Today, EGADE Business School launched, at its Monterrey site, EGADE U Week, its new update program for Tecnológico de Monterrey alumni, with the first edition focusing on Future Thinking for Transformational Leadership.

Ignacio de la Vega, Dean of EGADE Business School, who offered a welcome message as an “avatar professor” thanks to holographic projection technology, indicated that permanent updating guarantees currency and relevance for any professional.

“EGADE U Week joins Tecnológico de Monterrey’s transformation in offering the education every professional needs to be competitive in an environment of exponential change,” said the Dean.

In the first of the program’s three days, activities got underway with a panel on “Future of Learning”, with the participation of Diego Lainez, Global Learning and Development Manager at Metalsa, and Julien Depauw, Director of the Master in Business Management at EGADE Business School.

“I firmly believe that learning is the skill that will enable us to resonate in the future. Companies now have to view themselves as organizations that also teach, that allow their collaborators to continue with their education,” Lainez commented.

The next session was a discussion by EduTalks on the topic “Future of Work”, with the participation of Dean De la Vega and Pierre-Henri Blancher, Senior Manager of Human Capital and Leader of the Future of Work for Latin America at Deloitte México, who enumerated the disruptive factors of the future of work, including artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, robotics, jobs that are vulnerable to automation, demographic diversity and generational change.

“We’re experiencing a tsunami of data. We all generate millions of pieces of data every day through our social networks,” Blancher mentioned.

Tamara Carleton, CEO of the Innovation Leadership Group, gave the workshop “Future Thinking: Tools & Growth Strategies”, in which she shared his Foresight Framework model, composed of five phases that guide the planning and action of innovation within organizations.

The five phases of the model, Carleton explained, are Perspective, Opportunity, Solution, Equipment and Vision, which are designed to identify and evaluate new technologies, anticipate the current and emerging needs of future customers, and address complex problems in the fastest, creative and systematic possible.

"This helps to create the culture and environment for people to work together, collaborate and think about bigger ideas, and this makes it a sustainable process," said the instructor of the Stanford University Continuous Studies program.

In addition to the workshop, Carleton offered the “Data Driven Future in Mexico” conference.

On the second day of activities, Luis Guevara, Leader of the Accenture Mexico Innovation Center, gave the “Technology Vision 2019” conference, in which he commented that the post-digital era is already breaking out and companies must be ready for what follow.

"83% of the executives we surveyed at Accenture agree that understanding consumer behavior around technology is essential to create customer loyalty; today we can customize and direct our efforts in a very specific way," said Guevara.

On the other hand, Adalberto González, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Leader of Accenture Mexico, offered the conference “Applied innovation and disruptive business models”.

"As companies, we must learn to work with the new generations, who are the ones who understand and are shaping the technology," Gonzalez said.

Guevara and González, from Accenture Mexico, accompanied Gilberto Olavarrieta, Professor of Business Intelligence at EGADE Business School; Daniel Uriol, director of Digital Transformation at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and Daniela Cruz Azcoitia, co-founder of Pulpai, in the “Digital Transformation & Learning Experience” panel.

The second day ended with the participation of Joaquín Lozano Aguirre, director of Relations with Graduates of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, who offered the conference "Global Impact of Tec Alumni".

On the third and final day, Salvador Alva, president of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, delivered the conference “A possible Mexico”, based on the book he co-wrote with businessman José Antonio Fernández, in which they propose four differentiators for the country: thriving talent, committed and capable; a great place to live, safe and full of opportunities; a vibrant entrepreneurial spirit, and a business friendly ecosystem.

"There are plenty of leaders focused on problem-solving, but what is needed are inspiring leaders focused on what Mexico can be, focused on breaking paradigms," Alva said.

