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YPO (Young Presidents' Organization) Global Leadership Summit, Singapore, February 28, 2012

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YPO Global Leadership Summit

Each year, YPO members meet with renowned speakers to discuss today’s top global issues from business to philanthropy. The next Summit is 28 February – 1 March 2012 in Singapore.

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NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2012

NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2012, 14th - 16th February, Mumbai

4th annual Global Ethics Summit, 2012 + Ethisphere 2011 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics

www.globalethicssummit2012.com of ethisphere.com,

New York, NY, Grand Hyatt Hotel, March 15 - 16, 2012

Thomson Reuters and the Ethisphere Institute have teamed up to host the 4th annual Global Ethics Summit. As companies continue to expand and compete in the global marketplace, they are met with constant reminders of the importance of maintaining a robust global ethics & compliance program...

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Ethisphere 2011 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics

The following list of 100 individuals represents those that had significant impact in the realm of business ethics over the course of the last year.

Although many listed here are deserving of a lifetime achievement award, this list recognizes those that have made a significant impact specifically during 2011...

AACSB Deans Conference, New Orleans, February 8 & 9

Speakers of the conference

February 9, 2012

Santiago Iniguez will speak on Dean's Strategic Choices #AACSB

(B4) Deans’ Strategic Choices: How Business Schools Are Reinventing Higher Education and its Consequences for the Deans’ Role

2:00pm - 3:30pmIn this session, the author of The Learning Curve: How Business Schools Are reinventing Higher Education will present some of the ideas and proposals developed in forthcoming book which will be published in early September this year. Along with Gabriela Alvarado (Dean of MBA, Itam, Mexico), Iniguez will also present the results of a recent survey among Deans of leading US and European B-Schools on the strategic priorities for their schools.
• Gabriela Alvarado, Associate Dean, MBA Programs, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
• Santiago Iniguez de Onzono, Dean, Instituto de Empresa (IE) Business School

The Informal Economy Conference - Academy of Management

The Informal Economy

The Academy is calling for reviewers for its 2012 Annual Meeting Program, August 3 - 7, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

If you are interested in being a part of the review process, we highly encourage you to sign up as a volunteer reviewer for the divisions or interest groups in which you are a member, planning to submit to, or are interested in. Divisions and Interest Groups will also be following up with those of you who have reviewed in the past. Please note that even if you have reviewed in the past, you still need to sign up for the 2012 Annual Meeting.

...The review period for the 2012 Annual Meeting is from January 10, 2012 (Submission Deadline) to February 9, 2012 (Review Deadline).

SkollWorldForum.org - on Social Entrepreneurship

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IE Professor Lucy P. Marcus, conference "Future proofing the board" 2011, Thinkers50 Future Thinker Award

Which thinker has emerged over the last two years with the potential to change the world of theory and practice?  The answer to this question posed by Thinkers50 is Lucy P. Marcus, the Anglo-American board chair and non-executive director who challenges conventional wisdom both inside and out of the boardroom.

9 Dec EVENT: Future proofing the board was the topic of a dynamic debate hosted by IE Business School in London last Tuesday night. IE Dean Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño used the opening line of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities to aptly set the scene “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”.

Chaired by Professor Lucy Marcus, IE brought together a panel of opinion leaders to discuss the evolving role of the board and how boardroom agendas must adapt to our changing times.

Professor Marcus opened the discussion with reference to her belief that the role of modern corporate boards is the juxtaposition of traditional roles and strategic ‘stargazing’. Traditionally boards focus on finance, corporate governance, compliance, corporate risk, etc. Stargazing is where a board focuses on the organization’s strategy - is it robust, resilient and, as the panel put it, capable of responding to Donald Rumsfeld’s “known and unknown unknowns”?

