Eva Guerra and Eduardo Saucedo receive recognition from the Tec de Monterrey Professor Classification System.
ByJOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Within the framework of Teacher’s Day, Tecnológico de Monterrey has recognized two EGADE Business School faculty members for outstanding work during their academic careers.
Eva María Guerra Leal, Professor in the Department of Marketing and Business Intelligence and Director of the EGADE MBA Programs at the Monterrey Site and of the EGADE - UNC Charlotte MBA in Global Business & Strategy, was appointed Full Professor on the Teaching Track. This track distinguishes professors who actively participate in the academic aspects of Tec de Monterrey, linking their teaching activities with external organizations, generating new knowledge and promoting faculty development.
Additionally, Eduardo Saucedo de la Fuente, Professor in the Department of Finance and Economics, was appointed Assistant Professor on the Research Track. This track recognizes professors who generate and apply state-of-the-art knowledge in the strategic areas defined by the Institution, working collaboratively with other professors on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary projects.
Both recognitions were awarded under the Tec de Monterrey Classification Regulations for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Professors.
By INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Members of the EGADE Business School community of the Tecnológico de Monterrey shared a message of congratulations and thanks in honor of the EGADE Faculty, within the framework of the celebration of Teacher's Day.
With the collaboration of the Mexican Hospital Consortium, this 100% online program facilitates the adoption of best practices in medical entrepreneurship, business models, and talent management for the future of the sector.
By JOSÉ ANGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL
To contribute to progress in the implementation of future business models in medical services, the first edition of Health System Management began on May 12th, with more than 40 participants, including health sector managers and professionals from various Mexican states.
This new 100% online executive program of TecSalud and EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey, with the collaboration of the Mexican Hospital Consortium, has been designed for those facing current and future challenges in health service management within the context of transformation and post-pandemic recovery.
Participating in the welcome session were: Guillermo Torre, Rector of TecSalud and Vice President of Research at Tecnológico de Monterrey; Pablo Buitrón, Associate Dean of Executive Education at EGADE Business School; and Javier Potes, Director of the Mexican Hospital Consortium.
“The health systems in our country and Latin America need to change to face the realities of the health and economic problems, as well as the needs of the population in the communities where we operate. This TecSalud and EGADE Business School program, with the collaboration of the Mexican Hospital Consortium, represents an initial effort to tackle these problems,” Torre explained.
The program was presented by Jorge Azpiri, General Director of Hospital San José and TecSalud’s Director of Development and Expansion Projects, and Lydia Garza, Academic Lead of Health System Management.
THE FIRST SESSION
In the opening session of the program, Raúl Montalvo, Director of EGADE Business School, Guadalajara, shared an analysis of the context, trends, and expectations from an economic perspective and considered their impact on the health sector.
In addition, Gustavo Fernández de Loyola, CEO of Grupo Torre Médica, addressed the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
Subsequently, a panel entitled “Conscious capitalism in the health sector” was held, with the participation of Raj Sisodia, Distinguished Professor and Advisor to the Center for Conscious Companies at Tec de Monterrey; Neha Sangwan, CEO and founder of Intuitive Intelligence; and José Ruiz Hernández, CEO of Alder Koten. Francisco Fernández, Executive Director of the Center for Conscious Companies at Tec de Monterrey, was the panel moderator.
THE PROGRAM
Through Health System Management, participants learn to identify and leverage the opportunities and interactions of health services to create value in an increasingly competitive, global, interconnected, and conscious environment.
They also gain a critical perspective of the regulatory, compliance, and ethical processes of healthcare services, and discover how to integrate cutting-edge technology to optimize medical, business, and administrative operations.
Thus, it enables them to adopt the best practices in medical entrepreneurship, business models, and talent management for the future of the sector, gain a deeper understanding of methodologies and performance indicators and fully comprehend investments and new business models for health institutions.
This 30-hour program is taught 100% online and includes six modules:
1. Current Context
2. Business Models
3. Physicians and Talent
4. Marketing and Customers
5. Collaborative Leadership
6. Technology and Change
This program targets directors and managers of health institutions, professionals with two years of experience in managing health institutions, and personnel from hospitals, clinics, the pharmaceutical industry and laboratories in search of agile, innovative knowledge of post-pandemic learning, as well as health professionals in the public and private sectors interested in offering world-class health services.
Participants earn a digital badge with the blockchain technology of curricular value.
Business Territory forms part of the Tec Sounds podcast bar, available on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
ByVALENTINA FLORES CÁCERES | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Resilience in value chains, zero-emission companies, customer-centric SMEs, and emotional salary were the topics addressed by Business Territory, the podcast of EGADE Business School and the School of Business of Tecnológico de Monterrey, in April.