At the end of the event, the Design Thinking workshop was held, taught by Mario Saldaña, founding partner of Mindit, in which the attendees designed innovative proposals in teams to transform Mexico, which they presented in a team pitches session called “ Jam on Mexico's Transformation. ”

In its first edition, EGADE U Week focused on Future Thinking and how this model impacts different industries and supports the formation of leaders with a human approach capable of generating the transformation of industries and societies.

The next edition of EGADE U Week will take place in Mexico City in 2020.

• The MBA programs with specialization in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Operations Management of EGADE Business School are consolidated as leaders in Mexico and Latin America in the MBA Specialization Rankings 2019.
• As an area of specialization in the MBA, Innovation and Entrepreneurship is ranked 33rd in the global ranking, while the area of Operations Management specialization ranks 28th among the top 50 in the world.

The MBA programs of EGADE Business School of Tecnológico de Monterrey are once again consolidated as leaders in Mexico and Latin America in the MBA Specialization Rankings 2019, prepared by the influential organization QS (Quacquarelli Symonds Limited). This ranking analyzes 251 full-time MBA programs and evaluates the top 50 in seven specializations: Consulting, Finance, Technology, Marketing, Operations Management, Information Management and Entrepreneurship.

EGADE Business School leads in the rankings of specialized programs in Entrepreneurship and Operations Management in Mexico and Latin America. In addition, the area of ​​specialization in Innovation and Entrepreneurship is ranked 33 in the global ranking, while the area of ​​specialization in MBA Operations was ranked 28th in the top 50 in the world. EGADE Business School has once again been ahead of other Latin American schools included in the rankings such as INCAE Business School (Costa Rica), IPADE Business School (Mexico) and IAE Business School (Argentina).

In September 2018, EGADE Business School ranked as the number one business school in Latin America in the Global MBA Rankings 2019 of QS and in the 78th place worldwide among the 251 programs evaluated, standing out for its high Employability score, Leadership of Thought and Entrepreneurship and Graduates.

“This new QS Specialization Ranking supports the avant-garde approach of our portfolio of programs towards new disciplines that are key to navigate the current competitive environment, marked by disruption and accelerated change in markets and societies,” said Ignacio de la Vega, dean of EGADE Business School.

"These recognitions reaffirm our commitment to the development of innovative and omnipropic leaders - who have an entrepreneurial mindset and attitude in every facet of their lives - capable of creating shared value and transforming society," added the dean.

The QS MBA Specialization rankings evaluate the specializations of the MBA programs with a focus on both the jobs obtained by graduates and the results of faculty research and the reputation of the programs among global employers in each field of knowledge. For the realization of this ranking, the responses of 47,000 global employers and the analysis of 22 million research publications were contemplated.

Maryangel García-Ramos Guadiana, EGADE Business School MBA student, received, on March 8th, the 2019 Tec Prize for Women within the framework of International Women’s Day.

The also founder of the Mexican Disabled Women’s Movement won the award in the Transformative Power category, among 18 women and two groups renowned for their track record and contributions in eight areas.

Tec directors handed García-Ramos Guadiana the 'Muliere Amete' trophy, inspired by Kristen Visbal’s work ‘Fearless Girl', during the award ceremony which was held in the La Carreta Pavilion Auditorium at Campus Monterrey.

“This accolade will light the way to stop disabled women from being invisible. May this prize be a platform for our voices to be stronger and so that decisions will no longer be made for us without us,” remarked the award-winner.

Through the Mexican Disabled Women’s Movement, García-Ramos Guadiana focuses on generating actions to support the disabled, with a gender and violence-prevention orientation, together with organizations for girls and women.

Apart from being an MBA student, García-Ramos Guadiana collaborates as a Leader in the Diversity and Inclusion Office at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and is a member of the Nuevo León Social Development Council and of the Citizens’ Commission for Persons with Disabilities. She has also served as a Mexican civil society representative in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

The Tec Prize for Women, aimed at women students, alumnae, collaborators, faculty or directors, was launched in 2013 and this year received 243 nominations in the eight categories: Transformative Power, Citizenship, Art and Culture, Science and Technology, Life and Work, Health and Sports, #She4She and Entrepreneurship.

