News
38 Chinese managers welcomed to the METP programme
www.solvay.edu/METPchina
The Solvay Business School was honoured to welcome 38 managers from China to its Managers Exchange Executive Training Programme (METP) organised by the European Commission from 8 to 19 October. The SBS was one of the winners of a call for offers by the European Commission via a consortium that included the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, l'Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, and the companies DMI Associates (F), Agrer S.A. (B), Cambridge Education (UK) and the Istituto Formazione Operatori Aziendali (I).
The programme consists of an exchange of managers between China and Europe that involves the selection of 200 managers in China and 200 in Europe. The programme will be conducted in a number of phases. The first session of the programme took place in Beijing in September 2007. The Chinese and European managers then came to Europe to follow two weeks of courses in Manchester, 3 weeks at l’ESCP/EAP and finally 2 weeks in Brussels at the SBS. After the SBS course, managers participate in a 7-week in-company training programme.
The METP is an extremely ambitious project. For the SBS, it is part of our overall strategy to continue to develop in Asia. The SBS is already well established in Vietnam and has developed excellent contacts in China, but we have not yet established cooperation agreements. The METP will, therefore, be of great value in helping us to build awareness of the Solvay Business School and enabling us to establish a foothold there.
At a time when all eyes are looking towards China, the Solvay Business School is clearly setting out its ambition to be part of that development and in the long run this will offer benefits to both undergraduates and graduates.
Join the “Security” year
… of the “Executive Master in ICT Audit and Security Management”
www.solvay.edu/ict
January 2008 sees the start of the “Security” year of the Executive Master in ICT Audit and Security Management, a detailed two-year programme essential for those wishing to pursue a career in this sector.
Six modules will examine the different aspects of security management from various perspectives. This course has been specially designed for IT and information security professionals and consultants who wish to develop their managerial and technical skills in the field of information security.
The six modules take place on two evenings per week (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 18h05 to 21h30) over the 12-month period from January to December 2007.
Those participants who go on to complete the “Audit” year of the programme too can be awarded the “Executive Master in ICT Audit and Security Management” from Solvay Business School. This postgraduate degree course has been running since 2001.
If you would like to know more about the programme, why not join our information session, which will be held in December at the Solvay Business School.
You can also call Stéphanie Van de Velde on +32 (2) 650.65.20 or e-mail her at Stephanie.vandevelde@ulb.ac.be.
Gaëtan Nicodème awarded the Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize
On the occasion of the 63rd Congress of the Institut International de Finances Publiques (IFP), Gaëtan Nicodème and Ruud de Mooij were awarded the prestigious Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize for their article 'Corporate Tax Policy and Incorporation in the EU'. The Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize was founded in 2003 to reward and encourage young researchers whose work meets the standards of scientific quality and creativity established by Richard Musgrave’s contribution to the theory of public finance. Each year, the prize is awarded to the best article presented to the IPF Congress by authors under the age of 40. http://www.iipf.org/msgpz.htm
The award-winning article, which appeared as a working document of the Emile Bernheim Centre of the ULB, concerns the impact of fiscal competitiveness in terms of corporate taxation on the creation of companies by entrepreneurs.
Gaëtan Nicodème received his Degree in Management Engineering from the Solvay Business School, ULB, in 1996. After being awarded Master’s degrees at the Institut d'Etudes Européennes and at the London School of Economics, in 2007 he was awarded a doctorate in Economics and Business from the SBS. He is currently Head of Section at the Economics Analysis Unit of DG Taxation and Customs Union at the European Commission. Dr Nicodème also lectures at the Solvay Business School and at the Institut d'Etudes Européennes of the ULB.
Launching of the Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi) and the European Master in Microfinance with Princess Mathilde
This new academic year sees the launching of the Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi) and of the European Master in Microfinance, both created thanks to the support of the Académie Wallonie-Bruxelles.
We are pleased to invite you to the launching ceremony that will take place on the 10th of October 2007 at 5pm, in the Dupréel Auditorium of the ULB At this occasion, Prof. Beatriz Armendariz from Harvard University (and visiting professor at CEB-ULB) will give the inaugural session. The Princess Mathilde makes us the honour of Her presence during the ceremony.
Reservation mandatory by  e-mail before the 8th of October 2007.
Executive Programme in Sports Business Management
A vitamin-charged 5 th cycle!
www.solvay.edu/sportbusiness
Are you passionate about sport? Do you dream of working in this growth area or develop your sports management skills further? More than fifty graduates of this programme have already made their dream become reality since 2003 and 70% of them have been able to turn the added value of their qualification into new professional opportunities in sports management:
- 36% have been promoted to a new managerial function
- 19% have undertaken a new professional function
- 15% have found a new momentum in their profession.
This 2007 programme has a number of innovations: new lecturers with expert field experience; a programme enhanced with specific case histories and attractive prices for “early bird” registrations in the form of a –20% discount for those signing up before 20 November 2007. Another novelty is lectures designed to update participants in financial analysis and marketing in complement to the plenary session lectures.
The key objectives of this programme are:
- to provide you with new managerial reflexes that will enable you to meet the challenges of a career in sport;
- to provide your company or organisation with the know-how to promote and pilot new projects in line with the evolution of the European socio-economic sector of sports and leisure.
The programme is given on Mondays and Wednesdays (from 18h to 21h) + 1 day per month, from mid-January to the end of June 2008. Each participant is to present an individual project to a jury in October 2008. Registration fees are from €4200 to €5250. (Regional training subsidies of up to 50% are available for the course).
Information and registration: Eve Claes, tel: +32.(0)2.650.6564, e-mail: sport@solvay.edu.
New! You can also log onto our SBS Sport Business blog at: www.solvay.edu/sportbusinessblog
Mastère en Gestion Fiscale - Séance inaugurale
www.solvay.edu/mgfisc
The 2007-2008 academic year will begin on 11 October with a session chaired by M. Risopoulos on the theme “Money laundering and tax fraud: changes to the law? The law of 26 April 2007 that modifies Article 505 of the Penal Code.”
Information and registration: Josiane Fekenne, tél.: 02/650.41.76. E-mail: j.fekenne@ulb.ac.be
Automotive industry
How to build top performing Management?
The SBS decided to provide an answer to this question by launching a brand new programme, specially developed to meet the needs of managers working in the automotive industry. Specifically targeted, the programme is designed to help participants improve both their management performance and their knowledge of this highly competitive sector.
The course runs from September 2008 to March 2009 and comprises a total of 13 days, divided into 2-day modules (some of which are residential), and covers 100 hours of lectures and training. Most of the lectures will be in English, although all participants will be allowed to use their own mother tongue.
