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June 26, 2008
Waya Quiviger, Director of Special Projects, Social Impact Management
IE Business School is pleased to announce a new collaborative agreement with the Women’s Forum, an organization based in Paris, France that promotes women's vision on the economic and social issues that matter most and that are at the heart of the most compelling concerns of our times. Rated by the Financial Times in 2007 as one of the world's top five international most influential forums, the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society has become in only three years an international must-attend event.
At its third edition last October, the Women’s Forum Global Meeting organized in Deauville (France) reached a new dimension. It welcomed nearly 1,200 leaders and opinion trendsetters from all walks of life – the economy, politics, culture or academia. Participants represented over 70 countries; there were 150 speakers of international renown and a programme containing over 60 lectures, debates and workshops.
In an attempt to integrate the future generation of leaders, the Women's Forum invites every year an International Student Delegation to attend its flagship Global Meeting in Deauville. The International Student Team aims at opening the Women’s Forum to a selected number of students to create links between the 1,200 women leaders and the future generation of businessmen and women. It is a unique opportunity for young students to attend and contribute to an exclusive event. It is the chance for those students to meet influential leaders and conduct research with a team of international students from high-ranking universities. The Women's Forum will welcome two female MBA students from IE Business School in Deauville from October 16th to 18th. They will be part of a group of 20 students from all over the world that have been specially selected because of their outstanding profiles and keen interest in promoting women's issues. IE Business School is delighted to participate in this special initiative.
May 09, 2008
Yanire Braña, Directora Programa MET
Publicado en MateriaBiz.
Competencia por el talento y el poder de la marca son condicionantes fundamentales del ambiente de negocios actual. En este marco, la gestión de la diversidad es un componente esencial de la innovación para crear y mantener ventajas competitivas.
En estos tiempos globalizados de mercados cambiantes, la innovación es la única vía para mantener o crear una ventaja competitiva sostenible en el tiempo. Pero las empresas más innovadoras saben que innovar no se reduce únicamente a crear o modificar productos o servicios.
En ocasiones, lo importante es la creación de una infraestructura de personas y procesos para responder a las necesidades actuales o futuras. Muchos de estos procesos son formales, explícitamente definidos y documentados. Otros, no menos importantes, son informales y toman la forma de rutinas o modos de trabajo que evolucionan con el tiempo. Ahora bien, la necesidad de crecer y rentabilizar el negocio hace que muchas empresas centren su mirada en la innovación relacionada con sus competidores y clientes.
Continue reading 'Innoversity: de la diversidad intangible a la innovación empresarial'
February 12, 2008
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
On February 21st we will have at IE Business School a conversation which brings together a Sustainable Perspective.
Arthur Dahl, Coordinator of the UNEP/University of Geneva Programme of Advanced Studies in Environmental Diplomacy will talk in regards to "The limits and potentials of planetary sustainability”, using an environmental systems perspective to set the context within which business must evolve in the decades ahead.
Augusto Lopez Claros, Former Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum will base his contribution on “Why good policies matter” The meaning of sustainability from a global economic perspective.
The session will be moderated by Daniel Truran, Secretary General of EBBF.
It will take place February 21st, at 18.00-20.00 at Serrano 105, IE Business School.
To reserve your seat send an email to SIM@ie.edu
January 18, 2008
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
Check the economist of this week. A special report on CSR is included which has certainly evolved from that presented a couple of years ago and which clearly contributed to strengthen the conversation.
As one of the articles says, “Three years ago a special report in The Economist acknowledged, with regret, that the CSR movement had won the battle of ideas. In the survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit for this report, only 4% of respondents thought that CSR was “a waste of time and money”. Clearly CSR has arrived”.
The Economist now brings thoughts and insight into how once CSR was a do-gooding sideshow, and how it is now seen as mainstream. From ethics to consumers, going green and global, and most importantly how managers are trying to get it right and align it with their companies’ strategy and gain a competitive advantage. As they put it, CSR is just good business.
October 17, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
La Conferencia Anual de Antiguos Alumnos se ha convertido en el acto más significativo para los antiguos alumnos de IE Business School. En su pasada edición reunimos a 1500 alumnos.
Este año hemos elegido como tema “Desafíos de un planeta en cambio” y bajo este título hablaremos de 3 de los grandes desafíos del siglo XXI: Los recursos naturales, la globalización demográfica y nuevos mercados/nuevas culturas.
