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02 Marzo 2017

EQUIS Accreditation System Celebrates its 20th Anniversary

This year marks the 20th anniversary of EQUIS - EFMD Quality Improvement System, launched two decades ago at the Deans and Directors General Conference at Schloss Gracht, now part of the ESMT Berlin. This international quality benchmark and improvement process was created to give European and, subsequently, business schools worldwide, a rigorous tool to assess, certify and improve their quality in 10 key areas, including governance, programmes, students, faculty, research and, foremost, internationalisation, ethics, responsibility and sustainability as well as corporate engagement. Since its establishment, a strong emphasis on internationalisation and corporate connections have been the differentiating points of the EQUIS business school accreditation system. Coupled with recently added ethics, responsibility and sustainability standards, they have created a solid framework for quality measurement for international business schools. In 2015, LUISS Business School entered the élite of education having achieved this prestigious international certification, which acknowledges a limited number of Business Schools representing the 1% of managerial education. “EQUIS is a way of celebrating excellence in diversity and I’m delighted to see how the EQUIS system and the accredited schools have evolved in these 20 years. There is no one harmonised definition of quality but there is an excellence benchmark and a striving for perfection in the continuous improvement process,” adds Eric Cornuel, EFMD’s Director General and CEO. In its short history, EQUIS accreditation has become widely recognised by potential students, employers, the wider business education industry and the media as the most holistic and rigorous accreditation process, often being a pre-requisite for entry to rankings. With an estimated number of 15,000 business schools worldwide, only a handful (167 institutions from 41 countries) hold the EQUIS quality label, LUISS Business School is honored to be part of 1% of leading business schools. To commemorate this landmark achievement, EFMD plans to celebrate the success of EQUIS over the course of 2017 at EFMD events across the international community. More than 10 deans and experts who have contributed to the development of the EQUIS accreditation system have given their voices to the value and role EQUIS has played in enhancing the quality of management education worldwide as well as the future development of the management education industry. Here is the video: Source: https://www.efmd.org/blog/view/1334-equis-accreditation-system-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary 02/02/2017

