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ESADE Team, one of the two winners of the IBM/Novartis NCD Challenge
New York – A team of The ESADE MBA students has been named one of two global winners of the IBM/Novartis NCD Challenge, a case competition among top business schools at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The team was composed of first-year MBA students ChingChia Hsu, Mengchi Chen, Alex Anthonysamy, Feras Nagadi, and Kohei Sato.
The NCD Challenge aims to lessen the global health burden of the 21st century by improving treatment for non-communicable diseases. These conditions – which include heart disease, stroke, cancer, asthma, diabetes, osteoporosis, cataracts, and more – now account for the majority of deaths and healthcare expense in most developed markets and many emerging markets.
ESADE’s proposal, “Dr. Diabetes”, utilizes a handheld device with an application and two cloud servers to increase awareness of diabetes and also enhance integration between patients, physicians, and pharmacies. The team suggested deployment in urban Chinese areas, followed by scaling to more geographic regions and disease types.
Next for the ESADE team is an all-expense-paid trip to the IBM and Novartis Corporate Headquarters in New York, where they will attend an award ceremony and meet with IBM and Novartis executives about potentially bringing the solution to the market.
Over a dozen business schools competed in the IBM/Novartis NCD Challenge, including Duke University School of Medicine, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Oxford Saϊd Business School, and London Business School. The other global winner was Team 2Vidas from Berkeley Haas.
More information: http://www.ncdchallenge.com/
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Innovation Summit
The ESADE Innovation Summit, held last 28 October, is an event focused on encouraging cross-sector innovative learnings, giving insight into the future of innovation in industries ranging from Healthcare to Media to Cleantech. This student led initiative brought industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and the academic community together to debate how disruptive innovation can play a role in addressing business challenges.
ESADE Business School is a globally oriented and diverse academic institution with over 50 years’ experience in management training. As central features of ESADE’s culture, research and innovation are part of ESADE’s identity and quest for continuous improvement.
The Innovation Summit kicked off with keynote speaker Wim Vanhaverbeke, sitting professor of “Open Innovation” at ESADE and the Vlerick Leuven Gent School of Management (Belgium). As a leading expert in Open Innovation, he is also the co-editor (with Henry Chesbrough and Joel West) of “Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm“, a new book about the research challenges related to Open Innovation (Oxford University Press 2006; paperback in 2008; Japanese translation 2008).
Watch this video for a taster of the event which proved to be a great success.
ESADE Student represents Saudi Arabia at the G20 Summit
Khalil Alnammari, a Full Time MBA student (Class of 2013) at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, has been selected as representative for his native country of Saudi Arabia in the upcoming G20 Youth Summit, a premier forum for discussing, planning and monitoring international economic and financial cooperation.
The Youth Summit, this year being held in the French city of Cannes on 3 and 4 November, is an annual two-day event for graduate students from G8 and G20 member countries, run parallel to the real world events concerning G8 and G20, with huge support from the French presidency.
The aim of this event, now in its sixth year, is to promote dialogue about current world issues, “promote cross-cultural understanding and build global friendships”.
Issues to be debated in this year’s summit:
Reforming the International Monetary System (IMS)
Strengthening financial regulation
Combating commodity price volatility, ensuring food security
Supporting employment and strengthening the social dimension of globalization
Fighting corruption
Working on behalf of development : development and innovative financing
To follow Khalil on Twitter during the entire event, simply search for @kalnammari and @theesademba. He will be back with his own personal views of the whole event on his return to Barcelona.
For more information on Youth Diplomacy and to sign up for future events to represent your own country, visit www.youthdiplomacy.org
Ferrán Adrià launches his new Global Ideas Competition at ESADE.
Five of the World’s top business schools (Harvard, Columbia, Berkeley, ESADE and London Business School) will be participating in this competition run by world-renowned Catalan chef, Ferrán Adrià to put their new business ideas to him as to how to reinvent his elBulli restaurant as elBulliFoundation, due to reopen in 2014.
Adrià launched the competition in ESADE on 5 October in his home town of Barcelona and has plans to travel to each of the participating schools in the coming weeks to get the ball rolling. Watch this video for more information!