Informations: François Mathieu, tél.: 02/650.44.85. E-mail: automotive@solvay.edu.
Executive Master in Finance : The final countdown!
Designed for high-potential executives who wish to provide a more robust financial orientation to their career and master today's financial challenges, the 5 th programme of this Master’s degree will begin in November 2007.
The course has 6 modules, which focus on the cutting-edge topics needed by managers working in finance to tackle today’s key issues: corporate finance, financial reporting and analysis, international investment, derivatives, risk management and insurance management.
Thanks to a team of first-rate lecturers from the worlds of business and academia and our intensively interactive pedagogic approach, participants will be faced with real-life challenges and acquire the tools needed to deal with them. Each year, the variety of nationalities and backgrounds of participants in this programme plays an important part in extending our international alumni network.
Please note: the deadline for registration is October 31, 2007, but this could be earlier if the limit for the number of participants is reached before that date.
For further information, please contact: Anna Calgaro, Programme Coordinator, tel: +32.2.650 66 73, e-mail: acalgaro@ulb.ac.be .
ARTketing : second study dedicated to the Belgian media
www.solvay.edu/artketing
ARTketing has completed a new study on the Belgian media, in the context of the « Media Ethnology » project led by McCann Erickson. The first study on this topic, undertaken last year, was about differences in behavior, values and attitudes between French and Dutch- speaking consumers in Belgium and the way these differences are reflected in the media. The conclusion was that, on the whole, the two communities are quite similar to one another and that the differences concerned more the tone, the style and the form than fundamental behaviours. Therefore, ARTketing was invited to take the research further and to focus on these differences for its second study.
We designed a bilingual qualitative analysis of the main media (written press, internet and TV) in order to draw the stylistical profiles of each community on various axes like the pragmatic/ modern/ objective axis. The main difference between the two profiles is definitely on the axis idealism (South) versus pragmatism (North). The differences between senses of humour are also to be underlined: a consensual, light humour, sometimes turned into self mockery in the French- speaking media, versus a biting, provoking humour without taboos in the Dutch- speaking media.
For more information: Prof. Jean-Pierre Baeyens
The “European Microfinance Programme” is pleased to announce the launching of the European Master in Microfinance
www.solvay.edu/microfinance/
The European Master in Microfinance is an initiative of by the Académie Wallonie-Bruxelles, which comprises the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Mons-Hainaut and the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons. The programme is organized in association with the Universities of Paris-Dauphine (France) and Wageninen (The Netherlands), and specialised NGO's.
The European Master in Microfinance has been developed to train specialists able to bring a high expertise to the institutions of the sector in the developing countries. It is a one-year programme, taught in English, where the courses are given in the evenings and on Saturdays and that take place in Brussels and Wageningen (optional). It includes a mandatory internship in a microfinance institution in a developing country.
The next academic programme begins in September 2007. Registration must be completed by 24 August 2007.
New president at the Solvay Business School
This Tuesday, 15th of May, Alain Eraly, teacher at the ULB, has been elected president of the Solvay Business School. He will be succeeding Philippe Biltiau, who will leave the presidency in September, at the end of his mandate.
Alain Eraly is both doctor in sociology and management. He teaches sociology of organizations and management of human resources. During his career, he has been, among others, in charge of the management of the ULB’s human resources, and director of Hervé Hasquin’s advisers. Moreover, he is the president of the European Institute of Public Management (INEMAP) in Charleroi.
These last few years he has been very involved in maters like public policy and he is also the author of numerous works, such as Le Pouvoir Enchaîné and Démocratie ou particratie? (with A. Destexhe and E. Gillet).
FT ranks Solvay Business School’s “Executive Education”
in the top 50 worldwide
The Solvay Business School (Université Libre de Bruxelles) is proud to announce that its Executive Education programmes have been ranked 49 in the latest Financial Times worldwide ranking of the “Top 50 open enrolment programme providers”.
This is the first year that the Solvay Business School has participated in the ranking, so we are especially pleased to find ourselves in the company of the world’s most prestigious business schools, including Harvard, the London Business School, HEC and ESSEC in Paris. Recognition by the Financial Times underscores the School’s wish to reinforce its presence on the international scene.
This latest acknowledgement of international standing comes just a few months after the Solvay Business School was ranked 14th in Europe by the Financial Times for its Master’s programme in 2006 and 39th in Europe for the Solvay Business School as a whole.
Executive Master in Finance: changes for 2007-2008
www.solvay.edu/masterfinance
Hugues Pirotte has been appointed to succeed Ariane Chapelle to head up the Executive Master in Finance programme at the start of the next academic year. Anna Calgaro will retain responsibility for coordinating the programme. The new academic year will now start at the end of November 2007 and not in January 2008.
This programme continues to enjoy great success, attracting more and more participants. Whilst the overall programme will not change, some parts will be considerably reinforced, such as giving greater emphasis to “cutting-edge” aspects of the different programme parts and providing further practical links to the course, thanks notably to previous participants and their loyalty to the course.
Contact: Anna Calgaro - +32 (0)2 650 66 73
Solvay Business School graduate wins the Arco Prize
Badreddine Serrokh, under the direction of Daniel Traça, has been awarded the 2007 Arco end of year prize for a thesis in the “Non-commercial and economic sector”, entitled “Microfinance and street children: is microfinance an appropriate tool to address the street children issue?”
This annual prize is awarded to a maximum of five prizewinners for an end of study bachelor’s or master’s thesis that deals with subjects relating to the social sector and ideally aspects relating to the management of non-commercial sectors and social economy.
A passion for sport?
www.solvay.edu/sport
For those with a passion for sport who would like to add another string to their bow and for managers who would like to use their talents in the field of sport, the Executive Programme in Sports Business and Management will hone managerial skills to transform a passion for sport into a real professional activity.
Some of our past graduates include Quentin Sybille, who now works at BMW Belux where he looks after events organisation, and Frédéric Pirlot, who works in his family brokerage company where he develops innovative ideas for the world of sport, such as how sponsors can reward supporters when a club performs especially well…
For four years now, a growing number of participants to the Executive Programme in Sports Business and Management have been developing exciting new opportunities in the sports sector. Could it be your turn tomorrow?
Executive Master in ICT Audit and Security
www.solvay.edu/ict
The Post-graduate ICT Audit and Security Programme prepares professionals for the practice of management and control of information and communication technology (ICT) and information security. All lectures are given in English, in Brussels.
The programme develops advanced skills for professionals serving in the field of information security as IT auditors, IT legal experts and management consultants in IT management.
The next Master’s programme starts in January 2008. If you would like to find out more about the course, why not join our information session on 24th September 2007.
