Come and spend a day at the Executive Center and discover our Executive MBA course.

Take advantage of this opportunity to experience an exceptional taste of the program, to discover the campus, the Executive Center, to get to know the professors and EMBA team.

Special Keynote Speaker: 

When: 20 May (17:30)

Jenny Zanotti, Corporate Director, Giuseppe Zanotti  “How to put creativity in order in luxury”

Course: OPERATION MANAGEMENT

When: 21, 22 May 2022 (08:30 – 17:30)

Where: USI, Executive Center, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13,6900 Lugano

Professor Paulo Gonçalves

Professor of Operations Management at USI.
PhD (MIT Sloan), M. Sc. (MIT), M. Sc. (USP), B. Sc. (ITA).

Course Description

During this session, your managerial skills will be tested through challenging questions regarding operational management issues applied to real world situations. You shouldn’t be scared though, as it will turn into a funny and stimulating experience, thanks to an interesting simulation on management education created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The game is top secret… however we can tell you that beer will be part of it. If you would like to know the rest… come and discover it for yourself.

This course addresses the management of operations in manufacturing and service organizations. It introduces the concepts and techniques related to the design, planning, control, and improvement of manufacturing and service operations. Operations Management is a vast subject and several possible topics could be covered in class, emphasis will be placed on practical tools that can aid decision-making.

Program overview and structure

First day:

1. Operations role in competitive advantage
2. Process design
3. Demand forecasting
4. Capacity management

Second day:

1. Inventory management
2. Supply chain management
3. Supply chain design

Book your place: emba@usi.ch

Chanel: marketing, branding & digitalization

Guest speaker: Ms. Bérengère Chardier, Head of Digital Europe, Chanel, Paris.
USI Degree: Communication, 2005

Expert in luxury branding, she has 15 years of experience in digital, luxury & e-commerce in leading groups in the fashion sector, as Yoox, Net-à-porter and Ralph Lauren.

Introduced by:

• Prof. Luca M. Visconti, Director Master in Marketing and Transformative Economy
• Ksenia Silchenko, Post-doc, Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society

When: February 11, 17:30

Where: on MS Teams

About Chanel

Chanel is a privately held company owned by Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, who was an early business partner of Coco Chanel. Its products cover clothes, fragrances, handbags and watches. The brand is most famous for its “little black dress”, the Chanel No. 5 perfume and the Chanel Suit. Karl Lagerfeld joined Chanel as its creative director in 1983 and continued in the role until his death in February. China is the second biggest market, after the U.S., for Chanel’s beauty business. The U.S, China and France represent one-third of Chanel’s sales.

To register, email us: emba@usi.ch

Financial Performance Measurements and their use

When: 18 -19 December (08:30 – 17:30)

Where: USI Executive Center, Blue Room

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This course provides the necessary information and tools to understand accounting performance measurement and their use in management. Successful completion of this course will result in improved financial agility and higher awareness of the effect of use of financial measures in decision making, control, and learning processes.

In terms of skill objectives, the participant will gain:

• A better command of “language of accounting”, and of the main Key Financial Indicators
• the ability to access financial strenghts and weaknesses
• the awareness about the strengths and limitations of financial accounting measurements both
    – for financial markets (external financial communication)
    – or management (internal financial communication) understanding their effects on management behavior and decision making e.g. the manager myopia problem
• an understanding of how to design and use integrated performance measurement systems (balanced scorecard design and use)

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Come join us at the Executive Center Saturday 18 and Sunday 19

Limited places, book now at emba@usi.ch

Giovanni Barone-Adesi

Expertise

Research

Current Research Interests
Risk Management – Financial Derivatives – Capital Markets

Doctoral Dissertation
“Market Equilibrium with Non Linear Characteristic Lines,” University of Chicago, 1982.

Editorial Activity
Past Advisory Editor: Journal of Banking and Finance
Associate Editor: Journal of Derivatives, Global Finance, European Financial Management, The European Journal of Finance
Finance Advisor: Springer-Verlag

Referee
Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, SSHRC, Journal of Derivatives, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Journal of Mathematical Finance, Journal of Business, International Journal of Money and Finance.

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Book your place: emba@usi.ch or join us on Zoom:

Time: Nov 19, 2021 05:30 PM Zurich

Join Zoom Meeting
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