The third edition of EGADE Business School’s Lifelong Learning digital badge program will be held from March 24 to 26, in online format.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

EGADE U Week 2022 will be held from March 24 to 26, in online format, with the theme “Digital transformation for disruptive leaders”. 

This is the third edition of EGADE Business School’s Lifelong Learning digital badge program, offered exclusively for its graduate community.

EGADE U Week is an innovative intensive learning program in which participants update their knowledge and create impactful interactions with a first-rate international faculty and with disruptive leasers and entrepreneurs, explained María Livas, Director of Student and Alumni Relations at EGADE Business School.

“The interactive and executive format of EGADE U WEEK is designed to provide appropriate tools and techniques to achieve outstanding learning through conferences, workshops, panels, and spaces for dialogue where participants share opinions and ideas,” she commented in an information session.

In addition, Raúl Montalvo, Director of EGADE Business School Guadalajara and Research Leader at Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Digital Hub, explained the premises under which digital transformation will be addressed during EGADE U Week.

Dr. Montalvo, who is also the academic leader of EGADE U Week 2022, stressed that the success of organizations in the digital era will literally depend on the transformation of business processes, products, services, culture, structure, and models, in order to generate greater innovation and value for customers.

The keynote speakers and panelists participating in EGADE U Week 2022 include:

• ·Efraín Mendicuti, Director of Global Business Solutions at TikTok.
• Carolina Piña, Head of Enterprise Enablement – Latin America at Amazon Web Services.
• Manuel Alonso Coto, Academic Director of the Marketing and Digital Advertising Management Program at IE Business School.
• Ignacio de la Vega, Executive Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs, Faculty and Internationalization at Tecnológico de Monterrey.
• Alexandra Solano, Research Professor and Director of the Center for Digital Evolution and the Digital Transformation Hub at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Participants will receive a digital badge and certificate on completing the program.

For further information on costs and registration, sign up here.

The President of SAP México earned a Master’s in Administration degree at EGADE Business School and a B.S. in Systems Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

By INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

In order to honor her outstanding leadership and extraordinary career, Angela Gómez Aiza, President of SAP México, has been distinguished by EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey with the 2022 EGADE Alumni Achievement Award.

This recognition is awarded annually to an EGADE Business School alumna or alumnus whose professional activities have had a positive impact on business, organizations, and society.

Gómez Aiza earned a Master’s in Administration degree at EGADE Business School and a B.S. in Systems Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

“I am deeply grateful to EGADE Business School and Tecnológico de Monterrey for honoring me with the 2022 EGADE Alumni Achievement Award. Receiving this distinction from my alma mater fills me with great pride and is an important reminder that success is built on perseverance and passion, offers inspiration to continue to contribute to Mexico’s technological and sustainable development,” Gómez Aiza said.

The award winner was announced on February 21 within the framework of Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Annual Board Meeting, and the prize-giving ceremony will take place in the summer during the 2022 Annual EGADE Alumni Meeting.

Gómez Aiza forms part of the select group of 22 Tecnológico de Monterrey graduates who received the Tec Alumni Achievement Award through the institution’s different campuses, regions, and graduate schools.

“The EGADE Alumni Achievement Award celebrates the transformational leadership of our graduates. Angela has been recognized for her extraordinary talent and career, but above all for her commitment to and positive impact on companies, business ventures, and organizations, reflected in significant growth in the adoption of cloud technology in our country,” commented Osmar Zavaleta Vázquez, Interim Dean of EGADE Business School.

Since 2013, the year in which the Award was instituted, the goal has been to recognize alumni who have had a positive impact on Tec and its community, in order to showcase their achievements in areas such as business development, education, science and research, public service, human rights, volunteering, philanthropy, the arts, or sports.

SAP is the market leader in business software, whose clients generate 87% of global trade. Through advanced machine learning technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), and analytics, SAP helps businesses become intelligent, sustainable companies.  

ANGELA GÓMEZ AIZA

Gómez Aiza has enjoyed an outstanding 23-year career in leadership positions in the technology, retail, and consumer goods industries.  Her priorities at the helm of SAP México include fostering innovation and technological transformation among Mexican companies, supporting their evolution towards the cloud.

She has developed most of her professional career at SAP, where, for 15 years, she directed diverse areas, including the vice-presidency of Services for Mexico and Central America. SAP is the leading business software company in the world.

She has also served as Chief Innovation Officer at El Palacio de Hierro, and as president for Latin America at Safilo Group.

Her career path and commitment to the development of the country and its competitiveness led to her recent recognition as one of the 100 most powerful women in Mexico by two of the nation’s most important business magazines.

Expansión’s ranking brings together the most important and influential women in Mexico’s business world.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

The magazine Expansión published the 2022 edition of its ranking “The 100 most powerful business women”, which includes EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey alumnae.

The ranking brings together the most important and influential women in Mexico’s business world.