24 Febbraio 2017

An ERS Lab to discuss several issues related to social entrepreneurship

On Saturday, February 25, LUISS MBA students will have the chance to participate in the ERS Lab with Dr. Funda Sezgi, Managing Director of Impact Hub Stockholm and Oriol Costa Lechuga, Managing Director of EcoRegió. This ERS Lab focuses on international replication of the Regionalwert AG (RWAG), a German social enterprise, in the Girona region of Catalonia (Spain) under the brand name EcoRegió.  RWAG is a highly successful network organization that brings together diverse sets of actors along a value-added chain (‘from the field to the plate’) of regional sustainable agriculture and food production initiatives. After implementing several replication initiatives in Germany, both Ashoka and the Catalan government identified the RWAG as one of the most promising models to be replicated in Catalonia.  In the summer of 2015, Oriol Costa Lechuga and his social venture Dynamis initiated RWAG replication efforts in Catalonia. Catalonia, like the rest of Spain, had just resumed economic growth after experiencing nearly seven years of economic contraction that resulted in unemployment and poverty rates in excess of 20% and in increasing political instability reflected in rising nationalist and pro-independence sentiment.  In spite of significant efforts made to promote EcoRegió, funds did not flow in as fast as Costa had hoped. The Lab will serve as an opportunity to discuss several issues related to social entrepreneurship (e.g., the scaling up of the social business, the internationalization of sustainable local enterprise networks, the impact of macro-economic and sociocultural contexts on internationalization processes, and social franchising as a specific mode of entry). In addition to introducing their organizations (Dynamis/EcoRegió and Impact Hub), both guests will actively participate in student group work. The Lab will use Proactive Café - a methodology for creative and inspirational conversation where participants are invited to share their questions (around projects, seed ideas etc.) and get input (deeper questions, knowledge, experience) from others, to help move from questions to actions. These conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross‐pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work or community. Topics are brought forward by participants themselves. There is no set agenda, only overall guiding questions, with the intention of deepening the learning process of all participants. The methodology can evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of any group, thus increasing people’s capacity for effective action in pursuit of common aims. Funda Sezgi, PhD Impact Hub Stockholm Funda is an Incubation Program Manager at Impact Hub Stockholm (IHS). IHS is a part of a global network of more than 80 organizations that unites people from every profession, background and culture with imagination and drive to pursue enterprising ideas for the world, the people who see and do things differently and have entrepreneurial passion to create sustainable impact. Funda holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the IESE Business School in Barcelona where under the supervision of prof. Johanna Mair she studied hybrid organizations, specifically issues of scaling and replication of these organizations. Funda’s professional and educational background, together with her expertise in replication and scaling of social businesses in Europe and wider make her an ideal participant in this ERS Lab. During the lab, Funda will introduce student to the work of Impact Hub around the globe and in Sweden, will talk about what it means to run an Impact Hub as a de facto entrepreneur, will introduce Proactive Café methodology of group work and several tools useful in analysis of replication and scaling problems of social businesses. Oriol Costa Lechuga, LL.B. Dynamis / EcoRegió Oriol has more than 15 years of experience in promoting strategies for sustainable development working as an expert in environmental, social and local economic development, recently focusing on linking sustainability and new technologies. As a part of his work, he developed an associative biography to promote self-awareness for social development, and boost the associative economy to increase economic, social and ecological awareness. Oriol is a co-founder and managing director of Dynamis, one of the most prominent social enterprises in the region of Girona in Catalonia, a hot spot of rapidly expanding social entrepreneurship sectors in Spain. The mission of Dynamis is to transform