Contact: ict@solvay.edu
The “DES en Gestion” will become
the Joint Complementary Master in Management
www.solvay.edu/mcc
The Wallonia-Brussels Academy, which comprises the Université Libre de Bruxelles - Solvay Business School, the University of Mons-Hainaut and the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons, is pleased to announce the creation of the Joint Complementary Master in Management (technological and industrial), formerly known as the DES en Gestion.
The JCM in Management has been specially developed to train participants in strategic development, decision implementation and management methods and techniques so as to provide them with a solid bridge between university studies and current or future professional life.
The next academic programme begins in September 2007. Registration must be completed by 24 August at the latest by contacting Céline Lefebvre
Executive Real Estate Programme…the direct link for registration!
www.solvay.edu/immo
In view of the great success of our information sessions, we have decided to conduct one last session before the inaugural lecture on May 30, 2007.
Check our websitewww.solvay.edu/immo to discover the name of our special guest at the inaugural lecture, as well as all of the practical details concerning the event.
You can register for the information session at Manon Jacob or by calling +32 (0)2 650 65 57.
Senior marketing managers: don’t miss “Kotler is dead!”
www.solvay.edu/marketinglab
Within the framework of the “European Marketing & Sales Laboratory (LAB), Professor Christian Blumelhuber will chair a seminar on the theme “Kotler is dead! Marketing for the 21st century” on 28th and 29th September, 2007.
During the seminar, Prof Blumelhuber will also invite you to enter the closed circle of LAB, a brilliant new concept that provides you with unparalleled up-to-the-minute research knowledge in marketing from the SBS, which will help you to be even more innovative and creative.
Register before 29 June and benefit from a reduction in the registration fee. For more information, contact Frank.degans@ulb.ac.be or call +32 (0)2 650 4290.
Première of the Solvay Summer School
www.solvay.edu/summerschool
Briefly outlined in the last number of From Solvay, the Solvay Summer School is the latest project from the Solvay Summer School Team of the Solvay Student Office. The School will be held from 19 to 26 August 2007 and has as its objective to promote the international face of the SBS and to enable students selected to participate to meet well-known lecturers and alumni of the Solvay Business School.
Registrations have been taking place via the website since May, so don’t delay if you would like to participate. Register at www.solvay.edu/summerschool or contact Solvay Summer School Team member Thibault Léonard on +32 (0)472 57 80 09 or +32 (0)474 54 65 10.
Executive Master in Marketing and Advertising
During 2007, this programme has benefited from a complete review, with new lecturers being appointed and new subjects being introduced, including a new, innovative e-learning service. This interactive part of the course, which features at the beginning of the programme, brings together theory and practical exercises using various multimedia techniques including animation, sound and video and has proved to be a great success with lecturers and students alike.
The European Summer School
The Summer School Team of the Solvay Students’ Office is delighted to announce that the SBS is organising the first Solvay European Summer School from 19th to 26th August 2007, thanks to the support of SBS Alumni and SBS academic staff, from both the ULB and VUB.
The Summer School, which has been designed for international students, has an exceptional programme this year on the theme of Europe and offers theoretical courses as well as a range of special academic activities.
The objective of the event is to promote the international image of the Solvay Business School and it will enable those students who are selected to participate to meet a number of well-known faculty members as well as some of its alumni.
The Solvay Summer School Team hopes very much that you will be able to support the event via one of the numerous activities planned (workshops, sponsoring and/or the organisation of a particular activity organised by your company).
For further details, please contact us by phone on +32 (0)472 578 009 or + 32 (0)474 546 510 or
by e-mail at summerschool@solvay.edu
In-depth tax law… Special Master in Fiscal Management
www.solvay.edu/mgfisc
The Special Master in Fiscal Management is one of the many masters’ programmes organised by the Solvay Business School and is a complete programme, organised over two years (approximately 300 hours per year), involving seminars and practical sessions. The purpose of this programme is to train first-class tax lawyers who can act as corporate tax lawyers within a company, as self-employed tax consultants, or work within a law firm, a company of tax consultants, auditors or accounting specialists or as a fiduciary.
This taught Master’s programme is ideal for those wishing to perfect their knowledge and people who currently work for tax authorities or for the European institutions, but it is in any case designed, first and foremost, for those who wish to concentrate on taxation in their chosen profession.
The programme is very demanding and necessitates rapid learning, so that only those intent on becoming tax specialists should consider this course. It should nevertheless be mentioned that this did not deter students in the first year of the programme (2006), since 80 people registered for the course!
For further details about the next programme beginning in 2007, please contact Josiane Fekenne at jfekenne@ulb.ac.be tel: +32 (0)2 650 41 76.
Thinking about setting up your own business?
As numerous international studies have shown, such as the recent GEM indicator (Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring), Belgium has far too few entrepreneurs.
For this reason, and because promoting the spirit of enterprise is one of the FEB’s priorities, the FEB has launched a campaign to increase awareness of entrepreneurship, with the slogan “Transform your dreams into reality with your own business”.
If you are between 18 and 35 years old and you are thinking of setting up your own business, just click on www.ta-propre-entreprise.be and on Solvay Entrepreneur at www.solvay.edu/CetC and get a wealth of information to help you realise your dream.
« Largo Winch » Collectors’ Edition – There are a few copies left!
You probably remember that, as part of the celebrations of the Centenary of the Solvay School of Commerce, created in 1903 as part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq, respectively author and cartoonist of Largo Winch, did us the great honour of creating a special edition under the title of “Business Blues” (published by Editions Dupuis). Another great adventure of Largo Winch, in full colour, this time in a takeover, complete with a special introduction from Jean Van Hamme, who graduated from the School in 1961!
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We have a few copies of this special collectors’ edition left, which can be obtained from Isabelle Gouriou for €15 (plus postage).
Please note that for administrative reasons, we would ask you to place your order in writing. The cartoon book will be dispatched as soon as your payment is received.
Executive Programme in Real Estate
2007 Academic year
Now in its fifth year, our Executive Programme in Real Estate goes from strength to strength. Due to the huge interest that the inaugural session of September 2006 created, an information session will be held from 18h30 to 19h30 on May 30 2007 at the Solvay Business School, 21 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels.
For further information or to reserve a place at the information session,
please contact Manon Jacob on +322 650 65 57.
New way of thinking for innovating marketing!
www.solvay.edu/marketinglab
Christian Blumelhuber, professor and holder of the Chair of Euromarketing Inbev Baillet Latour has developed an exciting whole new programme “The European Marketing & Sales Laboratory”. The first session of which is expected to start on 20 -and 21st of April 2007.
