The current Master in Finance student and offensive lineman for Borregos Monterrey has been accepted in the international recruitment program of the US professional American football league. 

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Héctor Zepeda, Master in Finance student at EGADE Business School and player for the Tec Borregos Monterrey, has been selected to participate in the NFL 2022 International Player Pathway program. 

Hailing from Ensenada, Baja California, the 24-year-old was the only Mexican on the list of 13 prospects from nine countries announced on January 11 by the US professional American football league.“La NFL ya está volteando más hacia México. El IPP es esa pequeña llave que puede abrir la entrada hacia la NFL”, dijo Zepeda en entrevista con CONECTA.

“The NFL is setting its sights more and more on Mexico. The IPP is the small key that can open the door to the NFL,” Zepeda commented in an interview with CONECTA.

The International Player Pathway was instituted in 2017 seeking to increase the number of elite international athletes in the NFL.

In this program, the offensive linesman will have the opportunity to train in the United States in February and showcase his athletic prowess to scouts from all the NFL teams in March, with the possibility of being signed as a free agent for next season.

Players attending the IPP this year come from France, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, UK, Nigeria, Latvia, Mexico, and Brazil.

Zepeda won a place in the IPP after participating in the Combine Mexico 2021 organized by the NFL in the Estadio Banorte, the Home of Borregos, in October 2021.

The Borregos player enrolled in the Master in Finance at the EGADE Business School Monterrey site in the September-December 2021 term.

Information from CONECTA.

Check out the publications with the highest number of views in 2021 on the dissemination site for EGADE Business School faculty research and opinion. 

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Reading was one of the resolutions set by many people for 2022.

If this applies to you and your motivation was to broaden your knowledge and outlooks, or simply to devote a few more minutes to reading, the following list of EGADE Ideas articles can help you.

EGADE Ideas is the dissemination site for EGADE Business School faculty research and opinion.

The publications posted on EGADE Ideas address current business topics from diverse areas of knowledge, such as economics, entrepreneurship, strategy, ethics, finance, innovation, leadership, marketing, sustainability, and talent.

To make the list, all the articles published on EGADE Ideas in 2021 were taken into consideration, and it ultimately included the 10 articles with the highest number of views during the period from January 2021 to date.

Enjoy reading:

1. “Liderazgo transformacional” (Transformational Leadership) by José Manuel Maraboto, Director of the Department of Leadership and Strategy, EGADE Business School. 

2. “El Covid-19 y la pobreza en México” (Covid-19 and Poverty in Mexico) by Jesús Garza, Professor from the Department of Finance and Economics, EGADE Business School. 

3. “El costo económico de la pandemia en México” (The Economic Cost of the Pandemic in Mexico) by Everardo Elizondo, Professor Emeritus, EGADE Business School. 

4. “Bondes F” by Miguel Moreno Tripp, Professor from the Department of Finance and Economics, EGADE Business School. 

5. “Consejos para emprender y prosperar en tiempos de pandemia”  (Advice for Entrepreneurship and Flourishing in Times of Pandemic) by Jaime Martínez Bowness, Director of EGADE Business School, Mexico City Site. 

6. “Las pymes también pueden adoptar la economía circular” (SMEs Can Also Adopt the Circular Economy) by Andrea Cantú, Ph.D. in Administrative Science student; Eduardo Aguiñaga, National Director of Full-Time Programs; and Carlos Scheel, Professor Emeritus, EGADE Business School. 

7. “¿Cómo afecta el entorno macroeconómico a las empresas que cotizan en la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores?”  (How Does the Macroeconomic Environment Affect Companies Listed on the Mexican Stock Market?) by René Cabral, Associate Dean of Faculty Development, EGADE Business School, and Eduardo Saucedo, Professor from the Department of Finance and Economics, EGADE Business School. 

8. “Los derivados financieros durante la crisis de Covid-19” (Financial Derivatives During the Covid-19 Crisis) by Mazin Al Janabi, Professor from the Department of Finance and Economics, EGADE Business School. 

9. “15 grandes libros y artículos en innovación y emprendimiento que te harán repensar las cosas” (15 Great Books and Articles on Innovation and Entrepreneurship That Will Make You Rethink Things) by Cristian Granados, Professor from the Department of Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation, EGADE Business School. 