3rd Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna - "A Quest for Legitimacy - How Managers Can Shape The Future"

Next week is the EFMD supported 3rd Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna and 3 exceptional sessions will be webcast -  1. The opening session on November 3 (9:00 to 11:15 AM CET) featuring  Charles Handy on “Is There a Future for Capitalism?”. Charles is to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from Thinkers50 – see the link.  Followed by a plenary session with keynote addresses from Mark R. Kramer and Adrian Wooldridge from The Economist on Shared Value. 2. The first panel session on November 4 (9:00 – 10:15 AM CET) featuring Deepa Prahalad, Iqbal Z. Quadir, founder of Grameen Phones and Venkatesch Valluri,President Ingersoll Rand India  on “Why the Bottom of the Pyramid Matters for Everyone” 3. The closing session on November 4 (16:00 to 16:30 PM CET) to hear the conclusions and key learnings from the forum delivered by Rick Wartzman, Executive Director of the Drucker Institute and the future perspective on the Drucker Society by Richard Straub, President Peter Drucker Society Europe All morning sessions will be retransmitted with an 8 hour delay so that they can be viewed in the Western hemisphere. •    To see the full Forum programme click here.  •    Twitter – For the Live Tweet of the Forum please follow us on @GDruckerForum and use the hashtag #GPDF11

Global Human Resources Forum 2011' in Seoul - Smart Education: Reinventing the Future'

www.ghrforum.org

Participants include decision makers and stakeholders from advanced and developing countries, experts from international, regional and non-governmental organizations, academic figures, and representatives from the private sector. Key persons from top Korean businesses and organizations will also be present. The total number of participants is projected at around 6,500.

Programs and Speakers including

Session I as part of Track B - the Conditions for the Continuous Growth of Global Business - How Top Global MBA Schools Prepare for the Future Challenges in Businesses, Industries and Economies

[Moderator] Sukeun Kwak, Professor, Seoul National Univ. Business School [Speakers] Santiago Iniguez, Dean, IE Business School [Speakers] Pedro Nueno, President, China Europe International Business School(CEIBS) [Speakers] Judy Olian, Dean, UCLA Anderson School of Management [Speakers] Byungtae Lee, Dean, KAIST College of Business

Sukeun Kwak Professor, Seoul National Univ. Business School Santiago Iniguez Dean, IE Business School, @SantiagoIniguez   Pedro Nueno President, China Europe International Business School(CEIBS) Judy Olian Dean, UCLA Anderson School of Management, @DeanOlian Byungtae Lee Dean, KAIST College of Business

NSHMBA 2011 Annual Conference (National Society of Hispanic MBAs) Oct. 13-15. Anaheim

www.nshmba.org/2011_conference

NSHMBA 2011 Program

Explore job opportunities with globally renowned and Fortune 500 companies looking to hire Hispanic talent

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EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference, Philadelphia Oct. 18-20 (also online)

www.educause.edu/E2011

EDUCAUSE 2011 Program

Whether your focus is on administration, teaching and learning, information technology infrastructure, information systems, cybersecurity, policy, library systems or information technology leadership, there's something at the annual conference for you.

2011 GMAC European Conference - 10-11 October, Madrid

2011 GMAC European Conference

Best in Class: Delivering a Differentiated Experience in a Globalised World

10 – 11 October, 2011 | IE Business School | Madrid, Spain

 

Press Release, marketwire, October 5, 2011.

LONDON and MADRID, SPAIN--(Marketwire - Oct 5, 2011) - The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) and IE Business School today jointly announced the upcoming "Best in Class: Delivering a Differentiated Experience in a Globalised World" -- GMAC's fourth annual European conference for professionals in graduate management education...

IE Global Alumni Forum 2011, with videos of @eazcarraga and @epunset

IE Business School Global Alumni Forum 2011

Review of Joint Alumni Conference (JAC) - The leading business schools of the world

www.jac-conference.org/jac/, Sept 30, 2011

 

"JAC Conference Brings Together CEOS, Deans and MBA Alumni From Top Business Schools", BusinessBecause

We just got back from the 2011 Joint Alumni Conference (JAC) in Zurich and thought we'd share some of the highlights. Set at the superb Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue, nestled in woodland with blue-sky views of the lake, the conference attracted an impressive array of speakers and several hundred MBA alumni from the world's top business schools...

