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Opportunities in the New Paradigm: 21st Century Propulsion of Emerging Markets and Innovative Supply Chains

Event Overview

Over the last decade, emerging markets (EM) increased their share of global economic output by 20%, putting more money into the hands of consumers and businesses. Now, new technologies are empowering EM businesses to drive innovation, local development, and global competition. Agriculture is a case in point: Five of the leading agriculture financial technology (fintech) startups were initially formed to close gaps faced by producers and suppliers in Indonesia, Africa, and Latin America.

In this webinar, we’ll learn how these technologies are disrupting agricultural supply chains for the benefit of all players. Our panel will be moderated by Jinhua Zhao, Ph.D., the David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and will feature Lourdes Casanova of the Cornell SC Johnson School of Business Emerging Markets Institute and Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, MBA ’15, CEO and co-founder of agriculture fintech leader ProducePay. Together, they’ll explore how technology innovators are connecting EM suppliers directly to international markets, providing access to the data and financing they need to succeed.

What You’ll Learn

How companies in emerging markets are rapidly evolving from imitators to leaders in innovation
What drives successful innovation in emerging food markets
Which innovations in technology, practice, and purpose are expanding the capabilities of food producers

Speakers

Jinhua Zhao, Ph.D., David J. Nolan Dean, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Lourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer and Gail and Rob Cañizares Director Emerging Markets Institute
Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, MBA, CEO

Date & Time

Friday, July 23, 2021

9:30am Washington D.C.
2:30pm London
3:30pm Geneva
3:30pm Cape Town
7:00pm Mumbai
9:30pm Singapore

Opportunities in the New Paradigm: Finance and Sustainability

Event Overview

“Few in government or business today doubt the inherent value of nature or the importance of managing it sustainably,” assert the editors of 2020’s The Little Book of Investing in Nature, a cohort including Cornell Professor of Practice John Tobin-de la Puente. “But once economics rears its head, then the dialogue becomes muffled, and participants start shuffling papers and shifting their eyes nervously.”

At the intersection of sustainability and finance are the hot topics of impact investing, environmental finance and markets, corporate sustainability, and biodiversity investment. In this webinar, Mark Nelson, Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, will moderate a discussion between Angela Mwanza, MBA ’00, an SVP of Evergreen Wealth Management at UBS, and Professor Tobin, on the challenges to and benefits from investing for long-term profit and sustainability rather than for short-term gain. Join us to learn how companies can generate measurable social and environmental impact while reaping real financial returns.

This event is part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business summer series, “Opportunities in the New Paradigm.”

What You’ll Learn

The many ways to understand sustainable finance
How impact investing is expanding its reach to new industries
What metrics can best define success and achieve accountability

Speakers

Angela Mwanza, SVP Evergreen Wealth Management
John Tobin-de la Puente, Professor of Practice and Co-Director, Initiative on Responsible Finance
Mark Nelson, Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Date & Time

Friday, July 16, 2021

9:30am Washington D.C.
2:30pm London
3:30pm Geneva
3:30pm Cape Town
7:00pm Mumbai
9:30pm Singapore

The New Rules: Redefining Global Business Leadership

Event Details

Once upon a time, there was a somewhat defined set of “how-tos” for succeeding in business. Yet today’s complex, interconnected, and often chaotic global marketplace doesn’t follow the old rules. The modern business community is being called upon to do things differently, with some of the loudest calls coming from business leaders themselves.

Join a high-level moderated discussion about the “new rules” for business and what they mean for the future of business schools and higher-education around the world. Andrew Karolyi, Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and Judy Samuelson, founder and executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program, will explore emerging priorities for business leaders as well as for those responsible for their training, development, and ultimate success. Michelle Duguid, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, will moderate.

What You’ll Learn

How profound shifts in attitudes and mindsets are redefining business success
How intangible concepts like reputation, trust, and loyalty are imposing new ways to assess risk and opportunity in investment and asset management
Why employees are now businesses’ best allies and newest accountability mechanism
How the current environment is creating important new challenges and opportunities for business education

Date & Time

Friday, July 9th, 2021

9:30am Washington D.C.
2:30pm London
3:30pm Geneva/Cape Town
7:00pm Mumbai
9:30pm Singapore

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9th AIM-AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium

The AIM-AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium was conceived by Prof. Jagdish Sheth to benefit doctoral scholars from emerging economies who couldn’t attend the prestigious AMA Sheth Foundation DC which has been held regularly from 1966 onwards in the US. The Doctoral Consortium brings together the very best doctoral students and faculty from business schools across the globe, exposing them to a rich diversity of topics, methodological perspectives, and theories.