10. “El consumidor y la percepción de marca en vacunas contra Covid-19” (Consumers and Brand Perception in Covid-19 Vaccines) by Claudia Quintanilla, Director of the Department of Marketing and Business Intelligence, EGADE Business School. 

Students from business schools in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland arrived at EGADE Business School sites in Monterrey, Santa Fe and Guadalajara.

By VALENTINA FLORES CÁCERES | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey welcomed 17 international students for the January-April Trimester 2022.

Thirteen of them went to the Monterrey site, three to the Santa Fe site, and one to the Guadalajara site, mostly as exchange students.

Their welcome sessions took place on January 10, with the participation of Armida Lozano, Director of International Programs at EGADE Business School; Daniel Maranto, Director of EGADE Business School Monterrey site; and Jaime Martínez Bowness, Director of EGADE Business School Mexico City site, among others.

The international students come from the following academic institutions in five countries:

France

● EMLYON Business School

● ESSEC Business School

● ESCP Business School

Germany

● Universität Mannheim

Spain

● EADA Business School Barcelona

Sweden

● Stockholm School of Economics

Switzerland

● Universität St. Gallen 

• Universität St. Gallen

The Transferencia Tec list considered all the publications affiliated with Tecnológico de Monterrey indexed in the Scopus database over the past five years.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Five publications by EGADE Business School professors and leaders of the Strategic Focus Research Groups (GIEE) and Centers for Excellence from the area of Business are on the list “The 50 most cited Tec scientific articles in the 2017-2021 five-year period”, published by the site Transferencia Tec.

In the world of science, the most common way of measuring a paper’s impact is citation, that is to say, the number of mentions or bibliographic references each scientific article has in texts written by other researchers.

To compile the list, Transferencia Tec required all the publications to have been indexed on the Scopus database during the period from January 2017 to December 2021, and only considered publications that were affiliated with Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Here are the details of the five publications, together with their positions on the list: 

#11 - The Impossibility of Social Distancing Among the Urban Poor: The Case of an Indian Slum in the Times of COVID-19

• Ajnesh Prasad, professor in the Department of Strategy and Leadership at EGADE Business School and member of the Leadership GIEE, coauthor of this article published in Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability in 2020.

#13 - International Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Overview

• José Ernesto Amorós, national Director of Doctoral Programs at EGADE Business School and member of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation GIEE, coauthor of this publication included in International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal in 2019. 

#20 - Conducting Management Research in Latin America: Why and What’s in It for You?

• Amorós also coauthored this work published in the Journal of Management (JOM) in 2020. 

#26 - Effect of Market Orientation, Network Capability and Entrepreneurial Orientation on International Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

• Alexandra Solano, director of the Center for Digital Evolution, principal author of this article published in International Business Review in 2018. 

#33 - Board Structure and Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure in Latin America

• Bryan Husted, professor in the Department of Strategy and Leadership at EGADE Business School and leader of the Social Innovation and Sustainability GIEE, primary author of this article published in Journal of Business Research in 2019. 

The complete Transferencia Tec list can be found here. 

Full reproduction of the statement sent to students of EGADE's face-to-face programs in Monterrey, Santa Fe, Guadalajara, and Querétaro, highlighting some key points about the beginning of the January-April Trimester 2022.

January 6, 2022

Message about the beginning of the January-April Trimester 2022 at EGADE Business School

Dear EGADE students,

We hope this message finds you and your loved ones in good health and well-being at the beginning of 2022.

Considering the country's epidemiological conditions, we inform you that the January-April Trimester 2022 will begin in remote modality this Monday, January 10, 2022.

As we have stated previously, our priority as an Institution is to take care of the health and well-being of everyone in our community. In this sense and as a precautionary measure, at EGADE Business School, all academic activities will be carried out remotely from January 10 to 16, resuming in-person sessions in subsequent weeks for the courses programmed in 100% face-to-face and hybrid modalities.

Likewise, we remind you that having the vaccination record will be necessary to enter the campuses' facilities and EGADE sites from January 2022. Therefore, if you have the vaccine, it is required to register it in the SAP Fiori Client App.

We invite you to periodically consult the Conscious Return Site and keep an eye on EGADE's official communications on our social networks, as well as direct any questions, concerns or comments to your Program Director.

From EGADE, we will keep you informed about any updates.

