DATE AND TIME
Tuesday, February 01, 2022
7:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
LOCATION Online , Munich, DE
Registration for this event has closed.
About the ProgramBusiness Acceleration Program (BAP).
The BAP is an 8-weekends in 3 months program (May – July), and it offers a comprehensive overview of business and leadership designed to help high-potentials and experienced functional experts with growing management responsibilities.
It blends business fundamentals in all disciplines with bigger-picture strategic insights and leadership development – including Executive Coaching and Executive Challenge.
Networking and Ideas exchanging are important elements of IESE programs, we call it “True Network”, not only with your classmates and faculty but with all the IESE Alumni (1.500 in DACH and more than 50.000 worldwide).
If you would like to learn more about the program, check out the website here.
Speaker
Govert Vroom
Govert Vroom is a Professor in the Strategic Management Department of IESE. Govert received his Ph.D. from INSEAD in 2005. In 2004, his doctoral proposal was awarded second place in the Organization Science dissertation proposal competition. His doctoral dissertation received the Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the Business Policy and Strategy division of the Academy of Management in 2006.
Govert's research interests include competitive strategy, corporate diversification, strategy in the networked economy, and entrepreneurship. In his research, he explores how firm characteristics, such as organizational design, ownership structure, and firm objectives, affect managerial decision making and interfirm rivalry. He is also working on how strategies are influenced by competition in network environments where critical mass, standards, and externalities play an important role. His work has been published in leading scholarly journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. He has been elected Chair of the Competitive Strategy interest group of the Strategic Management Society, a role he fulfilled in 2012.
Prior to his academic career, Govert worked in the Netherlands at KPN Telecom as a financial controller and cost management consultant. He teaches strategic management, competitive strategy, corporate strategy, and strategy in the networked economy in a wide variety of programs including the MBA, Ph.D., and international executive education.
He enjoys outdoor activities with his wife and three children. Read more.
