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Cornell SC Johnson College of Business’ Emerging Markets Institute 5th Annual Emerging Markets Case Competition

The Cornell SC Johnson College of Business’ Emerging Markets Institute invites your students to participate in our 5th Annual Emerging Markets Case Competition, October 4th -11th with the final round on November 5th.

This year, participants in the 5th Annual Emerging Markets Case Competition come from business & policy schools in the United States and around the globe. The growing role of Emerging Multinationals in the business world continues to evolve and this case competition seeks to challenge students to come up with win-win solutions for expanding stakeholders. The goal of the case competition is to identify and answer questions that real businesses and managers are posing today in relation to Emerging Markets. 

Where: The conference this year will be hybrid, teams can choose to attend in person at Roosevelt Island, New York City – Cornell Tech Campus or virtually. 

Theme: Emerging Markets Multinationals: Building the Future on ESG Excellence 

Format: Up to 3 teams per school comprised of 3 to 5 students will have one-week in early October to create and submit their case solution and presentation via a PowerPoint deck. Four final teams will present during the 11th Annual Emerging Markets Institute Conference on November 5, 2021. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top 3 teams. 

Information: The Cornell SC Johnson College of Business’ Emerging Markets Institute is launching our 11th Emerging Markets Conference at the Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island, New York City, NY on November 5th, 2021. Under the theme ‘Emerging Markets Multinationals: Building the Future on ESG Excellence,’ we will explore the impact of Environmental Social Governance (ESG) on global trade and emerging multinationals.

This year, the conference will hold its 5th Annual Emerging Markets Case Competition. The case competition committee invites your school to participate to gain the following benefits:

  • Meeting high-profile representatives from industry and academia. 
  • Networking with conference participants and business executives.
  • Exposure to conference and case competition sponsors.
  • Free admission to the conference (for finalists). 
  • Cash prizes for the top three teams. 

General Information

  • Registration of the teams by October 1st – 11:59 PM EST at the EMI Conference website – there are no registration fees for participants 
    • To register, please use the conference registration button and in the drop down indicate registration for the case competition. You will then be directed to add in your team’s name. Each member of the team must register separately. 
  • Each school sends up to three representative team of 3 to 5 students (it is recommended, but not required that at least one student per team is enrolled in an MBA program)
    • If more than 3 teams are registered the school will be contacted and responsible for providing the final three teams for official registration. 
  • All teams once registered will receive the case by October 4th and must submit their team’s response by 11:59 PM EST on October 11th 
    • Please see our attached rules and regulations for more guidance if needed. 
  • Announcement of finalists will be made by October 18th
  • Final presentations either in person or virtually will occur on November 5th

Question?

For any questions or clarifications, please feel free to reach out to us at emiconferece@cornell.edu. We look forward to hearing back from you!

Map the System

Map the System is much more than a competition – it is a representation of our core beliefs about social change: that we all have the responsibility to understand problems we want to be part of solving.

In partnership with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the SaĂŻd Business School, University of Oxford, GBSN invites faculty and staff across the network to bring Map the System to their students. There have been a handful of GBSN Institutions participate in Map the System to date, and we would love to extend this to as many partner members as possible as part of this partnership.

Map the System uses systems thinking as a guiding approach and equips students to tackle complex sustainability challenges and become better leaders. They do so by working in teams to explore a social or environmental problem they care about. Students learn how to understand and incorporate different perspectives and identify the influence stakeholders have on parts of the system. Since 2016, MTS has grown, year on year. Now a global community of over 65 institutions and thousands of students, Map the System will change the way your students see the world. Watch the new video “How can institutions take part in Map the System” to learn more.

Register your institution now via the Map the System website before 30 October 2022 and join a global community of social impact educators committed to providing students with transformational learning opportunities. Last year over 65 global educational institutions participated in Map the System across 6 continents

Institution registration is now open.

The final deadline to register your institution is Sunday, 30 October 2022. When GBSN Member Schools click to register, there will be an option to indicate your status as a GBSN member.

What is the cost?

Map the System is more than a competition – it’s a learning program and a learning community. We’ve added more digital content and enrichment, including virtual workshops and masterclasses with Oxford faculty and globally recognized impact leaders.

The Institutional Registration Fee helps to support some of the costs of Map the System. The full fee is ÂŁ3750 (USD $4,500) per institution.

Network Discounts

GBSN Network members are eligible for a substantial fee reduction to participate in Map the System, with the introductory offer of participating in Map the System 2023 for ÂŁ2000 (USD $2,400).