In the image of its creator, the programme is both original and powerful! Unlike traditional programmes which the participants can follow for several months, or even a year, this new programme is for life. The programme includes several two-day seminaries each year and permanent e-learning support.
This programme was created to encourage a generation of new ideas enabling the participants to approach marketing from an entirely different angle. The objective of this training is no longer to teaching the traditional formulae but to take advantage of the latest marketing research in order to expand the mind and innovate continuously.
« Kotler is dead! » Marketing for the 21st century. Christian Blumelhuber
“Managing sales & service interactions”. Anton Meyer.
Christoph Herrmann and Toni-Matti Karalainen.
Erich Joachimsthaler and Markus Pfeiffer.
For further information, please contact: Stéphanie Van de Velde – 02/650 67 40
New year, new SBS course:
the Executive Programme in International Business
In his new book “Vertical Relationships and the Firm in the Global economy”, Khalid Sekkat internationally renowned Solvay Business School Professor, examines strategies in international corporations.
For executives wishing to expand their knowledge in the field of international business, Khalid Sekkat has developed an exciting new programme dedicated entirely to this subject. The first course, a welcome addition to the SBS’s numerous and varied business programmes, will begin in March 2007 and has been designed to provide business managers with the very latest skills and knowledge in the fast changing world of international business.
If you would like to contact Professor Sekkat, give him a call on +32 (0) 477.78.20.35 or send an e-mail to ksekkat@ulb.ac.be
For information about the programme, please contact:
The Solvay Business School
Stéphanie Van de Velde
Programme Coordinator
Tel: +32 (0) 2 650 67 40
eib@solvay.edu
Stress Management: Theo Compernolle
Today, organizations of all shapes and sizes are seeking new ways to improve their operations to survive in an evermore competitive economic environment. In this Darwinian contest, two of the major but very much neglected factors, that will help the fittest to survive, are the responsiveness to change and the resistance to stress of the employees. A great majority of change projects fail to create any value, because they utterly fail to take into account fundamental directions of use of the human being.
Because stress-management has been monopolised by occupational health professionals such as doctors and psychologists, it is considered to be a way of preventing the weak from becoming ill. This is a subject that seldom enthuses or inspires leaders. It is not a primary task they are hired for. Leaders should know that stress management can also be a well researched, very profitable, method to help a company realise its strategic goals.
Theo Compernolle proposed a “stress Management” workshop. As a result of the workshop participants can expect to : Have a correct understanding about stress and its consequences
- Have a better insight in their own of stress and strengths
- Learn the physical and emotional signals of stress in themselves and in others
- Gain insight into the impact of thinking on performance under stress
- Be aware of the huge impact of management-behaviour on stress
- Be aware of the way brainworkers have to be managed especially in times of change.
For more information, don’t hesitate to contact him theo@compernolle.com or www.compernolle.com
Prof Dr Theo Compernolle, born in Bruges, Belgium (1946), is the “ Suez Chair in Leadership and Personal Development” at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Solvay Business School.
He is an expert on the emotional and relational aspects of leadership and the enhancement of resilience of executives, executive teams and organizations, especially in times of stress and change.
New seminars !
www.solvay.edu/ims
The Intensive Management Seminars given by CEPAC-Solvay Business School offer managers the opportunity to acquire practical experience and concrete tools in record time! With our extensive experience in training, our seminars will allow you to explore new horizons of skills and knowledge which are essential to your career development!
The management seminars cover a wide range of themes linked to Management or the art of Managing. Given in French and in English, seminars are highly interactive, practical and concrete, welcoming managers from many different academic and professional backgrounds!
Discover our Management seminars in details: www.solvay.edu/ims
The Solvay Business School, is ranked 39 from a total of 55 European schools
in the Financial Times.
The Solvay Business School is delighted to be part of the European Business Schools recognized by the Financial Times. They are about 600 and around 80 are accredited to Equis, to mention one of them, the Solvay Business School.
This « Top Graduate Business School » includes the schools’participation in different rankings of the year 2006. However, it turns out that the Solvay Business School only has participated in 2006 to one of these rankings i.e. “European Masters in Management », in which it has ranked fourteenth.
Therefore, the School has been graded on the same basis as the other ones, which have participated to the whole of rankings i.e. « MBA ranking », « EMBA ranking », « Executive Education ranking » et « European Masters in Management ranking ». Consequently, they have been graded on 16 criteria and not on 85.
The Solvay Business School is determined to be ranked among the 20 best international schools and has managed for some months to be part of the whole of the 2007 rankings. So, 2007 should reveal a very different result…
A new book from Khalid Sekkat, Professor of Economics at DULBEA and the SBS, will soon be out!
 “Vertical relationships and the firm in the global economy”
(Edward Elgar Publishing, www.e-elgar.com)
This book analyses the vertical relationships of firms in an international context. These relationships, Khalid Sekkat agues, have acquired greater relevance due to the notable increase in vertical specialization of production across borders in the past few years.
The author discusses the objectives and instruments employed in vertical control, the reasons for the choice of instruments and the way in which national and foreign policy and institutions interact with firms’ strategies.
Each chapter provides a theoretical analysis of firms’ motivations and their interaction with public policies, as well as empirical evidence that underpins the theories presented.
The book offers new perspectives for the analysis of firms’ vertical relationships in the global economy and will be of great interest to students and researchers, as well as those working in international institutions and lawyers dealing with economic issues.
Executive Master in Marketing & Advertising
www.solvay.edu/ma
Don’t miss the next (and last!) information session prior to the beginning of the new academic session on December 7, 2007.
Contact: +32 (0)2 650 41 45 or e-mail tantoine@ulb.ac.be
It’s time to get ahead in Information Technology Management !
www.solvay.edu/IT
The new programme cycles for the Executive Master in ICT Audit and Security and the Executive Master/Programme in IT Governance start in January 2007.
Executive Master in ICT Audit and Security
Information session date: 6 December 2006, at 18h
Executive Master/Programme in IT Governance
Information session date: 5 December 2006, at 18h
Registration: itgov@solvay.edu – ict@solvay.edu - Tel: 32 (0)2 650 65 20
Executive Programme in Sports Business Management
www.solvay.edu/sportbusiness
We look forward to seeing you at the inaugural session at 18h30 on Monday, 11 December 2006!
Contact: Tel: +32 (0)2 650 65 64, e-mail sport@solvay.edu
Kick-off!
