Gaspar Fuentes, director of Alumni Relations at Tecnológico de Monterrey, swore in the new members.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

With the charge of continuing to drive the participation of alumnae and alumni in diverse initiatives, the EGADE Business School Alumni Association swore in its new board for the 2023-2024 period.

The new members are:

• Cristina Menchaca Garza (OneMBA’15), president.
• Fernando Vielma Delano (MBA’18), vice-president.
• Fernando Alberto Zamarrón Ruiz (MAF’99), treasurer.
• María Guadalupe Vázquez Cardozo (MAF’20), secretary.
• Anel Reyes Ledezma (MBA’18), Communications and PR leader.
• Manuel Morales Ancira (MBA’21), Philanthropy leader.
• Tomás Humberto Cortés Hernández (MBA’17), Initiatives leader.
• Gustavo Adolfo Rodríguez Arrieta (EAE’19), Mexico City Chapter leader.
• Richard Hugh Colter Siller (MBA’20), Monterrey Chapter leader.
• Rodrigo Rivera Cruz (MBA’19), Querétaro Chapter leader.

The ceremony took place on June 7 at Campus Santa Fe, where Gaspar Fuentes, director of Alumni Relations at Tecnológico de Monterrey, swore in the new board of directors.

María Livas, director of Alumni Relations at EGADE Business School, pinned the representative badge on the incoming president and the outgoing president, Moisés Beltrán Arauz (MBA’15).

The new board signed the pledge, thereby officially starting their term as the association’s leaders, while the outgoing board received accolades for their service.

Ricardo Úbeda, associate academic dean of EGADE Business School, also participated in the ceremony.

The EGADE Alumni Association is a group made up of EGADE Business School alumnae and alumni, who, through networking, support other members of the EGADE Alumni community, champion social projects and philanthropic causes, and participate in the school’s initiatives.

If you are interested in joining the alumni association, please write to asociacion.egade@exatec.tec.mx.

This community offers an excellent opportunity to share experiences and generate collaborations to drive innovation management in Mexican companies.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

With an introductory and networking opening session, EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey launched the initiative EGADE Innovation Community, which brings together vice presidents and directors related to innovation management in Mexico’s leading enterprises.

Led by Fernando Moya and Cristian Granados, director of and professor from the Department of Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation at EGADE Business School, respectively, this initiative seeks to generate ties between academia and the business sector while promoting the exchange of best practices and discussion on the challenges and trends in the field of innovation.

The community’s first meeting was held on June 1 at EGADE Business School, Santa Fe site, with the participation of guest speaker Alma Álvarez, global director of Innovation for Grupo Bimbo, who shared the path in the design and adoption of the new innovation model implemented in his organization and the main challenges they face in this area.

The founding members who attended the event were innovation directors from leading companies across diverse industries, such as Bimbo, Coppel, Nestlé, Sanofi, Visa, Siemens, Opinno, Qurio, Roche, Open Vector, Jumex, BBVA, Federación Mexicana de Futbol, MassChallenge, and McKinsey, among others.

“This is a community of vice presidents and directors of Innovation or related areas, such as Transformation, New Businesses, and Research and Development. Its objective is to discuss the challenges and best practices regarding innovation management in companies; for all the members and guest experts to learn from each other; and to generate collaboration synergies, such as research or projects, among the member companies,” Granados explained.

EGADE Innovation Community meetings will be held once a month and itinerantly in the members’ companies.

Any directors who are interested in joining the EGADE Innovation Community can contact Professor Granados by email: cristian.granados@tec.mx.

The challenge linked to the Sustainable Development Goals was developed on Minecraft.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

The first edition of EGADE Action Week saw the launch of the Impact Challenge by Oxxo, a challenge linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and experienced by students from EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey through the videogame Minecraft.

The eight participating teams comprised up to three students each from the EGADE MBA, Master in Finance, and Master in Business Analytics programs offered at different sites and online.

The challenge took place from May 11 to 21. Participants used the Design Thinking methodology and enjoyed the support of expert mentors in generating the solution proposals.

After evaluating the solutions presented, a jury made up of representatives from Oxxo and EGADE Business School considered diverse criteria, such as the viability of the project, innovation, impact on people, the solution proposed for the challenge, and social impact, and, finally,, named the winners:

• First place: Edgar Javier Agustín Navarro, Jesús Ernesto Bautista and Rodolfo Urbina Mendoza.

• Second place: Nicole Marie Keeter, Jackson Horace Wells and José Manuel Perdomo Oliva.

• Third place: José Alfredo De La Peña García and Matias Javier Bossie.

The mentors who provided their knowledge and guidance were the EGADE Business School professors Eva Guerra, Luciana Manfredi, Eduardo Aguiñaga, and Lilia Bárcena, as well as Eloísa Pérez and Wendy Páez, from Educational Innovation, and Miriam García, from Strategic Intelligence.

