The event took place in Monterrey, bringing together the students of the program from the different EGADE locations.

By JOSÉ ANGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Under the slogan Power Skills for a New Era, the 2022 edition of the EGADE MBA National Meeting was held from October 6 to 8, in Monterrey.

The students of the program in Monterrey, Mexico City, Guadalajara and Querétaro met to live a multi-site experience of collaborative work, learning and networking.

The innovation within the meeting was manifested through the gamified challenges that put the power skills of the participants to the test, and allowed them to earn badges of powers of leadership, collaboration, curiosity, communication, creativity and connection.

Through these games, the students strengthened competencies and skills such as effective communication, teamwork, adaptability, problem-solving, decision-making, planning, and time management.

THREE DAYS OF COLLABORATIVE WORK, LEARNING AND NETWORKING

The first day saw a tour of the Monterrey Campus and a cocktail in the Rectory Hall of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

The rest of the meeting took place in various spaces of the EGADE Business School headquarters in Monterrey.

On the second day, the students received welcome messages from Horacio Arredondo, dean of EGADE Business School; Eric Porras, National Director of EGADE MBA Programs; Eva Guerra, director of the EGADE MBA in Monterrey, and Pedro Carreón, director of the EGADE MBA in Guadalajara.

As mistress of ceremonies, there was the special participation of Alexandra Ibarra, a candidate to graduate from the EGADE MBA.

As keynote speaker, Valeria Strappa, regional leader of Liquidity and Account Solutions for the Americas at J.P. Morgan, offered the conference "Transformation, reinvention and inclusion: keys to survive and excel in the future of work".

"The future of work is already our present and it impacts us all," said the former professional tennis player.

On the other hand, professional skills for the future of work were addressed by Michael Fung, director of the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and by a panel moderated by Jaime Martínez Bowness, Mexico City regional dean of the Escuela of Business at the Tec, with the participation of Silvia Pieretti, Global Vice President of Talent Management at Ternium; Rosario Toro, Director of Culture, Training and Development at Banregio, and Salvador De Antuñano, Director of Human Resources at Grupo Adecco México.

The gamified challenges were closed at the conference "Gamification, immersive experiences and video games to develop skills", by Miguel Abrajan, co-founder of MasQueLearning.

EGADE Business School professor and leadership consultant Sergio Sedas activated the students with his workshop “Awakening Possibilities”, and sommelier Roberto Dumois offered them an entertaining musical tasting.

The second day ended with a gathering called Networking Night, offered by EGADE Business School's Career Services.

On the third day, the meeting culminated with two conferences: "Re-humanizing Leadership", given by Kasonde Musoma, director of Student Leadership for Tecnológico de Monterrey, and "Decision making in complex environments", by José Manuel Contreras, CEO of Vitro Diverse Industries.

Learn more about the EGADE MBA program here.

The participants of the EGADE MBA National Meeting put their power skills to the test through playful activities.

By JOSÉ ANGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Within the EGADE MBA 2022 National Meeting, the students experienced a series of six gamified challenges through which they put their power skills to the test.

The challenges took place in different spaces of the EGADE Business School headquarters in Monterrey, which became "spaces of power."

For each challenge in which they participated, the students received a ticket for a raffle that was held within the meeting, as well as badges of leadership power, collaboration, curiosity, communication, creativity and connection.

Their advances and rewards were recorded in a passport that contained the instructions for each of the six challenges, which included video games, secret codes, Legos and shots at goal.

Through these playful activities, the students strengthened competencies and skills such as effective communication, teamwork, adaptability, problem-solving, decision-making, planning and time management.

The challenges were closed within the conference "Gamification, immersive experiences and video games to develop skills", given by Miguel Abrajan, co-founder of MasQueLearning, during the second day of the meeting.

Abrajan collaborated in designing the gamification experience in coordination with the Educational Innovation Department of EGADE Business School.