Thematic Doctoral School of Management Sciences
www.edtgestion.be
On 26 October, the Thematic Doctoral School of Management Sciences was inaugurated in one of the magnificent halls of the Fondation Universitaire in Brussels. The School has been created as a partnership between the HEC-Ecole de gestion (ULg), the Warocqué Faculty (UMH) and the Solvay Business School (ULB), under the aegis of the FNRS. The Rectors, Philippe Vincke (ULB) and Bernard Lux (UMH) and the Vice-Rector Albert Corhay (ULg) spoke of their pride in the creation of this Doctoral School, whose ambition is to offer doctoral students an advanced course in management sciences. Professors Peter Schotman (Maastricht) and Pierre Louard (Lille), who will head the partner scientific institutions of the Doctoral School, presented their vision for research in this discipline, whilst Professor François Pichault (ULg), spokesman for the School, set out details of the School’s ambitious programme.
Contact: Aurélie Rousseaux, Tel : +32 (0)2 650 48 64, e-mail: aurousse@ulb.ac.be
On paper and on the podium
On October 20, 25 and 30, Hughes Pirotte, Professor of Finance at the SBS, was invited to lead a seminar as part of the training programmes held by Reuters for their clients in Amsterdam, Brussels and Luxembourg. The purpose was to present structured products, demonstrating the difficulties experienced in selling them to private clients through case histories that illustrated their complexity in relation to their financial evaluation. Some 120 participants also had the opportunity to talk about their anxieties regarding this type of asset, an asset whose sale is currently being strongly encouraged by the banks. Just as an example, what do you think about including a “Range accrual callable swap”, due to mature in 10 years, in the portfolio of a 90 year-old person, under the heading “Bonds”? Interesting, but sadly true…
Hugues Pirotte will also be writing, from the end of 2006, a monthly column in the Swiss daily newspaper “L’Agefi”. The column, whose name is still under wraps, will present practitioners and academics within the framework of various financial subjects, but in a spirit of entertainment and even satire. Hugues Pirotte’s aim will be to talk about finance pedagogically whilst highlighting the stakes involved in the various areas discussed. The column will also contain a “News” section giving details about conferences, other events and publications targeted at people working in the field of finance in Geneva.
The virtual management campus
The SBS goes digital
As partner in the e-learning project, baptised the “virtual management campus”, together with IAG-LMS and HEC-Ulg, the SBS continues to expand. In addition to Jean-Pierre Baeyens (Marketing) and Paul Verdin (Strategy), two more of our lecturers are busy putting their courses on line: Eric De Keuleneer (Finance) et Michel Verstraeten (HRM). Furthermore, our Executive Master in Marketing and Advertising will be offering, as of January 2007, a first opportunity to experience e-learning (see elsewhere in this Newsletter). E-learning enables a particular target to benefit from existing programmes that are specifically adapted to their needs in terms of flexibility, together with the complementary pedagogic support through NTIC.
Contact: Dominique Rorive, Tel : +32 (04) 232.73.08, e-mail: cvg@campusvirtuel.be
Congratulations !
Nigel Roome, holder of the Daniel Janssen Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility at the Solvay Business School, was elected President of the Academic Council of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS, www.eabis.org) at the last EABIS symposium in Milan. The title of 2006 Pioneer in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility for European universities was also conferred on Professor Roome.
Marketing
A complete overhaul of our Executive Master in Marketing & Advertising has been undertaken for 2007. This has resulted in the appointment of new lecturers, the addition of new subjects to the syllabus and the introduction of an innovative system of e-learning.
The objective of the new e-learning service is to enable participants to keep up to speed with work by reviewing essential aspects of the course that must be acquired in preparation for the core modules, thereby harmonising the level of knowledge of all participants. The agenda for e-learning will be tailor-made for each student in function of their test results and will provide each participant with a coaching session.
Through its slides, case studies, exercises and illustrations, e-learning is more than a just a logistical support for the programme: it also provides interactive multimedia training that brings together theory and exercises through discussions, sound and video.
This course has been developed by the Virtual Management Campus, in collaboration with the Hec - Ecole de Gestion de l'Université de Liège (HEC-ULG), the Solvay Business School (ULB) and the IAG - Louvain School of Management (UCL).
>> Executive Master in Marketing & Advertising
Contact: +32 (0) 2 650 41 45 or tantoine@ulb.ac.be
Sport Business
Why not come and join us, at 19h on 14 November 2006, for an information session that will be followed by a very special testimonial, «25 Years of Fortis Sponsorship», to be held at the R.C.S Anderlecht Stadium, at Avenue T. Verbeeck 2, 1070 Brussels.
>> Executive Programme in Sports Business Management
Contact: +32 (2) 650 65 64 or sport@solvay.edu
Finance
Next month, the Solvay Business School will have the very great honour of welcoming Her Royal Highness Princess Mathilde when she comes to talk to students about their internships in a microfinance company in southern countries. We shall also have the pleasure of welcoming the Minister for Cooperation and Development, Mr Armand De Decker. The event will take place from 10h to 11h30, on Wednesday 22 November 2006 at the Emile Bernheim Centre (Solvay Business School), 21 Avenue F D Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels. The event will be followed by a cocktail, in the presence of the Rectors of the ULB and the UMH. We regret that this event will not be open to members of the general public.
At 18h00 on 10 November 2006, the EMP will have the honour of awarding diplomas to its first generation of graduates. The awards will be made by representatives from the three partner universities at the Emile Bernheim Centre (Solvay Business School) of the ULB, 21 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels.
Contact: celine.lefebvre@ulb.ac.be or tel: +32 (0)2.650.31.99
>> European Microfinance Programme
Special Master in Fiscal Management
Pascal Minne, ULB Professor and Vice-President of the Special Master in Fiscal Management, will hold a symposium on the theme “The evolution towards transparency of inheritance and revenues and its fiscal consequences”, at 18h30 on 5 December 2006.
>> www.solvay.edu/mgfisc
Contact: +32 (0)2 650 41 76 or jfekenne@ulb.ac.be
Executive Master in Finance
Information session: Monday, 26 October 2006 at 18h30, 21 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels.
>> www.solvay.edu/masterfinance
Registration by tel: +32 (0) 477 976 429 or masterfinance@solvay.edu
IT MANAGEMENT
IT Governance & ICT
Breakfast meeting information session for Human Resource Directors and Education Managers:
8h00 on Monday, 23 October 2006.
Registration: ict@solvay.edu
PhD Programme
Information session for DEA and Doctoral programme:
Thursday 12 October, at 18h00, Salle de séminaire, 21 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels.
4th Doctoral Day, in collaboration with the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
17 November 2006, at 10h00, Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.
Thematic Doctoral School in Management Sciences
Inauguration of the ULB-ULg-UMH Thematic Doctoral School in Management Sciences
26 October, at 16h, at the Fondation Universitaire, 11 Rue d’Egmont, 1000 Brussels.
Contact: +32 (0)2 650 48 64 or aurousse@ulb.ac.be
The Solvay Business School, IAG and Vlerick in the Financial Times ranking
The 11 September issue of the Financial Times published the 2006 ranking of 35 Master in Management courses taught across Europe.
