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 up-skill 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
Existing inequalities have been exposed and exacerbated by COVID–19. Our world after the global pandemic is likely to see the proliferation of these inequalities unless we focus on the inclusive management of our multiple challenges, among which is the environmental crisis. From access to healthcare and education to the all-encompassing disruptions of climate change, as leaders of management education we have to forge a response that recognizes and addresses with intent the disparate ways these issues affect various populations. GBSN and Universidad de los Andes present Race2Imagine, a joint event series designed to engage university communities across the globe during the month of October, leading up to GBSN Beyond Virtual Conference. Race2Imagine features 3 sessions focused on healthcare, climate change and humanitarian logistics. Each session is co-hosted with a different GBSN member school. The goal is to have multi-stakeholder dialogues that explore collaborations designed to produce solutions.
This first convening, Collaborations for Healthcare Leadership, will share visions of the strategies, actions and initiatives that need to be undertaken in the near future across different contexts. Co-hosted with Miami Herbert Business School, guest speakers will explore and compare approaches to university-health system collaboration to achieve impact, using the example of informing the response to COVID-19.
We must all think beyond our own institutions and develop collaborative solutions and more robust and resilient systems. And we must explore the longer-term implications of the covid-19 outbreak for business and society.
Trustee Professor of Political Science and Health Policy, University of Miami Former Member of the U.S. House of Representative from Florida (2018 – 2020) USA
Estefanía Hernández, PhD Student; Research Assistant, Universidad de los Andes School of Management, Colombia
The COVID-19 has imposed multiple challenges that transcend the health system, one of them being the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out. This work introduces the importance of collaborative and multidisciplinary work for responding successfully to this crisis. From my perspective as a PhD student in Management, I aim to share the key-aways that have emerged from the research projects in which I have participated during the pandemic and the contribution achieved in the process.
Dr. Chad Perlyn, President, Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists, USA
Dr. Perlyn is a student in Miami Herbert’s executive MBA program and will talk about leading his specialty pediatric physician team through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moderator: Simon Turner, Associate Professor and Director of Organization’s Area, Universidad de los Andes School of Management, Colombia
Panel: Dr. Natalia Mejía, Dean, Universidad de los Andes School of Medicine, Colombia
Dr. Gabriel Carrasquilla, Vice President, Academy of Medicine, Colombia
Donna E. Shalala, Trustee Professor of Political Science and Health Policy, University of Miami, Former Member of the U.S. House of Representative from Florida (2018 – 2020), USA
The panel discussion will explore and compare approaches to university-health system collaboration to achieve impact, using the example of informing the response to COVID-19. Discussion questions will include:
What role did your organization play in the response to COVID-19? What role did academia-health system partnerships have?
What enabled your organization to play that role and have influence, e.g. human resources; financing; flexibility about repurposing roles / workload / functions; existing health system relationships; ability to strike up new ones?
How distinctive was that approach to the typical role of universities, and the relationship between universities and the health system, in approaching health policy and improvement?
What lessons can be learnt from the experiences of collaboration in response to COVID-19? What challenges remain?
To help stimulate the debate, reach the journal article authored by Universidad de los Andes School of Management professors.
The integration of health services with other sectors is hypothesised to support adaptation of health systems in response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study identified barriers and enablers associated with intersectoral coordination at an early stage of the pandemic. The study focused on the roles played by the academic and private sector in different areas of public health planning and delivery concerning COVID-19 in Colombia. Read the article
9:30 I Small Group Discussions
Eduardo Wills & Simon Turner will prepare a workshop for debate in breakout rooms on wellbeing and mental health in places of work and study. Each small group will have access to a Miro board for recording a summary of their discussion. Themes for discussion will include:
What impact has COVID-19 had on your wellbeing? What helped you to respond? What organizational support did you receive?
How is the nature of work, and career development, changing in light of the pandemic?
What skills / capacities will we need to develop to face new challenges?
How should our places of work and study change to promote wellbeing?
Questions?
Please contact Emma Martens at emartens@gbsn.org for any technical issues or questions.
The Cornell SC Johnson College of Business’ Emerging Markets Institute invites your students to participate in our 5th AnnualEmerging 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 4thand 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 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 Saïd 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 £3750 (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 £2000 (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.
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 Kovács, Amédée 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!
Assistant Vice President for Risk Management and Resilience Planning University of Chicago USA
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.
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
+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.
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.
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.
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.
+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.
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
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.
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.
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.
