By: José Ángel de la Paz 

The quality of the investigation carried out by the research professors of EGADE Business School and the Undergraduate Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey was recognized in the 2019 Call of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt).

In this edition, a total of 19 research professors from the two schools, as well as from the Strategic Focus Research Groups (GIEE) in the Business Area, were distinguished with either admission or continuance in the SNI.

“These results confirm the excellence of the researchers in the Business Area, the innovative and relevant nature of their work, and their contribution to the advancement of scientific research in Mexico and the world. Congratulations to our professors for these achievements, which also contribute to their track records as researchers,” said Teofilo Ozuna, Associate Dean of Research at EGADE Business School and the Undergraduate Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

The research professors who were admitted for the first time to the SNI were:

• At the level of Candidate: from EGADE Business School, Dr. Alfonso Ávila Robinson (GIEE – Entrepreneurship and Innovation); and from the Tec School of Business, Dr. Adriana Ramírez Rocha, Dr. Alberto López Hernández, Dr. Alfonso Valdez Cervantes, Dr. Axel Atzayacatl Zavala, Dr. Bárbara Isabel Mojarro Durán, Dr. Citlali Del Carmen Calderón Frese, Dr. Francisco Alfonso Espinoza Sánchez, Dr. Geraldina Silveyra León, Dr. María del Rocío Vega Zavala and Dr. Nidia Junive Juárez García.

Meanwhile, the research professors who earned continuance in the SNI were:

• Promoted from the level of Candidate to SNI-I: from the Tec School of Business, Dr. Lucía Alejandra Rodríguez Aceves (GIEE - Entrepreneurship and Innovation).
• At the level of SNI-II: from EGADE Business School, Dr. Ajnesh Prasad (GIEE - Entrepreneurship and Innovation).
• At the level of SNI-I: from EGADE Business School, Dr. Carlos Scheel Mayenberger (GIEE – Social Innovation) and Dr. Federico Trigos Salazar (GIEE - Business Analytics); and from the Tec School of Business, Dr. Humberto Valencia Herrera (GIEE – Finance and Macroeconomics) and Dr. Luis Arturo Bernal Ponce (GIEE - Finance and Macroeconomics).
• At the level of Candidate: from the Tec School of Business, Dr. Daniel Cerecedo Hernández (GIEE - Finance and Macroeconomics) and Dr. Ján Rehák (GIEE - Entrepreneurship and Innovation).

With these new admissions and continued memberships, that will come into effect in January 2020, business research has been strengthened by increasing the number of members enrolled in the SNI from 62 to 66, of whom 32 have been distinguished at the Candidate level, 20 at SNI level I, 11 at SNI-II and three at SNI-III.

Additionally, a total of 19 EGADE Business School graduates of the Doctorate in Administrative Sciences and the Doctorate in Financial Sciences obtained SNI admission or continuance.

The results of the 2019 SNI call were published on September 27.
 

By José Ángel de la Paz

Dr. Javier Reynoso, research professor at EGADE Business School and Service Management specialist, who is highly renowned in Mexico and Latin America, has been invited to participate in the European Commission project “High-Tech Skills for Industry - Fostering New Services and Jobs Creation”.

Under this initiative, the EU executive body responsible for formulating new legislation proposals and applying European Parliament and European Council decisions, will bring together approximately 150 experts in the field of Service Science from all over the world to share their expertise with European policy-makers and business leaders.

The objective is to generate policies, private-public partnerships, and highly effective education and training programs, which will help to define a forward vision and  long-term agenda (year 2030) for high-tech skills development and the creation of new services and jobs enabled by new technologies, in Europe.

“I have been invited to join a group of international specialists commissioned by the European Commission to contribute my experience as a researcher, consultant and educator in the field of Service Management to the project. I will proudly be presenting EGADE in this initiative that seeks to grow competitiveness through service innovation,” Dr. Reynoso commented.