Esperamos que las opiniones de todos los ponentes que participan hagan que este día sea apasionante. Para hablar de este tema hemos invitado a destacados representantes del mundo de la empresa y la academia. Entre ellos: Asit Biswas, Presidente del Centro del Tercer Mundo para la Gestión del Agua, Hania Zlotnik, Directora de Población de Naciones Unidas y Michel Camdesus, Ex Presidente del Fondo Monetario Internacional.
Además en esta conferencia participan ponentes como Antonio Llardén, Presidente de ENAGAS, Vicente Tardío, Presidente de Allianz Seguros, Eva Castillo, Managing Director and Head of Global Private Clients de Merrill Lynch y Andy Reinhardt, Editor Jefe de BusinessWeek on line para Europa, entre otros.
También contaremos con expertos en cambio climático, Juan Negrillo, representante de Al Gore en España y Ignacio Pérez Arriaga, presidente de la Cátedra BP de Desarrollo Sostenible, Académico de la Real Academia Española de Ingeniería y miembro del Grupo expertos para el informe de “España ante el cambio climático” para la Conferencia de Presidentes 2008, entre otros.
En nuestra Conferencia, como ves queremos abarcar muchos temas de trascendencia no solo económica y social sino también conocer las implicaciones que ellos tienen para nosotros y nuestras empresas, por ello no solo participan pensadores y académicos, sino representantes de empresas que hacen de estos desafíos su ventaja competitiva.
Si quieres más información contáctanos.
October 11, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
Madrid, October 10, 2007. IE Business School is No.10 in the world and No. 1 in Europe in the biennial MBA ranking published by The Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education. The Aspen Institute ranking, known as “Beyond Grey Pinstripes”, is considered the most prestigious of its kind and evaluates how social and environmental issues are integrated into the MBA programs of 100 top international business schools.
“In the Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey, success is measured not by how much new MBA graduates earn or how many offers they get,” said Judith Samuelson, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, “but by how well prepared they are to guide a company through the complex relationship of business and society, where issues relating to the environment or the well-being of a community can impact a company’s performance and reputation.”
The ranking’s authors highlight the fact that IE Business School offers an extraordinary number of courses with relevant social or environmental content in comparison with other schools. IE Business School’s longstanding commitment to society permeates every one of its initiatives, to the extent that IE now has a dedicated social impact management department that plays a pivotal role in the school’s day-to-day activities.
“At IE we are acutely aware of the need to generate knowledge about responsible leadership. This concern translates into initiatives like our seminars on ethics, the IE Alumni Chair in Corporate Ethics and IE research centres dedicated to eco-intelligent management, diversity and corporate responsibility,” says Joaquín Garralda, Vice Dean of IE Business School and Director of the PwC-IE Centre for Corporate Responsibility. “We know how important it is to have an integral vision of how business decisions impact the environment.”
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August 31, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
We’re back from the summer break and eager to continue the conversation on corporate responsibility and sustainability. As last year, I include a list of events and topics which took place in the month of August:
The winner’s of the “Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care” have been announced.
5 new Ashoka fellow’s in Mexico
Echoing Green has announced their 2007 Fellows
Cemex is considered as one of the leaders in BoP space both through Construmex and Patrimonio Hoy
Harvard Business Review’s article on the dangers of Microcredit
GE Money and their Earth Rewards credit card
The 2007 Global Development Awards and Medals Competition is now open
$100 laptop production launched
Take a look at people who live in Manhattan and yet receive agricultural subsidies from the US federal government
Interesting initiative of “Executives Without Borders” shared by Pablo Halkyard
Snapshot at Global Migration
Upcoming Social Venture Conferences
Social Enterprise Competitions
July 04, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
Hans Rosling's first GapCast is here. Professor Rosling shows how economic growth, public health and sexual rights have changed in Sweden during 300 years. How has life expectancy and GDP per capita of Sweden evolved from 1709 to 2004? He further explains how to use gapminder world in order to make statistics work for development. This is just the first on the series which promises to be a fantastic way to bring development into a visual and entertaining arena, thus further enriching the conversation and our understanding into how to make the “seemingly impossible, possible”.
If you haven't seen him yet, invest 6 minutes of your time and I bet you won't regret it. If you watch this and are asking for more, how about sword swallowing at TED? O see our post on Hans Rosling on Africa and its growth.
Want to play with World statistics? Google found Gapminder fascinating and decided to be part of it.
And finally, a very recent achievement on the statistics arena led by Hans Rosling has been that of attaining access to all UN Statistical Division's data for free from May 1 this year. You can read this and other news at Gapminder.