EGADE Business School - Tecnológico de Monterrey announced today that it has been awarded reaccreditation by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) for the 2019-2023 five-year period, corroborating the high standards of quality and innovation that distinguish its academic offering worldwide.

Ratification by the prestigious international accrediting agency for graduate management education includes EGADE Business School’s entire MBA and Master in Business Management portfolio, at the school’s sites in Mexico and Latin America where the programs are offered. The portfolio of MBA programs includes the EGADE MBA, MBA in Global Business & Strategy, Global OneMBA, Executive MBA and Full-Time MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

AMBA highlighted the solid reputation and strong brand value that EGADE Business School has built over the years, particularly in Latin America, and the robustness of the global associations it has established with strategic international partners, such as the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), the OneMBA consortium and the Partnership in International Management (PIM) network.

Moreover, the association acknowledged the faculty’s high level of commitment, and the school’s creativity and innovation in developing educational solutions, excellent relationship with employees and efficient multi-site operations.

“We are extremely proud to have been endorsed by AMBA since 2009, and to continue with the reaccreditation of the high standards of quality and innovation that distinguish us worldwide,”  expressed Ignacio de la Vega, dean of EGADE Business School. “This recognition reaffirms our commitment to providing the best cutting-edge academic offering, which leads the transformation of business education across the globe.”

AMBA, based in London and founded in 1967, awards five-year accreditation, which has been earned by just 2% of business schools in the world.

EGADE Business School is a member of a select group made up of just one percent of the business schools in the world that have been awarded the “triple crown”, thus confirming its excellence in global business education, certified by AMBA, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).

Five teams made up of EGADE Business School students were recognized among the 76 finalists for the 2019 Flourish Prize, announced through the global platform AIM2Flourish.

This achievement was the outcome of the stories they had written to highlight five business innovations, in Peru and Mexico, that are contributing to the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The stories are:

• Financial Support for Family Business Growth: about Grupo Genera (Peru) and written by Yamil Adum, José Luis Velásquez Relayze and Daniel Dibos.
• Sanitation in Lima: about X-Runner (Perú) and written by Liliana Oyola, Lourdes Guerra and Claudia Suárez.
• Improving the Education in Peru: about Directv Perú and written by Eduardo Galdo, Diego Pizarro Aquino and Luzamérica Calderón.
• Contruyo Contigo: about CEMEX (Mexico) and written by Jessica Narváez, Bárbara Elizondo, Ricardo Cortázar, Sofia Ledezma, Yajaira Martínez and Diego Nájera.
• Producing Cement with RDF: about CEMEX (Mexico) and written by María Bojórquez, Roberto Chapa and Héctor Alanís.

To write the stories, the students had to interview the business innovation leaders. They worked under the guidance of EGADE Business School faculty: Consuelo García de la Torre in the first four cases, and Ezequiel Reficco in the last one.

These five stories are eligible to win one of the 17 Flourish Prizes. The winners will be announced in March and honored virtually in May this year to celebrate each one of the 17 SDGs.

The 2019 Flourish Prize finalists include 76 stories from 30 business schools in 16 countries, completed under the guidance of 35 professors. The business innovations described come from 27 countries and over 19 industries. The finalist stories were selected by a jury from among more than 800 stories posted on the site AIM2Flourish.com.

"It is a privilege to read and be inspired by these stories. The students who discover positive, profitable business innovations are the heart of the AIM2Flourish initiative. Our objective is to prepare a generations of SDG leaders who will use business innovation as a tool to ‘do good and do it well’ in their lives and careers, ” commented the director of AIM2Flourish, Claire Sommer, during the announcement of the finalists.

The AIM2Flourish platform, which promotes the Flourish Prizes, is an initiative of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management — Case Western Reserve University.

