Cristina Ferral was the recipient of the Tecnológico de Monterrey award for her contribution through sports.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Cristina Ferral, EGADE Business School Master in Finance alumna and professional soccer player with FC Tigres Women, was announced as one of the winners of the 2022 Tec Mujer Tec Awards.

The Tigres midfielder was honored in the category “Sports and sports management” in the eleventh edition of this award which recognizes the track record, contributions, and talent of women in the Tec community.

"(This prize) is an invitation to motivate future generations to realize that academic studies and sports can go hand in hand and that both can be achieved,” Ferral stated in a video posted on Tigres Women’s Twitter account.

✨ ¡𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨 𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚! ✨

La Emperatriz @cristinaferral, fue nombrada por el @TecdeMonterrey como 𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐚 del ‘Premio Mujer’ en la categoría 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞 𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢ó𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚.

Aplausos para nuestra Amazona 👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/h7NIdDR3Li

— Tigres Femenil 🐯 (@TigresFemenil) January 21, 2022

BETWEEN CLASSROOMS AND FIELDS

Her talent and achievements in soccer offered Ferral the opportunity to complete her high school, undergraduate, and graduate studies with a scholarship, while, in parallel, advancing in her sports development.

Born in Ciudad Madero, Ferral began to display her outstanding talent as a child in the  Tamaulipas State Women’s Soccer Team, winning national championships over four years in children’s categories.

As a youth, she was called up to the Mexican National Team in the 2010 U-17 World Championship, in Trinidad and Tobago.

She enrolled at Tec to study and play in the Campus Monterrey women’s soccer team, accomplishing, during this stage, five national university championships and runner-up with Mexico in the 2013 World Universiade in Kazan.

She continued her studies at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, where she formed part of the women’s soccer team and completed her B.A. in Business Administration.

She subsequently embarked on her career as a professional soccer player, emigrating to France in 2017 to join Marseille Olympique.

In 2018, Ferral returned to Mexico to become a member of UANL Tigres and, in that same year, won the championship with the Mexican National Team in the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, and graduated from EGADE Business School with a Master in Finance.

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With Tigres, she has been a three-time champion in the Clausura 2019, Guardianes 2020, and Guardianes 2021 Women’s Liga MX tournaments.

Off the field, Ferral is known as the co-founder of the nonprofit Impulse, which provides support for low-income women student-athletes to complete their studies and play sports.

She also manages a private children’s soccer academy in Monterrey.

¡Muchísimas felicidades a todas las ganadoras de nuestra décima edición de Premio Mujer Tec! 💜 pic.twitter.com/mv1AKyVZ7u

— Premio Mujer Tec (@PremioMujerTec) January 19, 2022

MUJER TEC AWARDS

The call for the 2022 Mujer Tec Awards was held from November 1 to 26, 2021, for female students, alumnae, faculty, collaborators, and directors of Tec de Monterrey, Tecmilenio, TecSalud, and Sorteos Tec.

The 15 winners in the 10 categories of the tenth edition were announced on January 17.

The prize-giving ceremony will be broadcast on March 1 on live.tec.mx.

With information from CONECTA and CANCHA.

International Olympics director and MAF graduate has been selected as one of the most relevant players in driving the post-COVID-19 sports economy.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Forbes México included Israel Villalpando, EGADE Business School Master in Finance graduate and Associate Director of Commercial Finance at the International Olympic Committee (IOC), on its list of the “22 Sports Protagonists” who will play a decisive role in the industry’s recovery in 2022.

“Across the world, there are some directors who go unnoticed, remaining out of the limelight, but who have a decision-making or leadership position within important international organizations in the sports industry. This is the case of Israel Villalpando, who has formed part of the Paralympic and Olympic movements for over 10 years,” claimed the business magazine.

The EGADE alumnus and also former elite athlete, who currently works at the IOC site in Lausanne, Switzerland, is an expert in commerce and sports and highly experienced in strategic management for global organizations and mega-events.   

"Today he is one of the people who control, regulate, and manage financial topics for one of the most important sports institutions in the world,” Forbes México said about Villalpando.

This year, the selection of “22 Sports Protagonists” by Forbes México presents the country’s directors and athletes who will play a pivotal role in driving the sports economy.

The list was published in the magazine’s January 2022 issue, which also presents high-profile figures from diverse areas of national life who will be key to the country’s post-COVID-19 recovery.

EGADE alumnus (EXATEC), distinguished in the Entrepreneurial Engineer category, is a founding partner of Girasolve Energy, a company engaged in implementing solar energy projects.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Luis Ángel Plata Cavazos, who graduated from the Specialization in Energy Management at EGADE Business School, was recognized as one of the winners of the 2020-2021 National Youth Award of the Mexican Youth Institute (Imjuve). 

The 27-year-old from Allende, Nuevo León, was one of the 19 young people distinguished in this edition for his contributions to society and to mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

This award consists of 10 distinctions in two categories: A, which contemplates young people between 13 and 17 years old; and B, which recognizes 18-to-29 year-olds.

Plata Cavazos won an Entrepreneurial Engineer award in the B category.

"I developed my ability to solve problems from a broader perspective at EGADE; I learned to think more disruptively and raised my expectations and level of discipline,” he stated in an interview with CONECTA.

The EGADE alumnus graduated from UANL as an engineer and is a founding partner of Girasolve Energy, a company engaged in implementing solar energy projects.

"My focus is on strategic planning. I am interested in assuring significant savings for our customers, building projects that generate 100% clean energy and reducing CO2 emissions into our atmosphere," commented.

The National Youth Award winners received a pure gold medal, a rosette, 100 thousand pesos in commercial commission and bond custody and administration contracts (Codes), and a diploma signed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. 

The prize-giving ceremony was held on December 20, 2021.

Plata Cavazos was also distinguished with the Ceneval Award for Excellence in Academic Performance in 2016 and the 2019 Nuevo León State Youth Prize. 

With information from CONECTA.

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