June 22, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
On June 7th, Bill Gates addressed Harvard students with an eloquent and well prepared speech on their graduation ceremony. But it was not just another speech. Referencing Marshall’s speech 60 years ago when talking about the great challenges they faced in implementing the Marshall Plan, this was intended to be a speech with just the same impact.
I truly encourage you to watch the video or read the transcript . It’s not sophisticated but rather simple and down to earth. But it is simple ideas which address complex issues those that work best. From developing a more creative capitalism which helps better address the world's inequities, to committing ourselves and our best minds to dedicating our time and effort to solving our biggest problems, I include some excerpts of the speech, hoping they will motivate you to see/read it all.
“…I had just come from an event where we were introducing version 13 of some piece of software, and we had people jumping and shouting with excitement. I love getting people excited about software—but why can’t we generate even more excitement for saving lives?
You can’t get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the impact.
…To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
The defining and ongoing innovations of this age—biotechnology, the computer, the Internet—give us a chance we’ve never had before to end extreme poverty and end death from preventable disease.
You know more about the world’s inequities than the classes that came before. In your years here, I hope you’ve had a chance to think about how—in this age of accelerating technology—we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.
We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism—if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. We also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world.
Let me make a request of the deans and the professors—the intellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please ask yourselves:
Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?
Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world’s worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty… the prevalence of world hunger… the scarcity of clean water …the girls kept out of school… the children who die from diseases we can cure?
Should the world’s most privileged people learn about the lives of the world’s least privileged?"
May 28, 2007
Max Oliva, Director Asociado, Social Impact Management
El talento y la responsabilidad corporativa ha sido el tema de la V Tribuna de PwC & IE, la cual ha tenido lugar el día de hoy (28 de Mayo) y en la cual han participado como invitados:
• Carlos Viladrich; Director Recursos Humanos ADECCO España; Adecco Human Capital Solutions Director
• Fernando Muñoz Berzosa, Subdirector General de Gestión de RR.HH BANESTO
• Miguel García Mosquera; Director de Compensación, Selección y Formación INDITEX
• Coral González; Directora de Recursos Humanos. SANITAS
• Alberto Durán; Presidente de la Fundación ONCE
• Mario Lara; Socio Responsable de Human Capital PwC
Y como Moderadores:
• Profesor Joaquín Garralda; Director del Centro PwC – IE de Responsabilidad Corporativa
• D. Enrique Fernández Miranda; Director de la Fundación PwC
Algunas de las intervenciones se resumen en las siguientes líneas, mismas que serán publicadas en Expansión en breve.
La retención tiene que ser con compromiso para que sea productivo. Lo que buscamos es no solo un compromiso racional, sino emocional que muchas veces es la clave en la retención de las personas.
Coral González de Sanitas, mencionó que la Responsabilidad Corporativa es una ventaja competitiva a la hora de atraer talento. El tener la capacidad de atraer y retener talento en mercados tan competidos como Madrid y Barcelona es vital. El primer paso está relacionado con la imagen de la compañía; posteriormente, los elementos de conciliación juegan un papel muy a favor.
Para incrementar la retención, contamos con programas de voluntarios y de diversidad, mismos que hacen que el empleado descubra que su empresa tiene un compromiso que va más allá de generar beneficios.
Miguel García de Inditex por su parte comentó: “en nuestro caso, atraemos al talento por el orgullo de pertenecer a una empresa multinacional española. El grado de reconocimiento de Inditex fuera de España es apabullante. Es aquí que el talento con alto potencial pone atención en nuestra responsabilidad corporativa, prestando por ejemplo, especial atención a como tratamos a nuestros proveedores y usando ésta como razón fundamental para ir a nuestras convocatorias, y no por nuestros resultados financieros, beneficios, o nuestras más de 3,000 tiendas en el mundo.”
Continue reading 'Talento y Responsabilidad Corporativa'
May 03, 2007
Max Oliva, Director Asociado, Social Impact Management
Dirigido por Joaquín Garralda, Director del Centro PwC & IE en Responsabilidad Corporativa y organizado por la Fundación Santander, el foro de economía y sostenibilidad tendrá lugar en el Instituto de Empresa entre los días 7 y 8 de mayo, comprendiendo conferencias y debates de varios expertos en la sostenibilidad de las empresas.