ideals into sustainable realities using modern technologies in promoting local and ecological commerce and through the elimination of unnecessary intermediaries. Their main activities focus on: (i) promoting direct local and ecological product commercialization through an easy-to-use, modern, and efficient online platform; (ii) improving the utilization of existing resources and the facilitation of synergies through the creation of networks of interdependent consumers and producers; and (iii) creating applications that favor dynamics of commerce, promotion, encounter, planning and reflection that generate new ways of acting and, in consequence, a more sustainable society. Oriol latest initiative is EcoRegió, an initiative whose mission is to capitalize on the economic value of a region and to produce for multidimensional social, environmental and economic benefits. Gathering capital from investors to invest in companies producing and distributing organic food, EcoRegió works toward the optimization of value added throughout the value chain – from the field to the plate. EcoRegió is a replication of The Regionalwert AG in Freiburg, Germany where the initiative has gathered more than € 3m among 600 citizen investors investing in 20 companies with excellent results recognized by Ashoka International, Ship2B, and the Generalitat de Catalunya.   24/02/2017

24 Febbraio 2017

#MasterYourCareer - Continuous new stimulus and challenging international activities changed the way of conceiving my career: Carlo after the Master in Corporate Finance

 «Ambition, curiosity and need to challenge myself once again are the main reasons why I chose to enroll in the Master in Corporate Finance at the LUISS Business School»: the career of Carlo Venticinque after the MACOFIN I graduated in Management Engineering and joined afterwards the Management Consulting company EY, where I worked for more than 2 years on different projects dealing with different areas from Operations Optimization to Business Development. Even though I was acquiring a good level of experience during these two years, I just felt I was missing something. Moreover, I have always been fascinated by the Corporate Finance world and its marvelous applications into the real life and in each business area: Finance is concrete and you need to know at least some if you aspire to become a good Manager. The Master in Corporate Finance at the LUISS Business School offered me the most complete and diversified path. It concerns different areas in which a manager should excel, not only the usual hard skills. We explored different aspects of finance from different points of view, while interacting with successful managers who shared with us their experience focusing on the skills the job market requires today. Not less, it gave me the opportunity to find smart colleagues who challenged me several times and pushed me to do better. The work environment is made of human connections and what really matters is the way we interact each other, how we communicate with people and especially how we inspire them. The most effective Communication and Public speaking lessons I have ever attended are actually the ones provided by the MACOFIN. The Global Business Opportunity Programme, an intensive educational path to develop an idea into s business project, and the Going Global Programme, a four month exchange at EM Lyon Business School, changed completely my way of conceiving my career and probably my life in general. These experiences enriched me with the smartness of the people that I met and helped me to realize that working abroad was what I was looking for. While I was looking for jobs in exchange, I discovered Flixbus, a company that is not widely famous yet but with an extremely interesting business model that is surprisingly expanding. I applied for a vacancy and then I joined the Business Development team for the Italian market. This working position is completely different from what I have done so far. The activities I deal with are not directly connected to the scope of the MACOFIN but I strongly believe the knowledge acquired will be useful in my future path. I would suggest to the incoming students to leverage every single opportunity of interaction with the managers to get some good insights on how they climbed the ladder career and what is really important to succeed in the workplace. I would suggest them to look continuously for new stimulus, following their own interests, and gather the maximum by all the international activities provided by the master to have great life experiences and build their network.   24/02/2017