• In a panel following the presentation of the book Labyrinth of Sustainability, academic and business leaders analyzed success cases of leading companies, such as Nestlé and Walmart in Mexico, and corporate sustainability strategies in the region.

Even though many companies want to be more sustainable, sustainability is actually an obstacle-filled labyrinth for most of them.  Learning to navigate across this complexity is one of the objectives of the new book Labyrinth of Sustainability: Green Business Lessons from Latin American Corporate Leaders, edited by Daniel C. Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at the University of Yale, which brings together a dozen case studies generated jointly by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, in the USA, EGADE Business School, in Mexico, INCAE Business School, in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and Fundación Getúlio Vargas, in Brazil. The book presentation took place during an event at EGADE Business School Mexico City and was attended by some of the authors of the cases analyzed, seven of which are signed by academic and doctoral students from the graduate business school.

For the first time in Latin America, a single book has compiled a collection of stories based on the sustainability imperative,  “the leadership imperative of our era” according to the renowned academic who coordinated this edition.  The 12 case studies  reflect diverse perspectives and key sustainability topics in the region and  describe the successes and the challenges faced by companies that operate in Latin America.

In Latin America, sustainability has traditionally been seen merely as a matter of reputation. However, more and more Latin American companies have realized that incorporating sustainability into their daily strategy generates competitive advantage. “It is a way of reducing risks, lowering costs, specifically energy costs, and of generating growth in both revenues and profitability,” explained Dan Esty in his presentation, which was introduced by Dr. Ernesto Amorós, National Director of Doctoral Programs at EGADE Business School.

“We have discovered many things during our investigation, including that all types of companies, regardless of their industry or size, have sustainability components that can be incorporated into their strategy to differentiate themselves from the competition,” explained the academic, who added that sustainability cannot have a limited vision. “You have to understand that there are numerous stakeholders in the 21st century, so not only those who fight for the environment are important, but you must also take an interest in the community, local governments, consumers, your suppliers and, increasingly, investors, who are scrutinizing more and more whether companies are sustainable.”

The presentation then gave way to the panel “Corporate Sustainability in Latin America”, moderated by Dr. Luli Pesqueira, Business Liaison coordinator at WWF México, with the participation of the book’s editor, Juan Pardo, senior manager of Corporate Affairs at Nestlé México, and Juan Carlos Camargo, Sustainability deputy director at Walmart Mexico and Central America.

“One of Walmart’s ambitions was to use a 100%  clean, renewable energy supply. The case study reflects how we were able to connect with wind power project developers,” Juan Carlos Camargo explained.

“Our strategy has helped us to consolidate our leadership image in Mexico and with our shareholders, having reached the point of operating eight renewable energy projects. 90% of our stores already receive renewable energy generated in the country, allowing us to separate the growth of our emissions from the growth of our sales floor,” he added.

Juan Pardo, from Nestlé, explained the innovation of his company’s case study included in the book: “In powdered milk production, we combined two technologies to make use of evaporation from the milk dehydration process, condensing the water that comes from the milk to treat and use it up to two times in services. We no longer use an Olympic-size swimming pool of water every day.”

“We were worldwide pioneers in an example of Mexican knowhow that is now being exported.  It’s a matter of circular economy, of how we can reuse and better manage natural resources,” indicated the Nestlé manager.

Nestlé sponsored giving 100 copies of the book to the school’s MBA students, who are preparing to become transforming leaders with a sustainability focus and a commitment to businesses’ positive impact, in line with the mission of EGADE Business School to empower omni-entrepreneurial leaders, who create shared value and transform society.

EGADE Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, and 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU), a global leader in education technology, today announced a new partnership with the to deliver an online MBA for global business professionals. MBA@Tec is expected to launch in Fall 2019 and represents a new graduate program for 2U.