Within the project, the professor explained, experts will perform an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-play of high-tech skills research activities, recent publications in the area of Service Science, relevant company and industry-led efforts such as the promotion of T-shaped skills, as well as public-private partnerships, policy initiatives, and education programs and offerings that can lead to the creation of new services and jobs enabled by new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, analytics, blockchain, nanotechnology and life sciences technologies.

The European Commission project will be implemented by the research and consulting firm Empirica, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) and PwC, in different phases and activities to be carried out between January 2020 and June 2021.

The main activities include six workshops and an international conference. The latter will be held in Brussels in summer 2021.

For the third consecutive year, EGADE Business School leads Latin America in the QS Global MBA & Business Masters Rankings 2020 rankings ,published by the world -recognized universityranking organization Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), based in London. 

With the participation of EGADE Business School´s Full-Time MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Master in Finance programs, the results obtained in the QS Global MBA & Business Masters Rankings 2020  are as follows:

QS Global MBA Rankings 2020

EGADE Full-Time MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship:

# 1 in Mexico and Latin America for 3rd consecutive year
# 55 globally among 240 ranked MBA programs (+23 places advance vs 2019 globally) 
# 26 globally for Entrepreneurship and  Alumni Outcomes
# 39 globally for Graduate Employability

QS Business Masters Rankings 2020: Masters in Finance

EGADE Master in Finance:

# 1 in Mexico and Latin America for the 3rd consecutive year
# 15 globally for  Graduate Employability 
# 41 globally among 156 ranked Master in Finance programs.

EGADE leads the group of just 10 Latin American Full-Time MBA programs that appear in the QS Global MBA Rankings 2020 and is the first of just two institutions in the region to appear in the QS Global MBA Top 100: 

The QS rankings seek to measure what matters most to prospective students. The core metrics are: Employability, Entrepreneurship and Alumni Outcomes, Return on Investment, Thought Leadership and Class and Faculty Diversity. The top results for EGADE Business School are in the categories of Employability - ranking # 15 and # 39 worldwide for their Masters in Finance and Full-Time MBA programs respectively – and in Entrepreneurship and Alumni Outcomes in which its Full-Time MBA program advanced to # 26 worldwide.

The methodology of this prestigious ranking is based on four factors. In addition to analyzing academic program related inputs, QS also considered the reputation of specific business schools from the perspective of nearly 32,000 global employers, the opinion of more than 36,000 global academics, and an analysis of the education paths of 30,000 successful alumni back to specific institutions. 

Ignacio de la Vega, Dean of EGADE Business School stated: “These results manifest the outstanding quality of our graduates, distinguished as leaders with an omnipreneurial vision who generate shared value and contribute to the transformation of our society. For a number of years at EGADE we have been working on an ambitious transformation of our academic portfolio and learning platform adapted for the future competencies necessary for leadership in the 4IR context. This recognition for our graduates and wider community encourages us to redouble our efforts in ensuring a disruptive learning experience at EGADE so highly valued by our future graduates and by corporations and organizations in Mexico and internationally”.  

Consult the QS Global MBA & Business Masters Rankings 2020: 

• 2020 QS Global MBA Ranking
• 2020 QS Masters in Finance

By José Ángel de la Paz

EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey appointed Eduardo Aguiñaga Maldonado as the new national director of the Master in Business Management (MBM) program.

In this role, Eduardo replaces Julien Marcel Depauw, who continues as Director of Academic Innovation, and whom we sincerely thank for his contribution to the leadership of the program.

Eduardo holds a Ph.D. in Administrative Science and an MBA from EGADE Business School. He has taught in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education programs at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla and the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. He has also taught Ethics and Corporate Sustainability Programs at EGADE.

As a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI Spanish acronym), Eduardo is the author of several scientific articles and book chapters on entrepreneurship, business models and the circular economy.

