In the third episode of a new podcast from IMD, David Bach, President of IMD, sits down with leaders in sustainability, Geraldine Matchett, global board member at Nestlé, ABB, and SwissRe, and Chair of the steering committee of the influential Greenhouse Gas Protocol, and Stuart DeCew, Executive Director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and Lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment.
The Onsi Sawiris School of Business at The American University in Cairo becomes the 33rd member of the prestigious Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM).
As CEO of Enel, Francesco Starace set into motion a company-wide transformation that unleashed innovation, shifted its business, forged new ways to engage communities, and resulted in a near doubling of the company’s market value. In a conversation moderated by Jon Iwata at the Yale School of Management, Starace shared his experiences with Yale students in the classroom and other Global Network for Advanced Management students who joined online.
Francesco Starace was the fourth speaker in the "Stakeholders, Management, and Capitalism: Conversations with leaders on how to manage stakeholders in diverse settings" speaker series. A recording of this conversation and others from the series can be found on the website of the Yale SOM Program on Stakeholder Innovation and Management.
Kisshan Sankar from Yale SOM reflects on a global policy conference that convened world leaders and students at Global Network for Advanced Management schools.
Fernando González Olivieri, who as CEO, has spearheaded global growth and transformation at Cemex, with innovation and sustainability at the forefront of stakeholder value creation.
During Global Network Week, Yale SOM students travel to international business schools for a week of classes and cultural immersion. Here, they share their takeaways from the experience.
Ninety-eight students from seventeen Global Network for Advanced Management schools visited Yale SOM in March for a course on the Behavioral Science of Management. We asked some of them to share takeaways from their experience.
Idan Gez, an MBA student at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and a partner in two startups: one in the financial field (Dow Jokes) and the other in the field of electric vehicles (CommuniCharge), recently participated in the 4th Annual Global Network Stock Trading Competition, which is an online version of the Stock Trading Game that was created by Yale School of Management Emeritus Professor of the Practice of Finance Roger Ibbotson in the 1970s. Since 2021, students from Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM) schools have been invited each February to participate in the game and compete against their peers around the globe. In February 2024, more than 225 students from 12 GNAM schools participated. In this post Idan reflects on his experience of the game.
As the top business school in Poland and the first institution from Central and Eastern Europe to join the Global Network, Kozminski University’s membership underscores the geographical expansion of the network and its commitment to constant development and the pursuit of new solutions.
Emanuel Ritschard ’24, a joint-degree student at Yale SOM and the Jackson School of Global Affairs, reflects on attending the inaugural Berlin Global Dialogue at ESMT Business School in September 2023.
Mexico’s EGADE Business School of Tecnológico de Monterrey has announced the appointment of Horacio Arredondo as its new dean.
Horacio Arredondo, Dean, EGADE Business School
Among his main responsibilities, Arredondo will be in charge of continuing to strengthen the academic offering and add diversity of thought and leadership, thereby accelerating the growth demanded by Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Vision towards 2030. He will also be contributing the experience he acquired in managerial and academic management roles in private industry and educational institutions in South America and Europe.
Juan Pablo Murra, rector for Higher Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey, said: “As part of the positioning strategy in our postgraduate business programs and the focus required by our strategic commitments at EGADE Business School, we will be persisting in engaging global talent to assure the continuity of current results is a priority. Horacio’s comprehensive profile, built from working in the financial sector, consulting, his own business ventures, and management in executive academic positions, undoubtedly allows him to display genuine, transcendent, high-performance leadership. We are convinced that he will bring value, experience, and a sense of humanity to complement the current talented team and facilitate the strategies we seek for EGADE and Tecnológico de Monterrey.”
Arredondo holds an MBA from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and, at IE Business School, he earned a Master’s in Research Methodologies for Science and is a Doctoral candidate in Administration and Business.
He has also served as a board member in a variety of companies and institutions in Chile, and is an active speaker on and advocate for topics related to family businesses, business strategy, and organizational transformation.
The new dean of EGADE Business School stated: “Forming part of this great institution is an enormous honor for me, while leading EGADE Business School in contributing to the transformation of companies and leaders in Mexico and Latin America is a huge responsibility. Economic and social development is crucial to improve people’s quality of life. Our purpose is to create a future in which businesses will have an impact on Latin America’s sustainable development, for which we need to challenge the existing paradigms and create positive change in society.”
EGADE Business School is a founding member of the Global Network for Advanced Management, and forms part of the select group made up of 1% of institutions worldwide honored with the “triple crown” of accreditations in business education from the most important organizations across the globe: Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in the United States, Association of MBAs (AMBA) in the UK, and EQUIS in Europe.
Adetola Olamide ’22, a student in the Master of Advanced Management program at the Yale School of Management, discusses her experience working on the Yale Africa Startup Review, which compiles an annual list of startups across the continent that are shaping the future of Africa through innovative solutions.
Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically in recent years. Since 2015, the year we published our inaugural report, Rising Leaders on Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change, an ongoing global pandemic has laid bare societal strains and inequalities in access to basic healthcare. Extreme weather events have intensified all over the planet. The sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report included unprecedented warnings of catastrophic global warming in the absence of immediate action.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the network’s steering committee announced that the Moscow-based school has been suspended from participation in Global Network Weeks, Global Virtual Teams, Small Network Online Courses, and other network programming.
Students from Global Network schools are teaming up online to make cities more resilient and to develop solutions to meet the challenges faced by climate change and increased urbanization.