The members of the jury responsible for evaluating the project were Jorge Carpio Aguilar, Sustainability and Social Responsibility manager at Oxxo; Ángela Barragan González, Environment manager at Oxxo; Rosina Benavides Monteverde, head of Sustainability Processes and Governance at Oxxo; Ricardo Úbeda, Associate Academic Dean of EGADE Business School; Sonia Monárrez, Strategic Intelligence director at EGADE Business School; and Eric Porras, national director of the MBA programs at EGADE Business School.

The winning teams received awards for their outstanding performance as well as the opportunity to implement the solutions they proposed in collaboration with Oxxo.

The Impact Challenge by Oxxo demonstrated the potential and capacity of EGADE Business School students to tackle the challenges of today and contribute to the achievement of the SDGs.

 As an academic ally, EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey hosted the online event that was broadcast live from the Monterrey site to the entire region.

By INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey was in charge of connecting more than two thousand leaders and members of Latin America’s entrepreneurial families through the Family Business Tour 2023.

As an academic ally and the host, EGADE Business School broadcast the event live, from its Monterrey site to an online audience in 18 countries in the region, such as Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, and Ecuador, among others.

The second edition of the Family Business Tour, organized by the Argentinian firm Quirós Consultores, offered a program consisting of three conferences delivered by international specialists with the aim of providing tools, new approaches, and keys for strengthening ties in Latin American family businesses and developing their capacities to generate value.

In his conference “Generational succession process,” Horacio Arredondo, dean of EGADE Business School, stated that developing a new generation of entrepreneurs in the family requires the consideration of factors beyond the survival of the business and a focus on economic and socioemotional value creation.

“You need to acknowledge that there will be a change in mindset, that planning and formalizing processes will be key for the transition, and that you need to start decentralizing decision-making. In other words, preparing generational succession in the company means formalizing it,” he said.

María Fonseca, director of Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Entrepreneurial Family Institute, gave the conference "The fundamental role of women in the entrepreneurial family," noting that, according to a recent survey, women have fewer aspirations to reach executive positions or form part of the Boards of Directors in family businesses, contrasting with their greater preference for participating in social commitment or philanthropic actions.

“Family businesses must fulfill their responsibility to establish organizational structures that will enable greater diversity in Boards and in all other areas. The challenge of women’s projection in other roles still exists in this and all other types of companies, which is why we need to keep working to close the gender gap,” she explained.

In addition, Martín Quirós, director of Quirós Consultores, offered the conference “The importance of descendants,” stressing that intergenerational motivation is achieved when the opportunity to participate independently on a day-to-day basis is given, thereby generating merits within the family business.

“Successors thrive on results, motivation, and recognition,” he said.  

The Mayor of Monterrey, Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, was invited to deliver the welcome message at the event, in which he highlighted the value of family businesses in the development of prosperous cities.

After the conferences, the three specialists closed the event by participating in a panel where they agreed that the value of collaboration is fundamental to the success of a family business.

The Family Business Tour was sponsored by Banca Afirme and enjoyed the support of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of the Economy of the Sinaloa State Government, among other agencies.

Juan Ignacio Sánchez, Oliver Schilke and Martin Reimann join the EGADE Faculty.

By INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Three distinguished visiting professors from the Tecnológico de Monterrey Faculty of Excellence initiative have joined EGADE Business School.

The professors are:

• Juan Ignacio Sánchez, Knight-Ridder Byron Harless Professor and Eminent Scholar at Florida International University joins the Department of Strategy and Leadership at EGADE Business School as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Organizational Behavior and Human Capital.
   
• Oliver Schilke, Associate Professor at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, joins the Department of Strategy and Leadership at EGADE Business School as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Leadership and Effective Organizations.
   
• Martin Reimann, Associate Professor at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, joins the Department of Marketing and Business Intelligence at EGADE Business School as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Consumer Behavior.

In this regard, the Associate Dean of the Faculty of EGADE Business School, Ernesto Amorós, commented: "We are sure that the knowledge and contributions of Juan Ignacio, Oliver, and Martin will inspire and strengthen the experience of our students, faculty, and the entire EGADE community.”

Through the Faculty of Excellence initiative, Tecnológico de Monterrey seeks to attract extraordinary professors, and internationally recognized with outstanding experience and notable ideas, to add them to the faculty.

To learn more, enter here.

Class 2024 attended academic sessions on Innovation and Analytics for Decision-Making at the Tempe campus in Arizona. 

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

As part of their program, the EGADE - W. P. Carey Executive MBA class 2024 experienced their first Intensive Week at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe.