Cordially,

Laura Zapata Cantú
Academic Associate Dean
EGADE Business School
Tecnológico de Monterrey

DEAN'S MESSAGE

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Dear EGADE Business School Community,

We are immersed in an environment of many challenges characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Yet, in a world that continues to be conditioned by the impact of COVID-19, we have learned to adapt to unexpected events and demonstrate resilience, agility of response and innovation, and exercise our leadership with responsibility, solidarity, and empathy.

During this time, adaptation has been one of the most important lessons. As organizations and individuals, we must adapt by redefining our vision and strategy to meet the challenges and take advantage of this juncture's opportunities.

As the year draws to a close, I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation for your unwavering commitment and enthusiastic participation in the various projects and initiatives we have promoted over the past year. In the 2021 Report that we have prepared, you can learn about the highlights of EGADE during the year.

We know that the coming year will bring us new challenges to face and opportunities to capitalize on, but with all the lessons we have learned throughout these months, I am convinced that we are better prepared.

I can only wish you happy holidays and may the year 2022 be full of health, well-being, peace, harmony and prosperity for you and your loved ones.

Osmar Zavaleta
Interim Dean of EGADE Business School
Associate Dean of Research of EGADE Business School and Undergraduate Business School
Tecnológico de Monterrey

#EGADE 2021 IN REVIEW

Over the past year, at EGADE Business School, we have been able to continue leading the transformation of our institution towards our purpose of empowering omni-entrepreneurial leaders who create shared value and transform society.

Our students have acquired the knowledge, skills, vision, and experience to transcend in a complex world and positively impact business and society. Our professors have strengthened their commitment to educational innovation, inspiring students to imagine and create opportunities in the challenging times we live in. And our graduates have excelled as innovative business leaders, helping redefine the future of their industries in an environment of constant change and disruption in business.

In 2021, we have adapted our portfolio of academic programs in an agile and flexible manner; incorporated new and innovative learning formats, methodologies, and tools; promoted applied and highly relevant research; and strengthened our ties with strategic, business, and academic partners at the international level. This enormous effort has been achieved through projects and initiatives linked to the school's four pillars.

• Leadership with Purpose
• Conscious Enterprise Development
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Impact
• Digital Transformation of Organizations

TRANSFORMING OUR INSTITUTION TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD

In the last year marked by a conscious return to a new reality, we have strengthened our leadership as a global business school based on our flexible, innovative, and cutting-edge educational model, the impact of our centers of excellence, the quality and prestige of our academic programs, and the careers of our graduates. This transformation effort has been recognized once again by the most important international rankings, which place EGADE Business School as the leading school in Latin America, topping the rankings of prestigious rankings such as QS and Eduniversal.

Conscious Return

• In January 2021, the gradual reopening of facilities began.
• The return to face-to-face classes began in a controlled and voluntary manner at all EGADE sites starting in the summer period, the August semester, and the September quarter with the implementation of the hybrid format of the HyFlex+Tec model, with part of the students present in the classroom and the other part, connected remotely.
• Likewise, in September, 25 international students from 13 business schools were welcomed to the Monterrey campus for exchange studies in a hybrid format.
• EGADE held its first on-site graduation ceremonies in Monterrey, Mexico City, and Guadalajara between June and July since the beginning of the COVID-19 contingency.
• Counting these and the face-to-face graduation ceremonies in December, more than 690 purposeful and conscious women and men leaders graduated from EGADE Business School's graduate programs in 2021.

Centers of Excellence

• The research strategy of EGADE Business School and the Tecnológico de Monterrey Business School is deployed through a network of Centers of Excellence and Research Groups with a Strategic Focus, whose objective is to contribute solutions to the most pressing challenges facing organizations and society. As part of the global scientific community, we continue to co-create applied knowledge and build a robust ecosystem of relevant research that helps catalyze solutions to critical societal challenges.
• In 2021, we launched the Center for Financial Access, Inclusion and Research (FAIR), in alliance with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth (CIG), which is part of the ecosystem of Centers of Excellence of EGADE Business School and the School of Business, to promote the development of a fairer and more inclusive financial system and a sustainable economy, which contribute to improving the living conditions of the most vulnerable people in Mexico and Latin America.
• The institution also launched the Center for Conscious Enterprise (CEC), which also lives within EGADE Business School and the Tec Business School, and will promote the principles of conscious capitalism in a cross-cutting manner. To provide further impetus to these efforts, Raj Sisodia, co-founder and global leader of the conscious capitalism movement, joined the Center as Distinguished University Professor of Conscious Enterprise.