Further fee reduction and sponsorship scheme

The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship is a non-profit, grant-funded, social innovation centre, however we have a limited amount of further fee waiver support available to provide bursaries and discounts to institutions to permit them to partake in the program. We prioritize offering fee waivers to institutions in low or middle income countries to enable their students to participate in Map the System and for their staff to benefit from the network partnerships as well as providing access to our growing learning program in the social impact and systems change space. Network partners can provide a fee sponsorship to a partner institution in a low- or middle-income country. This sponsorship would enable a partner institution to join the Map the System program who might not otherwise have the opportunity to take part. The sponsored institution could either be nominated by the sponsor, or we can suggest a suitable institution to sponsor and onboard them onto Map the System.

We also have a referral scheme, whereby institutions who successfully recruit a new partner school, will receive an additional fee discount of £200 on next year’s participation fee.

For questions regarding the institution participation fee or waiving of fees, please contact the Skoll Centre team at mapthesystem@sbs.ox.ac.uk or check out our FAQs on the website.

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Building Community Disaster Resilience: The HUMLOG Challenge

Register Here

DATE

Monday, October 4, 2021

8:00-9:00 AM EDT

LOCATION

Zoom Meeting

CONTACT

mhandler@gbsn.org

Welcome to the 2021 HUMLOG Challenge Informational/Kick Off Meeting!  This virtual event is specifically designed for students interested in the HUMLOG Challenge and would like to learn more about the opportunity to win the $5,000 scholarship! We are so excited to welcome participating students from all over the world to engage in this unique virtual experience and to develop impactful, locally-relevant solutions to natural disaster problems.  This first webinar will feature a welcome from GBSN’s own CEO, Dan LeClair, as well as from our incredible industry experts and final judges, including Gyöngyi KovĂĄcs, AmĂ©dĂ©e Prouvost, and Armand Bam, Courtney Davis Curtis. Our judges will be providing insight into their own real-world challenges with risk mitigation and community resilience, as well as explaining what they will be looking for in student solutions.  Finally, we look forward to welcoming Maria, Johary, and Diana, our winning team from the 2020 GBSN HUMLOG Challenge!  We will close out this event with a brief Q and A session for students, where they are encouraged to ask questions to last year’s winning team, the judges and the GBSN team!

Moderator

  • Rob Vember

    Director, Programs & Partnerships
    Global Business School Network
    South Africa

Guest Speakers

The Winning Team from 2020, Team Los Andes, will also be featured speakers during the kick-off. They will be giving first hand experience from the competition point of view. Access their presentation below.

Access Their Presentation Here

Learn More about the HUMLOG Challenge

Date

Monday, October 4th, 2021

  • 08:00 AM Washington D.C.
  • 01:00 PM United Kingdom
  • 02:00 PM Geneva
  • 02:00 PM Cape Town
  • 05:30 PM Mumbai
  • 08:00 PM Singapore
Register Here

Answering Difficult Interview Questions: Localized’s Career Coach-In-Residence Iyad Uakoub

What are your weaknesses? Why should we hire you? Why are you interested in this position? Why did you leave your last position? These are some of many difficult questions that you will most likely be asked at an interview.

In this Career Development Workshop, our Career Coach in Residence, Iyad Uakoub, will guide you in preparing to answer difficult interview questions to stand out as a candidate and impress employers

Date/Time

Sunday, September 12th 2021 at 5:00 PM GMT

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About Iyad:

+12 years of global experience in building award-winning career centers, advising startups, empowering organizations with workforce learning & engagement strategies and leveraging data and technology to democratize career opportunities. 

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Careers In Financial Services & Technology: Conversation with Pawel Stefanski Financial Services Sector Leader, Middle East & African at IBM

Are you a Techie with a passion for Finance? Are you considering a career at the intersection of Technology and Finance? Join us in this session with Pawel A. Stefanski, Financial Services Sector Leader, MEA at IBM.


With the Digital Transformation and Innovation the financial sector has been witnessing in recent years, this session will shed light on the trends in the industry, essential skills, and the knowledge you need to enter the field.

Date/Time

Tuesday, September 21st 2021 at 2:00 PM GMT

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About Pawel:

Pawel currently leads IBM’s Financial Services Sector in the Middle East and Africa, serving major financial institutions – from Turkey to South Africa. In this role he and his team are responsible for shaping and successfully executing IBM’s strategy for the Financial Sector. He has over 30 years of professional and executive experience in information technology, software development, business consulting and management, with focus on technology applications in banking and insurance. He regularly advises IBM customers on topics such as innovation, strategy and business models, digital reinvention, Blockchain and artificial intelligence.