Qué facetas y retos tiene el proceso de alcanzar el reconocimiento de ser un líder responsable? Con la pretensión de aportar criterios fundamentales para este nuevo paradigma y, al tiempo, exponer ejemplos prácticos de cómo las empresas ayudan – y se benefician – en este proceso. Durante dos sesiones en días consecutivos, destacados expertos, tanto en el mundo académico como empresarial, expondrán sus opiniones y experiencias sobre los factores dinámicos del contexto en el que se desarrolla la condición de líder responsable.
El primer día hará énfasis en aspectos conceptuales, destacándose la visión económica y de la comunicación, piezas claves del proceso. En el segundo día las intervenciones se centrarán sobre experiencias de las empresas desde distintas perspectivas, partiendo de la visión de una red supranacional de empresas preocupadas por la sostenibilidad, ejemplos de empresas grandes que aportan experiencias relevantes en la atracción y retención del talento, así como ejemplos de PYME, en las que los valores del empresario y la motivación emprendedora por proyectos sociales son la base de su comportamiento.
La gestión de los intangibles, y en especial la reputación, es una de las preocupaciones prioritarias de los gestores empresariales. Lograr las ventajas esperadas, no sólo depende de la racionalidad del motivo y de la eficacia de comunicarlo, sino que se debe tener en cuenta a las personas – en su multiplicidad de papeles – para dar coherencia y consistencia a las medidas de reputación.
Programa
Lugar: Instituto de Empresa (Aula Magna), María de Molina 11, 28006 Madrid.
Fecha: 7 y 8 de Mayo
Información y Reserva: ancir.salazar@ie.edu
March 27, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
The Skoll World Forum is taking place today and until this Thursday. I have surfed through the Social Edge website all morning and sadly have not had access to the conferences live, as it was possible last year. Perhaps they will be uploaded later on. In the mean time, there are a couple of blogs available, which are covering the event from their own perspective. Some of the speakers are:
• Jeff Skoll, founder and Chairman, Skoll Foundation and Participant Productions
• Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Grameen Bank founder and microfinance pioneer
• Peter Gabriel, musician, activist, cofounder and Chair of WITNESS
• Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org, founder and former Director of the Seva Foundation
• Bill Drayton, CEO and Chair, Ashoka
• Jeroo Billimoria, founder, Aflatoun / Child Savings International, who was this past November at the Social Responsibility Day at IE
Free the Children - 2007 Skoll Awardee
The 2007 Skoll Awardees will be presented at this event and include among others, Free The Children, NGO which recognizes the potential of young people to create positive social change. It works with schools throughout North America to educate and empower youths to act locally and globally as agents of change for their peers around the world. More than 500,000 students have joined the organization’s Youth in Action groups in 1,000 schools across the U.S. and Canada. They have shipped $11 million in essential medical supplies and have provided health care projects benefiting more than 505,000 people.
My deepest congratulations to Craig and Marc Kielburger, with whom i had the opportunity to work with back in 1999, at the State of the World Forum.
Have a look at the 2007 Skoll Awardees.
March 09, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
If there where any place where I would like to be today instead of “not yet so sunny Madrid”, it would either be at a paradisiacal beach in the Mayan Riviera or, last but not least, at the TED 2007 conference in Monterey.
Jeff Skoll, Bill Clinton, News photographer James Nachtwey, Biologist E.O. Wilson, Tracy Chapman, Richard Branson, Hans Rosling and many others are taking part in these conversations.
Several bloggers are following the event and you can also visit Teds Blog to get a glimpse of the conversations that are taking place as we speak. These will be uploaded on their site at Ted Talks, space of which we have previously spoken on this blog. You can still see some remarkable speakers there and be patient for the upload of this year's conferences.
March 07, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
How about a real space that fosters social innovation? A space where social entrepreneurship can be breathed on every corner. This has been The Hub in London experience. Their core product is flexible membership of inspirational and highly resourced habitats in the world’s major cities for social innovators to work, meet, learn, connect and realise progressive ideas. It is now present in London, Bristol, Johannesburg, Sao Paulo and Cairo. But the conversation is ongoing and advanced in the Netherlands, Mumbai, Berlin, Belgium, Halifax, Mexico and has several synergies with the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto, which is a “convergence facility” for the social mission community, The Melting Pot in Edinburgh and others.
The market need is expressed by social innovators whose ability to thrive requires access to highly resourced, flexible and safe spaces within which to scale up, change gear, take risks and make mistakes. Over time, social innovators need access to a range of just-in-time resources and market-facing opportunities to thrive: knowledge, capital and networks. The Hub provides channels to such resources and opportunities, without crushing the innovators initial spark and ingenuity.