3rd Global Drucker Forum 2011, Vienna – Early Bird until September 9

Global Drucker Forum – Early Bird until September 9

 

 

 

 

A Quest for Legitimacy: How Managers Can Shape the Future

As a consequence of popular demand and holiday period the Early Bird for the Global Peter Drucker Forum has been extended to September 9.

 *   Take advantage of a total discount of 30% until September 9 (15% EFMD advantage, 15% Early Bird)
 *   Register with special Link http://www.druckerforum-registration.org/forum.php
login: EFMD
Password: Drucker
In case of questions please contact vienna2011@druckerforum-registration.org
 *   Listen to and interact with world class speakers and peers to discuss
   *   The Future of Capitalism (Charles Handy)
   *   How can “Shared Value” deliver (Mark Kramer and Adrian Wooldridge)
   *   Enhancing the Management capacity in organizations (Rakesh Khurana and Angelika Bergmann)
   *   Why the Bottom of the Pyramid matters for everyone (Deepa Parahald and Iqbal Z. Qadir)
   *   Management Education at a Cross-Roads (Thomas Sattelberger, Rakesh Khurana and Daniel Weihs)
   *   CEOs and Senior Executives from Ingersoll Rand, Mazars, Raiffeisen Bank, GE, Deutsche Telekom and others will discuss the “how” in today’s organizations.
 *   Experience the author of the amazing best-selling novel and the ensuing revival of Peter Drucker’s ideas in Japan - Drucker in the Dug-out<http://www.economist.com/node/16481583>
 *   View the full program

Download (PDF) the background article “A Quest for Legitimacy” by Richard Straub, President Peter Drucker Society Europe for the 2011 Forum here.

Join us in Vienna and contribute to shaping the future of management as a key element of shaping the future of society.

In case of questions please contact Info[at]druckersociety.at

Dean Santiago Iniguez (IE) presents 2nd conference "Reinventing Higher Education"

 "Reinventing Higher Education: The Role of the University in a Global Society"

IE University, Madrid (Segovia), October 18, 2011

Following the success of the first event held in Segovia on May 4, 2010, IE University, in collaboration with the Chronicle of Higher Education is organizing the second edition of the Conference on ‘Reinventing Higher Education: The role of the University in a Global Society’, which will take place in Madrid at IE campus, October 18th, 2011. The aim of the conference is to gather university administrators, policy makers, business entrepreneurs, academics, student representatives and media experts to discuss the current status and future evolution of Higher Education (HE), and to debate the direction in which research, learning, governance and management of universities should now go. The conference is organized in partnership with The Chronicle of Higher Education, No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for university faculty members and administrators.

 

e>G8 FORUM, May 24-25, Paris - The Internet: Accelerating Growth

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European Business Summit 2011 - “Europe in the world: leading or lagging?”

www.ebsummit.eu

PRESS DOCUMENTS

Opening Plenary: Europe in the World: positioning for tomorrow's leadership - (Download Word document)

INSEAD’s Dean, Dipek Jain, explained that in India education is the top priority for every family. But he pointed out that education is not unified in Europe. He went on to say that Europe needs to develop an entrepreneurial spirit. “In China and India young people want to be like young people in Europe, they see the grass as greener but in Europe we need to look at the colour of our grass and look to the future not back into the past.”

VENTURE DAYS AT IE

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Tuck hosts leadership conference: 40 of the US´s most esteemed executives in cable technology and operations

The Dartmouth.com, May 2, 2011

Tuck School of Business and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers partnered for the first time to host 40 of the nation’s most esteemed executives in cable technology and operations, according to M. Eric Johnson, a science of administration professor and director of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck. The week-long leadership insitute, which took place between April 26 and April 30, was designed to help participants manage changes in their industry and to reinforce business, leadership and critical thinking skills necessary to remain competitive in an increasingly technological world, according to the Institute’s online brochure...Participants were also exposed to a variety of guest speakers such as Glenn Britt ’71, chairman and chief executive officer of Time Warner Cable Inc.

...“The key thing to understand about the cable industry is that you need to follow the changes in technology,” he said. “The industry is so fiercely competitive that without learning this innovative strategy and financial accounting it’s hard to succeed.”