The EGADE Business School alumnae selected for the ranking are:

Silvia Dávila

· Regional President Latin America and CEO Mexico, Danone

· Master in Business Economics graduate

· Ranked: 7th place

· Sector: Food and Beverages

Angela Gómez

· President of SAP México

· MBA graduate

· Ranked: 35th place

· Sector: Computer Science and Services

Ana Isabel Iglesias

· CFF, Sanofi México

· Master in Finance graduate

· Ranked: 59th place

· Sector: Chemical and Pharmaceutical

Erika Abigail Falfán

· VP Centralized Operations, Walmart Mexico and Central America

· MBA graduate

· Ranked: 60th place

· Sector: Self-Service Retail

To compile the list, Expansión received nominations through an open call published on expansion.mx.

The methodology considers the hierarchical level of the candidates and the scope of their functions (30%); the value of their position (30%) regarding remuneration; their transcendence (30%), considering their influence outside the company where they work or that they head; and company size (10%) in sales and employees.

In this way, Expansión seeks to reflect a reality in which women do not just hold a position in a company, but also have a say in other companies by sitting on the board of directors, or have achieved the consolidation of their own company, while constantly supporting other women.

View the complete ranking here.

A student, an alumna, and a professor from EGADE Business School share their reflections on leadership and challenges for women in business and organizations.

By INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

March 8, International Women's Day, is a commemorative date to recognize the fight for women's rights and gender equality that thousands of women have led throughout history.

To promote individual and collective reflection on progress, as well as inequalities and barriers that prevent the full development of women, we interviewed three women from the EGADE Business School community:

• Diana Tamayo, student of the Master in Business Management in Guadalajara.
• Violeta Ramírez, alumna from EGADE - UNC Charlotte MBA in Global Business & Strategy.
• Diana Kolbe, professor in the Department of Marketing and Business Intelligence.

They discussed the qualities they value most in the women they admire, and delved into the challenges women face in business and organizations, among other issues.

Watch the video here.

EGADE Business School faculty and students participate in the 52nd edition of the congress, held this year in a hybrid format.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

The first place of the Doctoral Research Pitch, a panel on transdisciplinary research, and the presentation of impact projects formed the framework for EGADE Business School’s participation in the 52nd Research and Development Congress (CID) of Tecnológico de Monterrey.

In this hybrid edition, held from March 2 to 4, the CID brought together Tec faculty and students who presented the institution’s research projects.

CLAUDIA GÓMEZ, FIRST PLACE DOCTORAL RESEARCH PITCH

EGADE Business School’s Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences (DCA) student, Claudia Lizzette Gómez Borquez, won first place in the Doctoral Research Pitch, in which students from the different Tec schools presented their doctoral research theses.

In a competition format and before a jury comprised of the institution’s lecturers, participants communicated the significance of their projects in three-minute pitches.

Gómez Borquez presented her work “Empowering Women Through Femvertising: Consumers’ Perceptions, Attitudes and Purchase Intention,” which analyzes the representation of women and their stereotypes in advertising, and provides evidence to incorporate feminist ideals and women’s empowerment in the same.  

With her first place, Gómez Borquez won the opportunity to represent Tec at the Universitas 21 Three Minute Thesis Competition.

Another DCA student, Regina Gabriela Díaz Crespo, also participated in the Doctoral Research Pitch, presenting her project “Transformación digital: desde los grandes proveedores a las tienditas de la esquina” (Digital Transformation: From Major Suppliers to Corner Shops).

PANEL: TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

Federico Trigos, Business Analytics professor at EGADE Business School, moderated the panel “Transdisciplinary Research.”

The panelists were Linda Newnes, President of the International Society of Transdisciplinary Engineering (ISTE) and Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath, UK, and Bryan Moser, Academic Director of the System Design & Management (SDM) program at MIT, USA.

Trigos is a member of ISTE, the leading group in the emerging field of transdisciplinary engineering, with a research focus that integrates diverse scientific disciplines, requiring mixed methodologies for work execution.

IMPACT AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

During a session at the Tec School of Business, faculty and students presented diverse impact and collaborative projects from EGADE Business School, the Centers for Excellence, and the Business area Strategic Focus Research Groups (GIEE).

One of the projects was the model “Sustainable Wealth Creation Based on Innovation and Technology (SWIT),” presented by professors Carlos Scheel and Eduardo Aguiñaga.

Other participants from EGADE Business School were professors Eva Guerra, Teofilo Ozuna, Iván Valdovinos, Bryan Husted and Rolando Fuentes, and DCA student Mario Aldana.

The session was coordinated by Osmar Zavaleta, Interim Dean of EGADE Business School and Associate Dean of Research at the Tec School of Business, and Ernesto Amorós, National Director of Doctoral Programs, EGADE Business School.

This year’s CID general program included outstanding keynote conferences by Michael W. Young, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2017, and Guillermo Torre, Vice-President of Research at Tec, as well as the prize-giving ceremony of the 2021 Rómulo Garza Research and Innovation Award.

Findings disclosed of the Global Network for Advanced Management survey, in which EGADE Business School students participated. 

