La Fundación Compromiso junto a AmCham y Fundes invitan a la comunidad SABF a participar de un seminario que busca entender el concepto de competitividad ligado a la gestión estratégica y responsable de todas las áreas del negocio.
Mediante plenarios y actividades simultáneas se abordaran temáticas relacionadas con la gestión de un negocio y los cambios que se deben realizar para adaptarse al mundo actual. Liderazgo vs. Poder. ¿Cuál es la cultura organizacional por la cual se debe optar hoy? ¿Qué estrategias se utilizan en las empresas internacionales responsables?¿Cuál es el rol del estado en la búsqueda de empresas más responsables y el desarrollo a largo plazo?
Algunos de los disertantes que compartirán sus conocimientos durante la jornada son David Halley, Director de Business in the Community (BITC), Beatriz Nofal, Presidente de la Agencia Nacional para el Desarrollo de Inversiones, Min. de Economía de la Nación, Julio Saguier, Presidente de Diario La Nación, Hermes Binner, Gobernador de la Provincia de Santa Fe, entre otros.
La actividad tendrá lugar el día Jueves 29 de Mayo, de 8.30 a 18 hs, en el Hotel Panamericano.
Se puede acceder a la ficha de inscripción haciendo click aquí. La actividad es arancelada y existen promociones para grupos.
Para más información llamar al 4813-3927 int. 41 y 11 o empresaycomunidad@compromiso.org
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El SABF tuvo el honor que Félix Luna, reconocido historiador y escritor argentino, respondiera unas preguntas referidas a su visión de las Instituciones en Sudamérica. Cabe destacar que Luna ejerció la docencia como profesor de “Historia de las Instituciones” en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y además recibió el premio Konex en el rubro “Biografías Históricas” en 1994.
SABF: ¿Qué instituciones considera usted clave para lograr la integración regional en Sudamérica? ¿Cómo se pueden fortalecer las mismas?
F.L.: Creo que las instituciones clave para lograr la integración regional y otro propósito de progreso debe radicar en la esfera privada. Al mismo tiempo deben provenir de un contexto democrático.
SABF: ¿En qué aspectos considera que la falta de institucionalidad afecta el desarrollo del país?
F.L.: El desarrollo de cualquier país se ve afectado por la falta de institucionalidad en el aspecto de la confiabilidad que este país pueda ofrecer. País sin instituciones o con instituciones flojas es un país desconfiable.
SABF: ¿Cómo influye la formación de los líderes en lograr el fortalecimiento institucional?
F.L.: La formación de líderes en los diversos planos de la realidad es importante para el fortalecimiento institucional ya que ellos tienen que dar el ejemplo de la sujeción a las reglas de la institucionalidad.
SABF: ¿Qué le parece que pueden hacer los estudiantes universitarios para lograr este fortalecimiento institucional?
F.L.: Los estudiantes universitarios deben ser los primeros custodios del fortalecimiento institucional puesto que la propia universidad se verá fortalecida por un sistema institucional claro y vigente.
El equipo del SABF agradece a Félix Luna por haber compartido sus conocimientos y opiniones con todos nosotros.
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We are very glad to announce that more than 1200 students have registered at our site showing the increasing interest in the South American Business Forum.
We would like to thank all those young students who expressed their interest and enthusiasm! We consider very important to emphasize the effort and time invested by the applicants when writing their essays!
Every applicant will be informed of the jury´s decision via e-mail during the first days of June, 2008.
If you have any doubt, don’t hesitate to contact us: students@sabf.org.ar.
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Have you started to write your essay? The application deadline is this Sunday, May 11th at 24.00 hs. (Time of Argentina)… But you still have got time, take advantage of the weekend! We do encourage you to participate in this amazing opportunity. You won´t have the opportunity to share ideas hand in hand with such outstanding people and students from around the world every day in such a wonderful city as Buenos Aires!!
Don´t forget you must choose one of the three sub-topics that come from the main topic “Empowering Agents of Change” which engage issues like institutions, entrepreneurship and resources. In the The Forum section of our web-page you will find a description of each sub-topic. To avoid any kind of inconvenience, we recommend not to wait until the last moment to submit your essay. Remember you may change all the information submitted (even the essay) until the application deadline.
The essay is the main piece of the evaluation process made by the jury in order to select the 100 participants. Remember that the essay extension goes from 1200 to 1600 words and all kind of figures, statistics or graphics that allow deeper analysis may be included. Remember NOT to include your name in the essay document. Do you need more information about the characteristic of the essay? Visit the Register section of our web site!