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 58th Annual Management Conference, May 20, Chicago

www.chicagobooth.edu/mc/2011/

Videos and stories from 2010

www.chicagobooth.edu/mc/2010/coverage/

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Conferences - MBA Career Services Council

Events:

2011 Annual Conference	Conference	06/21/11 02:00 PM - 06/24/11 12:00 PM Mountain	Keystone, CO
2011 European Conference	Conference	04/10/11 05:30 PM - 04/13/11 02:00 PM British	Leeds, UK

Watch live in Peru- CENTRUM - International Conference Best Practices in Leadership: A Global Perspective

International Conference Best Practices in Leadership: A Global Perspective

World Economic Forum (Davos) Live!

www.livestream.com/worldeconomicforum

Head and Tail Winds

I am on a flight to London (Saturday), where I will be attending a meeting of AMBA (Association of MBAs) to discuss about new educational ways for improving interpersonal skills in students. Conveniently, London and Madrid are the two European capitals connected with the highest frequency of flights per day. Today, the Captain is announcing, our flight will take longer than expected due to "head-winds".

Here there is a suitable analogy applicable to relations in business and the importance of so called interpersonal skills. Head-winds are similar to those circumstances that may make managing people a further complicated task, like the size of organizations, cultural diversity or a company crisis. When pilots encounter head-winds, they increase the power or move to a different altitude to keep the same ground speed. In management, adverse circumstances may be faced by employing good interpersonal skills: for example, good communication may help to ease a company crisis and cross-cultural skills certainly favor the entrance in a foreign market.   

On the other hand, "tail winds" may be comparable to those natural or acquired talents that managers practice in their daily interaction with others. I will leave aside those innate talents that people are born with since there is not much room for learning here: the decisive thing is how to profit from them. Having a potent voice with a nice timbre, for example, can be an asset in teamwork, meetings and negotiations, if used properly, but it can also represent a setback if abused. On the other hand, acquired talents --those skills that managers have exercised for years and that become routines in their dealing with others- are a true source of "tail winds" for making the best business out of relations. I believe that almost all interpersonal skills can be categorized as acquired talents. This includes both analytical and emotional skills as well as other technical abilities such as communication, managing teams effectively or diplomacy, an important skill in the increasingly diverse global scenario. The worst naturally gifted for verbal communication, for instance, can evolve into effective orators provided the appropriate training schemes and perseverance. Remember Demostenes, the prominent speaker of Ancient Greece, who learnt his speech skills after carrying little stones in his mouth for an unbearable time.         

I enclose a map of the skills more demanded by recruiters, according to a survey published by GMAC.

Invest more in research training, say universities

Research training at the doctoral level should be a major focus of European research and development policy in the coming years, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) has said in a statement on doctoral training and the Bologna Process.

'In order to boost this continent's competitiveness and economic strength it is vital to invest in education, and in particular in higher and postgraduate education, since Europe's mostly technologically advanced knowledge economies are now crucially dependent on their ability to push the frontiers of knowledge in order to create a competitive advantage,' LERU writes.

The aim of the Bologna Process is to create a European Higher Education Area by 2010. In its statement, LERU points out that 'the organisation of research and doctoral training in Europe is highly fragmented, with over one thousand universities conferring doctoral degrees'. However, it is concerned that the degree of uniformisation that the Bologna Process has created for Bachelor and Maste r degrees will not be beneficial to research-based PhD training.

'Research-based PhD training, which requires a careful balancing of educational and research perspectives, is fundamentally different from the preceding education cycles,' states the paper. 'It would be unwise to create uniform, top-down, regulatory processes, such as credit ranges for the research-based PhD, or to regulate the status of doctoral candidates as students or employees.'

LERU believes that Europe should promote greater diversity among higher education institutions, under which each institution is encouraged to play to its strengths, be they in carrying out top level research or providing skilled graduates for local industry.

One important aspect of the Bologna process is mobility, and here LERU recommends that Europe support a genuine choice of location and country for the best doctoral candidates and enable 'better knowledge exchange processes between universities and businesses in order to increase the uptake of PhD graduates in the business world'.

The European ministers responsible for higher education will next discuss the Bologna Process at their meeting in London in May.