MBA Croatia is organizing a new lecture on January 23rd at the Forum Zagreb Convention Center starting at 6 pm.

The topic of the lecture is:
“Development of new transportation models – FlixBus as Game Changer”.

About lecturer:
Ante Grbeša is Managing director of FlxiBus CEE South d.o.o. Zagreb and FlixBus RS d.o.o. Belgrade, managing region of southeast Europe. Ante graduated from Faculty of Economics at Rijeka University in 1995. and in 2013 was certified by DMA organization from United States, as marketing professional. Most of his career Ante spent in marketing and retail sector. He started in consumer electronics, as Retail Division Director in Elektromaterijal d.d. Rijeka and later as Director of Euronics Croatia Division. From classical retailer, Ante moved to international multichannel retailer Studio Moderna Group. He spent seven years managing and leading various business aspects in southeast European markets. Last 3 year, as Managing Director of Studio Moderna Hungary when he decided to return to his birth country, Croatia to discover new passion in modeling the future of mobility sector. He joined Zagreb FlixBus regional office in 2018. and since then managing FlixBus team of CEE South region that includes 8 countries and sister company in Belgrade.

For members of the Association of MBA Croatia admission is free, while the non-members donation for this lecture is 80.00 kn and it can be donated through this link:

https://www.entrio.hr/event/development-of-new-transportation-models-flixbus-as-game-changer-7393

📍In order to get an even better opportunity to get to know each other, and to present all the benefits of our association to all who are not yet our members, this time beside the lecture we will organize moderated networking.

After lecture, we organized moterated networking for all our participants, where our goal is to get as many of our members and guests as possible to meet with one another, all with the aim of establishing business and other contacts.🌟

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MBA Croatia is organizing a new lecture on December 17th at the Forum Zagreb Convention Center starting at 6 pm.

The topic of the lecture is:

“How Anglo-Saxon Universities Keep the Global Leadership Position in (MBA) Education”?

The first MBA was taught at Harvard University 110 years ago. A century later, Anglo-Saxon Schools still dominate the business school landscape. Is it because their scholars understand that the rate of return to schooling equates the net present value of lifetime earnings of the individual to the costs of education?

The lecture will address, based on the personal educator, researcher, and investor’s experience, this and other questions such as:

Why it’s not only in business education but also education in general that the Anglo-Saxon model keeps its global competitive advantage? How the relative value of skills, knowledge, and teaching methods explain the ROI in education? Is it only about bringing the theoretical and experiential side of education together? What is the role of problem-solving, case examples, team building, storytelling skills? What are they looking for, horizontal cross-cutting or vertical integrative skills? How they build the social capital out of social networks, and why is your network your net-worth? How AS universities teach to lead and develop teams? What is the connection between the concept of alumni and the famous Aesop fable? How are postmodern universities competing and collaborating with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, IBM? How do the AS universities deal with the change that’s happening in various industries and sectors and thrive through their adaptive leadership? How do they provide the most value, the highest return on investment to those companies that are recruiting talent from all across the globe now? What are the leading trends and future of the (MBA) education? How can one university-related project skyrocket the Croatian economy while responding to the global human capital challenge?

About the lecturer:

Professor Stjepan Orešković is internationally known for his effective leadership and strategic acumen in healthcare, business, and science.

He is with his wife Manica the majority shareholder of the M+ Ulaganja MRUL Zagreb Stock Exchange-listed group.

Professor Oreskovic was involved in teaching, as well as in conducting joint educational, research and consulting projects with the Harvard University School of Medicine, London School of Economics and Political Science, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Università Bocconi, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, and other leading universities. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Global GRAND Pfizer Project (2017-2021), comprising of 70 clinical, behavioral, and data science experts from the Harvard Medical School – Massachusetts General Hospital, Ljubljana and Zagreb University Medical Schools. Professor Oreskovic worked as a consultant for international organizations such as the WB, the European Commission DG Science, and the WHO. His key projects and activities are praised in the world-leading scientific journals such as The Lancet and the British Medical Journal and the books “Global Health Leadership and Management” (Foreword David Rockefeller), “Global Health Disparities” (Enku Kebede Francis) and “Urban Health” (Foreword Michael R. Bloomberg). His work was featured in Reuters, CNN, BBC, RTL, NBC, Huffington Post, and other communication fora.

More details on his international academy-related career are available at the following link: https://scholar.harvard.edu/soreskovic/biography

For members of the Association of MBA Croatia admission is free, while the non-members donation for this lecture is 80.00 kn and it can be donated through this link:

https://www.entrio.hr/event/how-anglo-saxon-universities-keep-global-leadership-position-in-mba-education–7240

📍In order to get an even better opportunity to get to know each other, and to present all the benefits of our association to all who are not yet our members, this time beside the lecture we will organize moderated networking.

After lecture, we organized moterated networking for all our participants, where our goal is to get as many of our members and guests as possible to meet with one another, all with the aim of establishing business and other contacts.🌟

See you!