23 Febbraio 2017

“Doing an MBA was the most go ahead decision by now of my life, the step forward to elevate my career path”: the success of Roberta, MBA Alumna and Brand Finance Manager in Coty

MBA 2013 The opportunity to attend an MBA program represented the step forward to elevate and further develop my career path. After a Master graduation in Economics in Naples, I decided to bet on myself at the age of 23, attending the MBA program at LUISS Business school in Rome. Before projecting myself into the world of work, I needed to reinforce my personality and in particular my interpersonal relationships being part of an international network and then to steady my theoretical university knowledge with practical case studies, group projects and real business studies. I did it in autonomously and this gave me the right motivation to afford the amount of study load with time constraints and no previous group project, case study skills. This experience helped me first of all in managing time, deadlines, in setting priorities and solving problems; then in building my ability to create interpersonal skills, increasing my curiosity of learning different cultural and social perspectives and to start to collaborate and work within an international team. The MBA Adventure was the first opportunity to express what I learnt during MBA program. I chose a social network start up, with the aim of providing an accurate and feasible Business Plan focused on short term and medium term monetization strategies to create financial value. Thanks to this, I understood that a finance job could suit me. To begin with, I had one year of internship for one of ICT world leader provider, Ericsson Telecommunication as Price Manager where I had the possibility to demonstrate my capability to organize and manage a global price alignment program across 26 countries. Then I had the chance to elevate my initial career in one of the best global companies Procter and Gamble; they offered me a financial analyst job position conciliating my final specialization class in MBA, Financial Management, within Luxury market. In choosing Luxury and Fashion industry specialization, I understood that working in such challenging and dynamic environment, has always been the greatest dream of my life. Thus, it has given me the right ability to exceed into one the most competitive industry, especially in Italy, the primary world player. Currently, I am Brand Finance manager in Coty in Milan, a global world leader in beauty. I am working in the Luxury Fragrances division, controlling a portfolio composed by 23 brands including Gucci, Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, Chloè, Miu Miu, Lancaster, Bottega Veneta and others. Reporting directly to CFO, I am the local owner of brand profit and loss, driving and coordinating local marketing budget with the aim of ensuring high returns on investment. Furthermore, I lead and manage monthly financial forecast, budget and actuals review for the full P&L reporting directly to Leadership Team, GM and CFO regional. Doing an MBA represented the most go ahead decision by now of my life. Thanks to this program I learnt how to work in a multifunctional team, the most effective aspect of my daily routine, where every day I am responsible of doing choices, taking responsibilities and feeling as the focal point of the business chain. To reach a goal you need to work hard and never stop believing in your abilities. Every day you must express yourself, be curious and raise your bar; for my perspective, this has been the best insight from my MBA experience. 22/02/2017