JAGSOM is proud to host the 9th Edition of the Doctoral Consortium which will take place between the 25th to the 30th of June 2021.

This year’s Doctoral Consortium will feature 80+ Leading Marketing Faculty from across the globe. Visit the agenda linked below for a full list of speakers.

The Agenda of the Consortium includes 5 Master classes, 9 Plenary sessions, and 10 Parallel track sessions.

The Consortium also features ‘Meet the Editor’ sessions where participants can meet 17 journal editors from prestigious journals including Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, AMS Review (Academy of Marketing Science), Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS), Journal of Consumer Psychology, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Service Research (JSR), to name a few.

The Consortium will also have 3 Global Cafes for Doctoral Students to present their research and seek feedback, and 3 Global Lounges to facilitate networking for all participants. The last day of the Doctoral Consortium features a full day Simulation Workshop on Conscious Capitalism.

Access the Full Agenda

Registration Fees

Indian Nationals:
- Doctoral Scholars/Young Faculty of AIM Institutions: INR 3000
- Doctoral Scholars/Young Faculty of other Institutions: INR 5000
Other Nationalities
- Doctoral Scholars/Young Faculty: USD 100

Date & Time

Thursday 25, June, 2021 – Wednesday 30, June, 2021

Day 1 – June 25: 8:00am EST – 1:15pm EST
Day 2 – June 26: 7:30am EST – 1:15pm EST
Day 3 – June 27: 7:30am EST – 1:00pm EST
Day 4 – June 28: 7:30am EST – 1:30pm EST
Day 5 – June 29: 8:00am EST – 12:15pm EST
Day 6 – June 30: 7:00am EST – 1:00pm EST

Visit the Consortium Website

AFROEU

Overview

Jean Monnet Module on the European Union and the Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa – an Interdisciplinary Approach – Smart Specialisation-EUAfrica/AFROEU

AFROEU was established by Dr Anna Masłoń-Oracz to raise the knowledge and awareness on African topics among students and young professionals. The scope of the project covers the EU-Africa relations and the situation in the member states concerning the issues connected with EU External Economic Relations, as well as related policies at the EU and country levels. In the course of development of modern countries and regions; knowledge, skill, innovation and creativity were gradually gaining the position of the most distinctive and individual resources. This transformation has caused a change in the paradigm of thinking about the competitiveness of regions and forced it to move towards tight relations with knowledge and intellectual capital in enterprises.

The huge scale of demographic challenge, coupled with the impact of climatic changes on fragile populations, is a fundamental threat for European and African stability alike, even though rapid African economic growth bears at the same time the promise of fantastic opportunities. Indeed, 5 percent yearly growth will not be sufficient to fulfil this promise. The fertility rate will not be controlled unless decisive progress is made in educating more women. Both demographic and economic trends will need to be channelled and as soon as possible for African development to become sustainable.

The rise of a “smart”, connected Africa is allowing countries across the continent to leapfrog several stages of development in key areas such as banking and telecommunications and is reshaping business and society. Despite this, growth in several African countries has slowed in recent years after more than a decade of solid expansion. Rickety infrastructure, skills shortages, weak governance and a reliance on commodities continue to plague the continent, underscoring the need for economic diversification for sustained, inclusive growth in areas such as agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, education and banking. Agenda 2063 is the African Union’s blueprint for the future based on inclusive growth and sustainable development. It calls for an integrated Africa guided by Pan-African ideals: an Africa shaped by good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, justice and rule of law; a peaceful and secure Africa; an Africa with a strong cultural identity, common heritage, shared values and ethics; an Africa whose development is people-driven with a key role for women and the youth; a strong, united Africa that can be an influential global player. Smart Specialization underlines the importance of the preparation process which occurs at the regional/country level of the research and innovation strategies.

