By José Ángel de la Paz

EGADE Business School’s Master in Business Management (MBM) program has won the EQUAA Innovation Award 2019 International Prize for the best educational innovation project in Mexico.

The awards ceremony was held on November 29th in the framework of the VI EQUAA Accreditation Forum:“Innovation for Quality Education,” at the Álvares Penteado School of Commerce Foundation (FECAP), in São Paulo, Brazil.

Only three institutions of higher education per country were chosen across participating Latin American nations.

The 18 finalist institutions presented their innovation projects at the EQUAA conference, with just one winner in each category announced. EGADE Business School won first place in Mexico, with finalists institutions including the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and Universidad Iberoamericana. 

Armida Lozano, Director of International Programs, attended the presentation of the Master in Business Management on behalf of EGADE Business School, and received the award on behalf of the School. 

“The judging academics from different universities and business schools in Latin America and Spain, evaluated the educational innovation projects, choosing EGADE’s MBM program as the best in Mexico,” said Lozano, who also participated in a panel on Innovation and Educational Technology Trends as part of the forum.

Other institutions winning the 2019 EQUAA Awards were, in their respective countries: the State University of Mato Grosso, Brazil; the University of Development, Chile; EAFIT University, Colombia; ESAN University, Peru; and the 21st Century University, Argentina, which competed in the category of the rest of Latin America.

EGADE's MBM innovation as a new academic program was presented in a book on: “Cases of educational innovation in LATAM,” which was distributed among the attendees and participants of the forum.

EQUAA, organizer of the event, is an international educational accrediting organization based in Lima, Peru, and focused on global business schools with a particular interest in Latin America.

WHAT MAKES THE EGADE MBM AN INNOVATION LEADER?

The EGADE Business School Master in Business Management is a unique program in Mexico, for its intensive one-year format, taught in English, for recent graduates and young professionals with great potential.

It is designed in modules with experiential learning based on projects and challenges, as well as corporate immersions in leading companies, to encourage students to excel in a competitive scenario, expand their business vision, develop key digital and leadership skills, and boost their career through active learning methodologies and corporate experiences.

It is taught on the basis of a blended learning approach (hybrid learning), which includes face-to-face and online sessions, MicroMasters, Coding boot camps, Digital Transformation, the Entrepreneurial Mindset and Future Thinking, MOOCs (online, open and massive courses), workshops, and multiple teaching strategies, such as inverted classroom, gamification, case simulations, challenges and applied projects.

The first generation of the MBM, based at the campus of the EGADE Business School in Monterrey, graduates in December of this year.

With its second generation in the classroom, the program is also taught at the EGADE Business School in Guadalajara.

Learn more about the program here.