The next appointment with the MBA Solvay are:

• The QS Tour Fair on March 8th in Brussels
• MBA Solvay on-campus admission test on March 12th to assess your profile
• The Special Event – General Information Session on March 20th!

This special info-session will showcase all our executive education portfolio during a networking event where you will be able to meet staff, professors, alumni and other future participants.

MBA Solvay is one of the most challenging and international MBA programme in the heart of Europe. With students representing over 70 nationalities, MBA Solvay offers a multicultural experience and a unique global perspective and multicultural diversity reflected in student, alumni, corporate and faculty body. Contact: Chiara Battistelli, MBA Solvay Admissions Manager, to have a one-to-one meeting and have all your questions answered!

The mix of educational backgrounds, from business to philosophy, passing from industrial design to robotics, should as always bring a great variety of point of views to the classrooms: Marketing, Organizational Behaviour, Financial Accounting, Managerial Economics or the CAP coaching sessions….

The new academic year  kicked-off with an outdoor team-building activity, taking advantage  of the last of the good weather offered by Brussels! The newcomers were greeted with an introductory session by MBA director Hugues Pirotte, who introduced his team, as well as the structure and content of the programme awaiting them. His presentation was followed by an inspiring demonstration of Susan West, Manager of the MBA Solvay Career Advancement programme. Susan offered a first enthusiastic taste of the unique experience the participants would soon be involved in during this year at the MBA: their career development process. The group were challenged with the question of “Who Are You?”, and the promise that this would be one of the main questions they will be discovering the answer to, over the next few months.

An overall feeling of excitement was clearly palpable and drew all members of the group, extrovert and introvert alike, into the team atmosphere. The groups went on a treasure-hunt discovery of Brussels, following clues along the way in the race to be the first back to the final destination. Cheers rang out as the last group made their way through the doors of “A La Becasse”, where everyone took the opportunity to share a drink and a laugh with new friends.

And so, again this year, a very unique group of participants have started their personal and professional challenge at the MBA Solvay, with a great deal of enthusiasm and sense of group spirit, realising immediately that their personal and professional goals can be better achieved as a team!

And as the MBA Solvay challenge starts for this group, meanwhile, the recruitment process for the next intake is already proceeding, looking for the perfect candidates profiles to maintain the high quality seal of the programme. Several positive meetings took place in September at the MBA Access Fair in Brussels and we will continue recruiting new candidates through other events and info-sessions, coming soon!

MBA participants, faculty and staff are collaborating on making this anniversary a date to remember! There will be an Alumni afternoon in the new Solvay School building and a Gala in the wonderful setting of  the Brussels Stock Exchange! Wee are looking forward to this big event!

MBA Solvay 20-years

Next appointments to discover the MBA Solvay programme are the INFO-SESSIONS on February 17 and March 10.

While on April 7, Solvay Executive Education is presenting its portfolio in management in a special event info-session. This info-session will showcase all our executive education portfolio, during a networking event where you will be able to meet staff, professors, alumni and other future participants. To know more about these programmes or any other Executive Education programme, register now for our SPECIAL EVENT info-session on the 7th of April 2011 at 7pm. Come and discover our MBA, Executive Masters, Advanced, Accelerated and Short programmes!

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The MBA class 2010/12 can so take a little breath: it is now a good time to celebrate the MBA Solvay community! On December 9 the MBA Solvay, together with the Student Government and the MBA Solvay Global Women Network will invite students, alumni and professors in the new building to attend a special speaker – Xmas event!

Hugues Pirotte, MBA Solvay Academic Director, will welcome Mrs. Annick Monseuux, former president of Pirelli, to speak about the topic of gender in the business world: “What does it take to climb the pink ladder?”.  Mrs. Annick Monseuux, started her career in 1987 in the software industry, before entering the core of B2B marketing for both Pirelli and Teleroute, in different local and international marketing management roles. Her next career move led her to general management positions still with Pirelli and Wolters Kluwer, initially as Managing Director of a start-up in Italy, then as Chief Operating Officer, heading 25 countries and finally as worldwide Sales and Marketing director for Truck Tires, a €1billion business. She then moved to Executive Board Management, as President of Pirelli franchise-like retail network. In 2008, she started an independent activity supporting her international customers in growing the value of their business (WW sales and marketing organisations design, BU Management, M&A, Commercial Strategy Design and Reorganisations), offering in parallel her professional experience to social businesses to support the launch of commercial activities.

And after the keynote intervention, Vali Lalioti, MBA Solvay class 2009, will introduce the audience to an interactive executive coaching session: “How business coaching can help business leaders unlock difficult challenges and their organizations reach a whole new level…”. Vali Lalioti is an executive coach (http://www.valilalioti.com/) and she will answer your questions on how executive coaching works in a highly interactive and thought provoking session.

A walking cocktail will end the evening and give opportunity for networking with the MBA Solvay community!

The new home of the Solvay Brussels School is standing tall on one of the most prestigious avenues of Brussels. It will, from now on, act as a daring symbol of the school’s prestige and its ambitions for the future. The brief was simple: high-tech equipment, bold design and open to the outside world. The result? 10.000 m² and 5 storeys of interacting spaces, a state-of-the-art architecture finally giving the school the bite to match its bark.

Adjacent to the ULB grounds, the new building will offer a wide range of technical and high-tech equipment:

• one 250-seat amphitheatre
• 16 auditoria with 120, 80, 60 or 40 seats
• one 60-seat IT Center
• one large atrium
• 30 working and communication rooms for the SBS community
• offices and meeting rooms for professors, researchers and administrative staff

With these new facilities, the school almost doubles its working space. And, if the teaching and administrative bodies are going to be a bit more comfortable, it is the students who are the main beneficiaries of this enlargement with 16 brand-new auditoria and a 60-seat IT Center equipped with all the latest technologies. The atrium will work as the focal point of all these communicating spaces and become the heart of the SBS-EM community.

Check out a few images and videos of the event!

The amused class was then hushed into a bus to head for the city centre. The schedule read: team building exercise and discovering Bruxelles from A to Z….ending with a surprise! Alumnis, second-year part timers and the MBA Solvay administration were present, mingling with the newcomers and answering questions where needed. An overall feeling of excitement was clearly palpable and drew otherwise independent, self-relying individuals to being part of the group. Early on everybody realized that from now on they would truly be students again and had to relay on each other to reach their goal! You can view some pictures of the team-building kick-off event at: http://fr-fr.facebook.com/album.php?aid=22764&id=124045657618341&fbid=150393214983585

The Event Agenda is:
4.30pm – 7.30pm / 8.15pm – 9.30pm: One-to-One Meetings and Workshops
7.30pm – 8.15pm Panel Discussion
Location:
Stanhope Hotel
Rue du Commerce 9 Handelsstraat – Troon/Trône Metro Station

The access to the fair for the prospect candidates is free of charge and you can register online for free.

The Access MBA One-to-One event offers quality, personalised services for MBA candidates as this gives qualified professionals the opportunity to meet the MBA Solvay individually or in small groups.

With the great support of our Alumni, we will meet as much as 20 pre-selected candidates! Through one- to one interviews with individuals whose profiles had already been matched with the MBA Solvay requirements, the fair assures a perfect interaction between candidates needs and the School offer. This event offers a platform where the best business schools and the most ambitious students can meet.

Do not miss this opportunity to discover the MBA Solvay on September 23. Register now for the Access MBA Tour in Brussels!