Leading Questions:

How can we address the governance, political and stability challenges facing Africa and the EU?
How can we develop policies to encourage female leadership and participation in politics, business and society?
How can we mobilise investment for structural transformation Africa?
What can we do to foster business in Africa including in areas such as health and agriculture?
Kenya—the silicon savannah
EU-Africa relations
EU – Economic Partnership Agreement – how to enhance its effectiveness
The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa
Compact with Africa: fostering private long-term investment in Africa

Agenda

9:00am CEST – Welcome Address
- Professor Piotr Wachowiak – Rector, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
- Phd Michal Matusewicz – Dean of Collegium Management and Finance
9:20am CEST – Opening Guest Speech
- His Excellency Ambassador Jacek Jankowski – Head of the EU Delegation to Zambia
9:40am CEST – Opening Discussion
- Moderated by PhD Anna Maslon-Oracz, Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Africa, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Vice-President of Polish European Community Studies Association
- Her Excellency, Madame Fatoumata Jallow-Tambaiang, Former Vice-President, Republic of Gambia
10:00am CEST – Panel I: Governance for growth and inclusive development versus the African Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Moderated by Fatoumata Diaraye Diallo, Programme Development Manager, Justina Mutale Foundation
- Katarzyna Kacperczyk – former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and former Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister of Poland
- Maurice Dezou – Founder and Chair of the Tees Valley BME Network
- Professor Radosław Miskiewicz – CEO Luma Holding, University of Szczecin
- Professor MP Kilion Munyama – Member of Polish Parliament
- Dr. George Njenga – Executive Dean Strathmore University
11:30am CEST – Panel II: Women – political representation and successful development in Africa
- Moderated by professor Aleksandra Szczerba – Zawada, professor of law at the Jacob of Paradies University in Gorzów Wielkopolski
- HE Phd Justina Mutale – the African Women of 2012, Justina Mutale Foundation
- Macdella Cooper – Political Leader at the Movement For One Liberia (MOL)
- Anna Maria Rozek – Political leader
- PhD Tomasz Gigol – SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Virtual Coffee Break
1:15pm CEST – Panel III: Smart specialization strategies and their applicability to sustainability
- Moderated by PhD Aleksandra Borowicz – Faculty of Economics, University of Gdańsk
- Phd Mafini Dosso – Project Leader “Smart Specialisation in Innovative & Informal African Economies” at European Commission’s JRC
- Professor Anna Visvizi – SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
- Ewa Osuch-Rak, PhD Candidate, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
- Professor Jose Mella – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Coordinator of AMENET
2:45pm CEST- Panel IV: A digital economy in Africa. -building innovation ecosystems
- Moderated by Phd Maria Pietrzak – SGH Warsaw School of Economics
- Ayo Eso – PhD Candidate Lead City University, Nigeria
- Ewa Geresz – Director Program and Global Partnerships, VENTURE CAFÉ WARSAW FOUNDATION, CIC
- Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu, PhD – Head of Research, The Singularity Group, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
- Kari Mruz – Chief Operating Officer, Nairobi Garage
- Phd Tomek Pilewicz – SGH Warsaw School of Economics
4:15pm CEST- Closing Remarks
- Dan LeClair, CEO GBSN and Anna Maslon-Oracz

Date & Time:

Friday, 25 June, 2021
9:00am CEST – 4:15pm CEST

Think Tank: Transformational Entrepreneurship and the post Covid19 Global Economy

Event Details

The International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship (ICTE) believes that sharing and debating possible alternative transformational entrepreneurial ideas and solutions from a futuristic and multi-disciplinary basis, will offer opportunities that will lead to creating future sustainable socio-economic development and growth. As a result, ICTE is inviting you to participate in conversations about the formation and launching of the International Academy for Transformational Entrepreneurship (IATE). IATE will serve as the vehicle by which global leading entrepreneurship educators, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers will work together to engage in knowledge transfer, research, university entrepreneurship ecosystem development and policy formulation to promote socio-economic growth in a post-COVID world.

To foster these conversations, ICTE is leading an online Think Tank webinar on Monday 24 May 2021 at 7:30am EDT/ 12:30pm BST, with an international, diverse mix of attendees from educational institutions, policy makers and industry.

Speakers

The webinar will be led by leading international experts to help stimulate conversations on how a transformational entrepreneurial philosophy can assist a post-Covid19 socio-economic development and will include:

Professor John Latham CBE, Vice-Chancellor and CEO, Coventry University
Professor Gideon Maas, Executive Director of ICTE
Mr Andreas Aasted Gjede, Director Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE), Denmark.
Professor Xi Wang,Director of Fintech Centre, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China.
Associate Professor Daniel Agyapong, Head of Department, Marketing and Supply Chain Management, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Register

Registration is required for this event. Use the button below to access registration.

Internationalize Your Business Degree Program Through Virtual Exchange – Webinar

Virtual exchange – enabling students to get cross-cultural exposure without leaving their homes … an affordable way to “travel” across the globe!