We are engaging on a couple of action led conversations, one of which includes the openning of a hub like space in Madrid. If you want to be part of this conversation contact me.
February 23, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
You've got things to do. People to meet. Ideas to realise. Events to host. A business to run. So what's the deal? You need the flexibility to scale up, wind down, change gear, move on. You need a space you can call your own. You need a safe space, professional space, dynamic space. That is, A Space for Social Innovation.
Next week I'll be at The Hub in London and Briston, attending "The Art of Hosting Spaces for Social Innovation". What? An international seminar and inquiry exploring the art of crafting and hosting spaces that incubate imaginative initiatives for a radically better world. Why? A new model and pattern is emerging in physical and virtual spaces that support pioneering social initiatives. These habitats create the conditions for collaboration, serendipity and emergence such that value is created far in excess of the sum of their parts.
The objective is to build a network of inspirational habitats in major world cities for social innovators to work, meet, learn, connect and realise progressive ideas. The Hub is a place for making things happen. All the tools and trimmings needed to cultivate an idea, launch a project, host a meeting and run a business.
Over time, social innovators need access to a range of just-in-time resources and market-facing opportunities to thrive: knowledge, capital and networks. The Hub provides channels to such resources and opportunities, without crushing the innovators initial spark and ingenuity.
Well, these and many other conversations will take place next week. Hope to be able to post on a daly basis, in order to start the conversation of The Hub Madrid. Up to now The Hub in Madrid is what I have in mind as providing this social innovation stretch, a space where MBA alumni and others can start their social enterprises, meet, interact and learn from practitioners in the community and abroad. At the same time, these practitioners certainly will be enriched by the business perspective of value creation that IE MBAs can offer. Bluntly speaking, it is a great model which makes perfect sense on my mind. I’m certain that my perception will still change 180 or 360 degrees next week, hopefully bringing it closer to the right direction.
January 31, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
Davos is over, some thoughts remain and most importantly, a call to action. I briefly go into some of the problems in the Davos’ agenda shared by Tony Blair:
• World Trade
• Climate Change
• Africa
Businesses must engage in these conversations not only for a moral cause but for a strategic interest, which goes way beyond corporate responsibility.
"Once we work out what is at stake, we need a multilaterism which translates the will into action, since it requires sustaining the global purpose, requiring global instruments of effective multilateral action."
Several thoughts on interdependency and intervention capabilities within existing institutions and perhaps new ones were addressed. As an example, a UN without Germany, Japan, Brazil and India as permanent members will not only loose legitimacy but it will also inhibit action; the need of giving greater power to the UN Secretary General; merging the IMF and the World Bank; the G8 metamorphosis to the G8+5, to name a few.
But most interestingly, the Concept of Nation-Building (that is, the capacity for effective self government within a country) as it still being in its infancy was brought to the table. It is when seeing issues like corruption play such a pivotal role in the Africa conversation for example, that nation-building is core in order to bring change about.
Proper infrastructure of governments; functioning commercial and legal systems; health and education ministries; economic authorities; and police and military which perform the tasks they should under proper rules of governance, which are a given in many developed countries, are still a must in other countries. These are the life blood of true progress for nations struggling to be nations.
These, acording to Blair, are the new skills the international community must develop. To some like The Guardian or the Herald Tribune, it seemed as though he was looking for a job. But what’s wrong with politicians like Blair, Clinton or Gore focusing on the global agenda?
January 25, 2007
Want an insiders view of Davos? Visit Loic Lemeurs' blog. Interviews to participants like Mel Young, from Homeless Football World Cup, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, photographer and environment Activist and many others...
Much better, read Loic and many others at the official forumblog.
Other blogs include:
The Davos' conversation.
The FT in Davos Blog.
The WSJ in Davos.
How's your french? Try Le Monde.
The BBC in Davos.
January 24, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
Don't miss the chance that technology has brought in enabling you to follow conversations which make a difference. How about sharing the table and most importantly, the conversation on The Shifting Power Equation with E. Neville Isdell, Angela Merkel, Sunil Bharti Mittal, and Eric Schmidt...