Pawel joined IBM in 1995 as a professional hire and has worked in a variety of roles encompassing software development, consulting, solution design, partner management and business development. During his career he has worked in over 20 countries. He holds MSc in Computer Science (with distinction) from Warsaw University in Poland. Subsequently he completed post-graduate education in Machine Learning and Genetic Algorithms at George Mason University, and earned executive certifications from George Washington University and Harvard Business School.

Digital Profiles: How to Market Yourself with Localized’s Career Coach-In-Residence Iyad Uakoub

In this Career Development Workshop, our Career Coach in Residence, Iyad Uakoub, will walk you through optimizing your digital profiles and strategies you could use to market yourself.

Date/Time

Sunday, September 19th 2021, at 5:00 PM GMT

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About Iyad:

+12 years of global experience in building award-winning career centers, advising startups, empowering organizations with workforce learning & engagement strategies and leveraging data and technology to democratize career opportunities. 

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Strategy and M&A in Tech: A Conversation with Alonso Bustamente, Head of Strategy and M&A at Cloudflare

Strategy and M&A are one of the largest fields in Consulting. Strategy Consultants provide clients with strategic advice on certain management topics. Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Consultants guide clients through M&A and other M&A related matters such as debt and equity financing.

In this session, we will look at Strategy and M&A from the perspective of working with a Tech giant, rather than a Consulting Firm. Our Expert, Alonso Bustamante, Head of Strategy and M&A at Cloudflare, will walk you through his responsibilities, day-to-day activities, and the skills necessary for this role.
Some of the topics that will be covered:

  • Your experience and background
  • To MBA or not to MBA?
  • Transitioning from other sectors to Tech
  • The benefits of internships at different career stages
  • How to upskill and stay updated on the newest trends and technologies
  • Industry trends and essential skills (what do recruiters look for when hiring fresh talents?)
  • Careers at the intersection of Business and Tech
  • What does it mean to be a Head of Strategy & M&A at Cloudflare?
  • What does your typical day look like?
  • Your advice for students and recent graduates
  • Your advice for those looking to transition into a new industry
  • Questions from the audience

Date/Time

Wednesday, September 29th 2021 at 3:00 PM GMT

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About Alonso:

Alonso Bustamante is the Head of Strategy and M&A at Cloudflare, a global cloud platform that delivers a broad range of network services to businesses around the world—making them more secure, enhancing the performance of their business-critical applications, and eliminating the cost and complexity of managing and integrating individual network hardware. Alonso is Head of Cloudflare London, the company’s EMEA headquarters. He has led multiple special projects, including acquisitions that are now a core part of the company’s long-term strategy, and has scaled the company’s EMEA operations, including the selection and launch of its new European R&D Center in Lisbon. He is also the co-executive sponsor of Latinflare, an employee group focused on the advancement and inclusion of Latin employees at Cloudflare.

Previously, he was part of the Global Strategy Group at Samsung in Korea, and a founding member at IGNIA, a venture capital firm that invests in high growth enterprises targeting the emerging middle class in Mexico. He has also held positions at Google and Atomico, a European venture capital fund investing in technology.

He holds a BA with majors in International Studies, Political Science and Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago and an MBA from London Business School, where he was a Chevening Scholar.

People & Finance: Careers in Investment Banking

Relationship Building is one of the most important skills for an investment banker. You need to be able to deal with customers in difficult situations, have a positive attitude, develop and maintain client relationships, and understand customers’ needs.


In this session with Taslim Manji, Director of Customer Success-Investment Banking at Refinitiv, we will discuss how you can develop these skills and start a career in Investment Banking.

Some of the topics that will be discussed:

  • What is Investment Banking?
  • What are some of the essential skills?
  • CVs, Interviews, Career Development advice
  • People & Customer Service skills
  • Upskilling & Learning
  • Industry trends
  • Advice for students and recent graduates

Date/Time

Wednesday, September 22nd 2021 at 3:00 PM GMT

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About Taslim:

Taslim is an accomplished Account Manager with over 10 years of proven adoption, retention and sales experience for SaaS platforms. She is a result-oriented leader with strong communication and people skills with a demonstrated success in team leadership and managing key client relationships at a global scale. Taslim is able to navigate complex organizations by leveraging deep industry knowledge, respecting brand and cultural nuances and building lasting partnerships.