Ranked 13th in 2005 and the only Belgian business school to feature among the 25 business schools that participated in the evaluation, the Solvay Business School has been ranked 14th among the 35 schools that took part in the 2006 ranking. IAG (Louvain) was ranked 15th and Vlerick 12th.
This year’s ranking of the SBS Master in Management Science should be compared with the overall ranking of European business schools by the Financial Times in 2005, based on the totality of their taught degrees, in which the SBS was ranked 26th and Vlerick 43rd.
This said, whilst it is perfectly reasonable to make a comparison between the IAG Master and the Solvay Master, the following points should be taken into consideration when comparing them with the Vlerick Master:
- The Solvay Master in Management Science lasts 24 months, 6 of which must obligatorily be spent at a foreign business school, and includes some 1600 hours of lectures and seminars. The Vlerick Master in Management lasts 10 months, two of which are spent in a corporate internship, and covers 600 hours of study.
- Entry to the Master’s degree course at Solvay or IAG is contingent on having successfully completed a three-year Bachelor in Management Science degree course. Entry to the Vlerick Master is subject to having completed any university degree.
- The Master’s degrees from Solvay and Louvain are only awarded after successfully passing exams in every one of the subjects studied and after presenting and successfully defending an end of studies thesis. There are exams for only a minority of courses covered in the Vlerick Master and success is based on class participation.
- The Solvay and IAG Master’s degrees cost € 750 per year, making a total of € 1500 for the two-year course. The Vlerick Master costs € 8500.
Overall, the Solvay Business School is proud to see its Master’s degree, taught within the framework of the public education system, so well placed alongside degrees that benefit from significantly higher private financial means at the service of very different training requirements.
Now is the time to sign up for a new course in September !
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION – LIFELONG LEARNING
Thanks to the Solvay Business School’s wide portfolio of Executive Education programmes, you now have the means at your disposal to think differently about your career.
Here are just a few of the programmes for which you should sign up for from now:
• Executive Master in General Management - CEPAC
• D.E.S in Management (General Management)
• Special Master’s in Tax Management
• IT Governance
• Executive Master in Public Management
• Executive Master in Healthcare Management
• Executive Programme in Real Estate
• and the Solvay Business School MBA
For further information log onto www.solvay.edu and contact the relevant programme coordinator.
General management
Executive Master in General Management-CEPAC
Would you like to acquire the management skills that are essential to your career development and vital if your ambition is to take on new responsibilities within your company?
If so, then take the first step by signing up on line for our next information session, which takes place from 19h-20h on Thursday, 7 September at the Solvay Business School (19 Avenue Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels). We should of course also be delighted to welcome any colleagues or friends interested in the programme.
- tel: +32 (0)2 650 40 28,
Finance
Executive Master in Finance
Information session: Thursday, 14 September 2006 at 18h, 21 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels.
Registration - tel: +32 (0) 477976429,
Real Estate
Executive Programme in Real Estate
Inaugural session: Monday 25 September 2006 at 18h30 in the Salle Dupréel, ULB with Guy Perry, CEO of INVI Developments, Member of the Urban Land Institute and Associate Scholar at Harvard University.
Registration: Manon Jacob, tel: +32 (0)2 650 65 57
Master of Science in Management
International exchange
New bilateral exchange agreement: The International Exchange Programme has recently signed a new agreement with the Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea. Ewha Women’s University (www.ewha.ac.kr) is a private women's university in central Seoul where female and male exchange students are now welcome. It is one of the city's largest institutions of higher learning, the world's largest female educational institute and one of the best-known universities in South Korea.
Contact: Tamara Schuller, tel : +32 (0)2 650 41 68, www.solvay.edu/international
Public Services Management
Event : Focus on quality at the Public Prosecutor’s Office
As a result of the Octopus Accord and the legislative initiatives that followed, heads of department in the Department of Public Prosecution have been given the responsibility for managing and monitoring quality within the Department. The purpose of this one-day seminar is to propose both a theoretical and a practical framework for the implementation of quality management and monitoring across the whole Department of Public Prosecution. The approach chosen for the seminar is based on the active participation of members of a public prosecutor’s office and, in function of the proposed model, the quality of the organisation will be discussed in a group situation using self-evaluation and the search for consensus.
Tuesday, 12 September 2006 from 9h to 17h. ULB, Institut de Sociologie, 1st floor, Salle Dupréel, Avenue Jeanne 44, 1050 Brussels.
Dominique Blomme: tel: +32 (0)2 650 48 21, fax : +32 (0)2 650 40 30.
Healthcare Management
Executive Master in Healthcare Management (MMISS)
The Faculty of Economics, Social and Political Sciences, Solvay Business School, the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Public Health of the ULB have developed a tailor-made management training programme for executives working in the public health sector. The course examines ethical and therapeutic requirements of contemporary medicine together with the managerial, financial and organisational constraints of a sector undergoing rapid and continuous change.
Valérie Claras: tel: + 32 (0)71 60 02 11, fax: + 32 (0)71 60 02 11
Computer and IT specialists… boost your knowledge !
You play an increasingly strategic role in your organisation. Your leadership, your skills of perception and good governance go naturally hand in hand with exemplary technological knowledge.
The Solvay Business School’s Executive Master in IT Governance is a programme for graduates and executives who already have business or professional experience. It is an ideal programme for those wishing to further enrich their professional training or re-orient their careers.
We have taken special care to design a programme that it fits in with a working timetable and created four modules, each of sixteen hours, and three complementary and optional modules. The total programme provides a real guarantee, an in-depth professional training programme in IT governance, undersigned by the Solvay Business School. Unique in Belgium, the programme is given entirely in English and provides crucial, and soon to be indispensable, training for all of those engaged in the field of IT governance.
Don’t miss this opportunity to sign up. Our next course begins with the new academic year in September 2006.
Gihene Bayoudh, tel: +32 (0)2 650 65 20, or gbayoudh@ulb.ac.be.
ARTketing launches a rescue plan for culture in the French Community of Wallonia and Brussels
To mark its fourth anniversary, the European Centre for Excellence in the Marketing of Arts and Culture is launching a rescue plan for French language culture judged to be in danger. The two key components of the plan are the creation of a fund to professionalize strategic management of cultural institutions in the Walloon-Brussels French Community and, secondly, the establishment of a French-language Centre for Cultural Communication.
