MBA Solvay Kick-off today

31.08.09 Posted by MBA Solvay under Courses, Instructors, MBA Solvay • 1 comment

Today is the MBA’s kick-off. The new participants will start their once in a life time journey with some activities to help them know each other, the alumni and the staff better, and to get into the hard-working and fun mode of MBA Solvay.

We can not disclose a lot about the programme, as it has some surprises for the participants. What we can advance is that the day will start wiht the welcome of Hugues Pirotte, director of MBA Solvay.

They will then have their first course with marketing professor Christian Bluemelhuber. This is a one day special course to get the brains rolling. The only thing we can advance is the title: Why Strategy?

If you do not know Christian Bluemelhuber,  he holds the InBev-Baillet Latour Chair in Euromarketing at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. These videos will give you an idea of his style and what his courses are like. They were recorded during The Top Managers Event 2008, where Christian gave the presentation Successful leaders on Customer focused strategies in a worldwide economy.

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After this course, the participants will be given a set of tasks to accomplish downtown, with a final debriefing and networking session in the center of Brussels well into the night.

Welcome to the MBA rush!

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Patrick Georges at the Beta Group: How to amplify your intelligence ? Tips and tricks from brain surgeons to entrepreneurs

13.07.09 Posted by MBA Solvay under Courses, Entrepreneurship, Instructors • no comment

MBA Solvay professor Patrick Georges did a showcase of his Management , Organization and Performance course  at the last Beta Group in Brussels. The subject of his presentation was How to amplify your intelligence ? Tips and tricks from brain surgeons to entrepreneurs.

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The presentation’s tips and tricks were structured around the following areas:

  • Working harder
  • Resisting stress
  • A better office
  • A better time management
  • Targeted personal finance
  • Set your objective
  • Set your leadership
  • Set your team
  • The small business cockpit

Patrick M. Georges is a professor in management, an active neurosurgeon and an expert consultant to managers. He advises and teaches managers worldwide on how to improve effectivity at personal, team and business levels. He invented the Management Cockpit, a war room used  by worldwide business managers now included in the SAP software.

You can download Patrick Georges’ presentation slides by clicking on this link: How to amplify your intelligence: Tips and tricks from brain surgeons to entrepreneurs .

This presentation was possible thanks to the MBA Solvay sponsorship of the Beta Group. Beyond the financial help to a great entrepreneurial initiative in Brussels, we try to bring a short  by one of our instructors or coaches that is relevant and useful to the audience.

Our prior presenter and first of MBA Solvay was Pascal Ledouble, who made a presentation about how to sell yourself doing short pitches and to cause a good first impression. Pascal is one of the professional coaches working with MBA Solvay students to help them develop their interpersonal skills, under the direction of Kay Lombardo and Bob Ward.

The Beta Group is a networking initiative promoted by Jean Derely, where local start-ups showcase their products for five minutes and then are exposed to a few questions from the audience. The Beta Group is the best and more popular Internet business networking event in Belgium. Among its participants you can meet investors, entrepreneurs and professionals open to discuss the business and new projects.

You can see the videos of the presentations done by the start-ups in the site of the RTBF Labs, who transmitted the event live for the first time.

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Kay Lombardo: career advancement

15.06.09 Posted by MBA Solvay under Career Advancement, Instructors, Interviews • 1 comment

Kay Lombardo is the Careers Manager of MBA Solvay, where she is responible for the Career Advancement Program. An American working in Europe for the last 15 years as a recruitment consultant, she works with the MBA Solvay students to define their career goals and then to plan and execute their job search, while maintaining her practice in Brussels and Paris. Kay also works with companies to adapt the Career Advancement Program of MBA Solvay to their needs, together with Aoife Condren, Corporate Relations Manager. Kay’s three keys to success: Definition, Determination & Discipline.

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The Career Advancement Programme is one of the main assets that differenciates MBA Solvay from other MBA. The focus in the professional progression of each individual, both in the short and the long term, is what makes our program stand out in terms of career progression. This has been recognized by the Financial Times EMBA 2008 Ranking, where MBA Solvay scores the 9th worldwide position in career progression.

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Interview with Guido Krickx: strategy, financial crisis and MBA

08.06.09 Posted by MBA Solvay under Instructors, Interviews, Strategy • 1 comment

Thanks to the colaboration of alumnus Sebastian Schelenz, we continue our interview series with the people that are involved with MBA Solvay. This time Sebastian managed to organize and interview with Guido Krickx, Professor of strategy at MBA Solvay (Brussels, Belgium) and Associate Dean for the Graduate Business Program of St. Mary’s College of California (USA), before he went back to the US:

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In this interview, Guido Krickx presents his views on business strategy and the challenges in terms of strategy due to the current economic crisis. He specifically responded to the following questions:

  • What makes strategy special?
  • What is special about MBA Solvay?
  • What challenges do you see for firms in the future?
  • What lessons can we learn from the current crisis?
  • What is the competitive advantage of having an MBA?
  • What is your best lesson of teaching at MBA Solvay?

Coming up in the next few weeks are the interviews with Kay Lombardo, Careers Manager at MBA Solvay, and alumnus Xavier Serret, Managing director at Insucom. We have also recorded quite a few testimonials from alumni at last saturday’s MBA Solvay Alumni Day.

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