The 2022 edition of the EGADE MBA National Meeting was held from October 6 to 8, in Monterrey, under the slogan Power Skills for a New Era.

The event brought together the EGADE MBA students in Monterrey, Mexico City, Guadalajara and Querétaro.

By INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey announced the appointment of Ricardo Úbeda Sales as the new Academic Associate Dean.

Úbeda Sales will contribute the experience acquired from him in educational institutions in Europe, Latin America and the United States, a context in which he has created and directed programs of different characteristics, both leading to academic degrees and Executive Education.

“Continuing with the deployment of our EGADE 2030 Strategy, in particular in our Strategic Pillar "Leading postgraduate business education in Mexico," we warmly welcome Ricardo, who joins EGADE Business School as the new Academic Associate Dean as of October 17 of this year”, highlighted Horacio Arredondo, dean of EGADE Business School.

Úbeda Sales has a Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management from Ramon Lull University, where he also completed his MBA. Likewise, he has a Master's in International Purchasing from the IQS School of Management. His teaching areas consider financial analysis, business modeling and management control systems, and the design of supply organizations, among others. His research focuses on supply and management control issues, and he authorizes articles in important academic journals.

"I am confident that the incorporation of Ricardo will be a contribution to further strengthen the team that has carried out our academic programs," said Arredondo.

The National Director of MBA Programs offers a keynote address to Austrian and German businessmen and investors.

By JOSÉ ANGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

The challenges and opportunities of nearshoring in Mexico were addressed in a keynote address by Eric Porras, National Director of MBA Programs at EGADE Business School, during the first edition of Austria Connect in the country.

The event organized by Advantage Austria Mexico, the commercial office of the Austrian Embassy in the country, was held on September 26 at the Club de Industriales, in Mexico City.

Before investors from Austria and Germany, Porras explained the new trends in nearshoring and reconfiguration strategies for global supply chains.

Likewise, he detailed the opportunities that Mexico has in the post-pandemic situation and how foreign companies can take advantage of the competitive advantages offered by the country to integrate into the supply chains of the North American region, in light of the T-MEC.

“As a product of the post-pandemic, which has led to high global transportation costs, almost quadrupling their pre-pandemic levels, the increase in fuel prices and various disruptions and shortages of products and components, Mexico has a historic opportunity to take advantage of the moment that we are experiencing worldwide around the reconfiguration of global supply chains and the so-called nearshoring, or approach of the supply bases of said chains”, said Porras.

According to data from the IDB, he stressed, Mexico is the country that can have the greatest benefit from this phenomenon in the Latin American region, with the capacity to generate benefits of the order of 35,000 million dollars a year in exports in different sectors, such as the automotive, aerospace and electronics.

The rankings include EGADE Business School’s Full-Time MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Master in Finance, and Master in Business Management programs, and highlight the employability, entrepreneurship, and outcomes of EGADE Alumni across the world.

By  INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey reaffirmed its Latin American leadership, with the full-time MBA and the graduate degrees in Finance and Management as the best rated in the region, according to the 2023 rankings by the prestigious international ranking agency Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

Among the business schools in Mexico and Latin America, EGADE Business School is at the forefront, for the sixth consecutive year, in the QS Global MBA Rankings and the QS Business Master’s Rankings: Finance, and, for the third year, in the QS Business Master’s Rankings: Management.

The EGADE Business School programs evaluated in these rankings are the Full-Time MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship,  Master in Finance, and Master in Business Management, obtaining the following results:

QS GLOBAL MBA RANKINGS 2023
The Full-Time MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship was rated:

• #1 in Mexico and Latin America for the 6th year running
• #54 worldwide out of 296 programs considered from 47 countries
• #1 in Entrepreneurship and alumni outcomes in Latin America and #20 globally
• #1 in Employability in Latin America and #35 globally

QS BUSINESS MASTER’S RANKINGS: FINANCE 2023
The Master in Finance was rated:

