El Corte Inglés, COLEP Packaging and COLEP Consumer Products join the Executive MBA Business Club
The Executive MBA Business Club of Católica Porto Business School featured at The EFMD International Conference
El Corte Inglés and COLEP (COLEP Packaging and COLEP Consumer Products) are now part of the 20 companies that make up the Executive MBA Business Club.
The Executive MBA Business Club has been in existence for three years and already has 20 member companies. Restructured in 2018, the Executive MBA is organised into three major business-focused blocks: one dedicated to creation, another to growth, and the third one to its sustainability. The Club is, thus, designed to include companies that go through all three stages. This way, diversity prevails in the Club, but most of the companies are Northern based large groups, with national and international activity. The newest members of the Club are El Corte Inglés and COLEP (Colep Packaging and Colep Consumer Products), which joined shortly after Porsche – a company that even sponsors the room where the MBA classes are held. The signing of the protocol between Católica Porto Business School and the two companies took place on November 9 and was attended by Rui Soucasaux Sousa, Dean of Católica Porto Business School and Ana Côrte-Real, Director of the Executive MBA. COLEP was represented by Paulo Ventura, Chief Human Resources Office and COLEP Packaging by Joana Roda, People and Culture Director. Marta Vitó, of the store Management team of Vila Nova de Gaia was the representative of El Corte Inglés.
According to Rui Soucasaux Sousa, Dean of Católica Porto Business School, “MBA students work with these companies in accordance with the subjects they study: when it comes to creating a business, the student studies a start-up, within the scope of the Marketing subject. In Operations Management, the student is invited to follow a company in its growth stage. The Management Control subject provides contact with a company already at an advanced stage of existence, so that the question of business sustainability can be addressed.”
The Executive MBA Business Club of Católica Porto Business School will be one of the key players in one of the 2022 editions of the International Conference of the 'European Foundation for Management Development' (EFMD). Under the theme “The New MBA World”, this initiative is scheduled for March 2022 at the Católica Porto Business School Campus and intends to discuss the trends, implications, and challenges regarding the future of MBA Programmes. It is worth remembering that EFMD is a non-profit organisation whose main target is the promotion of excellence in the area of Management at a global level, being broadly acknowledged by Business Schools as an accreditation body. Relying on an international network of more than 30,000 management professionals among academia, industry, services, and consulting, EFMD manages one of the international accreditations held by Católica Porto Business School since 2015 – EQUIS –, certification that rewards the best schools worldwide and aims to raise the standard of management education.
The Executive MBA Business Club includes 20 leading companies in the national and international business spectrum, and acts as a university-company interface that allows the involvement of companies in the training and development process of students, with a view to training professionals better prepared for the challenges of industry. Among other activities, this range of 20 companies creates the necessary conditions for the Executive MBA students to carry out study visits to the facilities of these institutions, participate in contact sessions with their CEO's, attend thematic seminars, and have contact with different case studies that support the projects of part of the teaching modules.
Rui Soucasaux Sousa, in an interview to Dinheiro Vivo, highlights the importance of the Executive MBA Business Club for Católica Porto Business School, and specifies further details on this accelerator. To access the entire article, click here.