This initiative was unveiled during a private lunch attended by a number of managers in the culture sector, representatives from the private sector, academics and journalists. The plan met with great interest.
Monica Urian de Sousa - artketing@ulb.ac.be - Tél.: 02 650 3835
Why not give your career an extra boost?
Executive Master in General Management - CEPAC
Take the first step by joining us at one of our information sessions, which will take place from 19h to 20h at the Solvay Business School (19 Avenue Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels), on Thursdays 22 June, 17 August and 31 August respectively. If you have colleagues or friends who are interested in the programme, bring them along too, we’d be happy to meet them and discuss their needs.
You can register on line for yourself, friends and colleagues to attend the information sessions:
You can also contact Monique Bergiers, Tel: +32 (0)2 650 40 28, mbergier@ulb.ac.be
The Executive Programme in Real Estate its celebrating its 5th birthday!
Each year we welcome an average of forty-five participants to this university real estate programme, which is unique in French-speaking Belgium. The programme fulfils a real need given real estate development and enables professionals working in the sector to cover the different aspects of both the market and the business.
With 11.5 million square metres of office space in Greater Brussels, building life-cycles becoming shorter and shorter, technical and economic demands increasing and urban regulations getting more and more complex, to name but a few of the complexities of today’s real estate market, the SBS programme is a must for professionals working in the sector. The exchange of experience and expertise between participants that this programme facilitates provides not only an important pedagogic tool, but is also a key element in building a network of professional acquaintances.
The 2006-2007 programme will begin in early October and, as usual, will be preceded by an inaugural session. Please be our guest! From September 1st, you can contact by phone on +32 (0)2 650 65 57 if you would like to be on our list of participants
Workshop « Central Bank Interventions in the FX Markets: New Developments »
Over the last two decades, interventions in the FX markets have been widely used as a stabilisation instrument by many central banks. Academics and policy makers have therefore devoted a lot of attention to the analysis of the impact of such an instrument. One of the key questions of the analysis has been the issue of effectiveness of these direct sales and purchases of foreign currency. >>more
Academic information: Prof. Michel Beine, mbeine@ulb.ac.be ; Prof. Kim Oosterlinck , koosterl@ulb.ac.be
Practical information : Ms. Tamara Schuller, tamara.schuller@ulb.ac.be
Solvay entrepreneurs, this is for you!
Why?
Setting up and developing one’s own business or taking on an existing business is, without doubt, the most exciting challenge there is in the world of business.
The ULB Entrepreneurship Centre (Solvay Entrepreneurs) has as its vocation the identification, validation, and support of entrepreneurial projects initiated by members of the ULB community (alumni, researchers, students), providing them with free coaching and support from and with specialist practitioners from the field of company start-ups. Solvay Entrepreneurs also offers training for company founders and directors, researchers (setting up spin-offs), business angels, SME managers and for those who are taking over or divesting themselves of companies.
New: Entrepreneur-partner
Within the framework of our support activities, we have often noted that the chances of success of a project have been significantly improved when an additional person in the form of an entrepreneur-partner works together with the project leader. Such a complementary talent can bring useful skills, contacts and means in the form of a real partnership, without a priori influencing the form of collaboration, other than sharing in the risks and future fruits of the collaboration.
We therefore hope to perfect a procedure that ensures the very best possible match between those who initiate projects and potential entrepreneur-partners and to provide regular information about opportunities that we have validated.
If you feel that your experience, contacts or particular skills could provide significant help to a current project leader who is lacking in such skills, we should be more than delighted to hear from you!
Contact:
Training: Véronique Bastien, vbastien@ulb.ac.be tel: +32 (0)2 650 42 04
Coaching and support: Bruno Nortier, bruno.nortier@ulb.ac.be tel: +32 (0)2 650 65 30
www.solvay.edu/entrepreneurs
The Executive Programme in Real Estate celebrates its 5th anniversary!
Each year the SBS welcomes some forty-five participants to this post-graduate programme. Unique in French-speaking Belgium, this course provides professionals with an up-to-the-minute response to developments in the real estate market and enables them to familiarise themselves with all aspects of the market.
With 11.5m² of office space in greater Brussels, increasingly short building life cycles, escalating economic and technical demands and more and more complex urban regulations, mastering real estate today demands professional knowledge and expertise of the very highest order. The Solvay Business School’s Executive Programme in Real Estate provides participants with the competence they need in responding to such demands. Added to this is the very real contribution gained from exchanges in expertise and knowledge between the programme participants, not least in widening participants’ professional networks.
The 2006-2007 programme will start later this year in early October. As usual, the course will be preceded by an inaugural session and we very much hope that you will be one of our guests. If you would like to attend, please
contact Manon Jacob on +32 (0)2 650 6557, who will be happy to send you further details.
www.solvay.edu/immo
Information session
Executive Master in General Management - CEPAC
Do you wish to boost your career? Do you want to acquire new skills and new capabilities in General Management? The Executive Master in General Management is made for you! Join us at the first information session on June 1st, 2006 from 7:00 to 8:00 at the Solvay Business School Building located at 19 av. F.D Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels. Enrol on line to the information session
Contact and information: - 19 av. F.D Roosevelt - 02 650 40 28
www.solvay.edu/cepac
Enhance your Mastery in Finance!
The 2007 Executive Master in Finance will organise its first information session on June 19 2006. This programme offers you a unique opportunity to perfect or update your knowledge in finance in the fields of corporate finance, portfolio management, derivatives, risk management and assurance… at the Solvay Business School.
For more information, please contact: Stéphanie Dispa
www.solvay.edu/masterfinance
European Microfinance Programme
First Year Closing Ceremony at ULB
On March 29, 2006, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), took place the first closing ceremony jointly organised by the Solvay Business School and PlaNet Finance Belgium for the newly created European Microfinance programme, in collaboration with the Universities of Paris-Dauphine (France) and Wageningen (The Netherlands).
Among the distinguished guests that attended the ceremony were HRH Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Mr. Armand De Decker, Belgian Minister of Cooperation and Development as well as the ambassadors of Mali and Niger and representatives of the embassies of Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso Kenya, Burundi, Congo Brazzaville, Guinea Conakry, Indonesia, Morocco, Mozambique, Togo and Senegal.
The welcome address to the audience was given by André Farber, Dean at the Faculty of the Social Sciences, Politics, Economics, and Solvay Business School (ULB).
This introduction in front of a full conference room was followed by the presentation of the European Microfinance Programme (EMP). It was presented by Mr. Marek Hudon, who is a FNRS Research Fellow at the Solvay Business School (ULB) and the scientific coordinator of the EMP. Click here for his slides show.