PREPARING RESILIENT LEADERS FOR THE NEW GLOBAL CONTEXT

The accelerated process of digital transformation that we experienced this year and last year has undoubtedly allowed us to be more innovative and ambitious in our project to train our students to transform their organizations and communities. Therefore, in 2021, we have strengthened our portfolio of EGADE programs for the challenges and opportunities of a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment.

Program Portfolio

• In graduate programs, the new EGADE - W. P. Carey Executive MBA international dual-degree program began classes in January with its first cohort of students.
• In addition, two other new programs, the Master's in Business Analytics and the Master's in Online Finance, received their first students in the April quarter.
• Tecnológico de Monterrey and IBM announced an agreement to incorporate the IBM Skills Academy program into the curriculum of EGADE Business School's Master in Business Analytics.
• In Executive Education, EGADE launched new 100% online programs: MGMT Business Skills, Intelligent Organizations, Global Scaling, Business Acquisitions, and Customer Experience. In addition, other executive programs were launched, such as Leading Business Families, Reshaping Business with Strategy & Purpose (with Expansion), Real Estate Management (with Urban Land Institute), and Global Leadership (OneMBA Consortium).
• In addition, several programs were added to the Alternative Learning portfolio: Professional Certification in Digital Marketing and Customer Engagement, the new Online BootCamps offering, and a new series of flexible and 100% online courses on exponential technologies.
• In terms of educational innovation, EGADE and Analytikus announced a collaboration to implement artificial intelligence (AI)-based analysis of training content in the business field.

Global Reach

• In 2021, EGADE Business School received the distinction of membership in the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).
• It also renewed its membership for the next three years in the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), the most influential global network of business schools worldwide.
• As part of GNAM, EGADE delivered 5 courses within the Global Network Week program in the online editions of March, June, and October 2021.
• In conjunction with Centrum PUCP (Peru), COPPEAD/UFRJ (Brazil) and IESA (Venezuela), EGADE Business School organized the Latin America Study Week 2021 of the Latin American Alliance of Business Schools (ALADEN), which in its tenth edition was held in virtual format and had as its theme "Innovation and Digital Transformation".
• Two EGADE Business School initiatives were named finalists in the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2022: the innovative learning platform Alternative Learning and the SWIT research project, in the Best Lifelong Learning Initiative and BGA Business School Impact categories, respectively.

EGADE's Performance in Global Rankings

• EGADE was distinguished as the best business school in Mexico and Latin America for the fourteenth consecutive year, according to the 2021 results of the Eduniversal Business Schools Ranking.
• The school also reaffirmed the leadership of its graduate programs in Mexico and Latin America in the 2021 edition of the Eduniversal Best Masters & MBAs Rankings.
• In the QS Global MBA & Business Masters Rankings 2022, EGADE was once again positioned with the number 1 full-time MBA and the best graduate programs in Finance and Management in Mexico and Latin America, highlighting employability, entrepreneurship and trajectory of its graduates worldwide.

INSPIRING PROFESSORS AND HIGH-IMPACT RESEARCH

Professors and researchers are the backbones of our transformation project. For this reason, we have continued to invest in their development and innovate in pedagogical practices to continue inspiring thousands of students. In 2021, we have also promoted applied and highly relevant research, adapting our links with strategic business and academic partners to solve the most pressing challenges facing organizations and society.