• #1 in Mexico and Latin America for the 6th consecutive year
• #42 worldwide out of 189 programs considered from 37 countries
• #18 in Employability worldwide

QS BUSINESS MASTER’S RANKINGS: MANAGEMENT 2023
The Master in Business Management program was rated:

• #1 in Mexico and Latin America for the 3rd year running
• #46 worldwide out of 176 programs considered from 34 countries
• #31 in Employability worldwide

“These results fill us with great pride since they reflect the impact and transcendence of our extraordinary global community of alumni (EXATEC EGADE) and their achievements as entrepreneurs and business leaders; of our faculty who are internationally renowned for their exceptional instruction and their cutting-edge research connected to the current and future challenges of organizations; of our students who are transformational business leaders; and the wider EGADE community, encouraging us to continue to strengthen our purpose of rethinking the future of business so that it impacts the sustainable development of Latin America,” commented Horacio Arredondo, dean of EGADE Business School.

The QS Global MBA & Business Master’s Rankings highlight the best graduate programs in the world. All qualifying schools must be accredited by AACSB, AMBA or EQUIS (EGADE Business School has earned all three accreditations, known as the “Triple Crown”).

The indicators evaluated by QS include alumni employability; entrepreneurship and alumni outcomes; thought leadership; return on investment; and class and faculty diversity. As a whole, the QS rankings cover the graduate programs in greatest demand by employers from all over the world.

EGADE Business School’s top results in the 2023 editions can be found in the categories:

• Entrepreneurship and alumni outcomes, in which the Full-Time MBA ranked #1 in Latin America and #20 worldwide.
• Employability, with the Full-Time MBA placed #1 in the region and #35 worldwide; Master in Finance #18 worldwide; and Master in Business Management #31 globally.

The methodology of the rankings is based on four factors. The first –employer reputation– is a global survey of more than 61,000 employers, who identify the institutions from which they source their highest-impact employees; the second –global academic reputation– surveys over 48,000 academic leaders and deans from across the world; the third –alumni impact– consists of an evaluation of more than 27,000 successful alumni; and the fourth –academic information– corresponds to the information provided by the institutions themselves.

The complete results, published on September 29, can be viewed here: 

• QS Global MBA Rankings 2023
• QS Business Master’s Rankings 2023: Finance
• QS Business Master’s Rankings 2023: Management

With his appointment, the School seeks to continue strengthening its academic offer, adding diversity of thought and leadership that accelerates its growth.

By INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

EGADE Business School of Tecnológico de Monterrey has announced the appointment of Horacio Arredondo as its new dean.

Among his main responsibilities, Arredondo will be in charge of continuing to strengthen the academic offering and add diversity of thought and leadership, thereby accelerating the growth demanded by Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Vision towards 2030. He will also be contributing the experience he acquired in managerial and academic management roles in private industry and educational institutions in South America and Europe.

Juan Pablo Murra, rector for Higher Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey, said: “As part of the positioning strategy in our postgraduate business programs and the focus required by our strategic commitments at EGADE Business School, we will be persisting in engaging global talent to assure the continuity of current results is a priority. Horacio’s comprehensive profile, built from working in the financial sector, consulting, his own business ventures, and management in executive academic positions, undoubtedly allows him to display genuine, transcendent, high-performance leadership. We are convinced that he will bring value, experience, and a sense of humanity to complement the current talented team and facilitate the strategies we seek for EGADE and Tecnológico de Monterrey.”

Arredondo holds an MBA from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and, at IE Business School, he earned a Master’s in Research Methodologies for Science and is a Doctoral candidate in Administration and Business.

He has also served as a board member in a variety of companies and institutions in Chile, and is an active speaker on and advocate for topics related to family businesses, business strategy, and organizational transformation.

The new dean of EGADE Business School stated: “Forming part of this great institution is an enormous honor for me, while leading EGADE Business School in contributing to the transformation of companies and leaders in Mexico and Latin America is a huge responsibility. Economic and social development is crucial to improve people’s quality of life. Our purpose is to create a future in which businesses will have an impact on Latin America’s sustainable development, for which we need to challenge the existing paradigms and create positive change in society.”

