• Thought leadership, through relevant faculty-based research, rapidly transferred to the MBA curriculum
• Great flexibility, with an ability to innovate quickly and with premium on agility of the program
• Global meeting place focus, with students from all over the world, so that key issues are seen as true dilemmas, without mono-cultural "best solutions"
• Closeness to the real world, with legitimate role for the EMBA – another way to earn a high quality MBA degree

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Peter Lorange, president, IMD International Institute

Best Practices and Leadership Programs in Universities 
There are four important challenges facing our organizations, each of which will have a profound effect on how managers lead their subordinates in the near future. The LIDER program at the IE provides MBA students with a basic tool of skills to be successful as the new leaders of the 21^st Century.

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• Juan Carlos Pastor, director of Centre for Global Leadership and professor of Organizational Behavior, Instituto de Empresa 

Trends in Management Education in Eastern Europe  
This workshop will provide an opportunity to present the current reality of the situation of business education in Central and Eastern Europe.  Although many of these countries have been members of the European Union for over a year, or will be joining within two years, and many business schools and executive centres have strategic alliances with partners throughout the world, the region still seems to be an exotic location for many of our colleagues.

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• Chris Dalton, MBA Director, Central European University Business School
• Nicola Hijlkema, vice rector for International Academic Affairs, Estonian Business School

Plenary III: How Accreditation Enhances the MBA
The session will examine the trends in MBA enrollments, and the instigators of these trends, such as globalization and competition.  Presenters will then discuss the value of AACSB accreditation in dealing with these issues and how it can further enhance the MBA.

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• John Fernandes, president and CEO, AACSB International
• Richard E. Sorensen, dean, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Stephen Watson, Special Advisor to the president of AACSB International and associate dean, Reims Management School (moderator)

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• Santiago Íñiguez de Onzoño, dean, Instituto de Empresa
• Nicolas Mottis, dean of MBAs, ESSEC Business School
• Michael Page, dean, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University 
• Hans Wiesmeth, dean, HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Opportunities for Strategic Alliances between US and European Business Schools 

1.) Instituto de Empresa/Chicago

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• Mike Malefakis, director, Graduate School of Business, Executive Education, The University of Chicago 
• Joaquín Uribarri, director of Marketing and Innovation for Executive Education, Instituto de Empresa

2.) HEC/LSE/NYU Trium Alliance

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• Jean-Luc Neyraut, Chief Operating Officer, HEC-Paris

3.) One MBA Partnership

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• Dianne Bevelander, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Best Practices and Leadership Programs in Companies

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• María Victoria Fiallega, Human Resources Director, Grupo Santander
• Eugenio Soria Gutiérrez, Director of Compensation and Benefits, SIEMENS - Spain

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• Stephen Watson, Special Advisor to the president of AACSB International and associate dean, Reims Management School 

10 "Easy" Steps to AACSB Accreditation (Instituto de Empresa) 
There is no easy, quick solution for accreditation. Accreditation processes and standards are well communicated. This session will focus on the "grey areas" in the accreditation process and what you can do to enhance the likelihood that your business school will achieve AACSB accreditation in a timely manner.

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• John Fernandes, president and CEO, AACSB International