Montpellier Business School would happily present the Microfinance in Developed Countries Chair. The Chair Holder, Dr Anastasia Cozarenco, will share her experience, how the project arose, leading to the creation of this Chair in 2018. She will also explain why the chair recently broadened its scope, research and teaching activities to become the Social & Sustainable Finance Chair.
Building on the Chairâs activities, Montpellier Business School launched its Yunus Centre for Social Business and Financial Inclusion in 2019. Dr Elsa Kassardjian, the Development Manager, will talk about the challenges and opportunities of creating and maintaining such a Centre. She will present in particular a project funded by the European Commission, MBSâs Yunus Centre is involved in.
To ensure we provide the best in education, we consistently focus on creating a learning environment that will allow students to directly encounter real-life situations that will test their skills, knowledge, and emotions. Universal Business School’s 80% experiential learning module allows students the flexibility to react to conditions rather than merely thinking about how to respond to in a scenario.
UBS’ two year AICTE approved PGDM program is designed to train aspirants for multiple business roles at different scales. With the global immersion program, students also gain the chance to receive international exposure to develop an intricate understanding of the international market. The program has been designed by 60 CEOs and is refined by 30 Senators who are leading industry professionals.
The program follows the Experiential Learning Waterfall, which allows UBS to optimize the learning process towards 80% practical learning. Each course is embedded with:
Live Decision Making
Leading And Executing Live Revenue Generating Businesses
Simulations And Experiments
Case Blazer (50 Hours Non-stop Dynamic Case Study Competitions)
Global Immersion Programs In Europe And Asia
Live Projects In Companies
Student Boardrooms
Industry Ceo Workshops
Student Mentoring By Industry
Research Projects
Economic Review Sessions
Thinkathons
Quizzes
Conferences And Symposiums
Shadow Techniques, and
Global And Indian Internships
UBS’ Experiential Learning Waterfall ensures that our student’s gain the ability to grasp complex concepts, put them in practice, develop learning agility and assures that fundamental business ideas are ingrained in them. Join us to learn more about how UBS’ uses its experiential learning waterfall.
Join the Center for Global Business and executive director Rebecca Bellinger for a conversation about making strides to position women for success in the global economy. Hear from women leaders of global organizations that drive change, influence policy, and create programs to close the gender gap and support women in the workforce.
From four points of view, the panelists will address:
What programs, resources, and incentives are in place currently to support women in the global business ecosystem.
How traditional systems and norms obstruct women from the paid workforce and what is being done to address the issues.
How equal economic treatment for women benefits everyone, economically, and socially.
Panelists include:
Simona Scarpaleggia, Global CEO, Edge Strategy
Linda Scott,Author, The Double-X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women
Margo Thomas, Founder and President, Women’s Economic Imperative
Elizabeth Vasquez, CEO and Co-founder, WEConnect International
Registration is required to access the webinar.
Date
Thursday, March 25
12:00 p.m. Washington, D.C.
4:00 p.m. London
5:00 p.m. Geneva
6:00 p.m. Cape Town
9:30 p.m. Mumbai
12:00 a.m. Singapore
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This webinar is free of charge. Click the button below to register.
Management education is quickly evolving as the world undergoes several major changes such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It must adapt to several different challenges, such as new customer needs and new competitors. This increases the need for stakeholders in management education to truly understand what the successful business schools of the future will look like.
This webinar will focus around the following ideas: relevance and excellence in both teaching and research and an institutional dynamic which continually moves the institution to the future through innovation and change. Attendees can expect to leave the webinar with a greater understanding of how to identify current gaps and the change processes that will have to be deployed to effect such changes.
Date
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
8:00 a.m. Washington D.C.
1:00 p.m. London
2:00 p.m. Geneva
3:00 p.m. Cape Town
6:00 p.m. Mumbai
9:00 p.m. Singapore
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This webinar is free of charge. Click the button below to register.
This conference tackles the specificities of both Africa and the Middle East regions in common plenary sessions and in separate tracks, specifically targeting relevant issues for both regions. The conference addresses topics such as ongoing trends and new developments in management education, inside, and outside of the two regions. It promotes an active debate between regional actors and participants from other regions of the world.
Business school professionals that attend the conference will develop higher levels of insights on how to approach challenges in the upcoming years, while also strengthen their networks across the regions.
How are organizations adapting to the disruptive forces transforming globalization, such as economic nationalism, technological transformation, environmental crisisâand, of course, the Covid-19 pandemic? For nearly two decades at BCG, Dr. Arindam Bhattacharya has worked closely with some of the worldâs leading global companies, helping leaders to navigate the complex and rapidly changing environment. In this GBSN cross-border webinar, he talks with GBSN CEO, Dan LeClair, about that experience and his new book, Beyond Great, and offers insights into the future of business education as well as business.
Great performance in the 21st century is all about delivering consistently strong returns to shareholdersâright? Wrong. That may have been true in the 20th century, when the rules of the business game were predictable, but not today. That world no longer exists. As BCGâs new book Beyond Great shows, the world has been transformed by three powerful, disruptive forces: social tension, economic nationalism, and technological revolution.
This event is designed for business school students, faculty, and administrators.
To achieve business advantage, leaders will have to make bold changes on three major fronts.