By COMUNICACIÓN INSTITUCIONAL | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

A survey of more than 2,000 students from business schools that form part of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), including EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey, revealed that business students are increasingly concerned about the climate crisis and want sustainability to be more integrated into their education and their professional lives.

The report Rising Leaders on Social and Environmental Sustainability: A Global Survey of Business Students, led by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment in collaboration with the GNAM network, unveiled four basic findings:

1. Business students believe that corporate leaders should be solving environmental and social issues. They also perceive global warming as more of an economic/business problem (76%), than a health (66%) or moral (53%) one.

2. New business leaders hope that sustainability will be transversally incorporated into corporate strategy. Nearly three-quarters of participants consider that companies should play a leading role by addressing these matters, at the same level as government agencies.

3. Business schools are integrating more courses on sustainability. Moreover, at the same time, students expect more of their programs: 62% of respondents would like the university career services to focus more on sustainable jobs.

4. The majority of business students (51%) claim that they would accept a lower salary if it meant working with an employer who is committed to sustainability. So, companies with poor sustainability practices ought to consider their brand reputation in the face of this reality.

With this in mind, the report concludes that corporations must improve their sustainability practices if they wish to address the multiple global issues and position their organizations as valuable employers that young people aspire to join.

Meanwhile, business schools continue to adopt experiential learning opportunities in their academic proposal, positioning students as agents of positive change.

“EGADE Business School’s vision is based on the preparation of leaders who are capable of anticipating change and contributing to the development of our communities. As such, business transformation is inevitable and demands a paradigm shift around leadership, inspiring innovative executives to design and implement disruptive, sustainable business models,” said Osmar Zavaleta, Interim Dean of EGADE Business School.

Most of the students who participated in the survey are from MBA programs (64%) at 29 business schools on five, and are 26 to 30 years (42%).

EGADE Business School is a founding member of the Global Network for Advanced Management, a network of 32 leading business schools in diverse regions, countries, cultures, and economies in different stages of development, committed to contributing through business education with solutions for the principal global challenges that are so complex.

Download the full survey report here: Rising Leaders on Social and Environmental Sustainability.

Guest participants were business leaders from Vanguard Latinoamérica, CIAL Dun & Bradstreet and Beliv Company, as well as professors from the Financial Think Tank and EGADE Business School faculty. 

By VALENTINA FLORES CÁCERES | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Financial risk factors and strategies for being data-driven, internationalization and managing failure in order to innovate, were the topics addressed by Business Territory, the podcast of EGADE Business School and the School of Business of Tecnológico de Monterrey, during February.

In case you missed them, here are the four episodes:

Episode 63: Inflation, a legacy of the pandemic?

Ignacio Saralegui, Senior Investment Consultant at Vanguard Latinoamérica, and Jorge Martínez, Director of EGADE Business School’s Financial Think Tank, analyze the risk factors in Mexico and how they affect businesses and consumers.

Episode 64: Data-Driven to grow in 2022

Sergio Hernández, CEO of CIAL Dun & Bradstreet, and Fabiola Vásquez, Marketing and Data Science Professor at EGADE Business School, Mexico City site, analyze the execution and analytical talent required to supply the company with relevant information for decision-making.

Episode 65: Strategies for entrepreneurial internationalization

Sascha Fürst, Research Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at EGADE Business School, and José Enrique Alba Escamilla, Chief Growth Officer at Beliv Company, analyze the keys for internationalizing a company based in Latin America. 

Episode 66: Strategic management of failure in order to innovate

José Manuel Maraboto, Director of the Department of Strategy and Leadership at EGADE, and Alicia Galindo, Adjunct Professor at EGADE Business School and Director of the B.A. in Public Accounting program at Tecnológico de Monterrey, analyze the strategic management of failure in order to innovate. 

Business Territory forms part of the  Tec Sounds podcast bar, and is available on

Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts y Google Podcasts.

A new episode of this podcast is published every Tuesday. 

A total of 376 students from 12 business schools, including 12 from EGADE Business School, participated by creating stock portfolios in a virtual market.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Two EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey students reached the finals of the Stock Trading Competition, organized by Yale School of Management. 

Lorna Obando Alston, from the EGADE MBAOnline, and Ricardo Argüelles Ramírez, from the EGADE - UNC Charlotte MBA in Global Business & Strategy, qualified individually and represented their school in the final round.

“I am thrilled and so proud to represent the EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey community. This honorable alma mater has given me so much joy,” Obando Alston said.

A total of 376 students from 12 Global Network for Advanced Management member schools, including 12 from EGADE Business School, participated on February 2 in the first round of this global competition.

Just 51 students, including Obando Alston and Argüelles Ramírez, qualified to the final round held on February 16.

Jin Hyung Cho, student at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, won first place.

This annual competition brings together business school students from all over the world to compete in the creation of stock portfolios in a virtual market.

The participants’ objective is to beat the market by maximizing portfolio wealth.

The competition is held within the framework of the Stock Trading Game developed by Roger Ibbotson, professor at Yale SOM.