From April 23 to 28, students from the international dual-degree program attended academic sessions on Innovation and Analytics for Decision-Making led by Rivadávia C. Drummond A. Neto and Stephen Hillegeist, professors at ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business. 

Igor Rivera, National Director of the EGADE - W. P. Carey Executive MBA, accompanied the group, who also enjoyed networking activities and a campus tour, visiting sites such as McCord Hall and the Hayden Library, among others.

EGADE - W. P. Carey Executive MBA is an international dual-degree program for high-performing executives offered by EGADE Business School in partnership with the W. P. Carey School of Business.

The program in Mexico City includes international experiences such as this weeklong immersion at the US university.

Dr. Trigos is a member of a team of researchers who create a lubricant with titanium dioxide nanoparticle additions that promises to improve machining processes significantly in different industrial sectors.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Federico Trigos is the first research professor from EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey to obtain a patent, after collaborating on the invention of a nanolubricant for machining operations.  

This lubricant with titanium dioxide nanoparticle additions promises to improve machining processes significantly in different industrial sectors, from automobile manufacturing to electronic device production.

The patent is the result of the synergy between academia and industry and the hard collaborative work of a team of researchers comprised of Trigos; Laura Peña Parás and Demófilo Maldonado Cortés, from Universidad de Monterrey; and Gilberto Enoc García Acosta, representing Grupo Industrial Blomer and graduate of the Master in Manufacturing Management at EGADE Business School.

“This achievement fills me with great pride. It exemplifies teamwork between a company and research professors from different universities. This invention is expected to have a significant impact on the industry, promoting the competitiveness and growth of Mexican enterprises in the global market,” Trigos stated.

Trigos’ contribution focused on the statistical analysis of the results of the nanolubricant that offers numerous advantages over the conventional lubricants used in machining processes.

Benefits include a significant decrease in friction and wear, longer cutting tool life, improved quality of machined surfaces, and a reduction in production times.

Trigos commented that these improvements help to increase the efficiency and profitability of industrial operations.

The patent was registered under the title "Nanolubricant for Machining Operations" with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), and was promoted by Tecnológico de Monterrey, Universidad de Monterrey, Universidad de Montemorelos, and Grupo Industrial Blomer.

“Federico Trigos’ achievement as the first EGADE Business School professor to obtain a patent underscores the institution’s commitment to fostering research and innovation. EGADE Business School is proud to have outstanding professors like Dr. Trigos, who not only contribute to our students’ education, but also generate concrete solutions to the challenges faced by organizations and society through research,” said Osmar Zavaleta, associate dean of Research at the School of Business and EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Before the patent was registered, the research project attained the publication of scientific articles and support from the Innovation Stimulus Program (PEI) of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt).

Trigos is a professor of Business Analytics in the Department of Marketing and Business Intelligence at EGADE Business School and lead researcher of the Transdisciplinary Analysis of Value Chains and Global Opportunities Subject Area Group, within the Research Groups of the School of Business of Tecnológico de Monterrey.

The institution awarded this accolade to the EGADE professor for her outstanding work as a teacher, academic leader, and student educator.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL 

Eva Guerra, teacher, researcher, and program director at EGADE Business School, received the Inspirational Professor award, within the framework of the 2023 Teachers' Day celebrations at Tecnológico de Monterrey. 

The institution awarded this accolade to the professor for her outstanding work as a teacher, academic leader, and student educator in 2022. 

"I would like to extend my gratitude to all the extraordinary teachers who have touched my life and to all Tec professors for these 80 years of preparing leaders. I am truly honored to receive this inspirational professor award and to form part of this great institution," Guerra stated. 

The award winner is a professor in the Department of Marketing and Business Intelligence at EGADE Business School; program director of the EGADE MBA in Monterrey and the EGADE - UNC Charlotte MBA in Global Business & Strategy; and researcher in the Social Innovation and Sustainability Subject Area Group, within the Research Groups of Tecnológico de Monterrey's School of Business. 

She is also a host of Business Territory, the podcast of EGADE Business School and the Tec School of Business. 

The celebrations and prize-giving ceremony, which took place in the Borregos Arena at Campus Monterrey, were led by David Garza, rector and executive president of Tecnológico de Monterrey; Victor Gutiérrez, rector of Operations, and Mario Adrián Flores, vice-president of the Northern Region. 

FACULTY CLASSIFICATION 

As part of the Tec Teachers' Day celebrations, five EGADE Business School professors received recognition for advancing in their academic careers within the institution's faculty classification:

• René Cabral achieved Full Professor classification in the Researcher track.
• Cristian Granados obtained Associate Professor classification in the Consultant track.
• Ricardo Buitrago was granted Associate Professor classification in the Researcher track.
• Félix Cárdenas attained Assistant Professor classification in the Entrepreneur track.
• Alfonso Ávila attained Assistant Professor classification in the Researcher track.