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Looking Back

50th Anniversary of the Global Alumni Reunion, Madrid, November 17-18, 2011

The 50th anniversary of the Global Alumni Reunion reunited over 2,800 alumni from over 45 countries around the world. The event was held in the Palacio de Congresos in Madrid. The theme for this year’s reunion was Leading the Innovative Firm: Building Stronger Companies for Society. Some of the speakers on the agenda included Jay Ireland, CEO of GE Africa; Ferran Adrià, Chef and Co-owner of El Bulli; Ángel Cano, CEO, BBVA; and Susan Segal, President and CEO, Americas Society and Council of Americas.

Ferran Adrià, co-owner of
world-renowned restaurant El Bulli
Jay Ireland, CEO of GE Africa
Susan Segal, President and CEO,
Americas Society and Council of Americas

Alumni Session – Balancing Professional, Family and Personal Life, November 14, 2011

IESE’s New York Center hosted the first ever women’s alumni event in the United States. It featured Prof. Chinchilla of IESE and Anne Weisberg, Director of Diversity at BlackRock. The event was titled Balancing Professional, Family and Personal Life, and was based in part on the publication Masters of our Destiny, which is coauthored by Prof. Chinchilla.

Prof. Chinchilla presented the findings from her global study, which was conducted in 23 countries. The study explored policies in the workplace that promote familyresponsible environments and measure employee satisfaction for both men and women. While many blame corporate culture for the growing conflict between work and family, Prof. Chinchilla suggested that change must not occur at an individual level before it can be adopted by the corporate world. Weisberg discussed her work, both with Deloitte and BlackRock, on increasing "choice transparency" in organizations.

Global Women’s Advisory Council

Prof. Nuria Chinchilla and Begoña de Ros led IESE’s second annual Global Women’s Advisory Council meeting on November 14, 2011. Representatives from the following organizations attended: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, BlackRock, Bloomberg, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, HSBC, MasterCard WorldWide, NYCEDC, Partnership for New York City and UBS. The Council will support a series of two panel and networking sessions each year and a one-day biannual conference. The next panel session is slated to be held in the spring of 2012.

Looking Forward

Upcoming Events in 2012

JANUARY

Advanced Management Program in Media and Entertainment

This highly successful program kicks off in January, with the first module covering such timely topics as the global economic environment, the media economic context, finance and accounting.


Module 1: Getting the Big Picture: Context and Cash
January 30-February 4, 2012, New York City

Module 2: Achieving Competitive Advantage in a Digital Age
March 12-17, 2012, New York City

Module 3: Creating Value and Managing Creativity
May 7-12, 2012, Los Angeles

Module 4: Preparing for What Lies Ahead
June 11-16, 2012, New York City

For more information, please visit: www.iese.edu/media-amp

Senior Executive Program (SEP) New York-Miami

The third of four modules will take place in January for senior-level executives seeking to advance their professional competencies and step into higher-level organizational roles.


Module 3: People and Organizations
January 23-27, 2012, Miami

Module 4: Leadership in a Global Context
March 26-30, 2012, New York City

For more information, please visit:
www.iese.edu/sep

FEBRUARY

Alumni Continuous Education Session: SenseMaking for ChangeMaking

Joaquim Vilà, professor in the Department of Strategic Management and Academic Director of IESE’s Short Focused Program for executives on management of innovation, will be visiting the New York Center to present this session along with Elizabeth Pastor, Cofounder of Humantific.


Program Details:
February 2, 2012, New York City

For more information, please visit:
www.iese.edu/alumni

MARCH

Global CEO Program

In a new partnership with Wharton and CEIBS, the Global CEO Program comprises three six-day modules. The first module kicked off on November 6-11, 2011 in São Paulo.


Module 2
March 18-23, 2012, Philadelphia

Module 3
June 3-8, 2012, Shanghai

For more information, please visit:
www.iese.edu/GlobalCEOProgram

APRIL

Arts and Cultural Management: From Service Design to Success

IESE is launching a new program aimed at senior executives from nonprofit arts and cultural organizations from around the globe. The program seeks to strike a balance between financial and cultural objectives using strategies for service design to help marketing, operations, talent management and finance.


Program Details:
April 24-26, 2012, New York City

For more information, please visit:
www.iese.edu/acm

MAY

The Innovation Architect: Leadership of Sustained and Breakthrough Innovation

This program will change the way participants think about innovation and creativity in their organizations. During the highly intensive three-day program, participants will learn how to progress from having isolated initiatives to forging a powerful culture of continuous innovation that balances both sustained and breakthrough innovation.


Program Details:
May 30-31, 2012, New York City

For more information, please visit:
www.iese.edu/iany

JUNE

Advanced Digital Media Strategies: Profiting From the Digital Value Chain

This program will bring together world-class faculty members, as well as media and entertainment experts, to explain how some companies have prospered by embracing innovative digital strategies while others have failed to implement and revolutionize the way they do business.


Program Details:
June 5-7, 2012, New York City
November 13-15, 2012, New York City

For more information, please visit:
www.iese.edu/ADMS

JULY

Revolutionize Your Business with Social Media and Collaboration

The IESE New York Center is proud to announce the launch of this new program, which will enable participants to understand and take advantage of the different approaches to social technologies that can strengthen business initiatives, boost productivity, increase customer loyalty and improve knowledge transfer.


Program Details:
July 10-12, 2012, New York City

For more information, please visit:
www.iese.edu/socialmedia


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