EGADE Business School forms part of the select group made up of 1% of institutions worldwide honored with the “triple crown” of accreditations in business education from the most important organizations across the globe: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in the United States, Association of MBAs (AMBA) in the UK, and EQUIS in Europe.

Guided by Professor Federico Trigos, students live an unprecedented educational innovation experience at EGADE Business School, which integrates the business case method with the gamification technique.

By JOSÉ ANGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Travel to Mars in the year 2097 and solve a business dilemma as a team?

Two groups of students from the EGADE MBA program did it in the classroom, experiencing an unprecedented educational innovation for EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey that, for the first time, integrating the business case method with the gamification technique.

Facilitated by Federico Trigos, professor of Business Analytics at EGADE Business School, this new experience was lived as a pilot activity within his Operations Management class in the Summer of 2022 period.

The case studied was the classic “Sports Obermeyer” from Harvard.

The dynamics included the viewing of a video set on Mars and teamwork through a board game made up of a board and cards with information to analyze, among other didactic elements.

"The students expressed very positive results of this experience, highlighting that it raised the energy level of the session and allowed them to learn in a different and fun way, achieving the learning objectives in a more dynamic way", commented Trigos.

In the design of the experience and its materials, the Educational Innovation teams of EGADE Business School and the Design and Pedagogical Architecture team of the Office of the Vice President for Educational Innovation and Academic Regulations at Tec de Monterrey collaborated.

AN INNOVATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

The Director of Educational Innovation at EGADE Business School, Eloísa Pérez, explained how the elements of gamification were integrated into this innovative learning experience with the different phases of the case method:

• Individual preparation: “The students had previously analyzed and interpreted the case in their individual activity, so that, when they arrived at the class, they were all ready for the discussion in teams.”
• Beginning of the experience: “By beginning this dive, two specific goals are fulfilled. One, they watch a video that introduces students to the history and transports them to Mars for their first private sightseeing trip in human history. Two, they discover the mission: to contribute with their experience in solving a problem that arises in 2097 and that with their current knowledge they can generate value”.

• Team discussion: “By forming teams, the traditional dynamic of participating in small groups became a gamified experience in which each team had various challenges to solve and discuss as a team. The dynamic was carried out through the use of a physical board and a series of cards with key information that they began to analyze. In this phase, they interacted as a team and exchanged their knowledge and experiences, but now as experts invited to solve the problems presented on Mars during their tourism trip. The students had three challenges to prove themselves worthy: identify the most important facts, the theoretical contribution applied to practice and the executive needs of the case. Each mission, when solved, led them to gain access to three keys of wisdom and as a lock to the master key of total knowledge.

• Plenary discussion: “The integration of the plenary discussion also took place with the participation of the teams that finished their experience on time; they were asked to support the rest of their colleagues by contributing their ideas and knowledge, seeking to develop collaboration and teamwork.

"Our challenge at EGADE, and which is part of this pilot, is the generation of innovative and transformative experiences that, by combining various strategies, enhance and improve the teaching-learning process at the postgraduate level," Pérez pointed out.

With this activity, facilitated by Professor Trigos, a series of pilots were launched to integrate a portfolio of disruptive experiences at EGADE Business School and apply various teaching strategies and educational technologies at the forefront of business schools globally.

On September 12, reentry and new students were present for the start of the new academic period.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

This week, EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey started its academic activities for the September-December 2022 trimester, at all its sites and locations nationwide.

EGADE Business School’s online programs also began on September 12 for the new academic period.  

The new students at the Monterrey and Santa Fe sites, as well as the MAF Online program, participated in their welcome sessions last week, while all others will do so this week.

This EGADE Business School trimester also welcomed 54 international students from 23 universities and business schools in 10 countries.