who are making a difference. GBSN is excited to announce a new video contest for MBA students and recent grads from around the world. Show us how you are making this world a better place through your student projects, start-up enterprises, and new careers. Submit your videos demonstrating how your work is making an impact in the developing world and how your MBA experience helped make it a reality. Who Can Enter?  Participants must meet the following criteria: Current & Recent MBA grads (from the past 5 years) From accredited full-time, part-time, & EMBA programs Teams or Individuals From anywhere in the world! Contest Rules:  Submissions must include the following:  Fully completed online submission form Agreement to the terms & conditions Uploaded Video (no longer than 6 minutes) Dates to Remember: February 1: Contest open for submissions April 1: Contest closes April 22: Winners will be notified June 20-22: Prizes awarded at the 2011 GBSN Conference Selection Criteria:  Submissions will be judged on the following:  Innovation in your approach to overcoming challenges Impact on your partners, clients, & the local community Developing Countries as the focus of your project Business Education & the role it played in your success Creativity of your video production Prizes!  1st Place: All expenses paid trip to 2011 GBSN Conference  2nd & 3rd Place: Highlighted on GBSN's website & newsletter & video shown at 2011 GBSN Conference

MIT Global Challenge - problems to solve - launch January 7th

http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/problems

There’s a world of problems needing innovative thinkers to tackle them. The Global Challenge offers a space to define and discuss ways to solve these problems. Student who are ready to tackle any of these problems are encouraged to create a team and collaborate with others to develop their projects. Check back regularly for updates and new problems.

 

NYC Next Idea 2010-2011 - business plan competition

Next Idea

New York City is where innovative ideas come to life. This exciting annual competition - now in its second year - invites you to develop business plans that can be launched in New York City.

Sponsored by New York City Economic Development Corporation in partnership with Columbia University, this contest can put you at the forefront of the City's latest business breakthroughs.