Appointments, Additions, and Distinctions

• Within the institution, Osmar Zavaleta was appointed Interim Dean of EGADE Business School, maintaining his position as Associate Dean of Research of EGADE Business School and the Tec Business School.
• His predecessor Ignacio de la Vega completed his role as Dean of EGADE Business School and the School of Business to assume the leadership of the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Faculty and Internationalization of Tecnológico de Monterrey.
• Daniel Maranto, who had been serving on an interim basis as Director of EGADE Business School Monterrey, assumed this responsibility permanently.
• Eduardo Aguiñaga was appointed National Director of Full-Time Programs, covering the Full-Time MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the Master in Business Management.
• Eva Guerra was appointed Director of the EGADE MBA Monterrey and Director of the EGADE - UNC Charlotte MBA in Global Business & Strategy.
• Ezequiel Reficco was invited to lead EGADE Business School's Case Hub initiative.
• Among the appointments received outside the institution, Christiane Molina, Academic and Research Director of the Center for Conscious Enterprise, was appointed as a member of the newly created PRME Global Chapter Board.
• Ajnesh Prasad, research professor at EGADE, was appointed associate editor of Human Relations, one of the most prestigious business school journals globally.
• Yarid Ayala, research professor attached to the Leadership GIEE at the School of Business and EGADE Business School, joined the Journal of Happiness Studies (JOHS) editorial board.
• This year, the following joined the EGADE faculty: Diana Kolbe as Professor of the Department of Marketing and Business Intelligence; Cristian Granados as Professor of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation; and Juan Carlos Rivera López as Professor of the Department of Strategy and Leadership.
• In addition, international visiting professors from the United States, India, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Canada, and Venezuela joined the EGADE Business School faculty.
• Among the distinctions, Everardo Elizondo, academic leader of EGADE Business School, was invested Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
• The SWIT research project, led by Carlos Scheel, was recognized within the 2021 edition of AACSB International's Innovations That Inspire program.
• Mariana Alfaro and Javier Reynoso, EGADE professors, were highlighted in season 2 of Outliers.

High-impact Research

• 148 research papers were developed: 82 published academic articles / 5 books / 25 book chapters / 9 supervised doctoral theses / 1 dissertation / 22 conference papers / 7 practice-oriented research papers / 2 studies and reports as part of an international network.
• New books by EGADE faculty include Designing New Circular Economy Businesses, by Carlos Scheel; Crowd-Based Business Models, by Rajagopal; Finance in Private Family Businesses, by Federico Trigos and Mario Doria, among others.
• Book chapters include "Innovation based on co-creation of value through HCL Technologies' employees," by Anabella Davila in Innovation from Emerging Markets; "Historical Context and Present Energy Use in the Global Economy," by Alejandro Ibarra in Energy Issues and Transition to a Low Carbon Economy. Insights from Mexico; "The development of high-potential intrapreneurs: an executive education approach to drive innovation in Latin American companies", by Cristian Granados and Cris Bravo in Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education. Teaching Entrepreneurship in Practice; "How socially responsible HRM should be understood in Latin America", by Anabella Dávila in Talent Management in Latin America: Pressing Issues and Best Practice; to mention a few.
• José Ernesto Amorós coordinated the research in Mexico for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2020/2021 world report and was one of the authors of the report "Retos y oportunidades para la constitución de empresas en México. Un análisis de las sociedades mercantiles", by the Tec de Monterrey, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and the Mexican Entrepreneurs Association.
• The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of EGADE Business School and the Mexican Private Equity Association (AMEXCAP) developed the study "Experiences and Best Practices of Corporate Venture Capital in Mexico".
• The Financial Think Tank of EGADE Business School presented the Evaluation Study of the Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior (Bancomext).
• The CERALE-EGADE Business School 2021 Colloquium, organized by EGADE Business School and the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche Amérique Latine Europe of ESCP Business School, brought together more than 270 research professors, doctoral students, academic and business leaders.
• The International Virtual Congress CLADEA 2021, co-organized by EGADE Business School, had as its central theme "Innovation, conscious business and the future of education".

Dissemination of Ideas and Opinion 

• Faculty participation in EGADE IDEAS and the media: More than 1,300 media impacts (national, local and international), of which 65% in Tier 1 media, impacting an audience of 190,627,378 people.
• This year, Territorio Negocios podcast published more than 1,100 minutes of content in 40 episodes, reached second place in the Business category of Apple Podcasts, was positioned within the Top 50 Business on Spotify and was consolidated in Google Podcasts and Amazon Music, adding more than 28,200 plays and 5,800 listeners.
• The EGADE Future Forum webinar series, launched in April 2020 to provide knowledge and respond to contingency by COVID.19, continued in 2021 with 13 new high-impact webinars with national and global leaders. The series reached an audience of more than 34,100 unique viewers. These sessions, moderated by and with EGADE professors and business and institutional leaders, discussed multiple topics, including agile organization, exponential technologies, customer experience, corporate responsibility, adaptability to change, economic policy, retail innovation and artificial intelligence ethics, among others. Guests included Oriol Bonaclocha, president of Mondelez Mexico; Loreanne Garcia, co-founder and Chief People Officer of Kavak; Isaias Martinez, senior vice president of Sales at PepsiCo; and Adriano Silva, senior vice president of Salesforce, to name a few.