20 Febbraio 2017

"Io Faccio Film" con gli studenti del LUISS Creative Business Center

Il LUISS Creative Business Center è lieto di promuovere l’evento “Io Faccio Film” che si terrà il 2 Marzo presso la Casa del Cinema alle ore 10:00. All’evento, oltre ad essere presentati in anteprima i nuovi spot relativi alla campagna “Io Faccio Film”, parteciperanno anche gli studenti dei Master Writing School for Cinema & Television e Gestione della Produzione Cinematografica e Televisiva presentando un progetto collegato al tema dell’evento. L’iniziativa è promossa da ANICA, FAPAV, MPA e UNIVIDEO ed ha recentemente ricevuto il patrocino della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri - Dipartimento per l’Informazione e l’Editoria, del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e del Turismo e dell’Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni. Programma Introduce Francesco Rutelli, Presidente ANICA Intervengono Cinzia Alchimede, Fonico Federico Bagnoli Rossi, Segretario Generale FAPAV Francesca Cima, Presidente Produttori ANICA e Produttrice Indigo Film Federica Della Martira, Stuntwoman Lorenzo Ferrari Ardicini, Presidente UNIVIDEO e Presidente CG Ent. Andrea Occhipinti, Presidente Distributori ANICA e Presidente Lucky Red Matteo Rovere, Regista, sceneggiatore e produttore Barbara Salabè, Presidente e AD Warner Bros. Ent. Italia Greta Scarano, Attrice Enzo Sisti, Produttore esecutivo Carlo Verdone, Attore, regista e sceneggiatore Modera Marco Spagnoli, Giornalista, regista e critico cinematografico Conclusioni Nicola Borrelli, Direttore Generale Cinema Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e del Turismo Per confermare la presenza all'evento, scrivere a info@iofacciofilm.it   20/02/2017

10 Febbraio 2017

Call for Female Prospective MBA Candidates to Participate in the GROW FAST Initiative

LUISS Business School, Johnson & Johnson and Korn Ferry International Call for Female Prospective MBA Candidates to Participate in the GROW FAST Initiative  (Part of the Programme GROW – Generating Real Opportunities for Women)   DESCRIPTION GROW (Generating Real Opportunities for Women) is a programme initiated in LUISS Business School to promote, support and improve personal and professional growth of its female students. GROW FAST (Financing and Supporting Talents) is an initiative that is part of GROW, designed and launched in a joint effort by: Johnson & Johnson, a Fortune 500 multinational company manufacturing medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods; Korn Ferry International, an organisational and people advisory firm, the world's largest provider of executive search; and LUISS Business School, an internationally accredited provider of business education, based in Rome (Italy). The GROW FAST initiative offers to a selected group of outstanding women: direct access to organisations eager to support talents in the development of their potential; an internationally accredited MBA at LUISS Business School, which provides a culturally relevant and professionally memorable experience in the heart of Rome; a fully sponsored accelerated track into the world of business with leading companies that pursue diversity and inclusion as key strategic assets. The initiative consists of four main steps: selection of talented women; initial 3-month internship in Johnson & Johnson starting in July 2017, with a reimbursement of expenses of up to EUR 1,000 per month; 1-year MBA programme at LUISS Business School starting in October 2017, the tuition fee of EUR 27,000 + EUR 13,000 of living expenses being covered by a study loan; 2-year employment contract in Johnson & Johnson starting in October 2018, with a previously agreed salary + an extra that covers the repayment of the study loan within the term of the employment contract. The selected participants will be continuously mentored, starting from the initial internship until the end of the GROW FAST initiative. ELIGIBILITY Female candidates with: Bachelor’s degree; at least 2 years of work experience; professional working proficiency in English. APPLICATION PROCESS Applicants must provide: copy of the degree certificate; fully-completed MBA application form; Curriculum Vitae; copy of passport or ID document; digital photo; essay explaining why they qualify for the GROW FAST. ThE selection of candidates is divided in two core phases 1. ADMISSION TO THE MBA PROGRAMME LUISS Business School: receives and processes all the applications; organises the admission tests, consisting of a logics and English test in order to evaluate the admission of the potential candidates to the MBA programme (logics test can be omitted, if proof of a valid GMAT or GRE certificate is provided, and English test can be omitted, if proof of a valid TOEFL or IELTS certificate is provided); provides a guarantee for a study loan, covering the tuition fee of EUR 27,000 + the above-mentioned living expenses. Korn Ferry International provides strategic support in the process of search and selection of the candidates. 2. EVALUATION TO PARTICIPATE IN GROW FAST Based on the admission test results, motivational interview(s) with selected candidates and representatives of Johnson & Johnson and LUISS Business School will be organised. Candidates will be considered and evaluated on the basis of merit and regarding the quality of their admission application and interviews. At the end of the evaluation process a ranking of the candidates will be finalised, and up to three candidates will be offered the opportunity to participate in the GROW FAST initiative. Other candidates who pass the LUISS MBA admission tests, but who have not been selected as participants in GROW FAST, are welcome to enrol in the MBA programme, following the indications and deadline given to them by the Admissions Office of the LUISS Business School. If the candidate does not proceed with the necessary steps within the given deadline, her status will automatically decay from the right of immediate enrolment.  DEADLINES AND CONDITIONS Applications for participation in the GROW FAST initiative must be submitted by April 15, 2017 to mba23@luiss.it. The pre-selected candidates will be contacted approximately two weeks after the above-mentioned deadline, to invite them to the admission tests. The interviews with the candidates selected based on the admission test results and with Johnson & Johnson will be held in May 2017, and the final decision will be taken in June 2017. The final selected candidates must confirm their participation in the initiative within 5 working days after reception of the notification, signing the MBA Regulations and the agreement with Johnson & Johnson. If a candidate fails to confirm her participation, next candidates in their merit order in the waiting list will be considered, and the renounced candidate loses her right to participate in the GROW FAST initiative. In case of withdrawal from the MBA programme or exclusion of it for any reason, the participant will not be offered an employment contract at Johnson & Johnson and she is required to refund the total loan and other administrative charges. In case the participant completes her MBA studies and does not sign the employment contract with Johnson & Johnson or leaves Johnson & Johnson before the term of the 2-year employment contract, she is required to refund the total loan and other administrative charges. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at mba23@luiss.it, (+39) 06 85 22 5577 or (+39) 06 85 22 5064. DOWNLOAD PDF 10/02/2016