In case you missed them, here are the four episodes:
Episode 72: Resilient value chains, successful operations
After the supply crisis during the pandemic and the recent disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine, businesses are seeking to adapt and make their operations resilient. Eric Porras, National Director of MBA Programs at EGADE Business School, and Isaías Martínez, Senior Vice-President of Sales for PepsiCo Alimentos México, analyze Mexico’s opportunities in the face of trade regionalization and value-chain decarbonization.
Episode 73: Zero-emission companies
The increase in companies with net-zero emissions is one of the fastest growing business trends. Eduardo Aguinaga, Director of Full-Time Programs at EGADE Business School, and Eduardo Piquero, CEO of MéxiCO2, the Mexican carbon platform, analyze how to achieve net-zero emissions.
Episode 74: Customer centricity and the capacity for innovation in Mexico’s SMEs
Diana Kolbe, Marketing and Business Intelligence Professor at EGADE Business School, and Jaime Martínez Bowness, Mexico City Regional Dean at the School of Business of Tecnológico de Monterrey, analyze the strategies of Mexico’s customer-centric SMEs.
Episode 75: Emotional salary to retain the new generations
Income is not the only element valued by talent. Collaborators also prioritize a good work-life balance and having an inspiring organizational culture, professional challenges and flexible work arrangements, according to Regina Gargollo, Vice-President of Ayam, and Osval Orduña, Director of Orduña Talent Services and LinkedIn México Top Voice Employment 2022.
Conversation with Raúl Montalvo, Fabiola Vásquez and Pierre Blaise in the EGADE Future Forum series.
By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Three experts discussed e-commerce trends in Mexico, on April 27 within the EGADE Future Forum series.
Participants in this webinar were Raúl Montalvo, Director of EGADE Business School, Guadalajara; Fabiola Vásquez, Director of Analytics at El Palacio de Hierro and Professor at EGADE Business School; and Pierre-Claude Blaise, Director of Asociación Mexicana de Venta Online (AMVO).
New students enjoy welcome sessions that include in-person integration activities.
By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Over a thousand new and returning EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey students enthusiastically participated in their classes at the start of the April-July 2022 trimester.
In particular, students in the face-to-face graduate programs at EGADE Business School were able to start their trimester in person from the very first week of classes for the first time in two years, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The January-April trimester began in the remote modality and then went back to in-person after a few weeks.
Students also started classes this semester in EGADE Business School’s online graduate programs.
New in-person and online programs students enjoyed welcome sessions on April 9, which included in-person integration activities at the Monterrey and Santa Fe sites.
At the Guadalajara site, new students attended a cocktail reception on April 21 to welcome them to their first week of classes.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ARRIVE
EGADE Business School welcomed a total of 11 international students for the April-July trimester at the Monterrey, Santa Fe and Guadalajara sites.
Ten of them are exchange students and one is studying for a dual degree.
The international students come from universities and business schools in Germany, Finland, and France.
CLASS PHOTO RESUMED
In Monterrey, EGADE Business School’s June 2022 graduating students gathered on April 23 in front of the Tec Rectory Mural to take the traditional graduation photo.
This class was able to resume this activity in person after it had been canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
EGADE Business School welcomed 17 international students in the January-April 2022 trimester.
By INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Two international students shared their experiences in Mexico and our institution after recently completing their exchange program at EGADE Business School.
French student Clara de Veyrac and German student Tobias Burger, from EM Lyon Business School (France) and Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), respectively, took courses at the Monterrey site during the January-April 2022 trimester.
The students interviewed entrepreneurs whose innovation stories contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Three stories about innovations with a positive impact,featuring companies in Denmark, Canada and Mexico, were written by students from EGADE Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey and have been nominated as 2022 Flourish Prize finalists.
This year, the juries of this international competition selected a total of 84 finalist stories from among the 685 published on the AIM2Flourish website in 2021.
These stories, written by students from 31 universities and business schools in20 countries, present interviews with businesspeople and entrepreneurs from across the world whose business innovations contribute to the achievement of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The companies represented in the stories come from 28 countries and 18 industries.
The three finalist stories authored by the EGADE Business School students are:
Sustainable Products and Solutions of Water featuring Grundfos in Denmark, written by students Miguel Trejo, Ezra Zamora, Reynaldo Mendoza and Carlos Alberto de la Mora Davila, under the direction of professors Consuelo García de la Torre (†) and Gloria Camacho.
Clean, Scalable, Reliable Geothermal Power featuring Eavor in Canada, written by students Michael Salmon, Chandrashekhar Jha, Jose de Paula, Diego Llorens Echegaray and Jose Luis Álvarez Del Castillo Gomez, under the direction of professor Francisco Layrisse.
SmartFish Sustainable Fishing featuring SmartFish in Mexico, written by students Katty Dominguez, José Eduardo Arreola Prado, Johana de la Rosa and Jorge Ignacio Cruz, under the direction of professor Martin H. Bremer.
The winners of the 17 Flourish Prizes for 2022 will be announced in June this year.
The Flourish Prizes are organized annually by the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.