STUDENTS AND ALUMNI: AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY OF GLOBAL LEADERS

We want to ensure that our students and alumni live in an enriching environment to update their knowledge and skills, strengthen their networking, and generate impactful interactions with global experts. Moreover, they inspire and motivate us to continuously improve and innovate to create more value for them every day. In 2021, our graduates and students have been recognized by various national and international organizations, highlighting their achievements in entrepreneurship for their successful trajectory and their great potential as transformational leaders.

Alumni Awards

• A team of Master in Business Management students, made up of Mariaelisa Garza Ramírez, Patricia Priscilla Elizondo D Stefano, Miguel Ángel Romuroso Vargas and Homero Luis Malagón Cartas, and a team of Full-Time MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship students, made up of Michelle Martín Lara, Beatriz Adriana Meave Rodríguez, Stephany Lisbeth Henriquez Morán and Luis David Martínez Ortega, won three awards in the 2021 edition of the Deloitte MBA Case Competition in Mexico.
• Antonio Favela, Miguel Recio and Maximilian Gelse, students of the Master's in Finance, won first place in the Postgraduate category of the Inter-University Investment Competition 2021 of the Mexican Stock Exchange and the Peeptrade platform.
• Two teams of students from EGADE's Master's in Finance, formed by Ana Sofía González, Fátima Lewis Batres, Manuel Medina, María Fernanda Castorena Elizondo, Víctor Campo Aguirre, Erick Rubén Calahorra Mejía, Alan Castillo and Adriana Aranda, were awarded two Flourish 2021 Awards for documenting innovations with a positive impact.
• Andrea Cantú Garza and Bernardo Bello Castañeda, students of the Doctorate in Administrative Sciences, were part of a team that qualified to the semifinals of the Wege Prize 2021.

Distinctions to the EXATEC-EGADE

• Carlos Salazar Lomelín (MA'89), president of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE), was recognized this 2021 as one of AACSB's 25 Influential Leaders.
• Leticia Murray (MMT'06, MBA'14) received the 2021 EXATEC EGADE Merit Award for her positive impact as global director of Oncology Marketing at AstraZeneca.
• Juan Francisco Beckmann Vidal (MA'69), entrepreneur and chairman of the board of Grupo José Cuervo, was recognized with the 2021 EXATEC Lifetime Achievement Award.
• Claudia Margarita Félix Sandoval and Karla Andrea González Rodríguez, graduate and former collaborator of EGADE Business School, were distinguished for their careers and contributions with the Mujer Tec 2021 Award.
• Laura Judith Ramírez Guevara (MBA'20) was honored at the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2021 as a finalist in the Startup MBA of the Year category.
• Violeta Ramírez (GBS'17), a graduate of the EGADE - UNC Charlotte MBA in Global Business & Strategy dual degree program, was honored with the Outstanding Young Alumna Award from the Belk College of Business.
• A social enterprise of Mónica Camacho (Full-Time MBA'18) won second place in Emergente, the Citibanamex Social Commitment and Impact Hub CDMX program.
• José Antonio Fernández Carbajal (MA'79), Juan Francisco Beckmann Vidal (MA'69) and Silvia Dávila Kreimerman (MNE'97), are on Bloomberg Linea's "Latin America's 500" list.
• José Antonio Fernández Carbajal (MA'79), Juan Francisco Beckmann Vidal (MA'69), Javier Arroyo Chávez (MA'82) and Eugenio Clariond Reyes (MA'72) are on Expansión magazine's 2021 list of "Mexico's 100 most important businessmen".
• Javier Arroyo Chávez (MA'82), Juan Francisco Beckmann Vidal (MA'69), José Antonio Fernández Carbajal (MA'79), Álvaro Fernández Garza (MA'91), Fernando A. González Olivieri (MA'79), and Carlos Salazar Lomelín (MA'89), appeared in the 2021 edition of Líderes Mexicanos magazine's list of Mexico's 300 Most Influential Leaders.
• Susana Moragrega and Marco Aurelio Ramírez were included in the 2021 edition of Expansión magazine's "The 30 Promises of Business" list.
• Ángela Gómez (MA'06) and Gabriela Siller (MAF'01, DFA'06) appeared on Forbes magazine's 2021 list of Mexico's 100 Most Powerful Women.
• José Antonio Carranza, Miguel Ángel Duvergé and Ramsés Aldana were included in Expansión magazine's The 41+1 LGBT Executives 2021 list.
• Two crowdfunding platforms co-founded by graduates Fernando Padilla Ezeta and Mauricio de Mucha, respectively, were included in Forbes Mexico's "The 30 Promises of Business 2021" list.
• Yazmín Culebro (MA'01), Ariadna Gil (MBA'14), Silvia Dávila (MNE'97), Alma García Puig (MBA'05) and Rosalva Rivera (MBA'18) stand out in Merca 2.0's 55 Marketing Women 2021 list.
• Maryangel García-Ramos (MBA'20), Yoku Sashida (MBA'19) y Mónica Camacho (Full-Time MBA'18), were highlighted in season 3 of Outliers.