Andre Farber, Chairman of this first session, gave then the floor to Mr. Jacques Attali, President of PlaNet Finance, the international NGO partner of the European Microfinance Programme. Mr. Attali stressed the importance of microfinance in today’s world and in the design of development strategies and policies.
To discuss the main topic of the conference "Microfinance and Development" we had the pleasure to listen to Mr. Ousmane Sy, Laureate of the "Prix International Roi Baudoin pour le Développement 2004-2005”, that kindly accepted our invitation. As a previous Decentralisation Minister of the Mali Republic, Mr. Sy shared his views on the importance of providing more means for development at the local level. Microfinance, in that perspective is a great tool to achieve it. Click here for his slides show.
The second part of the conference was a round table chaired by Ms. Ariane Chapelle, Professor at the Solvay Business School (ULB) and co-director of the EMP at ULB. This was a debate among scholars on the issue of "The management of Microfinance Institutions". The academics invited for the discussion were Mr. Marc Raffinot, Professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine, Mr. Marc Labie, Professor at the University of Mons-Hainaut, and Mr. Henk Moll, Professor at the University of Wageningen. All of tem are professors at the European Microfinance Programme (EMP).
The Closing speech of the ceremony was given by Mr. Jacques Attali and was followed by a Fair Trade Cocktail.
HRH Princess Mathilde took the opportunity to exchange views with the speakers and the other organisers of the ceremony: Mr. Philippe Biltiau, President of the Solvay Business, Mr. Sébastien Duquet, Managing Director of PlaNet Finance, Ms. Ariane Szafarz, Professor and co-director of the EMP at ULB, Mr. Daniel Sorrosal, Director of PlaNet Finance Belgium, and Mr. Gabriele Merli, executive coordinator of the EMP.
HRH Princess Mathilde discussed with some of the EMP students and proposed to meet the EMP students again in November 2006 to know more about their field internships which will start next May.
The cocktail was also the occasion for the EMP founding members to discuss future collaborations. The great success of this ceremony has also been a strong incentive for the students of the first EMP generation to build a strong professional network.
SBS student prize-winner at the 22nd Concours du Meilleur Mémoire Financier
In the Competition for the Best Financial Thesis, presided over by a prestigious jury, prizes are awarded for the best master’s and doctoral theses written by university and Grandes Ecoles students.
The Second Certificate of Merit of the Grand Prix for the Best Financial Thesis was awarded to Olivier Danneaux of the Solvay Business School for his work on «Corporate governance in Islamic financial institutions»
Olivier’s Director of Studies was Prof. Ariane Chapelle and his Assessor was Marco Becht.
Management Inspiration Day : chapter one of a success story!
On March 28, the Solvay Business School welcomed the HR managers and the decision-makers of Belgian and International companies to present them in detail all its Executive Education Programmes.
42 participants from different corporate backgrounds attended this first edition: Electrabel, Belgacom, Fortis Banque, Novartis Pharma, but also the Cliniques Universitaires de Saint-Luc, The Banque Nationale de Belgique and the Federal Police were part of the audience, to name but a few. Some SBS Alumni enthusiastically joined the programme coordinators, to share with the audience their personal experience as participants of one or more, SBS’ Executive Education Programmes.
During the whole day, a series of conferences were proposed to the people invited:
- “IT Governance and human resources” - Georges Ataya
- "Training: a tool for managing change" - Nadine Lemaître
- "Change and challenges in human resources today" - Paul Verdin
- "Embedding corporate responsibility in business organizations:
A model of process and managerial roles" - Nigel Roome
Do not hesitate to contact us for further information on our programmes.
Nicole Seeck (Inter-company programmes Director) and Annik Goudsmet (In-Company programmes Director) will be happy to answer all your questions.
If you wish to have detailed information on a specific programme, please visit our web-site www.solvay.edu/programmes and contact directly the relevant programme coordinator.
Looking forward to welcoming you next year for our 2007 Inspiration Day!
www.solvay.edu/inspiration-day
New exchange bilateral agreement
Master of Science in Management
The International Exchange Programme has recently signed a new agreement with Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel-Aviv University. With its world-class reputation at home and abroad, in 2003 the School was the first in Israel to be awarded the international accreditation of the AACSB (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).
Contact:Tamara Schuller -Tel.: +32 (0)2 650 41 68 - www.solvay.edu/international
EFMD
The Business of Branding International 2006 is now off line and has had an excellent response thanks to you and your staff. 22 international business schools from 11 countries participated in this online marketing and branding survey sponsored by EFMD.
The total number of respondents was 13,952, which makes this the most extensive branding survey ever conducted for international business schools. Your business school had 700 respondents, the fourth highest response rate of the 22 business schools, which is excellent. Congratulations!
Thank you very much for the support you and your team have given to this project.
Thanks again for your help with this important research.
European Microfinance Programme
On March 29, 2006 at 5.00 p.m. at At the "Salle Dupréel" - Institut de Sociologie, 44 Av. Jeanne, 1050 Brussels
in the presence of HRM Princess Mathilde
Inscription: - Fax : 02.539.42.45 ou - Fax : 02.650.41.8
March 28 2005 is a red-letter day to note in your diary !
Management Inspiration Day
We are delighted to announce that, for the first time ever, the Solvay Business School has decided to open its doors and invite companies and organisations to visit us and find out in detail about our range of Executive Education programmes. Like you, we are convinced of the need for on going learning that today’s business environment demands. We must provide our current and future managers and directors with the opportunities to perfect their professional training, expand their knowledge and develop their capabilities throughout their careers.
The Solvay Business School offers an impressive range of executive training programmes.
The choice extends from general management courses to highly specialised programmes that provide management training in a particular area, or tailor-made “in-company” programmes for individual companies.
A brochure can never provide the same information as face-to-face meetings. That is why this open day has been designed for and dedicated entirely to you. You will have the opportunity to meet the programme directors and coordinators, who will be pleased to provide help and advice that could be of assistance to you in defining the most appropriate solutions for your company or organisation.
During this special open day, you will also have the opportunity to take part, if you wish, in three top-level conference debates, chaired by three internationally renowned professors.
Contact: - tel. : +32 (0) 2 650 65 94
>> read more
"Managing a cultural institution"
A conference-debate for managers in the arts and culture sector.
Bruno Maquart, Managing Director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, will be the keynote speaker. Professor Patrick Georges, MBA, of the Solvay Business School will introduce the conference, Friday 3 March at 17h 00.
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts - Rue des Musées - Brussels
Enrolment is free. Please contact Patrick Georges
New research from ARTketing
ARTketing, the European centre for excellence in the marketing of culture and the arts, has recently completed a research project for | 