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MBA Croatia is organizing a new lecture on November 21st at the Forum Zagreb Convention Center starting at 6 pm.

The topic of the lecture is: “Transformation of INA as part of global oil industry transformation”

Oil industry is one of the most volatile industries globally, and in order to respond successfully to challenges set by such an environment, our goals and our strategy on how to achieve them must be clear. This lecture will be an overview of where INA was 10 years ago, where it is today and what the company plans are for the future.

About lecturer:

Mr. Sándor Fasimon was appointed President of INA Management Board on July 1, 2018.

From 1991, he held various leadership positions in the oil and gas trading company Mineralimpex. Between 1996 and 1997, he served as Head of the Tripoli, Libya Hungarian Commercial Section. Mr. Fasimon joined MOL in 1998 when he was appointed Supply Director in the field of crude oil and crude oil products. In 2002, he became the CEO of Moltrade-Mineralimpex. A year later, he was appointed Managing Director of the Natural Gas Division. Between 2006 and 2009, he was Chief Executive Officer of MOL’s Russia Office after which he continued his career as Senior Vice President of Supply & Trading. In 2011, he became the Managing Director of the Exploration & Production Division and served as Chief Operating Officer of MOL Hungary since 2012.

In 1990, Sándor Fasimon graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (IMO) with a degree in economics.

For members of the Association of MBA Croatia admission is free, while the non-members donation for this lecture is 80.00 kn and it can be donated through this link:

https://www.entrio.hr/event/transformation-of-ina-as-part-of-global-oil-industry-transformation-7062

📍In order to get an even better opportunity to get to know each other, and to present all the benefits of our association to all who are not yet our members, this time beside the lecture we will organize moderated networking.

After lecture, we organized moterated networking for all our participants, where our goal is to get as many of our members and guests as possible to meet with one another, all with the aim of establishing business and other contacts.🌟

See you!

#mbacroatia

MBA Croatia announces a new interesting lecture on 17th Septemper 2019., at the Congress Center Forum Zagreb, starting at 18:00.

The lecture is held by Mr. Miroslav Klepač, a Member of the Croatia osiguranje d.d. Management Board specializing in finance.

The theme of the lecture is:

“Putting the elephant on the table – building long term reputation vs being less popular today“

About lecture:

In this interactive lecture we will explore questions like: Why is personal integrity important for careers and leadership in particular? How is it connected to building a personal brand? How to keep balance between  personal integrity and short term gains/results as well as people’s (including bosses) expectations. Lecture will explore how to build and maintain personal integrity, reputation and brand including examples of how being brutally honest  „partybreaker“ can sometimes turn tough opponents into ambassadors of your brand. With real life examples session will challange tradional view of integrity=high moral standards and introduce consistancy through time and expectations management as valuable tools to gain reputation and unique personal brand.

About the lecturer:

Miroslav Klepač is a Member of the Croatia osiguranje d.d. Management Board specializing in finance. He studied at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, from which he graduated in 1995, as well as at IEDC Bled School of Management, from which he gained an MBA degree. Although he began his career in the banking sector, he continued building it by working in senior management positions in telecommunications and insurance companies. In 2016, after leaving his post as a Management Board Member of Podravka d.d., he came to Croatia osiguranje d.d. and was appointed Member of Management Board in the same year. He regularly participates in expert panels and discussions and speaks at conferences focused on finance management, controlling and business digitalisation. He is the founder and member of the IEDC Alumni Club Croatia and a member of the Croatian Academic Business Club.

For members of the Association of MBA Croatia admission is free, while the non-members donation for this lecture is 80.00 kn and it can be donated through this link:

https://www.entrio.hr/event/building-long-term-reputation-vs-being-less-popular-today-6771

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Proud sponsors of MBA Croatia Business Conference 2019:

HEP – our Golden Sponsor, Rasco, Vlahovic Group, Tomich Productions, Poliklinika Bagatin, Coca Cola, Časopis Poduyetnik, Kongresni Centar Forum Zagreb, AVR, Total Croatia News, ICT Business

MBA Croatia announces a new interesting lecture, May 21, 2019, at the Congress Center Forum Zagreb, starting at 18:00.

The lecture is held by Mr. Mislav Vučić, Executive Director of JGL.

The theme of the lecture is “Development and Growth of JGL”.

JGL is a company founded in 1991 as the first fully privately owned pharmaceutical company in Croatia.

The story of their success began with the separation from the Pharmacy “Jadran”, just after the break-up of Yugoslavia and the beginning of the production of generic drugs in the category of essential drugs. It was about small series medicines that were not interesting to the large pharmaceutical industry because they were not profitable.

Exiting from the local frameworks and expanding the business on the territory of Croatia, and then the region – Slovenia 1992, BiH in 1997 and Macedonia and Serbia in 2001 – made an additional step that created preconditions for further growth and development. The launch of operations on the markets of Russia (1998), followed by Ukraine (2004) and Kazakhstan (2006), from the current perspective has proved to be a key strategic decision for the company.