Students and Alumni Publications

• Alex Iván Suárez Regalado, a student of the EGADE - UNC Charlotte MBA in Global Business & Strategy program, published a book on the state of the art of Lean philosophy.
• Francisco Chávez Montalvo, EGADE MBA alumnus, published the book Carrerapedia: La guía práctica para crecer profesionalmente.

Experience and Networking

• EGADE MBA students gathered at the Virtual EGADE MBA Summit 2021, which focused on "Futures Thinking & Strategic Foresight."
• Master in Finance students explored the opportunities generated by blockchain technology in the financial sector during the MAF 2021 National Meeting.
• More than 600 EGADE Business School students and alumni participated in the third edition of the recruitment and networking event Talent & Career 2021.
• Alumni participated in the second virtual edition of EGADE U Week 2021, EXATEC EGADE's innovative Lifelong Learning program, and strengthened ties at the EGADE Alumni Annual Meeting 2021, this year held online.
• In addition, more than 200 EGADE Business School alumni celebrated the 2021 edition of EXATEC Fest EGADE.
• At the EGADE Business Summit Guadalajara 2021, academic and business leaders discussed digital transformation, innovation and entrepreneurship.
•  the Formation Partners Meeting in Querétaro, organized by EGADE and the Business School, the Governor of Banco de México, Alejandro Díaz de León, gave a lecture.

Alumni attend their traditional December parties in person in Monterrey, Querétaro, Mexico City, and Guadalajara. 

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Over 450 EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey alumni reunited to celebrate their 2021 achievements and share their wishes for prosperity in 2022, at the EGADE Alumni community’s Year-End Parties.

After last year’s virtual national parties, this year the December celebrations went back to their traditional in-person format, adhering to the safety and hygiene protocols established for each venue.

In Monterrey, the event took place on December 1 at Museo MARCO; in Querétaro, on December 2 at Hacienda La Laborcilla; in Guadalajara, on December 7 at Hacienda La Agavia; and in Mexico City, on December 9 at Museo Franz Mayer.

In his toast in Monterrey, Osmar Zavaleta, Interim Dean of EGADE Business School, expressed his best wishes for the alumni, and invited them to continue to strengthen their ties through the different events and activities the school prepares especially for them. 

As part of a worldwide network of over 600 chapters, Beta Gamma Sigma members are recognized internationally as "Best in Business". 

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

A total of 144 graduate-degree candidates and alumni from EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey were honored in 2021 as new Beta Gamma Sigma members.

Beta Gamma Sigma is an international honor society that brings together the most outstanding students and alumni from institutions accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), which represent the top 5% of business schools worldwide.

Only the top 20% of master’s students with the best grade averages of their class and doctoral candidates are invited to become Beta Gamma Sigma members, meaning that this is the highest recognition students or alumni can receive at the global level.

This year, the EGADE Business School Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter induction ceremonies were held on November 18 in Querétaro; December 6 in Santa Fe and Guadalajara; and December in Monterrey.

The events were presided over by Jaime Martínez Bowness, Raúl Montalvo and Daniel Maranto, directors of the EGADE Business School Mexico City and Guadalajara sites, respectively, among other academic directors.

Juan Enciso, Global OneMBA Director, has served as Chapter Advisor for the EGADE Business School Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter since its foundation in 2016.

With this year’s recognitions, the number of members of the EGADE Business School Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter rose to 762.

As part of a worldwide network of over 600 chapters, Beta Gamma Sigma members are recognized internationally as "Best in Business".

Beta Gamma Sigma membership is lifelong.