EGADE MBA alum and international accrediting association honoree is the founder of Mujeres Mexicanas con Discapacidad (Mexican Women with Disabilities) and leader of the Diversity and Inclusion Office at Tec de Monterrey.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Maryangel García-Ramos, activist and advocate for diversity and inclusion in Mexico, was honored in 2022 as one of the select group of 27 Influential Leaders by AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), the most important business school accreditation organization in the world.

This annual recognition is awarded exclusively to graduates from the over 900 AACSB-accredited institutions, who, given their track record and impact, serve as a model for the next generation of business leaders across the globe.

“Maryangel is a transformative leader and champion of the rights of people with disabilities, especially girls and women, and is deeply committed to the development of diversity and inclusion solutions for our communities and organizations. It is an honor and a privilege to have extraordinary alumni and alumnae who, like Maryangel, exhort us to strengthen our diverse representation of society and business, in pursuit of equality and respect,” said Osmar Zavaleta, Interim Dean of EGADE Business School.

.@maryangel_, alum of @egade, is a transformative leader and influential advocate for D&I in Mexico. She founded the nonprofit @mexicanas_, which has successfully championed reform to secure equal protection for women with disabilities. #AACSBleads

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— AACSB (@AACSB) February 1, 2022

Maryangel, an EGADE MBA alum, is a woman with motor disabilities who has worked for over 15 years to bring about a transformation in the recognition of rights, which has influenced her life purpose.  

She is aware of the opportunities and privileges that come with studying for a master's degree, which is just one of the opportunities, together with others related to health services and employment, which are not readily available to the majority of persons with disabilities in Mexico.

As a result, she has dedicated her leadership and talent to advocate for and elevate the rights of persons with disabilities and extensively champion Mexico’s diversity and inclusion agenda.

“We are living in a time of enormous systemic inequality in which even considering a world that recognizes us through meritocracy is naive and insensitive. Looking at diversity and inclusion strategies with a vision of reducing inequalities is of utmost importance in organizations, educational institutions, and the community, thereby ensuring that no one is left behind. There can be nothing about the community without community. We don’t need a voice (we already have that); we need a platform and a place in the decision-making process for designing society and systems to include each and every one of us,” Maryangel commented, on being named an Influential Leader.

As founder and director of the nonprofit Mujeres Mexicanas con Discapacidad, Maryangel has achieved considerable reform to advance equality and protection for women with disabilities in Mexico.

She has developed labor inclusion and innovation strategies for NGOs and organizations such as Tecnológico de Monterrey, where she currently collaborates as the Diversity and Inclusion Office leader at the institution’s Center for the Recognition of Human Dignity.

As part of her work at Tec, she has participated in the creation of five committees which represent diverse groups: gender equality, persons with disabilities, LGBT+ community, socioeconomic diversity, and cultural diversity. She currently sits on the Tec gender diversity committee Impulsa and works with the other four committees.

Maryangel has represented Mexico at the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and has reached thousands of future leaders through her TEDx Talks, “The Power of My Story” and “The Disability Revolution,” and through her keynotes, including “Sex, Beauty, and Women with Disabilities” and “The Disability Story: Diversity in the Media,” at SXSW.

NPR named her one of Six Fearless Women who were an inspiration in 2018. In 2021, InStyle magazine recognized her as one of the 30 Badass Women in Mexico to follow, while Hulu featured her story in the mini-documentary Acentos Bienvenidos.

Maryangel has also won numerous awards for championing diversity and inclusion, most recently Premio Incluye and the Mujer Tec Award.

We are thrilled to announce our 2022 Class of Influential Leaders. This year's class spotlights 27 business school grads who are making an impact around the globe.

🌟Congratulations!🌟

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— AACSB (@AACSB) February 1, 2022

Maryangel's Class of 2022 AACSB Influential Leaders is comprised of 17 alumnae and 10 alumni from 27 business schools in Australia, Canada, France, India, Lebanon, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand and the United States who share her passion and dedication. to lead and innovate within their industries and impact their communities.

EGADE Business School has earned AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA accreditations, the “triple crown”, representing the highest recognition a business school can obtain internationally and awarded to just 1% of business schools worldwide.

Further information on Maryangel’s story and impact can be found here.

The full list of AACSB Influential Leaders 2022 can be found here.

For their outstanding scientific contributions, Tec’s Business School (Undergraduate and EGADE Business School) Professors earn Admission, Promotion or Continuance in Mexico’s National System of Researchers.

By INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Twenty professors from the Tecnológico de Monterrey Business School (Undergraduate and EGADE Business School) were recognized in the 2021 Call for Admission, Promotion or Continuance in Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council for Science and Technology Council  (CONACYT).  

Here are the results:  

Newly admitted:

• SNI Level I: Delia Lizette Huezo Ponce and Sascha Fürst.

• SNI Candidate Level: David Pérez Castillo, Linda Elizabeth Ruiz Castro, and Oscar Eliud Ortíz Mendoza.

Promotions:  

• From SNI Level I to SNI Level II: Sergio Manuel Madero Gómez.

• From SNI Candidate Level to SNI Level I: Eduardo Enrique Aguiñaga Maldonado, Elliott Tyler Kruse, Francisco Javier Valderrey Villar, Lizbeth Martínez Ramírez, Miguel Ángel López Lomelí, and Olivia del Roble Hernández Pozas.

Continuance:  

• SNI Level II: José Antonio Núñez Mora and René Cabral Torres.

• SNI Level I: Consuelo Adelaida García De la Torre (†), Edgar Rogelio Ramírez Solís, Javier Francisco Reynoso Javier, Lorena de la Paz Carrete Lucero, María Andrea Trujillo León, and María de la Paz Toldos Romero.

“We are extremely grateful for and recognize your contribution, through your research activities, to the positioning of the Business School,” said María Elena Vázquez, National Dean of the Tec de Monterrey School of Business.

With these new admissions, promotions and continuances, which come into effect as of January 2022, the School now has 71 SNI-recognized professors, of whom 31 belong to the Candidate Level, 28 to Level I, 10 to Level II, and 2 to Level III.

In addition, 11 graduates of EGADE Business School’s Doctorate in Administrative Sciences (DCA) and the Doctorate in Financial Sciences (DCF) —some of whom are professors at the institution— were also recognized in the call:

• SNI Level II: Francisco Ortiz Arango (DCF) and Salvador Cruz Aké (DCF).

• SNI Level I: Ambrosio Ortíz Ramírez (DCF), Arturo Briseño García (DCA), Eduardo Enrique Aguiñaga Maldonado (DCA), Eduardo Gaona Domínguez (DCA), Flor Esthela Morton Rodríguez (DCA), Griselda Dávila Aragón (DCF), and Mario César Dávila Aguirre (DCA).

• SNI Candidate Level: David Pérez Castillo (DCA) and José Anselmo Pérez Reyes (DCA).

“My heartiest congratulations, appreciation, and acknowledgement to our research professors and EGADE Business School graduates, and to the faculty from the Business School, for their contribution to consolidating their careers as researchers and ratifying the excellence, innovative approach, and transcendence of their academic work,” said Osmar Zavaleta, Interim Dean of EGADE Business School and Associate Dean for Research of EGADE Business School and the Tec de Monterrey School of Business.

List compiled by the LinkedIn News team highlights the must-follow profiles in Mexico, addressing key workplace, career, and other sector-related topics.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

Osval Orduña, EGADE Business School graduate and Talent and DI (Diversity and Inclusion) expert, was included on the Top Voices Employment 2022 list presented by LinkedIn Noticias México.

The list includes the 10 expert profiles the social network recommends following, chosen from among the recruitment and selection, human resources, and career counseling professionals who publish relevant content for job seekers or those who would like to grow in their professional career.

Why follow Orduña?

LinkedIn spotlights coaching, diversity, inclusion, talent acquisition, and employer branding, among the main topics addressed in his profile.

“In addition, he often shares information on talent acquisition, headhunting best practices, problem-solving, and continuous improvement,” the social network stated.

Orduña is currently the CEO of his own consulting firm, Orduña Talent Services, founded in 2020.

He has worked in various talent consulting projects at DiDi, The Adecco Group, Antal International, and Lucas 5, playing a key role in revitalizing and improving recruitment processes, and served clients such as OYO Rooms, Rappi, Uber, and Ricoh.

He graduated with a Master in Manufacturing Management, from EGADE Business School, and a B.A. Economics, from Tecnológico de Monterrey.

To create the list, LinkedIn editors considered the content published by each expert on LinkedIn, seeking to highlight a diverse set of voices that reflect the current employment reality.

Consult the complete list here and follow Orduña’s profile here.

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.