As Leader of Circular Economy at HEINEKEN Mexico, Eduardo  has implemented “Circular Ecosystem” concepts developed during his doctoral studies at EGADE Business School, at HEINEKEN’s newest brewery in Chihuahua, Mexico, which has been recognized as the company's most sustainable worldwide. He has trained more than 2,000 employees and implemented many important circular economy initiatives, during his time at the company.

Eduardo has collaborated in various consulting projects focused on the recovery of waste in Mexico and Latin America together with researchers from Tecnológico de Monterrey.

With the knowledge of Aguiñaga Maldonado and his great business experience, in addition to his global, disruptive and innovative vision, EGADE Business School seeks to consolidate the MBM program at the Monterrey and Guadalajara headquarters.

The W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (ASU) and EGADE Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey today announced a partnership to deliver a dual-degree Executive MBA (EMBA) program for global senior business professionals. The EGADE – W. P. Carey EMBA will commence its first cohort in EGADE Mexico City in August 2020. 

“EGADE's collaboration with W.P. Carey School of Business in the Executive MBA represents an innovation in the development of omnipreneurial leaders for the future of work, with the ability to create shared value and transform society. It is the first and only program in the Americas that offers a blended experience, in an accelerated format, focused on disruptive leadership to transcend in a world of exponential change. We are thrilled to build on the close relationship between Tecnológico de Monterrey and Arizona State University, with this new partnership with the W. P. Carey School of Business, and in a program that offers the best of two globally accredited and recognized institutions ”, said Ignacio de la Vega, Dean of EGADE Business School.

“This unique EMBA program offers the best of both worlds: The entrepreneurial and student-focused approach to learning that EGADE Business School is known for, combined with the W. P. Carey School’s ‘Business is Personal’ mindset and our mission of educating tomorrow’s business leaders to create positive change on a global scale,” said Amy Hillman, Dean of W. P. Carey School of Business. “We are proud to expand the 10-year relationship between ASU and Tecnológico de Monterrey by partnering with EGADE, and to continue providing highly innovative experiences for global executive talent.”

Carlos Salazar Lomelín, Chairman of the International Advisory Board Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey and President of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CEE), who gave a presentation during the event before a large audience of more than one hundred business leaders, said: “I welcome this collaboration between EGADE Business School and W. P. Carey School of Business, both world-ranked institutions, whose impact  in preparing entrepreneurial, responsible and humanistic leaders will contribute to the  transformation of  business and organizations and enhance the development and competitiveness of North America as a region.”

The EGADE – W. P. Carey EMBA brings together the globally recognized academic standards, innovative learning culture, world-class faculty, and global networks from W. P. Carey School of Business and EGADE Business School in a 15-month duration program with monthly sessions at EGADE Business School, Mexico City, and three one-week global immersion experiences in the United States and Asia. With a curriculum combining leading-edge technology with data analytics, data-driven problem solving, and innovation, the EGADE – W. P. Carey EMBA is designed to foster transformational leadership in the Global-Americas business context.

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By José Ángel de la Paz

“Mexico could be the ‘tiger of emerging economies’ over the next 25 years, if leaders like you dare to innovate,” said José Varela, CEO of 3M Mexico, during the closing ceremony of the 2019 EGADE National MBA Conference.

Varela offered the keynote speech "The science behind innovation" to more than 350 MBA students from the EGADE Monterrey, Mexico City, Guadalajara and Querétaro sites.

The executive from the company that invented products such as masking tape, Scotch Tape and Post-it Notes said that science is the principal source of innovation.

“At 3M, we are fully aware of the importance of science and use it every day to improve people's lives. But, what do people across the globe think of science? Do they understand the importance and impact of science in their lives in the same way as we do?” he asked.

Varela told the attendees that, according to the report “The Global State of Science (SoSI)”, Mexicans are more curious about than indifferent to science.

"For example, 54% of Mexicans, compared to just 29% of the Chinese population, believe that science is the solution to the world’s major problems," he said.