“As Latin America’s leading innovation-led university, we are constantly focused on business education transformation, adapted to the emerging needs of organizations in a fundamentally globalized and technology-driven context. We clearly understand the need to be ahead of the curve in education innovation embracing digital disruption, offering new programs more adapted to a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) context, and developing new formats that bring professionals the possibility to keep developing skills throughout their career”, said Ignacio de la Vega, dean of EGADE Business School.

“With this new partnership with 2U, a global leader among ed-tech platforms, we give the opportunity to talented professionals, no matter their location, to live a unique EGADE MBA off-campus experience that provides balance between study, work and personal commitments, while benefits from our distinctive entrepreneurial and innovative learning culture and globally recognized highest academic standards. The MBA@Tec is designed to inspire an entire new generation of transformational and omnipreneurial leaders in Latin America and the world”. 

“The EGADE Business School has a long tradition of breaking down geographical barriers in its quest to develop global executive talent, and our new partnership will extend that reach even further,” 2U President of University Partnerships and Services Andrew Hermalyn said. “We are thrilled to continue our relationship with Tecnológico de Monterrey by empowering the EGADE Business School to further its mission of developing ‘leaders capable of anticipating change.’”

Students will attend weekly, live classes taught in English on an online platform that works seamlessly from nearly anywhere in the world. Students will also have the opportunity to attend in-person immersion experiences held on one of EGADE’s multiple campuses throughout the Americas, where they can network with and learn from classmates and faculty.

The EGADE Business School is one of only 15 multi-campus business schools in the world that boasts the “Triple Crown,” a combination of accreditations from three renowned business school accreditation organizations: the American Association of Colleges and Schools (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA), and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).

2U also partners with Tecnológico de Monterrey on a dual Master of Laws (LL.M.) with the Washington University School of Law.

Is it possible to maintain the balance between the growth of industrialization and the quality of life of the population, and at the same time reduce the deterioration of natural wealth caused by the unbalanced economic growth of some regions at the expense of the dismantling of the natural capital of others?

Answering this question is the objective of the project “SWIT: Generation of sustainable wealth”, recognized as part of “Tec projects with potential to transform Mexico”, at the 49th Research and Development Conference of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Under the leadership of Dr. Carlos Scheel, emeritus professor at EGADE Business School, the project developed the SWIT (Sustainable Wealth creation based on Innovation and enabling Technologies) model, which seeks to harmoniously articulate the three great dimensions of the biosphere: economic, social (human) and environmental.

"More than a project is an initiative that puts sustainability within everyone's reach," said Dr. Scheel, accompanied by the team of researchers, professors, students and various actors in society, before receiving recognition from the hands of David Garza, Rector of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Among those involved in the project are Andrea Cantú Garza, a student of the Doctorate in Administrative Sciences of EGADE Business School, and another graduate of the same program, Dr. Eduardo Aguiñaga Maldonado, leader of Circular Economy of Heineken Mexico.

Some relevant data and results of the project are:

• 23 national and international projects have been carried out
• 4 countries have put the SWIT concept into operation
• 15 scientific articles published in journals Q1 and Q2
• 9 short courses taught
• 6 books published
• 8 book chapters
• SWIT dissemination website: www.swit.mx
• 4 researchers in the project
• 27 students have worked on the project
• Linking with 11 foreign universities
• 14 theses (11 master's and 3 PhD)

Also, for the implementation of the SWIT model, the DiSC Innovation Platform (Disruptive, Systemic and Circular Innovation) was designed, which aims to articulate the synergy between all the constituents of the three subsystems, with the intention of achieving a shared prosperity for all.

All of the above is about generating a holistic development of wealth for a region through projects that are environmentally resilient (recoverable), reversible and durable, as well as socially responsible, inclusive and equitable, and that are finally economically viable and competitive. That is, wealth that can be distributed among all the participants of a region.

More details in this video presented during the “Tec projects with potential to transform Mexico” ceremony of the 49th Research and Development Congress.