Here are some conversations which might also interest you:
Climate Change: A Call to Action with Montek S. Ahluwalia, John McCain, Zhang Xiaoqiang, and Martin Wolf
Billions in Development Aid: What Are the Results? with William Easterly, Jakaya M. Kikwete and Maria Ramos
Sustainable Energy Consumption: Does Anyone Care? with Fatih Birol, Emanuel Höhener, C. S. Kiang and Christine Maier
A Business Manifesto for Globalization with Lord Browne of Madingley, Patrick Cescau, Ian E. L. Davis, James Dimon, Carlos Ghosn, James J. Schiro and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Scaling Innovation in Foreign Aid with William Easterly, William H. Gates III, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Paul D. Wolfowitz and Fareed Zakaria
A Conversation with the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón-Hinojosa (this is of personal nature, forgive my partiality on internal affairs...)
Delivering on the Promise of Africa with Tony Blair, Bono, William H. Gates III, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Thabo Mbeki, Kumi Naidoo and Sadako Ogata
Frozen Trade Talks and the Need for Progress with Pascal Lamy, Doris Leuthard, Peter Mandelson, and Susan Schwab
Don't miss the opportunity. I have as many of you a quite busy agenda. Despite of this, I would have gone to Davos if invited, perhaps next year... but for this year, missing these conversations which help build speakers and attendants’ accountability certainly has a stake at setting this years global agenda.
Join the conversations here.
January 19, 2007
Celia de Anca, Director of the Centre for Diversity in Global Management
On January 10th, at IE Business School in Madrid, ONA Foundation, Morocco and the IE Foundation, Madrid organized the second meeting of the ‘Cross-cultural Think Tank on Corporate Diversity ’ in a Spanish- Moroccan context.
The Cross-Cultural Think Tank on Corporate Diversity is a process designed to develop and implement innovative ideas for the analysis and understanding of corporate diversity, with a practical focus on the Hispano-Moroccan business context.
Hosted by Mr. Rafael Puyol Vice President of the IE Foundation and Mr. Rachid Slimi, President of the ONA Foundation, the think tank aims to adopt an integrating approach by bringing together a small group of key players from diverse cultural, geographic and professional backgrounds who can contribute to making a significant difference to the environments in which they operate.
The think tank held last week in Madrid featured personalities from different academic disciplines including philosophy (Prof. Ali Benmakhllouf, Université de Nie Sophia-Antipolis, France); Antropology (Prof. Robert Rydell, Montana State University USA); Marketing (Prof. Bill Carney, IE Business School, Madrid); Intl Economics (Prof. Jose Collado, UNED, Spain); and finance (Prof. Eduardo Oliveira, IE Business School). The business world was also represented by Ms. Carmen Rodriguez, President, Expansion Exterior, Spain; Ms. Boutheyna Iraqi, President, AFEM (Association des femmes chefs d’entreprises du Maroc); Mr Bassim Jai Hokimi, President, Atlamed; and member of the board of directors of ONA /SNI Group Morocco. Important figures from the Media also lent their views to the discussion, including Ms. Nadia Salah, Editor in Chef, L’Economist Morocco, and Ms. Angeles Espinosa Middle East editor, EL País, Spain. Representatives of international institutions also contributed with their expertise in the field, including HIRH Archiduke George von Habsboug, Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Hungary and member of the International Advisory board of IE Business School, and Mr. Ramon Enciso, Coordinator of the Hispano-Moroccan Comité Averroes.
Continue reading 'Cultural Diversity at work'
January 09, 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management
Time's Person of the Year is YOU. The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. And we didn't just watch, we also worked. Its also time to take part on conversations that matter and to engage in actions that make a difference.
The World Economic Forum, which will take place January 24-28th, will use new web applications which will extend the discussions at the Annual Meeting 2007 to a much wider audience. The debates and discussions at Davos will be open to the general public via traditional broadcast channels, but also via webcasts, podcasts and for the first time, vodcasts.
The Forum will webcast over 50 of the 220 sessions. 31 of the sessions will be webcast live and a further 20 will be available for download once the session is over. All webcasts will be available also as pod- and vodcasts for download from Google video. All webcasts and vodcasts can be accessed here.
If you can physically join the event don’t miss the chance. If you were not invited, do join the conversations, it will definitely be worth your while.
…Still’s never been a time when both private citizens and public officials had the potential to shape a world of peace and prosperity. Could we screw it up if we let AIDS eat us alive? Yes. Could we go back to an ice age if we don’t do something about global warming? Absolutely.
…we’re building something we never had to build before so, don’t be discouraged and don’t use your political disappointments as an excuse to avoid personal commitment. Bill Clinton
Need to capture the essence of the annual meeting?
Plan your schedule in accordance to the Programme.
Join the Davos Conversation.