If you have any doubts, you already know that you can send us an email to students@sabf.org.ar. The entire Student Relations Department is waiting for your inquiries! =)
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This post was written by Martín Zaffignani, Executive Partner of Easy Training Choice.
The purpose of this article is to briefly compare the Leader, Entrepreneur and Change Agent concepts. It also intends to suggest and generate debate on what would be the practical approach for these three elements to interact with each other and consequently, obtain successful change processes and/or transformations. Its final goal is to review at a high level the behaviour and abilities of those three previously mentioned roles, and most of all, to highlight the breaking though opportunity and obvious benefits of having the right Change Agents.
Beginning arbitrarily, one can point out that a Leader is the one who has a position of power and responsibility among other people: he is acknowledged as such by the rest. To exemplify, one could say that teachers, researchers, directors or managers, doctors, coaches, legislators, etc all of them take decisions that affect a certain group of people. All of them foster change.
Determining whether a leader is good or bad is a subjective dimension that should be solved by each affected group of people. Thus, it is convenient to focus on evaluating the leader´s effectiveness and efficiency that is, how he/she meets the specific objective in time and place. This allows us to be more objective and to provide tools to construct a framework more applicable and/or more replicable. Following this line of thought, it could also be added the analysis of quality and the time devoted to prepare the field for future changes that is, the leader´s vision.
Continue reading ‘Change Agents: a tool for Leaders and Entrepreneurs’
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This article was written by Mary Laura Delgado Montes. She is a SABF´s delegate at Universidad Nacional de San Agustín in Peru
You’ve heard of Caral, the Nazca Lines, the Lord of Sipán, the ruins of Chavin de Huántar, Cápac Ñan (The Highways of the Incas) or perhaps even of Machu Picchu. The Peruvians are children of a country which has a rich natural and cultural history; a country which contained the Caral civilization, one of the oldest of the world, just as it was the home of the Incan Empire, which was the largest state in pre-Columbian America.
Peru’s geography varies from the arid plains of the Pacific coast, to the peaks of the Andes Mountains and even to the tropical jungle of the Amazon region, characteristics which give her a wide variety of natural resources. Each region is unique and has its own economic activities, but in general Peru has three axes of development. Mining is by tradition the motor which drives the Peruvian economy (Peru ranks second in the world in the production of copper and zinc, first in the production of silver and fifth in gold). The axes of its farming and tourist industries offer great potential for future prosperity.
Continue reading ‘What is Peru?’
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The South American Business Forum offers its participants the opportunity to learn from the most prominent leaders from academic, political and intellectual spheres.
To start feeling the spirit of the SABF, the following are some of the speakers that will be participating in the SABF this year. They are selected by their outstanding career, prestige, values and integrity.
- Douglas Casey - Economist, Best seller financial author, International investor
- Alex Bottan - President & Regional Executive, General Electric
- José Luis Espert - Economist
- Pablo Devoto - President, Nestlé Argentina
- Rob Britton - Advisor to the Chairman and former Managing Director of Brand Development & Advertising, American Airlines
- Pablo Bereciartua - Executive Director, Center of Strategic Studies for Sustainable Development (CEEDS)
- Ignacio Lartirigoyen - Director, Semillera Lartirigoyen
- Rafael Alcaraz - Professor, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Juan Carlos Lucas - Director, Innova Consulting
- Juan Martín de la Serna - Vicepresident, Mercado Libre
- Laura Gé - President, Consultora Integration Cono Sur
We hope you can participate in the SABF this year! You won’t have the opportunity to share ideas hand in hand with such outstanding people every day. You have less than a week to complete your application. Don’t let this opportunity get away!
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This post was written by Nino Makatsaria. She’s a student at Caucasus University in Georgia
I came across the article in NY post “A Classroom Path to Entrepreneurship”, that talked about the correct way of entrepreneurship teaching methods in colleges and universities. The article summarized the success
story of Kansas based Professor Buzza who in his course of entrepreneurship gave his class the real world assignment and tied in classroom learning along with extracurricular activities on entrepreneurship. The, basic idea of the article was that, the entrepreneurship in colleges should not be taught purely in a traditional classroom with lectures and theoretical approaches, instead it should be a mix of the traditional classroom lectures, with business relevance and real world case studies on entrepreneurship. The article was very interesting and to tell the truth I agree with the idea of the article completely, and I think not only entrepreneurship, but most of the business courses, should contain some real world experiences or at least case study analysis methods, to make it more interesting for students… Continue reading ‘Food for thought: Entrepreneurship in classrooms?’
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