This roundtable will showcase a multi-country project that mobilizes evidence-based insights in the development of entrepreneurship education and training as drivers of economic empowerment of girls, women and other disadvantaged groups (e.g., youth, informal workers). The GEET+ is the work of Telfer School of Managementâs Professor Barbara Orser and Dr. Catherine Elliott. The tool has been selectively applied in Canada and the United States.  Led by the Womenâs Economic Imperative (WEI) and funded by the International Development Research Centre (Canada), the pilot project is being launched in Peru, Mexico, Kenya, and Nigeria.Â
Join this roundtable and learn how the WEI international team of collaborators and experts is working to:
Strengthen pathways to build viable and bankable women-owned enterprises.
Enhance the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and training within universities and community-based support organizations by addressing biases in solution design and sector knowledge about equity, diversity and inclusion.
Refine measurement and assessment criteria to support gender equality in entrepreneurship education and training.
Facilitate knowledge sharing among academic, industry, non-governmental and government stakeholders, including the catalyzation of networks where they do not already exist.
Attendees will leave the roundtable with an understanding of how entrepreneurship education and training can influence perceptions and better address systemic biases.
Understand how entrepreneurship education and training can better address biases within course content, design and delivery.
Share information about the Gender-Smart Education and Training Action Strategy (GEET+) as an assessment tool.
Grow from lessons shared about shifting perceptions in education, training and business communities to better support women entrepreneurs.
The Telfer School of Management is committed to driving the design and delivery of inclusive entrepreneurship education and training to enhance the UN Sustainable Development Goals of gender equality and womenâs economic empowerment. Telferâs Inclusive Entrepreneurship scholars are informing research, practice and policy to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world.
Date
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
11:00 am – 12:30pm ET
8:00am Los Angeles
4:00pm London
5:00pm Lagos
7:00pm Nairobi
9:30pm Mumbai
Registration Information
This roundtable will be hosted on zoom. To participate, please complete the online registration form where you will be prompted to create a free account in order to complete. You will receive a zoom meeting link with your confirmation. Seats are limited, secure your spot today.
Many European countries like Germany and Sweden are known for their substantial investments into university science and the great inventions these investments yield. However, compared to countries like the US or the UK, they suffer from relatively low engagement of scientists in business startups. This is surprising given that the regulatory environments of these countries and the availability of venture capital have improved considerably over the last years.
Therefore, in this seminar Holger Patzelt introduces the results of a multi-study, multi-year project which has investigated university startup activity with a focus on the psychology of founding new ventures rather than the external context. He illustrates key psychological challenges scientists face when founding new ventures, how problems within the entrepreneurial team can counteract founding intentions and activities, and the role of the university context in shaping scientists’ attitudes toward entrepreneurship. Patzelt will provide specific recommendations for universities how based on the results of our research they can create an environment that may help scientists develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
Learning by doing has become a powerful methodology in management education to develop in studentsâ competencies to adapt and make decisions in a changing context, as well as fostering innovation skills and responsible business practices.
Working towards becoming a third-generation university, Universidad de La Sabana has concentrated its efforts on working closely with companies, as well as government and private R&D, to help resolve managerial challenges and encourage the development of joint solutions. This is the case of MUUHACK, an open innovation and experiential learning exercise in which participants created solutions to contribute to the development of the value chain of the dairy sector in Colombia. This activity was organized in alliance with Asoleche, the national dairy industry association; and INNpulsa Colombia, the innovation and entrepreneurship Government Agency.
The call for abstract is an important step towards shaping the conference agenda. We are looking for the latest research results, practice-based experiences and best practice case studies on university-industry interaction, entrepreneurial & engaged universities and pathways to impact.  The call for abstracts will close on February 22nd, 2021.
The overview below gives you some guidance on the type of proposals that we welcome, and themes will be addressed at the conference. This list is not exhaustive and we always welcome submissions covering other relevant topics. Only proposals that are submitted through the online portal will be considered, and submitted proposals will be reviewed by an international scientific and practitioners committee.
Overview
Research-based abstracts
Accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference. The full papers (optional) will be published in the conference proceedings.
Practice-based abstracts
Accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference. The full papers (optional) will be published in the conference proceedings.
Good practice cases
Accepted case studies will be presented at the conference. The case study will be published in the UIIN Good Practice Series.
Workshop proposals
Accepted workshops will be granted a 1 1/2 hour workshop slot at the conference. Workshops will have to be practical and interactive.
Subthemes
University-Industry Partnerships: A holistic perspective to accelerate relationships
Engaged and Entrepreneurial Universities: The future of higher education
Pathway to Impact: Managing and measuring external engagement
Knowledge transfer and engagement professionals: The role of boundary spanning agents
Structures and mechanisms supporting university-industry cooperation
Regional engagement: The university as a home-base and entrepreneurship catalyst
The university as a talent-engine & life partner: Supporting students and lifelong learners
The entrepreneurial and engaged academic in research and education
June 14-16, 2021: 2021 University-Industry Interaction Conference (online)
About the Conference
The annual University-Industry Interaction Conference brings together over 500 participants from around the globe, who are passionate about driving university-industry engagement, technology transfer, entrepreneurship and innovation. Delivered through a mixture of presentations, workshops and facilitated networking, the online conference is your opportunity to hear the latest insights across the field and connect with engaged peers around the world.