In manufacturing, the company strives to meet the diverse market demands of technological forms and therapeutic groups, so a wide range of JGL medicines allows doctors to choose the best cure for treating their patient.

Also, following the world trends and continually exploring the needs of customers, they developed a self-certification program that, with its innovation and quality, focuses on the prevention and maintenance of modern human health.

About the lecturer:

Mislav Vučić became the Chief Executive Officer of JGL in December 2017. In JGL comes from Teva Romania, where he has carried out the successful integration of Actavis as General Manager.

In his 20-year career in Pliva, Tivat and Sandoz, Mislav Vučić has gained experience in many areas of the pharmaceutical industry; prior to his current position in Teva, he was Senior Director of the Specialty Business unit (Innovation) for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Senior Director of Prices and Market Access for CEE, Senior Director of Portfolio Management for CEE, Senior Director of Commercial Operations and Business Development for South East Europe (SEE), Director of Business Development for Western Europe at Sandoz’s Central Office in Munich, Teva Europa’s Portfolio Manager in Amsterdam, and started his career at Pliva in 1998 in Strategic Marketing, where he later worked on acquisition projects.

Mislav Vučić holds an MBA from the Institute of Business Business School, one of the best business schools in Europe, and has graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb.

And in this lecture we are supported and accompanied by our faithful sponsors: Journal Poduzetnik, Forum Center Zagreb, Feravino, qLife, Polyclinic Bagatin and Business Media Group.

For members of the Association of MBA Croatia admission is free, while for the non – members, donation for this lecture is 80,00 kn and it can be donated through this link:

https://www.entrio.hr/event/razvoj-i-rast-jgl-a-6447

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Mr.Burak Baykan, MBA graduate od Touro University in Moscow, CEO D-Marin and regional director Dogus group will hold a lecture for members and guests of the MBA Croatia association.
The lecture will be held on 16th April 2019., in the premises of the Congress Centre Forum Zagreb as part of the Green Gold Centre (Radnička 50, Zagreb) starting at 18:00 o’clock.

For members of the Association of MBA Croatia admission is free, while the non-members donation for this lecture is 80.00 kn and it can be donated through this link:

https://www.entrio.hr/event/dogus-group-investements-in-croatia-6319

About lecture:

In this lecture mr. Baykan will talk about
Dogus group investements in Croatia, information on Dogus group investemnet in Croatia and experience we had investing in Croatia; general information about Dogus group and our overall activities in Croatia.

About the lecturer:

EDUCATION:

Touro University, Moscow: Master of Business Administration, Specialized on Marketing

Boğaziçi University Faculty of Business Administration; Department of Politics and International Relations

WORK EXPERIENCE:

From 1999 till 2009 he held different executive positions in several companies in Russia including Dogus group which he joined in 2007. Since than he has been carrying different executive positions and responsibilities within the Holding; in 2010 he became Regional director for Croatia and Montenegro and in 2018 he became CEO D-Marin, a global marina network.

Herman Van Rompuy, former president of the European Council, will hold a lecture for members and guests of the MBA Croatia association.

The lecture will be held on 14th of March 2019., on the premises of the Congress Centre Forum Zagreb as part of the Green Gold Centre (Radnička 50, Zagreb) starting at 18:00 o’clock.


Admission is free for members of the MBA Croatia Association, while the non – members ticket donation is 200.00 kn and it can be purchased through Entrio.hr link:

https://www.entrio.hr/event/mba-croatia-special-edition–6141

For non member visitors we have 40 available seats.

After the lecture, we invite all members and guests to our reception.

About the lecture:

„The current economic and geopolitical situation in the EU, the problems faced by companies in the EU,

which includes:

• future of the “European project” – EU after Brexit, the general economic situation in the EU and its southeastern neighborhood

• Brexit – current state, commenting on new events in relation to the EU and the United Kingdom, providing a European perspective on Brexit and what it means for Croatia and the South East Europe region in general

• the rise of populism – in the context of European and national elections

• general geopolitical situation – EU relations with Russia, the United States, China, Turkey.

About the lecturer:

Herman Van Rompuy, President Emeritus of the European Council and former Prime Minister of Belgium, is now President of the European Policy Centre – one of the leading think tanks of Brussels. He is also a visiting Professor in several universities (SciencesPo Paris, the College of Europe, UCL, KULeuven, Ugent, etc.).

Herman Van Rompuy’s presidency of the EPC follows an impressive career in national and European politics; a former economist at the National Bank of Belgium, he began his political career in 1973 as national vice-president of his party’s youth council, before holding various responsibilities within his party and in the Belgian Parliament and government, serving in turn as Senator (1988-1995), Secretary of State for Finance and Small Businesses (1988), Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Budget (1993-1999), Member of Parliament (1995-2009), Minister of State (2004), and Speaker of the House of Representatives (2007-2008).

At the time of his first appointment as President of the European Council in 2009, he was Prime Minister of Belgium. He was the first full-time President to take office when the Lisbon Treaty came into force. In 2015, King Philippe II of Belgium ennobled Herman Van Rompuy by making him an earl.

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