On the 31st of July the Courage Institute organized a Family Business Seminar in Cuenca together with the German-Ecuadorian Chamber of Industriy and Commerce (www.ahkecuador.org.ec) and the local Chamber of Industry (www.industriascuenca.org.ec). The event that […]
There are several questions that I regularly receive mainly from those who are flabbergasted about the shutdown of the US government. While we can all follow the news on the development and track how many […]
MBS Professor Dr. Marc-Michael Bergfeld and MBS Lecturer Johannes Ritz have published two chapters in the first ever case study book about family business in Latin America. Johannes Ritz, lecturer of family business and Ph.D. candidate […]
How can the private sector champion robust, long term projects for Sustainable Development? How can for-profit companies mobilize resources and public-private partnerships conceived for the long term and meaningful impact in an entire country? MBS professor […]
Munich Business School was present again at the 14th Family Enterprise Research Conference, this year hosted at Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara, Mexico. MBS Family Business expert Johannes Ritz presented two research projects of the Courage […]
For the 4th time already, the Courage Center for Global Family Firms at Munich Business School hosted the International Family Business Summit in Ecuador from June 5 to 7. Over 300 local business families participated […]
Thomas Bootsveld, Master Sports Business and Communication student at MBS, spent his semester abroad at Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Mexico. Here, he shares his experiences. Why did you select your host university? I […]
Since 2014, a strategic alliance between the Courage Group – through the Courage Center of Global Family Firms at Munich Business School – and the Ecuadorian-German Chamber of Industries has been in force, with the […]
Last week, a group of family entrepreneurs and top managers from Latin America visited the Courage Center at Munich Business School. The students came from Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Peru, […]
The academic year of 2016/17 is a truly special one for Munich Business School: MBS celebrates its 25th anniversary. To mark the jubilee, we would like to present you 25 people from the “MBS cosmos” […]
Munich Business School has recently published two new working papers dealing with topics related to family business: The Internationalization of German Family Firms to Latin America In their working paper An Exploratory Approach to the […]
For the 3rd consecutive year, the MBS Courage Center of Global Family Firms organized the International Family Business Summit in Ecuador on May 9th in Quito and on May 11th in Guayaquil. This year, apart […]
Trade agreements are like oysters, Jägermeister and Jackson Pollock paintings—you either love them or hate them. In the current political milieu, anti-trade proponents have the upper hand, relegating vocal champions of free trade to a […]
MBS and the Courage Center of Global Entrepreneurship & Family Firms have been training entrepreneurs from Ecuador on a regular basis. Last week, another group came to MBS for an intensive week full of highlights […]
Just recently, MBA General Management students warmly welcomed a stellar guest speaker to their “Modern Leadership and Corporate Development” class: Dr. Massimo Tarenghi, former representative of European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile overseeing the VLT […]
Last week, a group of Ecuadorian family entrepreneurs visited the Courage Center at Munich Business School for the second module of their Executive Certificate in Stability and Growth for Family Firms. MBS experts Prof. Dr. […]
From June 27 to June 30, 2016, the International Family Enterprise Research Academy Annual Conference took place at INALDE Business School at the Universidad de la Sabana in Bogota, Colombia. Munich Business School participated with […]
MBS Research Associate and Lecturer Johannes Ritz participated in the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), one of the leading conferences for research on family businesses. He presented a joint research project with MBS Alumnus Armin […]
During May, three editions of the Cumbre Internacional de Empresas Familiares (International Summit of Family Business) took place in Ecuadoran cities Quito, Cuenca and Guayaquil. The events featured several MBS experts as speakers who shared […]
Yesterday, the first event of the 2nd Family Business Summit in Ecuador series took part in Quito. Several MBS lecturers held speeches scrutinizing various entrepreneurial topics: Prof. Dr. Marc-Michael Bergfeld, Rafael de Cárdenas, Johannes Ritz […]
MBS Family Business Expert Johannes Ritz has been promoting the 2nd Family Business Summit in Ecuador on national media this week. The event which features also MBS Experts Prof. Dr. Marc-Michael Bergfeld (Professor for Family […]
Dear MBS community, As you might have heard in the news the death toll from Ecuador’s worst earthquake in decades rose to over 570, while traumatized survivors rested amid the rubble of their homes and […]
For the 4th consecutive year, the Courage Center at Munich Business School welcomed a group of MBA students from MBS’ partner university Universidad Internacional del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, for an intensive week on innovation. […]
The participants of the Courage Center class “Certificate in Stability and Growth for Family Firms” from Ecuador and Guatemala came to MBS for their last module. They also visited IHK Munich and several companies such […]
The Courage Center of Global Entrepreneurship and Family Firms at MBS has initiated the first International Family Firm Summit in Ecuador. The event was organized in a joint effort with the German-Ecuadorian Chamber of Commerce […]
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