10 Febbraio 2017

Le parole della Leadership: a confronto con Claudio Descalzi, Amministratore Delegato Eni

  Il 24 Gennaio 2017 Claudio Descalzi, Amministratore Delegato ENI è stato ospite di L4T – Leader for Talent – un ciclo di incontri destinato agli studenti dei Master Specialistici. Questo è un approfondimento scritto da Teresa Marotta, studentessa del Master in Diritto Tributario. Incontrando noi studenti Claudio Descalzi ha scelto di mostrare il volto di quella che non è solo una posizione, un obiettivo cui si aspira, una traguardo che si vuole raggiungere. Essere leader secondo Descalzi è decidere in base al valore, farsi carico dei rischi e testimoniare una precisa visione dei rapporti tra le persone in azienda. La leadership che ci ha raccontato Descalzi è il contenitore delle scelte di vita che costruiscono il futuro di una grande azienda, mettendo in discussione molte delle caratteristiche che comunemente si associano alle personalità di successo. Cambiamento ė un principio che guida la sfera personale di Claudio Descalzi prima ancora che lo sviluppo della sua carriera. In Africa come ingegnere di giacimento all'inizio dell'esperienza lavorativa in Eni: un continente che ė stato una sfida per lo spirito di adattamento che le condizioni di vita richiedevano, ma soprattutto per le politiche aziendali che Eni è stata chiamata a definire e attuare. A determinare la scelta di investire per costruire le infrastrutture necessarie a produrre energia dal gas la responsabilità. Per Claudio Descalzi essere leader significa non perdere mai di vista la realtà in cui un’azienda va ad agire e a impattare e che, di conseguenza, sta contribuendo a costruire. Rispondere a questa consapevolezza è una scelta che per Eni ha comportato la rinuncia all’incremento dei profitti allo scopo di dare accesso all’energia alle comunità locali che ne erano prive, in un paese dove più della metà degli abitanti era colpita da decessi per l'uso delle biomasse. Nella responsabilità sociale, la motivazione di Claudio Descalzi di continuare a lavorare in Africa: un leader sceglie le sfide che vuole affrontare. “Il successo personale è effimero e ti porta a compiere degli errori”: la leadership che porta a risultati tangibili per Claudio Descalzi è quella che si impegna ad uscire dal labirinto del successo ad ogni costo. “Il segreto è non avere memoria. Ho imparato che è necessario dimenticare quel che si è fatto, partire sempre da zero”. È il lavoro di squadra che permette di far funzionare una grande azienda. Rispettare e mettere a fattor comune le diversità è la capacità dirimente che permette a un leader di valorizzare ogni singolo talento. Il dialogo rende la diversità la forza motrice di un lavoro di gruppo e solo una leadership inclusiva può trasformare un team eterogeneo in una squadra coesa: “I mondi crescono e il lavoro si ottimizza se regali te stesso e quello che sei, la generosità altro non è che soddisfazione del dare”. Dalla sua formazione come fisico, Descalzi ha portato in Eni la curiosità di approfondire il perché delle cose e la spiccata tensione innovativa. Ed è anche per questo che Eni si è fatta promotrice di un progetto a lungo termine per lo sviluppo delle energie rinnovabili, per non essere “ciechi e sordi” dinanzi al mutamento climatico. L’Africa è ancora il luogo privilegiato per lo sviluppo di questo progetto, grazie alla possibilità di costruire impianti fotovoltaici che sostituiscano il gas con l’energia solare. Una progettualità che non esclude l’Italia, attraverso la riqualificazione di vecchie raffinerie dismesse – le note “discariche pulite” – per l’impianto di pannelli fotovoltaici e la riduzione delle emissioni di CO2 nell’aria. Leader for Talent si riconferma un appuntamento importante per interagire con i leader di oggi, conoscere le loro storie e il loro impegno, trovare nuove motivazioni ed esempi affinché come studenti possiamo avere uno sguardo d’insieme ed essere pronti alle sfide che presto andremo ad affrontare. (Articolo di Teresa Marotta, studentessa del Master in Diritto Tributario) Gallery   10/02/2017

10 Febbraio 2017

#MasterYourCareer - “Una comprensione della filiera food&beverage utile anche per la crescita dell’attività di famiglia”: l’esperienza di Alessio

Mi presento brevemente, mi chiamo Alessio Attinasi, ho 27 anni e ho conseguito il titolo di laurea in psicologia, presso l’università Lumsa di Roma. Nel frattempo, da tanti anni, ho sempre supportato, con grande cura ed orgoglio, l’attività di famiglia: l’Hotel Ambasciatori e il Seven Restaurant, strutture ricettive di ormai consolidato e rinomato successo a Palermo, mia città natale. Dopo un breve periodo di riflessione ho deciso, l’anno scorso, di intraprendere il Master in Trade Management presso la LUISS Business School. Il Master prevede una prima fase di studi in aula, dove ho avuto il piacere di conoscere 15 colleghi di corso provenienti da ogni parte d’Italia, e una seconda parte di stage articolato in 3 mesi presso un’azienda di distribuzione e altri 3 mesi presso un’azienda di produzione. Ho deciso di intraprendere questo sentiero, fiducioso che avrebbe potuto portarmi esperienze e conoscenze importanti ai fini di un mio sviluppo personale e che sarebbe potuto rivelarsi utile anche per la crescita dell’attività di famiglia, attraverso una comprensione più profonda di tutto il percorso di filiera del food and beverage. Adesso che mi avvicino sempre più alla fine di questo intenso e coinvolgente percorso posso dire che i primi sei mesi di lezioni sono stati per me più che utili poiché propedeutici alla comprensione di determinate dinamiche aziendali del “food and beverage”  e non solo. Scopri di più   10/02/2017

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