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Professor Quelch’s new appointment

Jun 27, 2017

Professor Quelch’s new appointment

Program Speaker John Quelch, appointed Dean of the University of Miami School of Business Administration. With this appointment, John Quelch is now Vice Provost for Executive Education and Dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Miami.

“I am both honored and delighted to be joining the University of Miami Community and very much looking forward to serving on President Frenk’s Team in my dual role as Dean of the School of Business Administration and Vice Provost for Executive Education”

John A.Quelch

Prof John Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is an internationally recognized scholar on the marketing implications of globalization. Between 2011 and 2013, Professor Quelch was Dean, Vice President and Distinguished Professor of International Management at CEIBS (China Europe International Business School), China’s leading business school. Pedro Nueno, who is member of our Advisory Board, is the Founder and President of this Business School.

Professor Quelch. Alumni Stories web

Professor Quelch’s Session with CEIBS Africa (In Company Program) at LOEB House, Cambridge MA, 2017

He is known for his teaching materials and innovations in pedagogy. Over the past thirty-five years, his case studies have sold over 4 million copies, third highest in HBS history. In 1995, he developed the first HBS interactive CD-ROM exercise (on Intel’s advertising budgeting process). In 1999, he developed and presented a series of twelve one-hour programs on Marketing Management for the Public Broadcasting System. He taught “Strategic Marketing Management” to more than twenty classes of the HBS Advanced Management Program and launched an elective course titled “Consumers, Corporations and Public Health” to both MBA and MPH students.

John Quelch is known for his teaching materials and innovations in pedagogy. Over the past thirty-five years, his case studies have sold over 4 million copies, third highest in HBS history. Click on the button below to read more about Quelch’s career.

New Book by Mihir Desai

May 30, 2017

New Book

Mihir Desai’s book “The Wisdom of Finance”has been launched today. He is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is also RCC at Harvard Executive Program’s Speaker.

Prof. Mihir A. Desai, RCC at Harvard Executive Session, The Harvard Faculty Club, 2016.

“Most ambitiously, this book endeavors to improve the practice of finance by rediscovering the humanity of the core ideas of finance. The demonization of finance is counterproductive, and regulation, while helpful, holds only limited promise for addressing the transformation of finance into an extractive, rather than a value-creating industry. Perhaps we can all find our way back to a more noble profession by enlivening the ideas of finance through stories that illuminate our lives and our work”

(Author’s Note).

He is a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research‘s Public Economics and Corporate Finance Programs, and served as the co-director of the NBER’s India program. He has also been involved in this RCC at Harvard Executive Program since the beginning and has shared his analysis, unique business insight and strategy with us over the years. To know more about the book and its Author’s Note, click on the button below.

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Success about the XV Edition

May 17, 2017

Success of the XV Edition

A total of 28 participants gathered at the unique setting selected for the XV Edition of the Program on the Harvard Campus. Most of the sessions took place at the Harvard Faculty Club, founded in 1920 and located on Quincy Street (Harvard University Campus). The Spangler Center or Cumnock Building (Business School area) were other locations chosen by the Program to celebrate their sessions and events.

Alibaba’s Taobao Session, Prof. Félix Oberholzer.Gee. Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge,MA.

The RCC at Harvard Executive Program brought together managers, partners and entrepreneurs from a vast variety of business sectors, such as sustainability, finance, transportation, biotechnology, healthcare, consultancy or real estate. This diversity was also combined with a multicultural profile: Colombia, Argentina, China, Africa, USA and Spain where the countries represented among the group, giving the program the global personality it pursues and enriching participant’s networking activity.

Krishna G. Palepu started off the program with his Session, Emerging Markets. He is a member of the RCC at Harvard Program’s Advisory Board, Professor of Business Administration and Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University.

Richard H. Vietor, Professor of International Political Economy and Business Administration at HBS, discussed the case study of China: The New Normal with the program participants. Félix Oberholzer-Gee, Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at HBS, shared his business insight and customer experience along with his case study Alibaba’s Taobao. The participants were also able to hear about the latest innovations in the market, from Sunil Gupta, Chair of the General Management Program at Harvard Business School, who talked about the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Professor Mihir A. Desai teaches finance and law at Harvard Law School and he gave the session Making Financial Decisions: The Case of The Unidentified Industries, analyzing with the participants the income statements and balance sheets of well-known firms to learn about their internal finance structures.

Big Data & Artificial Intelligence, session given by Sunil Gupta. Spangler Center, HBS. May 2017

Ana Maiques, CEO of Neuroelectrics, shared her business success story, as one of the most influential entrepreneurs under 40 in Spain (nominated by IESE). She received the EU Prize for Women Innovators from the European Commission and was ranked one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Women in Europe. Marco Muñoz, Director of Global Initiatives at MIT, gave the Program a visual and conceptual view of this Institute. The Program also had a session on entrepreneurship, given by Pedro Nueno, President and Founder of CEIBS (China Europe International Business School) and member of the Advisory Board of the RCC at Harvard Executive Program. Margarita Oliva, Partner at Baker McKenzie, Fuensanta Díaz Cobacho, Head of Structured Finance Desk (Americas) at Intesa San Paolo NY, and Jose María Michavila, Founder of MdF Family Partners, gave the session Financing Sources in the Americas

The participants also took part in other activities apart from the sessions, such as a guided tour of the Harvard Campus given by Jim Aisner, Director of Media Relations in Harvard, several individual formal meetings between participants and US-experts, or the networking dinner with American and US-based professionals.

The program, not only offered participants to have a closer look at one of the most prestigious Universities in the world, and gain access to some of its professors and professionals in the cities of Cambridge and Boston, but also allowed them to with like-minded professionals working in the global market.