Nevertheless,  he added that even though Mexicans are optimistic about the future of science and its potential to solve global challenges, hold  STEM careers in high regard and are enthusiastic about scientific advancements, they feel that the country is falling behind.

"Despite the high expectations, people are extremely skeptical when it comes to science," he said.

Varela concluded that in order to prevent Mexico’s growth from grinding to a halt, innovation should be fostered through investments in science and technology, with the collaboration of companies, the government and other sectors, such as institutions of higher education.
 

Por José Ángel de la Paz 

Companies committed to creating shared value and leadership in an era characterized by disruption and constant change were the topics addressed on the first day of the 2019 National EGADE MBA Conference, in Monterrey.

Fausto Costa, CEO of Nestlé México, in the conference “Nestlé, making a difference in Mexican society”, explained that the multinational’s purpose is to improve life and contribute to a healthier future, by creating shared value.

“Corporate sustainability is a strategic pillar of business that makes it possible to satisfy different needs, the company’s own and of its diverse audiences, and is fundamental to protecting and maintaining the natural resources that will be necessary in the future for the development of society.

“Nestlé’s commitment for 2025 is to have recyclable or reusable packaging. Moreover, in terms of a circular economy, we need to advance together with different industries so that these inputs can be reused,” Costa stated.

In the conference “Leading the future”, Raquel Hernández, head of Talent Strategy at Mercer México, assured that employment of the future is already a reality, and mentioned five trends valued by collaborators and that leaders need to assimilate: fast-paced change, purpose-driven work, permanent flexibility for work-life balance, talent platform for those who want to grow and learn, and digital collaborators from the inside out.

“The new leader needs to have mind to provide a clear purpose, direction and strategy; heart to understand, work with others and develop them; and courage to do what is right, based on clear values.

“If you focus on people, these people will take care of the objectives. By nature, people seek accomplishments and success. Find people who are passionate about what they do,” said Hernández.

In turn, Ignacio de la Vega, dean of EGADE Business School, closed the first day’s activities at the conference with a message for the more than 350 EGADE MBA students, from the school’s different sites, who had gathered in Monterrey.

“Continue to incorporate relevant learning, gain strength, improve our competencies, grow our knowledge, meet people and expand our networks, is the purpose of this conference, which we have focused on two pillars – leadership and corporate sustainability,” De la Vega commented.

EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey confirmed its leadership as the business school with the best graduate programs in Mexico and Latin America, according to the results of the recently published Eduniversal Best Masters Ranking 2019.

In the regional classification, EGADE Business School’s programs ranked in the top places in the following categories:

• EGADE MBA: number 1 in Mexico and Latin America in the “General Management” category.
• Master in Finance: number 1 in Mexico and Latin America in the “Corporate Finance” category, and 27th in the global “Financial Markets” category.
• Specialization in Energy Management: number 1 in both Mexico and Latin America in the “Energy and Natural Resources” category, for the second successive year.
• Executive MBA: number 1 in Mexico and number 2 in Latin America in the “Executive MBA” category.  
• MBA in Global Business & Strategy: number 1 in Mexico and number 2 in Latin America in the “Full-time MBA” category.

“It gives us great pride that our academic offering continues to be recognized by Eduniversal and has been included in their Best Masters Ranking since 2011,” commented Ignacio de la Vega, dean of EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey. “This recognition demonstrates our high quality and academic innovation standards and reinforces our commitment to continue to lead the transformation of global business education.”

Every year, the Eduniversal Best Masters Ranking evaluates over 12 thousand graduate programs, masters and MBAs worldwide through a survey answered by 5 thousand employers, 800 thousand students and over 10 thousand representatives of a thousand academic institutions from 154 countries.

The Best Masters Ranking methodology evaluates programs mainly on the basis of three criteria: the reputation of the program, graduates’ salary in their first job and student satisfaction.

The complete Best Masters Ranking 2019 results can be found here: www.best-masters.com.