To succeed in the global workplace means having a global mindset—the cultural awareness and cultural consciousness which a global economy demands —and educational exchanges are an effective method to nurture this mindset. The pandemic has revealed a significant limitation of traditional educational exchanges: geography. But even before the pandemic, traveling across borders to seek a cross-cultural experience was not possible for many students. Enter virtual exchanges, which connect students across countries via technology, allowing them to learn together and collaborate on projects in cross-cultural teams. Join our webinar and hear from two professors at the forefront of virtual exchange. We’ll explore the unique role a virtual exchange can play. You’ll find out about the benefits students experience as being part of a virtual exchange. Join us to find out more about this innovative format and determine if it’s right for your curriculum.

Two professors from the Business & Culture virtual exchange program organized by the William Davidson Institute will be speaking at this interactive event. If you are interested in learning about our successful experience connecting students across countries to learn how to do business together, please register to join us.

Date

Tuesday May 4, 2021

10:00am Washington D.C.
3:00pm London
4:00pm Geneva
7:30pm Mumbai
10:00pm Singapore

Learn More about the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

8th RMER Conference – Poverty and Prosperity: Implications for Advancing the SDGS, 2030 Agenda and Responsible Management Education in a Post-Pandemic World

The importance of achieving SDG #1: Eliminate poverty everywhere is reinforced by global increases in extreme poverty and inequality caused by the pandemic as well as by the interconnections that SDG 1 has with all other SDGs. Commitments to prosperity and a better world are even more important post-pandemic, but to achieve prosperity for all, more complex, multidimensional, multidisciplinary thinking and dialogue are needed.

The main goal of the global 8th RMER Conference is to bring together the responsible management education community and its different stakeholders to address the issues of poverty, prosperity and the SDGs in creative, innovative ways that are grounded in the six RME principles of purpose, values, method, research, dialogue and partnerships.

The 8th RMER event will be held in The People’s Republic of China, where the successful accomplishment of the 13th National 5-Year Poverty Alleviation Plan (2016-2020) shows that high aspirations are achievable. This continues the RME tradition of holding inspirational, multidisciplinary and multicultural events that contribute to mutual sharing and learning among management educators and other stakeholders – all in service of creating a prosperous, harmonious, sustainable world.

Conference Dates

19 October- Participant arrive, get-together evening and keynote speech
20-21 October- Main Conference
22 October- Side events, study visits and social program

Conference Venue

International Business School at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Suzhou, China

Co-Organizing Parterns

PRME Anti-poverty Working Group and PRME Regional Chapter DACH

Conference Keynote Speakers

Prof. Stuart Hart, one of the world’s top authorities on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy, the Steven Grossman Endowed Chair for Sustainable Business, Professor, and Co-Director of SEMBA at the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business.

Ms. Violeta Bulc, EU Commissioner for Transport from 2014 to 2020. Before stepping in EU Commission, deputy Prime Minister of Republic of Slovenia in 2014, the founder and curator of #Ecocivilisation: #EcocivilisationTalks, #EcocivilisationInAction, #YearOfUbuntu, #GlobalOpenHouse.

Other keynote speakers will be announced soon…

Conference Format

The final format of the event will be decided in June or July, depending on the pandemic-related circumstances.
While hoping for the onsite conference, the event could be held in a hybrid format: onsite for the participants from China and virtual for the international participants. In either case, we warmly welcome global participation and contribution while ensuring program, organizational and infrastructural and logistic conditions for a fruitful exchange and mutual learning.

Important Dates

5th September 2021 Deadline for early-bird registration
10th October 2021 Deadline for regular registration

Submit contributions to RME8@xjtlu.edu.cn

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The Center of Global Business Annual Forum: The Future of Everything

Overview

The Center for Global Business’ Annual Forum is an event occurring every spring that brings together distinguished voices from the academic, policy, diplomatic, and business communities to speak on a different theme each year.

This year, save the date for the 3rd Annual Forum on Tuesday, April 13. Kislaya Prasad, academic director of the Center for Global Business, will lead a discussion with Mauro Guillén, author of “2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything.”

About the Speaker

Mauro F. Guillén
Author of 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Mauro F. Guillén is one of the most original thinkers at the Wharton School, where he holds the Zandman Professorship in International Management and teaches in its flagship Advanced Management Program and many other courses for executives, MBAs, and undergraduates. He combines his training as a sociologist at Yale and as a business economist in his native Spain to methodically identify and quantify the most promising opportunities at the intersection of demographic, economic, and technological developments. – mauroguillen.com.

Date

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

5:00pm Washington D.C.
10:00pm London

Women Know Global: Closing the Gender Gap in the Global Economy

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

Register

This webinar is free of charge. Click the button below to register.