International Business Agility Labs

Develop your business resilience and gain hands-on case experience working with students around the world.

Through these labs, students will gain multiple global perspectives in a fast-paced, intensive, and hands-on competition while working on a real global business issue.

The IB Agility Labs are short-term virtual case challenges that allow undergraduate students to learn from global business leaders, collaborate with international peers, and focus on business resilience. Students will benefit from exposure to an international company, work on teams with business students around the world, and gain hands-on case experience to build their resumes and CVs. These labs are offered at no cost to students.

You can learn more about the IB Agility Labs and read about previous labs at go.umd.edu/IBAgilityLabs. 

IB Agility Lab: FinTech in Singapore
October 14- 29, 2021

October 14 Receive case and begin working on mixed multinational teams
October 21 Orientation and cultural activity
October 22 Economic overview and company presentation 
October 25 First round of competition: submit a video recording of presentation
October 27 Final teams are announced
October 29 Final team presentations

IB Agility Lab: Sustainability in Iceland
November 4-19, 2021

November 4 Receive case and begin working on mixed multinational teams
November 11 Orientation and cultural activity
November 12 Economic overview and company presentation 
November 15 First round of competition: submit a video recording of presentation
November 17 Final teams are announced
November 19 Final team presentations

Each IB Agility Lab will feature:

  • Live case from a non-U.S. company
  • Students placed on mixed multinational teams
  • Introduction to doing business in the country of focus
  • Virtual cultural activity and student mixer
  • Asynchronous and synchronous sessions

Eligibility

The IB Agility Labs are open to all second-year sophomore to senior undergraduate business majors and minors.

About the Case

The live case for each lab will be from a company based outside of the U.S. and will focus on one of the following cross-functional themes: fintech, sustainability, e-commerce, and innovation. Students will hear directly from business leaders about the business problem before presenting their analysis and recommendations to the company and panel of judges.

The Format

Each IB Agility Lab will be completely virtual and will include synchronous and asynchronous sessions. Round one of the competition will be a recorded presentation submission and round two of the competition (final round) will be live. The exact timing of each lab will be announced closer to the start date and will vary based on the time zones of the company and the participants. All students will be expected to adapt to working across time zones, as this is the reality of doing business across borders. A sample schedule is included below.

Week 1

  • Receive case and begin working on mixed multinational teams

Week 2

  • Continue working on case
  • Attend LIVE virtual orientation and cultural activity
  • Attend LIVE virtual economic overview and company/case presentation

Week 3

  • First round of competition: submit a video recording of presentation
  • Final teams are announced
  • Attend LIVE final team presentations
  • Receive participation certificate

All sessions will be recorded should students have a scheduling conflict due to classes or other priorities.

Information for International Partners

The Robert H. Smith School of Business is proud to partner with esteemed business schools around the world. If you are from a Global Business School Network (GBSN) member school or a Maryland Smith international exchange partner and would like more information about the International Business Agility Labs please email Greg Rafal, assistant director of CGB, at grafal@umd.edu.

Please see below news stories about the previous IB Agility Labs.

Nominate Students

Please nominate 10-12 students from your university by completing the nomination form below by Thursday, September 16, 2021. The form will ask you to upload an excel file with the following information for each nominated student. 

  • First name of student
  • Surname of student
  • Student email (we will use this email to communicate directly with the student)
  • Major at home university
  • Current year of university study
Nominate Students

Given the overwhelming response from interested partners, nominations will be accepted on a rolling basis. For that reason we ask that you submit nominations as soon as you are able and no later than the nomination deadline. In the spirit of collaboration during these uncertain times, we are pleased to offer this program to our valued partners at no cost.

Questions?

If you have any questions please contact Greg Rafal, assistant director, CGB at GRafal@umd.edu or email smithglobal@umd.edu.

Learn More

This event is sponsored in part by CIBE, a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Developing a Career Action Plan – With Localized’s Career Coach-In-Residence Iyad Uakoub

A Career Action Plan helps you optimize your Career Development learning and achieve your objectives and goals. When developing your plan, you should set and clarify your goals, set action steps, and commit yourself to participate in activities and experiences that would result in you achieving those goals.

In this session, our Career Coach in Residence will guide you through the process of creating your Career Action Plan

Date/Time

Sunday, August 22nd 2021 at 1:00 PM

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About Iyad

+12 years of global experience in building award-winning career centers, advising startups, empowering organizations with workforce learning & engagement strategies and leveraging data and technology to democratize career opportunities.

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